Tracking your food?

Are you doing it? What things are you tracking? How are you tracking it? How often are you tracking?

Are you doing it? I am trying What things are you tracking? I track protien only How are you tracking it? I am using fitday.com How often are you tracking? I am trying to track daily but have been really busy.

Every day. I track everything, except for things like mustard or ketchup...I don't use much of them anyway. I use nutridiary.com They track sugars, where fitday doesn't. I track after each meal...I have become a fanatic about it. I also track on nutridiary my water intake, vitamins and pepcid, weight and exercise.

Yep, track all food, using RemedyMD. Keeps track of everything for me, and still shows I am having too many carbs. Trying to fix that, but still having a tough time! Michelle

I only keep track of how much water I take in each day and roughly how much protein I'm taking in. I glance at labels for sugar content on things that are "iffy." But I'm a strange bird for several reasons: 1. I've been a Weigh****cher since the age of twelve - I can eyeball portion sizes and relative nutrient counts nearly by "osmosis" - other former WWers might get what I mean by that. I did track my intake for about a week, to keep myself honest - and I found out that as long as I'm choosing protein-forward items at meals, I'm getting in enough protein and I'm not getting more calories than I need. 2. I'm one of those folks who apparently doesn't dump. I don't try the "obvious" no-no's, but things that other people dump on with one bite, I've been able to handle in small portions, so I don't have to be quite as diligent in that arena, other than to limit my portions. But what I DO count: Mugs of tea - I have a 16-oz mug that I fill up 3 times a day bare minimum. Some days I don't finish every sip, some days I get in more than that, but I at least have to attempt to get those minimum three in. Anything else is "gravy" so to speak :P On days when I've had a few carb items, I do a mental tally of my protein intake to make sure I get my "quota" in by the end of the day. No writing it down or label-reading, just a brief "stop, think, plan" minute before my last meal of the day.

Are you doing it? Yes, I have a small wire bound [1/2 size] book that I keep track of everything I eat by grams of protein and everything I drink by ounces and when I take what vitamins. I keep a running total of protein down the left side of the page and a running total of water/liquids down the right side of the page. What things are you tracking? What I eat, protein grams, liquid ounces, vitamins and other meds How are you tracking it? Small notebook but will eventually go back to Fitday like I was doing pre-op How often are you tracking? Every day and everything that goes into my mouth Terry T RNY 9/27/06 -50# on my scale since surgery