Are you honest with your food diary?

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  • cip1
    cip1 Posts: 31 Member
    Nope. Not everything - I don't think I ever legged this 50g of blueberries I add to the muesli or few carrot sticks.
  • DragonflyF15
    DragonflyF15 Posts: 437 Member
    hahah...if you go back and look at my Superbowl day, you will see that I consumed about 4000 calories. So yes, I try to be honest and accountable for all my actions, good days and bad. I also like to add to the food notes what was going on that day, as it helps to see what the triggers were...being festive, feeling pressured, stressful day, emotional and etc.
  • hockeymomofbensam
    hockeymomofbensam Posts: 28
    I track absolutey everything, all the time. Guilt free here!
  • meganlee90
    meganlee90 Posts: 17
    yes i am! seeing's as I just ate 900 calories worth of Pablo's Mexican Grill.. but chicken quesadilla.. i started and couldnt stop..i havent gone over my calories by much at all.. so one day won't hurt!
  • EoinMag
    EoinMag Posts: 25 Member
    To be frank, if you're tracking everything then the concept of a "cheat day" becomes a nonsense. I'm not cheating if I eat more and then do more excercise in the evening to make up for it. I have a cross trainer setup in the living room so I can keep my calory account in check whenever I want to.
    I suppose not everyone has that ability, but the idea of "cheating" sounds so silly to me. My wife told me she wasn't logging the other day because it was mothers day and she was eating cake, but I just said, track everything because then you know over a week what you need to make back..simple.
    I'm getting results the way I'm doing it, it's hard work but I like my food, but I'm also getting to love my excercise.
  • emeraldowl
    emeraldowl Posts: 33 Member
    I track all of the items I eat with the exception of chewing gum, vitamins and some spices. I do track condiments though as they tend to be high sodium and sugar. I try and keep a 100cal buffer zone each day for things like this.
  • Fit_Forever25
    Fit_Forever25 Posts: 313 Member
    I track each and every bit!
    Every teeny tiny bit of anything..
  • RunHardBeStrong
    RunHardBeStrong Posts: 33,069 Member
    Yep every thing that crosses my lips. Right down to that measured out teaspoon of ketchup on my burger.
  • stormieweather
    stormieweather Posts: 2,549 Member
    I track everything, but I don't lose weight in a nice linear fashion. I was just complaining on my feed that I haven't lost in 5 weeks, although my clothes fit differently and I can see changes in my thighs, arms, and abs. The scale will (hopefully) catch up although my shape is the most important thing at this point in my journey. So even days where I eat 5 different kinds of sweets or go over on sodium by 2000mg, I log it...yes I do. Because I graph it all and calculate where I SHOULD be vs where I actually am, so that would be rather pointless if the calorie count was incomplete and inaccurate.
  • Embera
    Embera Posts: 289 Member
    i have issues not only getting on to track but i dont do the cooking so i dont know what are in most of my dinners which is the bigest meal of the day so any segetions.
  • CharlieBarleyMom
    CharlieBarleyMom Posts: 727 Member
    I generally log everything... but there are those days that I am sickened by my own piggishness and I cannot face my friends (actually, just me because my friends are nicer than I am)... but I am making a concerted effort to log those days too now. Just have to get past my own ugliness.
  • Tink_889
    Tink_889 Posts: 244 Member
    I am honest with my diary. It's set to private at the moment because I want to keep it completely honest and I think if I opened it up I would feel worried about other peoples judgements and therefore perhaps skip some of the truth!
  • desert_rhino
    desert_rhino Posts: 104 Member
    I do my level best to track everything. Even the 4 chocolate raisins I eat when I sugar-snack (before meals only). Anything less would be cheating nobody but me.

    I don't like it when I go over my target, but I did the math, and I've got a few hundred calories before I even break even. :) But, I figure, hell, if I'm pleased with my "under" days, I need to be honest about my "over" days, so I can see exactly what *is* going on, and where I am or should be with my weight and fitness.

    It's sure working so far. :):)
  • dtanya177
    dtanya177 Posts: 2
    YES. It hasn't been quite a week since I joined MFP. If I eat something and don't log it, it's STILL going to show up on my body. I have tried other methods before and have failed to keep the weight off when I did lose it, because I gave in and went back to old and bad habits. Logging honestly helps me stay real with myself. It forces me to LOOK at what I'm doing. If I cheat by not logging what I really eat, then I will fail at this attempt too. Btw, I've had only one binge since I started but it was epic and I recorded every bit of it. Just today, I changed my security on my diary to make it readable to my friends and now I'm going to go make it completely public. Lying/hiding/cheating is not going to make me feel any better about myself.
  • 1Kristine1
    1Kristine1 Posts: 697 Member
    I find if I am keeping track of what I eat I make better choices, makes me accountable. However, I am not going to log 5 pieces of popcorn or a french fry. For me, thats a little too tedious. But then if I do snack it most likely ends up being a serving size, so that I would definately log.
  • leslisa
    leslisa Posts: 1,350 Member
    No. If I put something in thinking I'll eat it for an after dinner snack and then don't I usually don't bother to correct.
  • itgeekwoman
    itgeekwoman Posts: 804 Member
    I am 100% honest with my food diary. So much so that I don't even eat out anymore because I can't verify what is going into my food. I am very careful with what I eat.

    It's working though :).
  • CynGoddess
    CynGoddess Posts: 188 Member
    yes, even on the days I screw up, it helps to see it and hold myself accountable.
  • BatWoman2012
    BatWoman2012 Posts: 52
    Yes, I track every single thing that I eat - well, I track salt, but not the other spices I cook with.

    This is a process, and everyone has to do what works for them.

    Same here, I track everything but not herbs or spices. Things like salt and oil I track though. I always have a deficit that will make up for not counting herbs and spices which wouldnt be much anyway..
  • Katie1951
    Katie1951 Posts: 312 Member
    The only person I'm accountable to is myself. If I'm not honest, I'm only hurting myself. I track everything. My motto is "if I can log it, I can eat it" and I go about my daily life making my food choices based on that.
  • saraann4
    saraann4 Posts: 1,296 Member
    I track EVERYTHING...even my cheat days (to the best of my ability). Occasionally, I will have a bite of my boyfriend's food which is usually chicken and rice so I don't count that since it's a small bite and how would I count it? It's one bite. Other than that, everything I put in my mouth goes in my food journal
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