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  • kldaisy78
    kldaisy78 Posts: 2 Member
    I have logged over 165 days in a row and I would be such a stressed out mess if I didn't. I would have never lost all the weight I did without this site, but yes somethings I feel like it a slight obsession.
  • WishfulShrinking331
    WishfulShrinking331 Posts: 244 Member
    Yes!!! Omg I will prepare myself a meal and sit at the table and log it before I even have a bite! I count calories in my head before I decide what I am going to eat, yesterday at work the first thing I did when I got off my shift was log what I ate for lunch...I'm obsessed!!! I've been counting calories for three years and I find myself counting other peoples calories!
  • mgram2
    mgram2 Posts: 128 Member
    Yes!!! Omg I will prepare myself a meal and sit at the table and log it before I even have a bite! I count calories in my head before I decide what I am going to eat, yesterday at work the first thing I did when I got off my shift was log what I ate for lunch...I'm obsessed!!! I've been counting calories for three years and I find myself counting other peoples calories!

    Haha I love telling my boyfriend how many calories are in his food. He doesn't watch what he eats at all (he's 6 ft, 148 lbs, with the world's fastest metabolism) so his meals easily go over 1000 calories in one sitting.
  • idziak04
    idziak04 Posts: 69
    When I first started MFP back in February, I logged EVERYTHING. I have been a little lax with logging my food lately, but I am still losing. I am more obsessed with working out and I feel extremly guilty if I don't workout every single day. I love this site and I have learned so much from it.
  • JanetLM73
    JanetLM73 Posts: 1,226 Member
    I'm pretty obsessed with it, I'm going on vacation in 2 weeks....I'll won't be able to log for a week, I'm already stressing about it.
  • Wonderob
    Wonderob Posts: 1,372 Member
    I can only do it one way. Totally committed to exercise, totally committed to what I eat. Obsessed no doubt. I am a calorie bore!
  • Kelly_Runs_NC
    Kelly_Runs_NC Posts: 474 Member
    I totally understand where you guys are coming from!! haha I think I'm obsessed as well. Ah well, the way I see it - I could be obsesed/addicted to much worse so if healthy eating and exercise are the only thing I'm doing good in my opinion! Good luck everyone!!
  • toriking
    toriking Posts: 12 Member
    I am totally obsessed with logging but it has taught me so much about my habits, weaknesses and strengths. Totally an obsession I can live with x
  • Sstjacques
    Sstjacques Posts: 4
    i love logging everything. I was so far off with how many calories i THOUGHT i was eating during the day. I couldn't understand why I wasn't losing weight until I started logging everything and really realized I was not eating as great as I thought I was. Now I"m totally motivated to work out and burn those calories so that I can have a treat at the end of the day :-)
  • kabbit42
    kabbit42 Posts: 77 Member
    I have to eat out a lot so I spend quite a bit of time researching online menus and dishes I might want to eat just so I can prelog and make everything work. Being able to use the app really takes the compulsion to the next level I think. Not a bad one, but one nonetheless.
  • harleygaljojo
    harleygaljojo Posts: 111 Member
    I look up and log every bite I take. I plan what I am going to eat every meal.
  • harleygaljojo
    harleygaljojo Posts: 111 Member
    We eat out almost every meal, so i plan, plan and plan. I look up every bite and log everything, even if I chew a piece of gum.
  • nlawing
    nlawing Posts: 36
    What was the quote?

    "The lazy have a word for those who are dedicated... obsessed."
  • fiona2785
    fiona2785 Posts: 82
    I mean if I were (God forbid) diabetic and needed insulin shots to be healthy, I would have to do that. So, if i need to use a journal, even if it means for the rest of my life, in order to be healthy . . . so be it!

    ^^^This sums it up brilliantly.

    Having said that, I think my obsession is becoming a bit unhealthy... when it was the queen's jubilee a couple of weeks ago, and we had a party at school (I'm a teacher), we were told in no uncertain terms that we were expected to sit and eat with the kids, and eat the party food. I took one look at what was on the plate, panicked, ran off to have a cry, and didn't eat any of it. But then again, the number of times when we genuinely can't control what we eat are very very rare.
  • mgram2
    mgram2 Posts: 128 Member
    What was the quote?

    "The lazy have a word for those who are dedicated... obsessed."

    I wish I had the courage to be lazy!
  • Wonderob
    Wonderob Posts: 1,372 Member
    I"m not obsessed actually. Out cycling I swallowed a fly. The calories and protein have NOT been accounted for and it hardly bothers me!
  • mcarter99
    mcarter99 Posts: 1,666 Member
    Once I logged for six months solid. Then went to Disneyland for a week and took a break and never went back, thinking I could wing it. I couldn't. I'm not so sure I'll ever be able to. I find that a little sad but then again many people need to keep to a strict money budget that they have to monitor daily, so I'm glad I'm able to at least eyeball that area and be ok!
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