Anyone taken a break from logging?

One word for me: Disaster!!

Has anyone taken a break from logging? How did it go?

i did. between my birthday (on october 9th) and a week after new years day. lots of traveling, lots of potluck style parties, general holiday snacking, etc... i managed to gain 30 pounds. so yeah, major fail without the logging. :-\

No. I'm too addicted to logging already. I'm afraid that if I stop for a day I would be constantly counting anyway (or eating even less). But this is just how it works for me, other people might need a break from time to time.

I am scared not to log. It's become second nature to do it to continue the weight loss. I lost a lot before and put most of it back on. I promised myself that I will not do that again after losing it again. It's harder to lose it this time too.

i took about a month-long break over christmas. i managed to still lose weight but after new years i got super worried that i wasn't keeping at a sensible calorie count so i started logging again.

I took a two-week break in February. I got tired of doing it and was afraid that if I didn't take a small break i would stop all together. I ate a little below my maintenance calories then and lost a pound. I actually started to miss logging so I got back on. I don't always use the online counter, for the past two weeks I've been writing everything down in a notebook.
Changing things up like that can really help you stay on track if you're like me and you hate sticking to a routine.

I took a break a few months ago. I ended up eating more because i wasn't as mindful. Long story short I gained everything I lost back plus. I am back on track now though. I would say don't stop unless you have to.

Took a whole week off while I was in Mexico. I didn't lose progress but I struggled with getting back into logging the first few days.

Yes, when I went out to Italy to help my Dad work on the land and with the renovations. I found I obsessed less about food and so ate better and more normally and although ate til i was full, indulged and didn't starve at all, I came back 2KG LIGHTER after just one week!

yeah, i did, for a couple of months over the christmas period, and its the worst thing i ever did, i gained a ton of weight back which i am still trying to move, and boy its harder second time around!!

I have taken a break from logging until my ECG and blood test results are in and I go thru it all with the DR

all going well , I am staying the same weight

Never have skipped logging. My diary is not public, but I still log everything, faithfully and accurately. Down to the last detail, even medications or vitamins.

i took a break for somewhere around a year. still exercised, still tried to eat well. i gained 30 pounds.

me too... :sad:

I didn't log while I was on vacation last week, and even though I thought I ate well and definitely got plenty of exercise, I gained 2lbs. I've only been here since late January, so I guess I just haven't learned what proper portions are yet and don't keep track of my calories as closely as I thought I did. So it will be a while before I skip logging again.

In January I didn't log for most of my 10 day vacation. I started out trying to log but it was a hassle and I really was only taking wild guesses trying to find relatively equivalent meals so I decided to take a break. I, too, gained 2# but I thought that was great as I indulged every day on fine dining, treats, drinks, etc. In other words, I didn't even try to eat well. It was gone in just a week or so after my return.

I thought it was freeing to know that I can indulge for short periods without gaining excessively. Of course, all the walking helped, I'm sure. We walked up/down so many of San Francisco's steep hills, across the Golden Gate down into Sausalito, Alcatraz, yada yada, that I'm sure that helped keep it to such a piddly little gain for all the good food I was eating.

I will never ruin a vacation by obsessing about my food intake again. But I'm always active on vacations anyway. Even when I get to goal, I really don't care if I might gain a few pounds while thoroughly enjoying myself. But, then again, with my eating/exercise plan, I truly don't feel like I'm on a diet in the first place so having to watch it upon return from a vacation to lose a few pounds gained won't be any big deal to me.

I joined my fitness pal not long ago- for the first week I did really well - logging food and exercise (what little I did) - for the past 2 -3 weeks I have barely logged anything- and I'm pretty sure I gained a few pounds. So bag to logging for me- knowing that I am going to log everything in and see what my food intake and calorie burn are going to be for the day is motivation for me. I'm not good at exercising (UGH) and I love to snack! After trying trying on 3 shirts yesterday so I could head to a baby shower- I've had about enough!