Whose Life Plan does NOT include logging?

i do not plan to log for ever either, i will probably even tapper off soon, and just log for a week every few weeks to see how i am doing.

Nope, mainly because I know it works. Also, once you have your foods/recipes well established, it literally only takes 5 minutes out of my day to log.

I did ww for a couple yrs and they had a plan they called core. it doesnt include any processed foods and you can eat as many fruits and veggies as you like. you dont have to track your pts or calories that way. i like to eat dessert a lot so this helps me keep focus

You can use this tool for weight loss, hit your goal weight, log at maintenance until you get the portion control thing down

I plan on doing this, and then maybe checking up on myself for a week every couple of months for a while, then hopefully no more logging.

Mmm, I kind of see myself logging forever. Maybe not as hardcore as I am now, but just to keep myself accountable and really measure my intake/outtake.... I mean, I've lived 21 years of my life not counting calories, and now I am overweight and unhealthy, so obviously that hasn't worked out.

You can use this tool for weight loss, hit your goal weight, log at maintenance until you get the portion control thing down

I plan on doing this, and then maybe checking up on myself for a week every couple of months for a while, then hopefully no more logging.

Seems like the point of the site anyway

I will probably constantly be on a bulk/cut cycle and will log for a very long time xD

I'm not really focusing on weight loss--more on maintaining my current weight. I wouldn't be sad if I lost a few more pounds, but I'm done stressing about it.

I log about once a week. The rest of the time, I just journal what I eat (and how I slept, how I felt, what I did for exercise, etc.) in the notes section. I find that when I worry about tracking every calorie, I get waaaaay too fixated on each calorie and each gram and each macro and it just isn't healthy. So, then I swing the other way and basically throw caution to the wind.... and gain weight back.

So, I'm trying this as a middle ground. Still keeping myself honest, being mindful of my intake, while not getting worked up about it.

ETA: This is not to say that carefully weighing and measuring doesn't have its merits--it certainly does for people with limited knowledge about the caloric content of food or how much a serving of meat, bread, cereal, etc. actually is. However, I've been successful at calorie counting for over a decade (off and on, as previously mentioned), so I pretty much know how much a portion is and I am pretty good at estimating calories. The log just serves to make me feel a bit nutty, which I don't like.

Why should you rely on it now, you ask. Well, if you're overweight, that could mean that you're not a particularly good judge of what you're eating. I know I wasn't. I thought I was making relatively healthy choices until I started logging. What I learned from logging was that I consistantly overserved myself. I mean, huge portions. (Do you know that a serving of cereal is 3/4 cup? Does anyone eat that much?!) Basically it just opened my eyes and taught me to pay attention. Now that I've been doing it for awhile, I can estimate fairly accurately how many calories are in any given food, and pretty much eyeball a serving (i.e. one cup, a tablespoon, etc.) You don't HAVE to do it, but it really teaches you a lot, and after you've learned all of the above, you don't have to rely on it.

Yes. This. Exactly.

MFP is really just a training tool. Like training wheels on a bike. Some people can get on a bike & ride right away. Good for them. That's like people who can just decide "I'm going to lose weight" and then do it.
But others need someone behind them to hold the bike for a while. And some need training wheels for a while. Eventually, you can take 'em off. But they're helpful in the beginning.

I am learning to correctly estimate serving sizes and portions, and I am learning which foods have how much protein & carbs (which are the two things my doctor has me watching). After about 9 months, I still log every single thing every day, but lately if I have to wait all day & log everything at once, I can still pretty much predict what my totals will be, just from experience and doing the math in my head. I imagine that eventually I won't need to log in at all, unless I run across an unfamiliar food & need to look it up.

Mmm, I kind of see myself logging forever. Maybe not as hardcore as I am now, but just to keep myself accountable and really measure my intake/outtake.... I mean, I've lived 21 years of my life not counting calories, and now I am overweight and unhealthy, so obviously that hasn't worked out.

Lol Yeah I'm in this boat. I don't find it hard... It's probably the easiest part of weight loss. I'd rather log food than not. Personally if I don't log I feel off or like I'm cheating myself in this journey. After I hit my goal I'm still going to log, probably out of habit, but mostly to ensure I don't go overboard and get back out of shape. :drinker:

I plan on continuing to log for the next 17 lbs of weightless, then through a pregnancy to help me monitor healthy weight gain and nutrients, then to get the baby weight off and for a maintenance period. Maybe another pregnancy, not sure yet if we'll be done at 3 ornot. . The more I log, the more I learn. I'm constantly amazed at how many things I can estimate pretty well in my head, but I also know there's plenty more to learn. I was never conscious of portion sizes or calories before and that didn't turn out so great. LOL. Anyway, once you get the hang of how thins add up it might be easy enough to stop logging and just use the common sense that you've learned. Even if you're not tracking each little thing, if you started to gain you should have the knowledge of how to cut back in a healthy way to level things back out again. Personally I really enjoy logging and like I said, I plan to continue for quite awhile b/c it's a huge eye opener and so helpful in me seeing how to really be successful reaching my goals. But it's not for everybody.

I love logging because when I submit it at the end of the day it tells me where I might be in five weeks. I find this motivating either way; if it's good, yay for me! If it's up, time to forget about that day and get back on track.

I worry about the total calories for the day, but don't obsess over every item of food. I tend to make sensible choices, but do have a blow out every now and again. Then I just make a guestimate like others here have suggested.

For me, logging is helping and because I have the iphone app I don't find it a chore. I just log as I go.

Good luck, whatever you decide to do.

I'm not logging now because I'm going to log for the rest of my life.
I'm logging now so that I can SEE what it is I'm eating, to learn for the rest of my life how to read a nutrition label, to know what to look for, to know what SURPRISE has 600 calories that you swore could only possibly be 250. I have never had a healthy relationship with food whether it be too much or too little and through MFP, I'm learning to have a good one.

I like logging and if I so choose to log forever (here, elsewhere or on paper) it still won't be a chore for me. I enjoy it.

I personally would rather just make healthy choices and eat healthy stuff like fruits and veggies and not worry about how I should drink almond milk instead of dairy because it's a few calories less or how I shouldn't drink full fat milk because of the high calories or high fat.

Sounds like a perfect plan.