Oh goodness... I was wondering the same thing. I have started Paleo and noticed that even when tracking calories, I'm okay with everything I eat.

I don't feel guilty over what I"m eating or how much, especially since I've learned to eat till i feel satisfied, not till I feel full and stuffed

I'd say you should do what feels comfortable. I tend to log food not for calories, but to keep track and to keep myself accountable for what I'm putting in my body, as I'm still new to Paleo and working my way our of grains and dairy.

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I log my calories to watch how much I am eating. If you over eat you will gain weight. Calories are units of energy and your body will only burn so many a day.

It's entirely up to you. I tracked for a few weeks but I was looking more at carb grams and I was also at my weight goal (I went 12lbs past it with Primal Blueprint). I know that animal protein is roughly 6g per ounce. So that's easy. But after 6 months of calorie counting, weighing, logging and such I was sick of it.

I quickly learned that protein and fat are very, very satisfying and filling but not in a "stuffed" way. (30g of fat or more in one sitting is very filling). I don't want to eat and eat these.

In my body carbohydrates are an appetite stimulant. Even in the form of sweet potatoes and fruit. And they create nasty cravings. I start eating and it doesn't matter how "stuffed" I feel I want to keep eating. There's no signal to stop like I get from protein/fat.

But it is next to impossible to overeat protein/fat. Not impossible...but very, very hard to do.

One thing I have noticed is that when my calories increase my energy expenditure increase follows within a couple of days - automatically - unconsciously I burn more calories. Eating a good amount of fat at one time makes me hyper, too - a full fat can of coconut milk will have me bouncing off the walls. (I never thought I would be using that word to describe me...hyper).

I log my calories to watch how much I am eating. If you over eat you will gain weight. Calories are units of energy and your body will only burn so many a day.

This - also like someone else posted - when I was journaling I was really looking at my Carb intake as the primary focus and my calories secondary. Most of the time I was under my calorie goal in a day because I was full...fats and protiens help you feel satiatied.

A lot depends on what you are eating - I have been eatign this way for quite a while so I usually eat within the same parmeters so I am to a point where jornaling is almost an afterthought because my diet is mainly veggies, meat, nuts and some fruits...for the most part I am not eating processed foods and when I do go "off track" it is for something simple and not a huge binge (I.e. I went to movies on Saturday and had some movie theater popcorn - not a big deal to me because I go to the movies maybe 3-4 X's a year....) I have found that certain foods I used to eat all the time now make me sick to my stomach so I find even though I may want to eat them I just stay away knowing the bad things that will happen about an hour after eating them....