Why don't you find a way to spice it up? Lol. Tweak the numbers in a way that you're still accomplishing the same thing, but still get to see the numbers go up. Idk if that makes sense?

Or do a different workout.

Or find a hobby? Lol.

Logging takes so little of your day, why put all your stock into it? There's gotta be something else that can motivate you? I mean, you probably won't *need* to log for the rest of your life, so think now of what you'd do if you were already at maintenance.

Sorry I guess I'm no hope. But I'm also not a numbers person :-/


-Kiki

But playing with the numbers should not stop you from taking care of what you eat.
I personally love to see my HRM show me my burn.
I do not care about the numbers on MFP.
Rather focus on your workout and get the most out of them. Push yourself over your limit-that gives more satisfaction than seeing calorie numbers changing.
Be consistent-that's the key and enjoy your workouts and good food

Maybe you'd enjoy using a Fitbit, seeing as it sets the mini challenges where you are competing against yourself. Lots of numbers there, lol.

Or join Fitocracy (cheaper route, lol) for those same challenge features.. The whole concept of it is an ongoing fitness game that you play against yourself, you earn points, etc, for fitness related stuff you do... At least that could keep you focused on the fitness side of it, but still give you your #s for the fun aspect.



~Kiki

Get into lifting. See your weights go up. That's a ****ing awesome feeling.

OMG, I know exactly what you mean! I NEED to see my available calories go up as it really motivates me to workout. This is kind of tricky for a reset. I am doing a mini reset right now and am having a hard time with this as well. What I did was set my cals to 2100 as this is what I want to eat every single day for two weeks, but I still enter my workouts. I dont eat the calories back, but I do enjoy seeing the numbers on here and I think it helps motivate me. If or when I go back to more of a cut I usually set my goal to just above BMR and eat all my workout cals back. On my rest days I manuallly enter a workout and label it "calorie adjustment to meet -15%TDEE". I do this so I do not see anything, esp calories, in the red on my rest day if that makes sense. I find these two things to help me a lot. Good luck!

I enter my workouts anyways, but I don't eat the extra calories unless my net is under BMR.

Also, so you're in week 6 of reset if I'm adding right? I don't know why, but many of us in the reset thread have hit a slump in weeks 5 and 6. I really struggled with a "Who cares?" attitude about food for about two weeks during my reset. It was rough! I'm just now getting through that hump as I head into my final week. You're so close to ending the reset and it can be really hard towards the end. There's no excitement anymore for measuring and/or weighing right now because there's not the gratification of losses right now.

I have used hackersdiet.com to chart my weight daily. That satisfies a numbers urge for me right now. I get excited when I see that my little ups and downs over the past four weeks or so are a plateau (since I know that's what's supposed to happen during the reset).

Good luck and hang in there!

Great to hear you've found a method that works for you.

I think part of the key is finding a way to do this that suits your own lifestyle. The intention is to do this forever and if doing things a certain way doesn't work for you then it's not going to be easy to keep it up long term. But if you find a method that works for you and is enjoyable then you're onto a winner

I like numbers too so my little gadgets are a great way to have positive numbers to focus on like increasing my steps / weights lifted / calories burned etc. rather than obsessing about a number on the scale.