{"id":37875,"date":"2018-10-11T15:40:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T15:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cronometer.com\/blog\/?p=37875"},"modified":"2024-07-02T20:41:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T03:41:46","slug":"why-do-we-lie-to-our-cronometer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cronometer.com\/blog\/why-do-we-lie-to-our-cronometer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Lie to Our Cronometer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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guest post by april wilson smith, master of public health<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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It\u2019s happened again.\u00a0 I lied to my Cronometer.\u00a0Well, I didn\u2019t entirely lie.\u00a0 I just didn\u2019t tell it the whole truth.<\/p>

I started out the day with good intentions (don\u2019t we all?).\u00a0 I entered my morning weight in my Cronometer.\u00a0\u00a0 I had a plan to eat my usual breakfast, which requires just a few minutes of cooking, but that flew out the window when I spent more time on my morning walk than I had planned (But that was good, right?\u00a0 More exercise, on the first sunny day we\u2019ve had in ages in the rain soaked Northeast US!), so I grabbed some string cheese to take on the road for morning meetings.\u00a0 Still, well within my general eating plan: I tend to eat high protein, lower carb, with few to no carbs before lunch, so string cheese was an acceptable on-the-go substitute for my traditional cup of egg whites scrambled with a teaspoon of flax oil.<\/p>

Then I came home from meetings and a few errands thrown in and ate some healthy homemade soup.\u00a0 After getting some work done, I had an apple (fresh, with skin, 1 large – 3 \u00bc inch diameter), and then went for another hike to maximize my exercise and burn off some steam\/calories during a busy but mostly rainy week.<\/p>

Sure enough, I walked and walked and walked.\u00a0 I still hadn\u2019t entered in any of the food I had eaten into the Cronometer\u2026 the truth was, I hadn\u2019t measured the soup, and I hadn\u2019t bothered to take a guess yet at how much I\u2019d eaten.\u00a0 In fact, I hadn\u2019t entered anything since my morning weight.<\/p>

By this time it was almost time to go to an evening panel discussion and I hadn\u2019t eaten a proper dinner, nor did I have time to fix one.\u00a0 I was already lacking in accountability – I hadn\u2019t tracked a single food item all day.\u00a0 And here is the real truth: I knew there would be delicious mini apple cakes at the evening event.<\/p>

I hadn\u2019t had dinner, hadn\u2019t eaten enough protein or fat during the day, hiked a lot, and was going to an event where I knew that one of my favorite high sugar, low nutrient foods would be served in abundance.<\/p>

I ate two mini apple cakes and, as an \u201cOh well, I\u2019ve already screwed up for the day,\u201d measure, ate a small homemade chocolate pretzel brownie square.\u00a0 I did not tell my Cronometer, needless to say.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I think there are several reasons why we lie, or rather, don\u2019t track, and they almost all have to do with having \u201cbad\u201d days.<\/p>