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Originally Posted by RedWifey
So were Aoife, were you tracking to the T what went into your mouth? I am just not sure I can do that. It's just a choice I'll have to do some soul searching over.
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Yes.
Everything.
It's easier if I plan ahead. I don't make elaborate meals, I don't have a lot of guesswork. I'm vegetarian. A lot of my food is pre-packaged veggie stuff that therefore is easy to measure and count.
What was easiest is to decide how many calories each meal would be and then just add up and eat that. If I decided on 400 cal meals (then I'd have 4 a day, at the time) it would be then just make the sandwich (100bread+100cheese+100protein ) and then add the fruit (another 100) and done.
For Otto I would simply make meals that were 500 calories, pack them up, and he'd eat 5 a day and then have an under 500 snack. Done.
I will grant you that we're kinda anal people who don't hate tracking, don't have kids, and have just gotten used to the fact that we're gonna eat the same thing a lot. People usually think they want more variety than they really do.
The only things I wouldn't count were lettuce on sandwiches or a small pickle. But if I was having a salad, I counted that 20 cal of lettuce.
It was just easiest to make a recipe and measure before hand. I mean, you measure when you make a cake, right? You don't say... well, a couple handfuls of flour should do....
So we made recipes that were a pound of meat, X ounces of pasta, Y grams of sauce (for instance) and then knew the whole thing was gonna be 1500 cals and then just divide it up equally and store.
Like to log... but then again, rather lazy.
