Lent decluttering: 13 - weight and food tracking
Today I decided to stop logging my food intake. I have done so on and off all my life, and without interruptions since August 2005.
This is a very big step for me, and there are three reasons behind it:
- it is taking up far too much precious time to maintain it,
- logging what I eat does not stop me from overeating occasionally, especially under stress, and
- I have come back from two and a half weeks in Australia with a list of everything I have consumed in local weights and measures, and I do not think I have the animus to sit down and figure out what schooners and kilojoules are.
I will from now on only record my weight once a week. I will probably miss looking at all my complex charts illustrating weight fluctuations over the years. I will also probably gain some time to do something a little more useful.
Monday 14 April 2008 at 7:51 am
[...] Three and a half weeks ago I decided to stop counting calories and to stop weighing myself every day. [...]
Sunday 27 April 2008 at 7:39 am
[...] I know I said I was going to stop tracking my calorie intake. But I started putting on weight, and this pushed me to find the simpler solution described above, [...]