I can't count how many years I've vacillated between assiduously counting every calorie, every gram of fat or carbohydrate, and every IU of every vitamin I can measure; and giving up and eating whatever I want, in whatever quantity I want it, consequences be damned.
Recently I have started trying different strategies make healthy living easier and more natural, so since I still do want some record of what I eat, I have decided to switch from my usual Cron-o-meter food log to keeping a more relaxed, less detailed record of my daily menus. I won't be recording measurements (I'm done weighing my food), and I won't be counting every condiment, addition, and ingredient, unless it changes the dish noticeably. I also probably won't log every day.
Today:
Breakfast - oatmeal with pumpkin pie spice and a bit of syrup, coffee
Lunch - leftover black bean sweet potato chili and whole wheat toast
Dinner - Jeff N's original fast food burger recipe on a whole wheat thin bun, oven fries (edit no fries because I had a gallbladder attack and had to leave the table to go lie down)
Snacks - 2 mandarin oranges (edit 1 mandarin, 2 Brazil nuts, 3 pecans)
Total Calories - don't know, don't care
Edit: I wrote this before dinner, and I ended up having to to skip most of the potatoes because of stomach pain. I try to eat a couple of Brazil nuts a week, so I had those before dinner, then added 3 pecans (no idea why, I guess because they were there) Normally this amount of fat does not trigger my gallbladder, but yesterday it definitely did. I had to leave most of my dinner because the pain was too severe and I had to lie down.
Lesson learned.