Obssesive?

I am really obssesive and count absolutely everything otherwise I find myself sneaking them all the time and while it may only add up to 100 or so calories doing this everyday can really affect your weight loss. I find that using the number of servings drop down menu helps me as for example I can find the calories in the sandwich and then put the number of servings as 0.125.

Hope this helps

I've not logged the little things before, and it just leads to a bad weight loss week.

So now I log!

The recent post: 'Cheating' is not really 'Cheating' is it?? is basically saying the same thing. Whether you chose to log something is entirely up to you. It's not going to help or hurt. It's only going to skew your true intake then probably frustrate you later because you can't figure out why you aren't being successful in your weight loss.
It helps to keep good records - it's often an eye-opener.

I tell myself if I can't log it- I don't need it. that usually keeps me from picking.

It depends on how big the sneak was. If I took just one french fry and I actually ate some fries, I'll let that go. Yesterday, I snuck part of my kids cookie. I accounted for that.

i log everything that passess my lips and every bit of exercise i do! Even if it is just a 10 minute walk, or 5 minutes on the Wii fit!!! It works for me and yes I can be a bit obsessive about it!!

I try not to pick at food because it makes it harder to track but if I do Ill just take that piece out when I measure my portion and it adds up to the same thing. If I eat a cup of fries and I picked 2 or 3 from the box I will measure the cup then take 2 or 3 fries out and log it as a cup.

If it's something gross and I spit it out I don't log

log it - and guestimate by what the ingredients were. This may keep you from having a little taste here and there more often if you know you have to account for it! they do add up.

Hang in there..!

I don't add the random bite here or there because I know all the calorie counts are not exact anyway. Even if you weigh or measure every morsel your still only getting a close count as not every potato/tomato/fish/chicken/etc. has the exact same calorie count. Unless you have a lab and personally test every bite you you eat, they are all just averages. The few calories in 2 fries is not going to make that much difference. Unless they are huge steak fry wedges. Then I'd probably count them.

AMazingly since I started doing this and knew I was keeping track, I have STOPPED having B,L,T's (Bites, licks, and tastes). I am a food addict and it has been very difficult to stay focused. I try to have treats daily and even that didn't stop me from bingeing before my TOM. I went 600 calories over, ate reese's peanutbutter eggs, 8 homemade cookies, 6 mini york peppeermint patties and the next day I was SO sick. My stomach ACHED so BAD!

Sorry, I have food ADD. But since I started tracking, I try really hard to avoid having bites, simply because it seems like a pain the the butt to try to keep track of them.

Yeah, I'm a little OCD about logging food, but I don't log my exercise as accurately. Since I make myself log all of the food, it has the benefit of curbing my snacking by making me ask myself if that snack is really worth the extra effort of logging.

I don't log if I sneak a bite of something but I do keep it in mind so when I exercise later I can add an extra few minutes to whatever my workout may be so either way I feel good. I feel good that I had a devious sneaky bite of a fry or cookie or chocolate and then later I feel good that I worked out because I enjoy exercise. For me it's a win win I think for some people if they become obsessive it ends up discouraging them and for others it really helps so whatever works for you and helps with your weight loss!

But since I started tracking, I try really hard to avoid having bites, simply because it seems like a pain the the butt to try to keep track of them.

That's my reasoning for avoiding them too. It's just too much work for one or to bites :laugh: