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Counting Vegetable Calories?

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  • healthyjen342
    healthyjen342 Posts: 1,435 Member
    I count mine! If you bite it...write it (or type it, i guess!) :flowerforyou:
  • willimh
    willimh Posts: 227 Member
    I count them. They add up.
  • TrainerRobin
    TrainerRobin Posts: 509 Member
    I count everything
    I also use a food scale so that if I have a tomato slice I can know the grams

    Yay! Another person who WEIGHS their food for accuracy! Love it!!
  • Black_Swan
    Black_Swan Posts: 770 Member
    Whatever works for you!
    I have to count it, since most of my food is really vegetables. Its something really - corn has some REAL cals haha... So, as you wish. Maybe if you hit some hard times you will try to count them too:) good luck!
  • callipygianchronicle
    callipygianchronicle Posts: 811 Member
    I try to make sure vegetables take up at least half my plate at lunch and dinner. If I didn’t count them, I would be missing HUGE chunks of calories and nutrient information every day. My lunch today was quinoa salad. If I only logged the quinoa and black eyed peas in it, I would be mislead into thinking my nutrient breakdown was this:

    Calories 256
    Total Fat 3.2g
    Cholesterol 0mg
    Sodium 13mg
    Total Carbohydrates 49.5g
    Dietary Fiber 10.4g
    Sugars 0.7g
    Protein 13.5g
    Vitamin A 0%
    Vitamin C 0%
    Calcium 4%
    Iron 24%

    When I add in everything else, I get this:

    Calories 421
    Total Fat 16 g
    Saturated 2 g
    Cholesterol 0 mg
    Sodium 220 mg
    Total Carbs 63 g
    Dietary Fiber 13 g
    Sugars 4 g
    Protein 17 g
    Vitamin A 22%
    Calcium 6%
    Vitamin C 60%
    Iron 33%
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