Any foods you don’t log?

charlottemccullough7244

I really like the idea of having that “base” salad saved as a meal and just log any extras. Good idea!

jenilla1

I don't log seasonings, spices...I do log things like celery and lettuce, but that's because I track my fiber, and those things all add up significantly.

aeloine

I don't measure my hot sauce but do log an approximate. I don't log my gummy multivitamins, but know I probably should. I have so much to lose that if 40 calories stand between me and losing, I'm not doing this right. I don't log individual spices but if I use like taco seasoning mix, that gets measured and logged.

I don't log diet sodas and don't weigh spinach or lettuce, but estimate and log.
Some pre-packaged foods don't get weighed, like my protein shakes and steamable bags of broccoli, but it all does get logged.

Everything else gets weighed and logged.

fitoverfortymom

I don't log black coffee.

lightenup2016

I log most vegetables but don't necessarily weigh them all--like lettuce and cucumber. I just approximate and throw in a few calories for them.

I don't log vitamins or the splash of orange juice I add to my magnesium powder. I figure total it's about 45 cal, so I'm not that worried.

cwolfman13

charlottemccullough7244 wrote: »

As I was logging every blessed ingredient in my salad, I was almost to a point where I didn’t want to log some of them...lettuce and tomato, namely. My mind was saying, the calories are so low that it saves a step. Then I realized certain nutrients wouldn’t be counted.

Are there any foods you sometimes don’t log just for efficiency’s sake? Do you find that it might be a slippery slope to not logging more and more?

When I logged I just made a generic garden salad recipe in the recipe builder and used that...it worked well enough.

JennJ323

If it's the end of the day and I have a couple hundred calories left, I won't log if I have a few chips or a handful of grapes. I know it's not going to put me over for the day, so I don't bother. I don't log small amounts of lettuce (on sandwiches, in wraps).. for the most part I try to log everything else.

OhMsDiva

It depends on the day. I log veggies, but I do not measure or weigh them. If I eat a banana I log it. If I eat an apple I do not weigh it unless I cut it. I do not log my almond milk or the creamer that I put in my coffee every day, but I pretty much know how much I am using.I don't log salad dressing either, but again I use very little and when I weigh it I end up using more than I would use if I just eyeball it.
At this point I am pretty sure of what I eat and how it affects my weight. I guestimate I may eat about 100-150 calories that I do not log.

SMKing75

No condiments , even mayo, because IF I use any, its barely an 1/8 of a teaspoon or less. I don't always accurately log vegetables. No spices or marinades. No vitamins or pills. No olive oil or cooking spray. I have managed to lose 100 lbs. Not too concerned about these things.

mortuseon_

Most spices get skipped unless in the recipe-builder (more for my convenience later on!), as does black coffee and most diet fizzy drinks.

ent3rsandman

Chewing gum

lemurcat12

Garlic, mustards, vinegar (most of the time, sometimes I do), salt, pepper, in fact most spices. Coffee and tea (I drink them black).

Fizzypopization

Anything under 5 cals. Sometimes i dont log pickles because there isn't much calories and it just counts against my sodium. I don't believe that sodium is a problem and the daily limit kind of hogwash.

MrsBAT

Lemons/lemon juice, sometimes mustard, most fresh herbs, green onions, celery, added salt or any other spices, cooking spray... Basically, anything with 0 calories or close to it, I don't bother with. I do log my coffee, though, for some reason. I think I logged it waaaay back when I first joined and was logging every single thing ever, and it just became a habit (and when I have bad coffee, I add creamer, so the coffee log reminds me to not forget to log the creamer).

amusedmonkey

If I don't log tomatoes my deficit would be short of 200 calories. The only foods I don't log are herbs and non-significant amounts of spices. Sometimes I lazy log vegetables if there are many of them in my dish (I weigh the whole thing and log it as a single vegetable).

sschauer513

oreos don't count right I don't log condiments or for my salad I made a recipe entry for salad that gets usual ingredients but if I swap zucchini for broccoli one day I don't sweat that.

Rutzenj0712

I work nights as a nurse. If it's a busy night and I'm walking around like crazy, I don't log my coffee creamer.

HDBKLM

I don't log salt and pepper. There are a few other spices I looked up at some point and figured the calories were irrelevant so I skip those too. But regarding actual mouthfuls of food, even if I had a mid-day or evening snack that was zero calories I log it as its own zero-calorie meal because I like knowing I did it so I am mindful about whether I'm actually hungry or eating out of boredom or something. And re: coffee, tea, and water, I like knowing how much caffeine I've had and how hydrated I am. These are not calorific and therefore fat loss-related, just other stuff I'm glad to be able to track on this site.

ETA: It just occurred to me that the reason behind this enquiry might be about how much effort one was willing to put into their logging vs. the need for accuracy. To that end I should add that I'm one of either the shameful minority or silent majority—don't know which—who eyeballs food or just uses cup measurements. I do this despite the risk of wild inaccuracy because in my case I knew I would never weigh food for the rest of my life, and I did not want to do any version of a 'diet' where I changed my behaviour after reaching goal weight (i.e., I wanted a lifestyle shift instead). Luckily enough it has worked in my case so far and I've mostly lost as predicted (faster than predicted in the first couple of months). That may change as the difference between my deficit and maintenance calories gets smaller near goal weight, but that's where I'm at right now.

TL;DR: I log everything except some spices, but not because I am looking for my calorie total to be precise.

Kida181

Spices, water, gum, diet sodas, black coffee, tea, vitamins.
Low calorie veggies I will log but I don't really measure them.

etherealanwar

Cooking spray, lettuce, diet drinks and sometimes spices.

fuzzylop72

I don't log diet sodas at all, and I don't weigh protein powder. The rest of the non-liquids I weigh.

amusedmonkey

fuzzylop72 wrote: »

I don't log diet sodas at all, and I don't weigh protein powder. The rest of the non-liquids I weigh.

I would weigh the powder if I were you. You maybe cutting yourself short on protein if you don't. The scoop that comes with ON Gold Standard, for example, does about 20 grams and the serving the 1 scoop serving size is listed at 31 grams.

DX2JX2

I rarely logged raw or steamed green, non-starchy and non-sweet vegetables (lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cucumber, etc.). Ditto aromatics used to cook a dish (onions, pepper, garlic, celery, carrots).

If I had a very large portion of green salad or used aromatics in my cooking, I would generally call it 100 calories and be done with it.

saragd012

I don't usually log sparkling water or crushed pepper. I log my candy weird, I eat 1-2 peanut butter m&ms most weeks days from a candy dish, it's part of a weird social habit I've developed at work. I refuse to log 1-2 m&ms so on Friday I log that I ate half a pack and figure it'll even itself out on my weekly average. I'm in maintenance though and I've been tracking for years so I feel like I have a pretty good general idea of what range I need to stay in and what that looks like.

goatg

Supplements and nuun, if under 10-15 calories.
I guess I really should log electrolytes on long training days. That can be, like, 75 calories.

Oh yeah. And coffee. Don't log that either. (No one needs to know!)

darrenbeckworth

Gum should be logged if swallowed or by the person that steps on it.

_annyleigh

I usually don't log things that are under 5 calories (this isn't on purpose or a rule for myself, it just happens that way). I definitely don't log breath mints or gum. I don't log cooking spray or vitamins, and I don't log spices. If I eat one baby carrot or something as low-calorie as that, I don't log unless I have enough for it to make sense. I try to log as accurately as I can otherwise.

PWRLFTR1

I don't count veggies, mostly the green ones (broc, spinach, kale, etc.) unless I cook in a fat (olive or coconut oil)

ironhajee

The secret cookie jar under my bed that mFP doesn't know about......



....oh crap.

Aaron_K123

There were times I didn't bother logging vegetables. My calorie target was high enough it was hard to imagine I could possibly overeat my target due to something like lettuce or broccoli and I was eating enough that tracking individual nutrients didn't seem worth it either.