Calories

I measure (almost exclusively weighing) pretty much everything, excluding lettuce. Everything gets logged. I also create my own meals for frequently made meals, and especially new recipes.

I weigh everything too, I haven't done this in the past and weighing has definitely helped me with weight loss. I also pre plan what I'm eating during the day (actually have started doing this for the week now) so that I know how many calories I have left over to have something I really like each day.

I just do main ingredients and then leave a bit of calories at the end of the day for 'things I didn't count'
It's vague but logging for me (at the moment) is making me more accountable and making me THINK about what I eat and portion sizes. So I don't have to be bang on.

When I get nearer my goal/if loss slows then I can get stricter

I don't log zero calorie things and my logging of vegetables when addition to meals (ie: the lettuce and tomato on a sandwich). Otherwise I log most things.

I am, however, an outlier in that I don't weigh my food/use a food scale. i fully expect to need to start at some point - like when weight loss slows or stops, if I want to lose more. However, I am still losing fine and I don't know how much more I want to lose anyway (I've met my original 'healthy Bmi' goal).

Almost everything. Some things like lettuce, celery, and sugar in my coffee, not always. I just use a regular spoon for sugar and the "close enough" for lettuce and celery. Butter off the stick like for toast I guess. I don't weigh bread or bacon or sausage (anymore, that was too far for me.)

When I'm eating out of course some guessing has to happen.

Digital food scale for solids, and a measuring cup or spoon for liquid.

Up to you, though.

When I was actively losing weight...I logged everything (and measured it or weighed it). Now that I'm not in it to lose weight I will say I'm more lax....but I've started doing better because I need to make sure I'm eating ENOUGH. I am definitely getting better at listening to my body though and if I"m hungry I eat and I don't worry about whether that's gonna put me over or not.

yojimbo121 wrote: »

I try to log everything down as much as possible but I dont always feel MFP is very accurate and have to make adjustments to what I'm putting down. Try to eat clean as much as I can but when I do start to eat chocolate and doughnuts I tend to binge alot and then try to make up for it the next day 🤣

You do have to be picky sometimes about which entries you pick in the database. I've gotten more careful about that as I go on, and it's been helpful. For some things like restaurant meals it's a bit of a guessing game, but that's not something I do very often so in the long run a rough idea for things like that is fine.

Is there a particular reason you're eating "clean?" I mostly try to eat whole, not as processed foods for a lot of reasons, which is what I think most people mean when they say "clean," but I don't shun other foods as occasional treats, as I don't have any health conditions that would make them a bad idea. In my experience, setting aside an entire group of foods as "not clean" or "dirty" makes it harder to be moderate about them. Binging and then restricting a lot the following day could actually make the binging worse.