Free fruits and vegetables on MFP?

glennowill

This may have been brought up before, but do any of you do anything on MFP that mimics the free fruits and vegetables that WW provided as well as the weekly points? Those seemed to be helpful to me so I didn't get tracking fatigue... weighing out a portion of carrots, grapes, Xoz of lettuce etc can be a bit tiresome.

I was thinking a way around this might be to lower my daily calorie goal and track everything BUT the fruits and vegetables - they would be free again. This would obviously exclude fruits/veggies like potatoes, avocado, corn, etc, but I think it would have the same effect WW's policy had on me, which was making it easier and a nice incentive to reaching for fruits and veggies more often.

I'm not exactly sure how I'd do a weekly point system with MFP, but it'd be nice to have those extra calories to dip into.

myallforjcbill

I once did what you did. I played with the numbers till I figured out a calorie etc goal without F&V and then didn't track them. I also tried cross tracking manually to Smart Points. But it was a quick trip to tracking fatigue and not sustainable for me. So now I do track it all and use my MFP goal watching Sat Fats, Sugar & Protein. I have been doing fairly well. I find is easier to track it all. I am trying to just focus on making my daily cals etc and not relying on any calories burned doing cardio. I treat those as my "weekly points" allowance. Though I was thinking this morning in the end what has helped me is being mindful and intentional in what I am eating. Tracking helps me do so, now matter what system I use.

beachwoman2006

This just came up on another thread yesterday (or recently) and I can't remember which one.

As a leader once told me, "you didn't get fat eating fruits and vegetables". I *have* been tracking fruits and vegetables; but I've decided that I'm going to remember those words and NOT track fruits and non-starchy vegetables like potatoes and corn.

The only time this might be a problem is if overeating fruits and vegetables is a sign of overeating in general.