Is there anything you eat that you don't bother to weigh and log?

LynnJ9

I am curious if most people weigh and log everything. Do you weigh lettuce for salads? Do you log every little thing, even a handful of blueberries?

Hanibanani2020

I’m not right with my logging when it comes to leafy greens or low cal berries in small amounts but everything else is logged.

fstrickl

I log pretty much everything except gum. I figure I burn the calories from chewing it. And it helps me stop snacking.

MaltedTea

Water

paulcaesar67

I find when I stop logging everything I get lazy. One day I'm not logging lettuce, the next day maybe a bread bun and it soon becomes "hey it's just a 6 pack of beer. No need to log the 900 calories" and it can quickly set me back a couple of weeks

KrissDotCom

In a small attempt at bettering myself from any eating disorder habits, i have tried not to be too terribly anal about some things.

Like if im at work and want to eat something there, ill look at the nutritional info, if it says something like "1 fillet" for a piece of fish and also gives the gram weight, ill just log the standard calorie amount for 1 fillet and not weigh it for the specific gram amount and calories.

If i eat one of their sandwiches, i will log a best guess and eat it instead of trying to be 100% spot on.

Also, i will eat half a cookie or a couple bites of desserts from time to time and not log it. If i ate a whole serving i would tho.

Its my attempt at getting comfortable with unknown calorie consumptions and experiencing the effect it has on my weight loss or weight in general.

tequierosince06

I ate 2 cheese its from my daughters bowl today and didn’t log it. If i had more I would have logged it. Sometimes I cant resist the tortilla chips on the counter and I eat 4 or 5. I log it. Sometimes I want dessert so I eat 2 marshmallows. I log it. I do log my romaine lettuce.

Courtscan2

I don't weight lettuce leaves, but I do log them by approximate volume. However that's probably the only thing I don't weigh. Definitely weigh blueberries, as I'm terrible at guessing weights and those suckers can add up quickly.

lynn_glenmont

I'll usually not bother logging a leaf or two of lettuce, a thin slice of tomato, a couple of slices of onion or pickles on a sandwich. Or vinegar or mustard used to make salad dressing or other homemade condiment. Herbal teas.

I don't always log black coffee, black tea, or diet soda. Once in a while I won't bother logging a little splash of fruit juice added to seltzer, but usually I do.

Pretty much everything else gets logged

thelastnightingale

I don't always log water, black coffee, black tea or salt. I'm careful with salt though - one unmeasured pinch a day is fine, but if I want to do that more than once, out come the scales as I know I could really overdo it with too much leeway.

Generally, I'm very good at logging, because from experience, I know what happens when I stop taking it seriously...

Edited to add: I have a digital scale spoon for weighing really small things. If I didn't have this, I guess I'd be more inclined to not log things like a handful of berries. I guess the fact that I know I can weigh accurately makes me more inclined to do so.

lgfrie

I never log lettuce, tomato, a slice of onion on a sandwich, pickles, mustard, or any near-zero calorie beverage (black coffee, iced tea with artificial sweetener, diet soda, etc). Basically, anything < 5 or 10 calories, I don't bother with.

If my wife is preparing food and wants me to sample something (e.g. try a spoonful of the chile to see if it needs more spices) or someone offers me a small taste/sample of something they're eating, I usually don't sweat it, unless it's really a non-trivial amount of calories, like more than 40 or 50. I didn't used to do this, but the constant "I can't even have a tiny taste of my friend's spring roll and enjoy it because then I'd have to add 35 calories and I'd be over for the day" was grating on me and also I occasionally found it antisocial. I figure for the cumulative 1-2 pounds per year not lost by being a bit casual about this, I'm OK with.

hipari

I don’t use my food scale that often anyway. I still eyeball or approximate by package most things, but there are some things I log with the same ”standard” serving size pretty much every time regardless of how much I actually put in a dish:
- lettuce
- Cucumber
- Onion
- Garlic
- Butter spread and cheese on toast (I occasionally weigh and then keep using the same serving size, as I tend to eat same/similar sized bread so the serving size stays approximately the same)

I don’t log dry spices (salt, pepper, dried herbs, chili powder etc), fresh herbs from my garden or splashes of citrus juice concentrates.

So far this has worked well enough for me, but I know tightening up my logging is the first thing I need to do if the scale stops moving and/or I get small enough to have to eat such a small deficit there’s no room for this kind of error. I still prefer the thought of learning more intuitive eating habits and using food logging as a guideline to make sure I’m on the right track, but that might be daydreaming.

AnnPT77

The lime or lemon wedge I put in my matcha daily, one extra frozen blueberry (the one I pop in my mouth daily while making my oatlmeal with weighed frozen mixed berries), added salt (no sodium-related health problems, else I'd bother), some calorie-negligible herbs/seasonings that are shaken/ground on (like dried basil or black pepper). Occasional calorie-negligible drinks (e.g., herb teas). Also, every single thing I forgot I ate (not many of those, I'dbetcha ).

Everything else, when at home, weighed and logged, because the "weigh it, log it" routine works better for me personally than "think about whether it's worth logging, then maybe weigh/log". I like autopilot: Weigh, log. Others preferences may vary. It's a personal style thing, eh?

cupcakesandproteinshakes

I’m a lazy logger. I guesstimate all the time. I’d never weigh salad.

I weigh calorie dense things like butter. It’s worked fine for me in maintenance. If I was gaining I guess I would tighten up.

sardelsa

When I used to log I would usually weigh something once and then use that entry always. Sometimes I'd weigh bananas, apples, avocado, dry pasta for lunch, peanut butter in a smoothie, cheese. I used measuring spoons/cups for liquids, egg whites, oils and dressings, cooked rice, potatoes, beans, berries. Or if just go with serving size on the package.

I often weighed my main protein sources like meat, protein powder, cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, only up until dinner then I would just guestimate. Weekends I would estimate or do a quick add calories since I would be out a lot.

Looking back, I was a really inaccurate logger. I mostly used it as a food diary to keep track of what I ate and my approximate protein levels. It worked well for me to learn to be more aware of my intake, now I don't log at all.

Geneveremfp

Right now I log every single thing but low calorie items I just log as a standard amount. Lettuce is one of those but blueberries aren't because they're too high calorie to fall in my f it section of my brain. But I will measure some things by volume not grams. Also if I'm at someone else's house or out and about I guesstimate. I am doing this because I'm losing as expected if not quicker than expected. When I get to the end and its the last few lbs I will weigh everything.

Maxematics

KrissDotCom wrote: »

In a small attempt at bettering myself from any eating disorder habits, i have tried not to be too terribly anal about some things.

Like if im at work and want to eat something there, ill look at the nutritional info, if it says something like "1 fillet" for a piece of fish and also gives the gram weight, ill just log the standard calorie amount for 1 fillet and not weigh it for the specific gram amount and calories.

I second this! I used to weigh EVERYTHING down to the gram. "My string cheese says 28g but mine weighs 31g? Well, let's put in 1.107 servings...hmm no...round that to 1.11 servings." However, if I had one that weighed less than a serving size? "No, I'll just keep it at 28g!"

I took a huge step back from logging because I realized that, for me, I was bordering on disordered territory. I don't need to log anymore to maintain my weight but I actually do it now to make sure I eat enough food and to try to understand my body more. "Hmm, why am I so hungry today, am I binging? Oh no, it's because I had a deficit of 300 to 700 calories four days in a row. Time to eat!" whereas in the past I would feel guilty and like a failure for eating over my maintenance calories.

I still weigh/log everything but if an item is prepackaged, I leave it at a serving and call it a day. If I'm away from home then I estimate and I don't feel nervous about it like I used to.

netitheyeti

stuff like lettuce and "average sized" tomatoes, sometimes. I usually still have a rough idea of how much they weigh (just from the label) but with my salads it's like a 10kcal variance which evens out once I finish the container anyway

meharmahshahid

One teaspoon of basil seeds and lemon

callsitlikeiseeit

Spices and herbs sprinkled on top of foods ( in recipes I use the recipe builder and theyre included there), lettuce and tomato in sandwiches. That's about it.

paperpudding

There are lots of things I dont weigh - every banana I eat is either a small banana or 1.5 or such of a small banana.
I dont weigh eggs - they are all mediums size.
Just 2 of many examples where I use law of averages.


But I do log those things.

Things like lettuce leafs, slices of tomato - no, I dont weigh them or bother logging them.