Are you honest with your food diary?

I lived the logging through stages
#1 - I was using it have a rough idea of how much calories my meals "might" contain
#2- I wasn't logging stuff that was out of track (even when I had 0 friends here !)
#3 - I wasn't logging my binges at all, I wasn't let's say "strong" enough, and still in a denial phase. it was unbearable for me to exceed my logged stuff
#4- Logging helped me, by logging everything, I was able to binge, log (not totally though) but hit my goals by eating less for the meals to come
#5- Nazi loging and macros hits helped me to avoid binges somehow, I didn't want to ruin a day with a binge
#6- Now, I log everything and I'm not in the denial anymore - if I explode the goal by eating two times - fine, at least I know how cal that represent

brutally

Sometimes I get to the end of the day, think I am doing well on the calorie count, then remember OH NO I forgot to log that snack I had. I am a picker and often just mindlessly pick something up to nibble. It is so good for me to have to try to log every little thing - now before I eat it I think 'do I really NEED to eat this'??

I track most things. I wasn't tracking Pepsi Max because even if I drank 2 litres a day it wouldn't make a significant difference to anything, and I was mostly drinking 500ml - 750ml a day, tops. I haven't drunk any in over a week now though, just water. I don't log the multivitamin I take every day either. Again, because I don't see it makes a difference one way or the other. Everything else, I log. If it's something home-made or from a bakery that doesn't publish nutritional info, then I try and guess the calories and add those. I have been known to eat something at say 11pm but log it against the next day in order to not go over that week's calorie limit though... which I know isn't a good idea, but at least I am still accounting for it in the overall weekly averages, and dropping my daily calories the next day to allow for it. My next goal is to stop doing that, and to hit my net calories (plus or minus say 50) every day for a whole month.

ETA: Forgot to say that I don't log the two slices of cucumber or leaf of lettuce or raw onion that I put on sandwiches. I do log butter and salad cream though.

I don't track couple of sugar free drinks, fries, candies etc. However,
1. If I have grilled food (done on George Foreman), then I still right conventionally grilled value. You can visibly see the oils removed by George Foreman.
2. Similarly, for brown rice, I use boiling method which removes lots of starch but I still login conventionally cooked rice.
3.Thirdly, I tend to eat on my BMR which is high than what MFP recommends, considering the deficit it creates for weight loss. So, if I am more by 250 cal a day, I don't bother as it will make a weight loss rate of 0.5lb/week.
4. I do weight training and HIIT, so I believe I am burning energy while sitting.

So the point- if you have high offsetting activities, then there is no point in being very precise.

I do track everything yes. I don't see the point in lying, you're only lying to yourself really.

Totally agree with this. I do track everything, but there have been a couple of times when I'm laying in bed at night, and I suddenly realize that I forgot to log that peach, or that yogurt, etc that I had earlier in the day. So, it's not like I'm trying to cheat. I don't intentionally omit things.

I track everything as best I can.... if I cant find something I use something that is very similar.
The only thing I don't track is spice (cinammon, pepper etc).
I DO try and track salt or added salt intake

So far, yes, little point in lying to myself! For those odd times I haven't been able to accurately track I've over estimated.

I track everything, but sometimes I do just use the quick calories if its somethign I dont eat offten, and I take it from the package so they are currect. If I take a few bites here and there of other things I usually just add like 100 cal. which more then covers it if I cant figure out the exact amount (example: I ate a few of my sons gold fish crackers like 3-4, 54 fish is a serving for 150cal didnt feel like doing the math so I just added 100)

I track EVERYTHING! If I have one Hershey Kisses, it gets tracked. If I have a horrible day and stuff my face, I track it. If it's the holidays, I track it! If I don't, it causes me to feel less guilty, and like what I did wasn't a big deal. When I track, it causes me to take responsibility.

Using MFP has become a lifestyle for me now, I track it all even down to the Truvia I put on my cereal in the morning

Just to add.. I'm sure loads here have it.. but just by the fact you know you'll need to write it down means you'll go for the healthy option! One example is say a mars bar (at a guess 300cals) I know I could replace that with say chicken and noodles @ 300cals, and that would make me feel loads better from an energy perspective, so I don't reach for it!

I think tracking calories on a 'bad day' would be a positive thing. You might not feel so stressed about it if you are only say 500 over maintenance.

i dont track everything but i dont think im cheating because i sometimes just taste something... i mean that i eat it in a very small amount so i dont track it.. and this has not affected my progress... i keep on losing weight.

I dont track spices or drinks (I drink water, unsweet tea or diet coke). Everything else, I do.

95% of the time I track everything - but I occasionally cannot be bothered so I cannot say I track 100% of the time! That said I am honest with myself even if I don't publicise it. What I don't do is stress and beat myself up over bad days (and I don't have too many!). At the end of the day I have lost 28lbs over 4 months - I am happy with that rate of loss and if I maintain a bit, lose a bit, live a bit then that for me becomes much easier to maintain! I am at my half way point and have no intention of stopping now!