Do you count your salad?

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  • MsDeeHawk12
    MsDeeHawk12 Posts: 52 Member
    Absolutely -- everything needs to be counted. Even the little bits and little calories.
  • tomteboda
    tomteboda Posts: 2,171 Member
    I count everything. Being off by 100 calories /day is roughly 10 lbs/year. That's how I went from 165 to 270 in 15 years in the first place.
  • Jams009
    Jams009 Posts: 345 Member
    Of course.
  • Rachel0778
    Rachel0778 Posts: 1,701 Member
    My friend doesn't add them to her diary because if she had to count them she'd refuse to eat them, whereas I will eat them regardless so I add them for accuracy. If your friend has to play that mind game to eat veggies and it works for her that's cool, but for me since I can easily eat 60+ calories of veggies a day I like to log it
  • robingmurphy
    robingmurphy Posts: 349 Member
    Yes ... but I just guesstimate raw veggies. I don't measure or weigh them. I eyeball the amounts. They are so low cal that if I'm plus or minus a bit, it won't impact things.
  • MissusMoon
    MissusMoon Posts: 1,900 Member
    Little thing add up over the day and weeks. I drink black coffee. A lot of people don't log that, but it's 12 calories. Add in another ten or fifteen for cooking spray, and a volume of tiny things throughout the day and it makes a dent.
    So yeah, I log my salad greens, even if it's seven calories worth.
  • robininfl
    robininfl Posts: 1,137 Member
    Usually just the dressing if it's small. If it's the whole bag of a salad kit, the calories are on the bag, so yes, that's easy enough.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    Absolutely. Salads can be calorie laden if you loose control of it. Just a bowl of lettuce minus tomatoes, veggies, cheese, dressing, or other toppings.. no.. But who just eats a bowl of lettuce?
  • Maxematics
    Maxematics Posts: 2,287 Member
    I log everything except for chewing gum and that includes black coffee but I may change that. I leave some padding just in case, though. People who have a lot of weight to lose can usually get away with being a bit lax in their logging but the less you have to lose, the more imperative accuracy is.
  • srecupid
    srecupid Posts: 660 Member
    I just don't see the point in not logging it. I buy a bag of something green at the beginning of the week and i only have to scan the barcode once then it's in recents. I set my bowl on my food scale throw in my ingredients after zeroing out each time and right the number down. Then i spend 30 seconds logging it once i'm done eating. I don't just want to know about the calories i want to see if i'm hitting my nutrition goals as well. Not logging it is kind of being dishonest and myfitnesspal only works when you are honest with it
  • robininfl
    robininfl Posts: 1,137 Member
    srecupid wrote: »
    I just don't see the point in not logging it. I buy a bag of something green at the beginning of the week and i only have to scan the barcode once then it's in recents. I set my bowl on my food scale throw in my ingredients after zeroing out each time and right the number down. Then i spend 30 seconds logging it once i'm done eating. I don't just want to know about the calories i want to see if i'm hitting my nutrition goals as well. Not logging it is kind of being dishonest and myfitnesspal only works when you are honest with it

    Yeah, that assumes you are buying all your produce already processed and bagged though. We don't do that. We buy lettuces, spinach, kale, other greens, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, red peppers, jicama, whatever, from grocery, or warehouse club or farmer's market and then use those things during the week. There is no way I am building a recipe by weighing all the produce and looking up the calorie counts for stuff that's immaterial to my days. If I am close, I might guess and log the estimate but otherwise, no. If I were trying to lose weight, I would probably build a recipe for "Standard Salad" with vegetables and then use that.

    I do log beans, cheese, egg, dressing, anything more caloric added to a salad, though, as individual items, they aren't immaterial.

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