[KatieK]

I've always used a written food journal. Although I considered fitday it just seemed like too much work.
Now that I am maintaining and like a number of you I eat pretty much the same every day I don't write my food in my journal ( only my exercise) but I still do weigh things like turkey breast, and I weigh myself every day.

[WebRover]

Originally Posted by alinnell

One thing that did work though, I would create a weekly menu with my usual choices for breakfast, lunch and snacks and then add a week's worth of dinner ideas--all with the calories beside each choice. Then I'd print out several copies and just highlight what I ate each day and added it up at the end (or just before deciding on the right dinner to compliment the calories I'd already consumed that day). That worked really well for me. I always left room for "extras" that I would write in if needed.

What a great idea!

One thing that Fitday is doing for me is keeping me really conscious of what size serving I'm eating. I have to stop and consider how much of something I'm getting ready to eat or have already eaten if I want to enter it into Fitday. For packaged goods i'm counting or measuring or putting into a container that i know the exact size of. I think that's making a big difference.

Also it helped me discover that even though I wasn"t feeling hungry, I was sliding under 1200 calories a day. I'm consciously working to eat more calories and suddenly I'm losing more weight. I would have never believed it if I hadn't been tracking.