Do you log all of your vegetables?
Verity1111
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Sometimes...I don't! I'm a REBEL!
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Then you are a rebel who's underestimating her calories.17
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If it has calories it is logged..
Up to the individual rather you log them or not.
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true story:
A girl from here not to long ago was successful with WW. But had a hard time with MFP and calorie counting and she pm'd me for advice. She was not losing weight. In WW veggies are "free".. She did not count them in here, I convinced her to count them for a week, she was amazed how many calories were in cauliflower.
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What's the debate?
Anyway, when I'm logging I do, but I sometimes estimate stuff like spinach or arugula.4 -
Spinach no but acorn squash, you betcha.5
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Absolutely. I want to be able to brag about my fiber intake.18
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Verity1111 wrote: »
I'll take the accuracy of my food scale and food diary over a log in my head any day. My salad may have 30 calories of greens, I ate 30 calories of celery, I snacked on a ton of cherry tomatoes....lots of steamed broccoli. Those calories add up. I even log black coffee. Ten to 40 calories per day, throughout the day, can add up to hundreds. That way I never stall in my loss and I know exactly where I'm at.10 -
This is a debate question?9
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true story:
A girl from here not to long ago was successful with WW. But had a hard time with MFP and calorie counting and she pm'd me for advice. She was not losing weight. In WW veggies are "free".. She did not count them in here, I convinced her to count them for a week, she was amazed how many calories were in cauliflower. end of story.
I log my cauliflower. I said Do you log ALL of them not ANY. Big difference. I don't log ones with 5 calories.0 -
MissusMoon wrote: »Verity1111 wrote: »
I'll take the accuracy of my food scale and food diary over a log in my head any day. My salad may have 30 calories of greens, I ate 30 calories of celery, I snacked on a ton of cherry tomatoes....lots of steamed broccoli. Those calories add up. I even log black coffee. Ten to 40 calories per day, throughout the day, can add up to hundreds. That way I never stall in my loss and I know exactly where I'm at.
Again the world ALL vs ANY in the title. I don't eat that many veggies to begin with and I only dont log things like fresh spinach of if I eat one stick of celery. Etc. Not a few cups of broccoli. That I'd log of course.0 -
MissusMoon wrote: »
Are you all missing the world ALL your veggies vs ANY of them? I "underestimate" maybe 5-50 calories. Big friggin woop0 -
50 calories is a big whoop to me.10
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I log everything. Veggies have a lot of carbs sometimes. If I am eating out it can get hard, but I try to estimate as best I can and usually over guess. When eating out always estimate higher than you think, especially for fats.2
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I log ALL my veggies, because I'm not only tracking my calories , but my micros too, especially fibre.
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Loosely. I have green beans alot which only add up to about 50 calories for a plate (2 hand fulls) for so i might just pop in 50 calories if im lazy. I eat alot of the same stuff day to day so i tend to know portion sizes. On more calorie dense veggies definatly i weigh and track them. They add up hella fast.
Although that said m pretty sure my calories per day is considered very low for my weight and iv been at 1200 since i was 230 pounds. I have some wiggle room, I still never really go over ever XD Unless im eating back a few hundred exercise calories. yum.1 -
I rarely eat vegetables, but when I do, I log them.2
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i did when i was rigidly counting/weighing all my food and losing, but now that im in maintenance i never weigh just estimate because its working for me. If I started gaining I would reconsider. I always log the estimate calories though, I just dont care that they aren't precisely accurate.6
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I log all of them, but I sometimes lazy-log my vegetables. If I have a salad with a whole bunch of them, I weigh the whole thing and log them all as "carrots", or log all my leafy vegetables as "kale". Not logging all or some of them at all is not an option because I eat too many of them to ignore the calories.2
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Christine_72 wrote: »I log ALL my veggies, because I'm not only tracking my calories , but my micros too, especially fibre.
This makes sense.1 -
amusedmonkey wrote: »I log all of them, but I sometimes lazy-log my vegetables. If I have a salad with a whole bunch of them, I weigh the whole thing and log them all as "carrots", or log all my leafy vegetables as "kale". Not logging all or some of them at all is not an option because I eat too many of them to ignore the calories.
this also makes sense. Hey at least youre not anal about it lol0 -
queenliz99 wrote: »50 calories is a big whoop to me.
Hence the debate. Not too much for me. About 5 lbs a year meh1 -
I log them if I know them to have larger calorie contents and i'm getting close to my daily goal. Generally I aim to come in below my daily allowance to allow to measuring errors and milk in coffee so a few extra here and there are not to much of a bother however things like Squash and sweet corn always gets logged0
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Verity1111 wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »50 calories is a big whoop to me.
Hence the debate. Not too much for me. About 5 lbs a year meh
5# a year is how I got to be 320#.
Yes, I log my veggies and fruits.14 -
I do not log vegetables that I know have very low calorie content however fruit and starchy veg gets tracked. Also I am fortunate that as my maintenance is quite high, I have a greater margin for error plus the possibility to run a large deficit which the 50-75 calories I potentially consume get incorporated in to.
If you are aiming for 1200 calories then 50-75 is a reasonable proportion of your daily intake.3 -
Verity1111 wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »50 calories is a big whoop to me.
Hence the debate. Not too much for me. About 5 lbs a year meh
Ask yourself when you're 60 if gaining 5 pounds a year is "meh."9 -
I can and do put away hundreds of vegetable calories per day...my dinner salads often have a whole head of romaine, two tomatoes, a whole bell pepper, three mini cucumbers, a large carrot, a handful of broccoli florets, and whatever else is in the fridge. I log it because it's a significant portion of my day
I usually round up, so if I've got 150g of broccoli I call it 200g, which is how I lazily account for the handful of snap peas I grab from the fridge in passing before dinner or whatever. But I'm in maintenance so I'm okay with those kind of estimates at this point.
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When I logged, I loosely logged them...I wasn't as anal about them as other things...I wasn't going to weigh the lettuce in my salad down to the gram or anything.1
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