Counting Vegetable Calories?

healthyjen342

I count mine! If you bite it...write it (or type it, i guess!) :flowerforyou:

willimh

I count them. They add up.

TrainerRobin

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

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

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%