Do you count lettuce?

LeastIGotChicken

Just curious, who hear actually weighs and counts lettuce?

cabwj

Me.

jemhh

If I'm making a salad, I log 85 grams of lettuce but don't weigh it. For some reason I do weigh it for tacos. I have no idea why I do that.

Gallowmere1984

Lettuce can make you fat if you can manage to eat enough of it, so yeah, I weigh and count it.

IILikeToMoveItMoveIt

I count everything I eat. Even the super low calories stuff.

JennieMaeK

Add me to the weigh it group.

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ItsyBitsy246

If I eat a bunch in a salad, yes I log it. A few leaves on a sandwich, no.

rlaramee2

ItsyBitsy246 wrote: »

If I eat a bunch in a salad, yes I log it. A few leaves on a sandwich, no.

^ This. I only log it if I'm eating a meal sized salad, which is usually 4 cups or so for me. If 50 calories worth of lettuce is going to sink my weight loss, then I'm doing something wrong haha.

FiMac987

Dont sweat the small stuff!
xx

Ready2Rock206

I weigh it and count it.

afatpersonwholikesfood

Yes.

Make a salad with a bunch of low-cal veggies and weigh each ingredient. A lunch-sized salad that I would typically make, including just the calories from lettuce, tomato, carrots, onion, raw broccoli, etc., runs about 50 calories. It also affects my micro/macro totals.

50 calories may not be a lot, but it's the bigger picture. 50 calories here and there plus some random calories from some spices or low-cal toppings or cooking spray or extra calories from errors/packaged food, so on and so forth - they do add up.

But if you're going to pick a hill to die on, I suppose there are probably better ones than lettuce.

arditarose

I used to weigh it. Now I just count it. I can eat like 60-100 calories of lettuce greens per day

fr33sia12

Yep I count everything even celery, though you burn more calories eating it & digesting it than it contains.

Wolfena

If I'm having a salad, I count it... if I'm putting a leaf on a burger, I don't.

Nikion901

If it passes through my lips ... it ends up in my log.

Francl27

I do, but it's usually 25 calories worth if I'm going to have some, so with a small deficit, it adds up!

Kelbelb75

Yes, I log it, always, no matter the amount. I am accountable for all that goes into my body.

arditarose

Nikion901 wrote: »

If it passes through my lips ... it ends up in my log.

Literally.

eileensofianmushinfine

Never.

RoseTheWarrior

I count everything. (Almost) Everything has calories, so ... count everything. I know at least one person who eats TONS of vegetables and is still very, very overweight. You can overeat any food.

CupcakesMom2

I will eat a head of lettuce at a time. While I don't weight it, I count it as 53 calories. However I'm lazy and I should weight it.

arditarose

Yeah every time I eat lettuce I eat a whole bag or box (yeah I know it's expensive and a waste but it keeps me on target because I'm too lazy to meal prep).

ouryve

Yes. Even 15g in a sarnie.

tapwaters

Nah. I'll log it as a cup or two, but I don't think 15 cals of lettuce is going to make or break me.

shoofly435

I agree about not sweating the lettuce. OTOH, some of the biggest mammals on this planet eat only greens - Elephant, Rhino.... Hippos:)

AnnPT77

Yup. I eat a big heap of it, and it's easy - salad bowl on the scale, tear up the lettuce into it, note the weight, zero the scale; slice the cucumber into it, note, zero; throw the cherry tomatoes into it, note, zero . . . .

Then if I look at MFP reports to see how I'm doing with various nutrients, everything's there (subject to the vagaries of the database); I have accurate-as-possible data to use in estimating my personalized calorie deficit and maintenance calories; I can count up my many, many veggie/fruit servings and gloat about it ( ), . . . .

You betcha.

shoofly435

Hippopotamus...:)

RicMackie

I estimate it 2,3,4, more cups and LOG it! I don't weight it though.

Owlie45

For a salad, yes. For a burger, no.

MikilouB

I log it always, don't always weigh it. However, I don't always weigh or log spices and herbs because I usually use very little of them. Helps me keep track of nutrients etc.