Was wondering in your experience has keeping a journal been helpful. I find it tedious and time consuming. I'm not even doing it anymore. But if I really need to I will

I log everything on my phone app MyFitnessPal. I have since 6mths before surgery. They have a neat scanner to scan food packaging for all necessary info. It's how I keep track of getting my 60gr of Protein and staying at my allotted calories.

If you start having trouble that will be the first question asked, are you tracking?

Good luck!

I'm not tracking now. I eat 3 meals a day, small portions.

This is a personal preference and some people find it time consuming. I started logging on MFP because I was stalled in my weight loss and was trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. By logging everything it helps me to stay honest with myself and my friends who have supported me these past two years. If you can lose weight successfully without logging than go for it because it is time consuming but for me, I need to log, measure and weigh my food. I think it is a personal preference. Good luck to you.

Are you happy with your weight loss? If you are, congratulations, if not, journalling is really helpful and doesn't need to be complicated and time consuming.

Best wishes.

Since you asked... I credit my calories counter food tracker phone ap as one of the most important tools I used in my journey second only to my band....

For me it gave me the ability to be in control of what I ate and taught me about calories counts and portion sizes.

I track everything on myfitnesspal. It is so easy.. and it is motivating actually. I read that people who track lose more weight than people who don't. Of course there are exceptions. I definitely believe that to be true.. because you take accountability for what you are putting in your mouth. So long as you are honest in your tracking.. if you aren't then what's the point. I even track my bad days!!

myfitnesspal is so easy too.. and not to time consuming, it has a very large database for food.. click and done. Good Luck to ya hun!

I would say its very important. As soon as you stop tracking your three meals can become more then what you should eat. Accountability for what you are putting in your mouth is absolutely a need.

i say do what works for you

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I can't find the scanner on my fitness pal. How do you get to it?

When you go to add a food, pick the meal you are adding it to and it is a little scanner picture on the top right.

I know some do fine without logging food and calories, but they seem to be the exception not the rule.

I find it to be very important, if not crucial, to my weight loss success. I have tracked every piece of food that's gone into my mouth since my surgery 11 months ago. I use the Lose It! app on my phone. I'm certain I wouldn't have lost even half the amount of weight I have without doing so. It keeps me accountable and helps me to see problems when they occur.

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I just tried out the scanner. Way cool! Thanks for mentioning it.

I also use myfitnesspal to log my meals & keep track of my protein intake.