Do you log when you binge?

i definitely log, it helps to keep me accountable to myself.

I try to log in EVERYTHING. If I cant find it and can't scan it through the phone app I try to find the closest thing I can on here and log it. It is a task logging in all the little junk things you may give into here and there, but if you don't try to log in all you can then what's the point of logging in at all? Everyone has their off days, their over days, their "ashamed" days, but not logging in everything that you can isn't using mfp to its or your full potential.

didnt read any replies, but here's mine.

log.it.all.


accountability.

I usually log. Knowing that I'll have to log keeps me more aware of exactly how much I eat.

Yes, I do. Ugh. But then I don't log after a while because I get totally depressed by it. Bingefree since May...so here I am...and happy. Trying to be happy with my relationship to food.

sometimes I do sometimes I don't it just depends on how tired I am that day. I tend to have cheat days when I'm tired or eating out where it's hard to control my calorie intake

So I have been doing really well lately and very happy with my results since starting on MFP, but last night I gave in in a bad way and totally blew my whole day! I had drive-in popcorn, a whole bunch of candies, tootsie rolls - it was a bad scene!

So my questions is this: do most of you log that in, or do you just leave it and start new the next day? I wold not even know where to start to log all that I ate, so i am not logging it. I logged the rest of my day up intil that point.

Just curious to see what the rest of you do.

If you bite it, you write it! Good, bad or indifferent log everything you eat to the best of your ability... make your diary private if you don't want others to see but who are you kidding by not logging?

I would have to because well for one I am nosy and 2 I can make sure I do not repeat my pattern lol. but thats just me.

I log it.

It happens. It helps me track it and hopefully prevent it next time.

i always log it

i try to force myself to log what i recall eating. seeing it in writting helps it sink in my head, how i fetl after i did it. hoping that i keep that in mind for the next time(s), to encourage me to do less and less in the future.. since i'm sure it will happen again, i'm only human.

I don't that night, I try to remember what I had and do it the next day, that way when I hit "complete" it doesn't show up in my feed. I am with a program that looks over my food diary, so the shame from myself, and the shame from my trainer is bad enough, I don't want everybody in my friend circle to see it. And they might if they hit "see food diary" but at least it won't be offered to them, they would have to search for it. If I do really really really bad, I don't log it (usually because I can't remember everything I ate). I have a spreadsheet for myself to track my calorie intake for each day, and calorie intake for the week, and my measurements, so logging it on here helps me keep the spreadsheet up to date (I'm an organization freak and have an absolute blast keeping the spreadsheet up to date and creating new formulas for it, etc.)

This just happened to me the other day. I logged everything in though & when I hit the complete this entry button & it told me how much i would weigh if i ate like that for five weeks, it was a real wake up call & made me want to get back on track....

That's a really great point! I should totally keep this in mind next time I have a bad day.

I didn't log on Wednesday, mostly because I don't remember exactly what I ate. If I estimated, it'd be about 2500 cals. My allowance for myself is that if I have a day I don't log everything, that's fine, but the next day I do twice the workout, and get 100% back on track cause I'm working too hard to let it all go for a bunch of junk I have had a million times before and can eat whenever again.

I do, because why not?! It's just more motivation to get back on track! Plus it feels like I am trying to lie to myself which causes me more guilt than just being honest with myself. Don't stress you'll get back on track! :flowerforyou:

I ALWAYS log EVERYTHING. I've lost 88 pounds so far, and gone from a size 20 to a size 8. I would never have been able to come this far if I wasn't honest with myself. Logging the food into MFP doesn't make me gain weight -- eating it does. And make no mistake -- the only person I'm lying to is myself. MFP doesn't have a secret feature that reports back to my husband or doctor. I'm the only person who sees my Food Diary.

Once I log everything, it loses its power over me and becomes nothing but data. Then I do a better job of planning tomorrow. There's really NOTHING WRONG with going nuts once in a while! I have to log it, though, so I can keep track of when my last Cupcake Day was. (And you'd better BELIEVE I get them!) ) If it's only been two weeks, then I should probably wait to have that cheeseburger, and go with the soup & salad combo instead. Three months? A day of decadence isn't going to hurt anything at all.

If I don't remember exactly what I ate (or went all "wild bear", as my daughter says), I round up. On the 4th of July, for example, I logged lemon cheesecake bars (1/4 of a pan -- don't remember how many but that seems about right. WOW, but they were fantastic), a large iced sugar cookie (I logged the biggest one I could find in MFP -- that cookie was as big as my hand, and SO worth it. Had an American Flag iced on it. International symbol of yummy), a slice of chocolate birthday cake (logged a big one, because this was one of those "professionally made" cakes from a bakery. I'm pretty sure it had actual chocolate melted into the icing. ), a red velvet mini cupcake with cream cheese icing (the one I ate just had regular icing, but I figured it probably evened out with that Godzilla of a cookie), 2 fudge brownies, a cup of gazpacho salad (that was my healthy thing for the day), a 1/2 cup of orzo past salad with shrimp (only had about 1/4 cup, but I did drag my finger through the icing on my husband's slice of cake -- so good), a side of pinto beans, and 6 ounces of beef brisket. And that was just my dinner! I had lunch, too.

Still not as bad as February 28th was -- that was free pancake day at IHOP. Nom, nom, nom...

So I have a BIG OL' RED BAR on Wednesday, July 4, and that is completely okay with me. And when I log my dinner tonight, I will see it, and I will say "No thank you" when the waitress asks if I would like some sopapillas. I will comfort myself with the knowledge that THIS YEAR (unlike last year), I'm going to TEAR IT UP on the holidays. And I shall look forward to the piles and piles of cranberry cream cheese rolls I am going to pack away like a wild bear in just 20 short weeks.

In the meantime, I will be a good girl, and I will finish meeting my goal and fit into those size 6 pants (because I'm only about 5 pounds away). I will snack on blackberries and hit the farmer's market for fresh tomatoes, and I will order the grilled talapia and the summer salad with no avocado.