When do you journal your food?

I do a bit the night before but then usually end up playing around with it the next day. Everything else I track as I eat.

I log it right before i eat it, for me if i see what calories i have left i tend to stay away from something i shouldnt eat!

I'm more of a hybrid. I usually don't pre-plan a day ahead but I always know what I am making for dinner so I plug that in as I have my breakfast, that way I know what I have left for Lunch and snacks. And if there is extra left over I'll plan for a little more at dinner or evening snack. Everything else I log as a go. I have pre-planned days and it makes is super easy, but then I feel like I have to check and re-check that I ate what I said I would.

I usually am not able to fully plan my day out to a T, so I pick what I want for breakfast and lunch, log it before I eat it, then try to budget what I can eat for dinner.

I always log either before I eat, or during the meal so that I know if I go over, I'll have to stop myself. Rarely to I log after everything has been consumed.

I was journaling it as I ate it, or as I got a chance to sit at the computer, but the problem in that for me was I didn't have a clear plan for what I was going to eat, and sometimes ate too much for breakfast and/or lunch and left myself with too few calories for dinner, which then meant I had to add in a workout, or go over on my daily calories. Now I try to enter the day as I plan what I will eat, then go back in before I finalize and make any changes that I need to. Just started that method in the last couple of days, so let's hope it works a little better for me. Anyway, thanks for the question.

I will usually log my breakfast and lunch for the following day, since I cook and pack it ahead of time for work. Dinners I log afterward and then make any adjustments- adding or replacing anything that changed during the day. I log my water through the day.

I usually journal first thing in the morning. Everything. I will upadate the previous day if there are any changes. But jounaling before hand has helped me understand how many calories I have left and keeps me from overeating.

Ditto here almost exactly. I find planning the day ahead i.e. lunch and dinner means I can see if there is any room for snacks in there. Dinner is usually planned ahead for the kids anyway so this helps.

During the week I pre-enter everything I put in my lunch box and adjust when I empty it at the end of the day. If I eat anything not in the bag I log it more or less immediately. Dinner I log while I'm trying to decide what to make, helps me get everything balanced but I don't sweat it too much. If I know we're going out or to a special event, I pre-log the rest of the day's stuff so I know how much room I have when we go out, or know I need to do some extra exercise. On the weekends I log at the end of the day because that's when I try to focus on healthy eating over calories, but I'm usually within my limit and macros.

I could probably log my breakfast from now til the end of the year, I'm sort of a one trick pony as far as that goes. I hate eating breakfast but if I don't I'm a hungry beast before lunch time and more likely to grab a bagel or something. I'm trying to switch it up, but there are only so many foods I find appealing first thing in the morning (other than sweet sweet coffee).

I will track things the night before as I pack my lunch for the next day. That gives me a rough idea of how many calories I am leaving myself for supper time

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