Thanks everyone

I am simply just logging my calories into the computer on a calorie counting/journaling website. I also log my activities. I started out on a site that just logged calories in, but I came to realize I needed to do both the calories in as well as calories out. I noticed since I started both in & out, I am eating less and much more active. My husband is the same. Its like a game: who can end the day with a higher calorie burned ratio

Its working for him really well too. He's lost 70 pounds. It was very slow going for him in the beginning. He was logging everything, but not as accurately as he could have. He had issues with what real serving sizes were, and he said "that is a cup of mashed potatoes" without measuring (a cup logged of mashed potatoes that was actually a cup and half adds up.) Now he measures everything and knows what a cup of rice/potatoes/cereal looks like and logs accurately.

Once he got the accuracy thing down, the weight started melting off him too. It wasn't til two months ago that he started seeing real results, which is encouraging him to stick to his daily calorie limit. In the beginning, he might have ended up with 2400 calories in the log (which would have truly been 3000 because of the under-estimating thing) and he didn't really care because it was close enough to his 2000 calorie daily limit. Now, if he has a 2400 calorie day, he's really upset unless he did the extra yard work to expend the extra calories.

I start the day with my cereal and fruit. Anything else gets logged onto the computer or cell phone before I eat it to see what it does to my calorie intake (I NEED to save 200 calories for my ice cream snack at night ) I bought a smart phone just so I can log my food. Its like checking your bank balance before splurging on a new pair of shoes. Oh? and when I started out logging everything on the smart phone? My coworkers laughed at me. Who's laughing now? hmmm?