Good Habits or Obsession?

I said today i was going to not count my calories and just enjoy the day. I was just going to watch my portions and of course avoid sweets. So of course I have logged everything in MyFitnessPal. not sure if that is good or bad. 

Do you like logging your stuff?  Does it help you to do so?  If so, then it's probably good.

Do you spend too much time counting calories and logging things in?  Does doing that interfere with other areas of your life?  Does it cause you a lot of stress and anxiety?  If so, then it might be bad.

Mindfulness is the key to long term success.  If this is the method you choose, then so be it!

My DIL bought round a white chocolate cheesecake and all my (surprise) visitors tucked in - I chose not to, not because I couldn't but because I honestly didn't want it ...  It has just become a habit for me to choose not to eat it!    But if I wanted it, I would definitely eat it!!!!    I don't think I would have wanted to try and MFP that!!!

ETA:  To make sense!

Sounds like a good habit formed, rather than following the bad habit of indulging possibly to much.

I didn't eat any dessert last night or at dinner, but I did sample a couple of the cookies I baked.  I love coconut, so my green macaroons with candied cherries were my Christmas treat.  It's been an awful day, my bf is sick in bed and my son hurt his back and is miserable.  I don't care about eating, I will probably make myself some brown rice later.  

I think that depends on a number of things: whether you logged the food before you ate it or after​; whether or you thinking about what the nutritional details of the foods were (or how the numbers would  add up, etc,) AS you were deciding what to eat; whether you feel an overwhelming need to log everything (as opposed to just wanting to know how you did for the day (if you logged it all afterward)).

Lora

I still stuck to the protein first plan. I just wanted to know what kind of damage I did. I ate about 250 calories more than normal, which is still less than 1800. 

It sounds to me like you are doing just fine, then!  

Not only is 250 extra calories on Christmas doing well, but there is nothing at all wrong with tracking what you ate afterward to check the numbers.  (Certainly not an obsession, BTW.)  That information is valuable: if you do well (as, IMO, you did) that reinforces the good choices you made; if you indulge too much (say it had been an extra 500 calories), though, it lets you know that so you can make better choices or decrease portions the next time.

Lora

Perhaps it is just your way of still wanting to be accountable. I think that's a good thing.   :)

Interesting you posted this...I still log my food coming up on 3 years post op...No matter the day, I like to log my food to know what my caloric take and proteins are. One of the keys for ME is accountability and food logging helps me with that!! Plus if it is an Obsession, better than some of the others I have and have had...lol!