Weight Loss

My downfall...I'm a "grazer" in certain situations like parties or going out to eat so I don't deprive myself..Like out to dinner I'll have just a spoonful of my boyfriend's soup or a few bites of desert. Curious how you log those? Also if there's pizza or cookies around the house I'll just take a little bite so I don't binge, but I've just been remembering what little bites I took and ballpark some calories so it's not completely disregarded...

Also, when I go out to eat I have trouble logging what I ate for example last night I had broiled haddock not done in butter but in wine but there's not many options in the database so I just chose the haddock cooked in dry heat..

Just curious to how everyone else handles thisa lot of you are quite creative!

I call it what it is.  1 bite of cookie might be 1/4 cookie, so that's what I log.  1 tbsp. of ice cream or soup = 0.0625 cups.  A nibble of fudge = 1 tsp. of fudge (likely about 5 g).  I always try to overestimate if I'm not exactly sure.  That way, I might be getting "bonus" deficit.  And if I can't find the exact nutritional info. or the recipe, I search for the closest commercial product.  Had to log my sister's homemade apple crisp as Betty Crocker, for example.

I usually enter in decimal form.. 1 bite of a cookie .25-.35... other than that, about the same thing as susiecue above.  Usually try to enter a bit more than what I may have had just to be sure.  Always best to enter more rather than less.

I do exactly the same as the CCers above. I log every bite that I consume less than the serving size in decimal form. Like dragonpride I tend to log over than under. I'd rather overestimate what I've eaten than underestimate.

As for the broiled haddock, I'd log it just the way you did. I log what I think is closest to what I had. If I thought that the way mine was cooked added a few more calories than what is listed, I up the serving size by a fraction to add a few more calories on my CC.

I vote for all that.  Overlog - err on the side of caution. 

When I eat out I try to either check their website to get the nutritional information, see if they have a brochure, or estimate based on the ingredients. 

I agree with everything said above. :)

As for eating out - if I can't find the exact meal on CC or the restaurant doesn't provide their nutritional information, I break it down by what was in the meal; for example, chicken, gravy, broccoli, butter, rice... and log each item individually and "build" the meal to reflect what I ate.

i do this too, it seems logical to me:-)

Everyone here is right on with what I do too -- esp. wannabepixie who breaks everything down to make sure nothing is missed.  Gotta warn you tho:  be careful when logging a dinner out meal because they pretty much always have added fat.  The haddock cooked dry heat probably looked great -- 200-something calories -- but because of the methods restaurants use it was probably more like 400-500.  A tip I learned from a dietician that I really wish I didn't know:  she has a friend who is a restauranteur who told her that when they cook something like fish in a dry method -- grilling, blackening, etc. -- they dip the fish in oil (yuck!) so it doesn't dry out, because their griddles are so hot (500 degrees or more).  And anything cooked in a pan like the fish with wine needs butter or some type of oil to keep it from sticking.  So when we think we're making a healthy choice it may not be quite as healthy as we think.  Of course, it could be a lot worse too!  Sorry to bear these bad tidings -- it bums me out to think they sabotage me that way -- but good to know what you're up against!  I say just make the best choice you can and ENJOY it!