Tired anyone?

Does anyone ever get burnt out from tracking everything they eat? Is that what they meant by dailyburn?

i took a three month break from dailyburn after 9 months of daily entries. but truth be told, ive become so accustom to tracking my food that i usuallly just memorize what i ate and enter it in one sitting at the end of the day.

I think it’s like anything else, after awhile it just becomes a habit and you just don’t notice anymore. I haven’t gotten burned out.
Pamela

www.ThrivePersonalFitness.com

I haven’t either PH is right if you let it become a routine part of the day it’s like putting on your seatbelt when you get in the car …it just becomes second nature…

I havent been tracking as much unless there are days I’m not as sure. I use the site to keep me motivated and to track my weight, but thanks to dailyburn I’ve gotten pretty good at figuring out what I’ve eaten every day without writing it down.

I keep on tracking my daily calorie intake and it really help me to set the goal..

I get more tired of having to correct entries for people that don’t know how to read the package correctly.

I did get a bit tired of it at the start of the year – I mean I was getting down right defiant about it. And then I gained back like 25 lbs and realized that it was worth it to keep going. I’ve become even more focused on tracking now and it has become basically second nature.

I think it will really get tiring if you track everything you eat and input them on dailyburn as soon as you finish eating :(

Yeah I hate it really, but whenever I don’t, my diet starts to falter.

Like someone else said, the annoying part is having to find the correct item. So many people create incorrect entries.

I have tried DailyBurn several times now, got fed up with the “daily” input needed and move on … but there is no better site out there that I’ve come across, and the ones that are heavily training oriented are even more brutal with regards to daily input needed (like Training Peaks).

In the end, I always come back to DailyBurn – it works, is relatively simple and straightforward AND the big thing is that it definitely does help me watch my nutrient intake and get into better shape!

The original question being Does anyone ever get burnt out from tracking everything they eat? My answer – Yes, absolutely, but it is truly worth the effort in the end.

I eat the same food every single day, day after day so my tracking is as simple as copying my meals from the day before. I do have some veg varieties which are planned, but a few clicks and I’m done for the day.

Yes, I get burned out, but I used to do it in a written food journal. DailyBurn, with it’s huge database, makes it convenient and the math is done for you. I find my food journal to be a barometer for my weight loss — when I track I’m focused, even if I slip up, when I don’t track I’m not focused so those slip ups start becoming the norm and my weight creeps up.

i don’t know in honesty if i get burn out, i have periods of time where i slip into negative patterns and stop logging things (either in an online or offline food diary/thought diary sheets) because it’s too depressing to even begin to think about what i did that day/week/month….blah. And when i do manage to keep things logged i feel ontop of everything again, and i feel a lot better for it and actually know where i stand. But i can understand the feeling of getting burned out by it all.

Only thing i find frustrating is that sometimes foods are listed incorrectly, or there’s a difference between items/brands in different countries and i have the biggest urge to edit them but wouldn’t incase it’s correct for someone elses country.

One thing i’ve found to help, on my sketchy days where i’m trying my best but struggling a lot, i try and take a picture of everything i eat that day and then go back at the end of the day and log them. That way i’m not getting more stressed about any slip ups, or bad moments, and i still have an idea of what i had that day. Seems a little less pressure, not sure if that helps anyone at all. But it’s like exercise, sometimes you need to make small changes and bring in a little variety to make things interesting again. Like now i’m having dorky fun with the food scanner app xD and adding things that aren’t listed in the database/adding new bar codes. Hehe.

I’ve just started and I’m seeing that it’s very difficult, especially when you eat out and really have no true way of entering the information in anyway that’s remotely accurate. Even when I cook so much isn’t in the database and I can’t enter everything. but I’m trying.

Danceforthesky, I love the idea of taking pictures when you don’t have time to log that’s fantastic.

Neemers, A lot restaurants have their nutrition info available on their sites, As far as entering everything yeah making your recopies for home made food is a pain but it does get easier.

I got burned out more frequently when I first started. It does seem to get better with time though. At this point I have recipes for all my most frequently eaten foods and I’ve gotten a lot better about estimating serving size by eye which really helps when I have to eat out or in a hurry.

I still don’t manage to log all the time but I’m trying to get better and to remember that like anything else, I need to celebrate the days I remember to track everything with the same level of intensity that I berate myself for the days that I don’t.

It is frustrating when I go out to eat somewhere locally, and then I come home and try to input my calories onto dailyburn because I have to estimate and I have no idea if I overestimated or underestimated. The other hard part is with recipes.

I have a thing I do, I created a food called banquets, parties and picnics I put it at 3500 cals, and when I get harried or am at one of the above I notate that. If I didn’t eat that much I just put it at .25 or .50. I get frustrated with the exercises. The data base has nothing about cardio boot camp. cardio kickbox, aqua toning, aqua jumping jacks,etc. plus, they measure everything is in distance, jumping jacks and Zumba is not a distance thing.

I pretty much just gave up on it a couple of months ago after two years of entries. It got tedious entering the same thing M-F with only the slightest change. I know what I was eating, how many calories, how much protein, blah blah blah. So to avoid getting completely unmotivated, I just make a note to self when I vary to keep it in line. But workouts is a whole different animal…