Do you count your vegetables?

Gozomalta28

Wondering what is everyone's take on this. I understand to track vegetables like potatoes, corn etc...but how about zucchini, tomatoes, lettuce etc...Thanks!

Machka9

Absolutely! Fruit, veggies ... everything.

goldthistime

Yes. Among other reasons, I look at my micronutrients occasionally.

StealthHealth

If you eat it. Log it.

inertiastrength

is this a joke? lol

YvetteK2015

Most definitely! I had a big salad yesterday. Two romain lettuce hearts were 80 calories. One would like to think a lot of these veggies have virtually no calories, but they do.

auddii

Yup. Although I've been told that I eat ridiculous amounts of vegetables. Which I think is an unfair assessment.

Plus, I roast most of my vegetables, so I need to add the oil from those as well. But I eat 100-200 calories per day of vegetables alone usually, which can really eat into my deficit if I ignore them.

Keladelphia

I'll count and log them but to be honest I don't weigh things like leaf greens that are super low in calories. I generally overestimate them though (ex. four cups of spinach when I probably ate closer to two).

SezxyStef

Yes this isn't weight watchers they aren't free

ahoy_m8

Yes! Reasons:
- I track fiber & some micronutrients, so I want "credit" for what's in that zucchini.
- I have a small deficit, so small margin of error. And yes, I can eat enough vegetables to blow my deficit.
- I'm kind of a data geek & my data means nothing if it excludes something I eat a lot of.

Friends were triathlon training, and their nutritionist told them not to count onions, garlic, celery, things used in quantities to season, but they still counted vegetables eaten as part of a meal, and they had gobs of cardio. FWIW

Gozomalta28

thank you everyone!

cinnag4225

I've stopped tracking ginger and garlic because I don't usually eat more than 10-ish calories worth of each in a day, but everything else gets tracked to make sure I'm staying in a healthy calorie range (high or low). I'll likely ease up once I've been at my maintenance range for a while, but for now I've got too much more to lose to be monkeying around.

TeaBea

Gozomalta28 wrote: »

Wondering what is everyone's take on this. I understand to track vegetables like potatoes, corn etc...but how about zucchini, tomatoes, lettuce etc...Thanks!

There are programs that give you "free" or "unlimited" veggies, Weight Watcher's comes to mind. Only the veggies are not really free. These "free" items are built into the initial calorie allotment.

MFP (My Fitness Pal) gives you calories before exercise.....not calories before veggies.

Like @Keladelphia ......I don't measure lettuce, celery or cucumbers very carefully.

kgirlhart

I count everything that has calories. Even if there are very few. Like some of the others I'm not always as precise about weighing veggies like lettuce, cucumbers, etc.

Lulaica

I would say I'm not super accurate when measuring fruits and veggies (I'm working on it), but I do need to long them since I can literally eat enough to cause an impact. This is especially true with carrots and tomatoes (I've been known to eat too many tomatoes, to the point where the acid makes the inside of my mouth pretty sensitive).

Asher_Ethan

Keladelphia wrote: »

I'll count and log them but to be honest I don't weigh things like leaf greens that are super low in calories. I generally overestimate them though (ex. four cups of spinach when I probably ate closer to two).

I don't weigh things like romaine either.
But I weigh and count everything in my diary.

DanerTee

I certainly do log them, but like others have said, I don't weigh low calorie veg like lettuce or cukes. I mean really, for me, eyeballing a handful of lettuce is two cups is fine IMO.

Ready2Rock206

Your body counts those calories even if you don't log them. I don't see the point of logging anything if you're not logging everything.

monicaw44

yes, of course

Sabine_Stroehm

If you're counting calories, then yes, you'd count those too.