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I have pretty much avoided doing the food journal until I started weight training and the trainer asked me to do it. I have to say, I am very surprised that tracking the food is becoming interesting to me.
I'm an engineer and I can't stand inaccuracy with measurement. It just drives me up the wall. That's why I love my Tanita scale - I can get on that thing 30x in a row in all different positions, locations and it reads the within .2 lbs every time. Accurate.
So when I have to take a guess on something I ate b/c it was a mixture of something I didn't make I get really tweaked about it. But I am trying to just log it the best I can and after only a week I am seeing some interesting trends already. It is interesting to play with your meals to see how you can get your macronutrients on target.
I am also a perfectionist so this is a good learning experience. I am doing weights which I can't do perfectly b/c I don't know what I'm doing, I have to depend on someone else's expertise which I hate, and I am recording the food journal without worrying if I got it 100% right.
It is called "all or nothing" thinking when you decide if you can't do it PERFECTLY, you won't do it at all. It can cause you a lot of anxiety.
I haven't been weighing myself every day b/c I am fluctuating too much with water weight. I am trying to drink more water to offset that one.
Tomorrow is my 2 mile walk in the park. We have a park in Rochester NY that is a very fun place to visit, especially in the Winter. They trained the chickadees to feed out of your hand. You just put the seed in and they fly out of the bushes and land in your hand and take it and fly away. You should see the kids faces when that happens. It's priceless!
Man, do I blather on...
Diet Calendar Entry for 10 September 2016:
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1220 kcal
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Fat: 73.71g | Prot: 110.01g | Carb: 37.35g.
Breakfast: Hillshire Farm Naturals Roast Beef, Sargento Classic Sharp Cheddar Cheese, Butter, Wegmans Large Eggs. Lunch: Wegmans Mushrooms, Hillshire Farm Naturals Roast Beef, Cooper Sharp American Cheese. Dinner: Cucumber (Peeled), Driscoll's Strawberries, Primal Kitchen Primal Fuel: Vanilla Coconut. Snacks/Other: Driscoll's Strawberries. more...
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Tracking food and exercise has been essential for me to develop structure and discipline. You will love it after a while.
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I feel so much better when I log everything. Now if I can only keep at it... But when I do eat something that's not on Fs I will google the nutrition then try and find something similar. Or I'll log more of something even though I know I didn't eat that much.
10 Sep 16 by member: Mistybenner
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I have to agree about the food journalling. I used to hate the idea and fought against it for years, but i've been doing it since i joined at the request of my weight loss team and now i'm hooked. They not only told me to journal everything i eat, but use it to plan for the next day. It's incredible how much more in control i feel when i preplan my next day's menu. I don't have to "figure out" what i'm gonna eat in the spur of the moment, its all done the night before and i can tweak as i need to.
10 Sep 16 by member: BPaula47
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I track everything, too and it has helped me a lot. I used to have some magical thinking around food. -- like if nobody saw me eat something that somehow it wouldn't count. Or between meals or in the car - it wouldn't count. Seems kind of crazy now, but that's how I got fat! So, the logging has taught me to be accountable for everything I eat. If I remember something I ate from yesterday, I go back and fix it.
I haven't used it for planning ahead though; I'll try that. Thanks for that BPaula.
10 Sep 16 by member: erikahollister
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