Tracking with honesty.

I track everything I put into my mouth because it keeps me accountable. First, I can see where I am at with calories, and second I am able to ask myself if I really want everybody to see that I just ate that. It allows me to second guess my choices and make the right ones. The more you track, the better you will get at it and you'll look forward to it.

I am on my second day of tracking and so far I have blown my calorie count out of the water (almost 300 over both days). I chalk it all up to just starting out and not really knowing exactly what it is that I am eating...here's hoping it will all get better in time.

I track everything! Even the blow outs. Instead of focusing on that day I'll focus on being at goal (or under) for the week. I don know about the website but on the iPhone app you can see your weekly progress so just do a little bit more exercise for the next 3 days, it will not excuse the blow out but will make up for it, iykwim

I track everything I put into my mouth because it keeps me accountable. First, I can see where I am at with calories, and second I am able to ask myself if I really want everybody to see that I just ate that. It allows me to second guess my choices and make the right ones. The more you track, the better you will get at it and you'll look forward to it.

Amen! This is what I do too.
I'm a bit shameless sometimes though and will make a bad choice knowing very well I end up logging it for everyone to see. It's the occasional critiques I receive from my wonderful "pals" on here that make me want to get in control again.

I am also tracking very honestly these days. Good luck to you!

I track even if I go over. It happens and when I am honest with myself I do better. Good luck take it day by day. You can do it!

I track everything I eat. And that's it.

I am strictly using MFP to track food, and I've set my goals how I want them to be (with input from my CNC wife), and I simply aim to get all the macronutrients up close to the levels that I have set, to keep sodium low (that's tough!), all while using calories as an overall indicator of how efficient the food choices I made are at providing what I need on a day-to-day basis. I am not using it to track my water intake, nor my exercise. I am trying to drink more, but I can't force myself to do more than I already am, so tracking it won't help. And the exercise tracking isn't important to me because I already tracked it elsewhere for as long as I needed to get a good feel for what I wanted to do, and I'm not neurotic about it anymore. I don't want to track my net calories, just my caloric intake.

I only just started using MFP on December 29th, since that was the day I finally got an Android device and installed the app. I had already lost over 40lbs by that point though, after starting trying to eat better and do some exercise earlier in the year.

I really hope that by tracking what I eat, I'll actually get better at learning the nutrition (not just calories) provided by a lot of foods I eat, and that will help me lose even more of the fat I have left to lose. Frankly, I know that all last year I over ate, but I still managed to make enough improvements in my fitness and eating habits to raise the quality of my life by a substantial margin. With my nutrition fully in check now, I expect to continue down the path I started on, and hopefully at a brisker pace now.

I actually overtrack what I eat and undertrack what I burn in the gym and I find myself pleasantly surprised by the end results (which is more weight loss than anticipated).