To track fruits & veggies or not to track fruits & veggies?

Cold_Steel

every one focuses on the calories part, personally I like to see my nutrients at the end of the day/week/month

Raihn

Yes sayekim, me too.

Raihn

Hey woou. lol Sounds like you need to eat more veggies!

woou

Hey woou. lol Sounds like you need to eat more veggies!

oh no. i can eat half a huge napa cabbage in one sitting. :laugh:

CMmrsfloyd

I track everything I eat. If my friends are going to see the ice cream I had last week, I want them to see that I get my broccoli, carrots, potatoes, peas, etc too! LOL. Fruits and veggies have calories, so I track them. If its a very small amount of calories, I still track it, b/c small amounts eaten multiple times during the day can add up to a not-so-small amount. Plus it just gives you a more accurate picture of your day. There is a particular salad that I like to make that adds up to close to 300 calories - if I didn't track the produce in it, it would appear to be less than 210. That's a significant difference. Calories consumed and burned affect weight loss/gain, so I track it all.

Karen_145

Personally, I do not count veggies as they are really low anyway. I do count fruit.

brookepenni

I track everything I eat. If my friends are going to see the ice cream I had last week, I want them to see that I get my broccoli, carrots, potatoes, peas, etc too! LOL. Fruits and veggies have calories, so I track them. If its a very small amount of calories, I still track it, b/c small amounts eaten multiple times during the day can add up to a not-so-small amount. Plus it just gives you a more accurate picture of your day. There is a particular salad that I like to make that adds up to close to 300 calories - if I didn't track the produce in it, it would appear to be less than 210. That's a significant difference. Calories consumed and burned affect weight loss/gain, so I track it all.

Exactly! I look at so many diaries and see no fruit or veg, but biscuits, ice cream, brownies, chocolate - they say they also eat veggies and fruit, but I look and they're already over their calorie count.... Track everything I say!

SaishaLea

I track all my fruits and veggies!!

Tyler4846

LOG ALL THE THINGS!!!1

SoCalMike

I can only speak for me, and I know that when I keep a food diary (regardless of whether it's this site, a spreadsheet, or a piece of paper) it keep sme more accountable and honest. It's hard to rationalize in your head that a handful of carrots, grapes, a pear here, a banana there doesn't count. But it most certainly does. I don't track EVERYTHING (medicine, cough syrup, mustard (for example)), but I track anything that has more than a couple of calories, and without doubt fruits have more than a few (hello carbs) as do some veggies. Try it, and see what happens. It's really not as hard as it seems. I"m fairly new to this site and I primarly use the iPhone app and since I always have my phone, it's easy to log things.

Raihn

Woou: Impressive!

Jmayhem69

no way! There is no need to count your veggies! I don't even log mine. Fruit yes because they have a significant amount of calories and sugar.. But you can pretty much eat unlimited veggies in a day and not gain weight!!!

"Not gain weight" is not the goal of most of us here. Studies show that the caloric intake of the avg obese person (based on BMI) vs. normal BMI is 100-200 calories per day!!!

A cucumber has 50 calories, a tomato has fructose, carrots are high in sucrose and fructose....

for us who are needing to get detail oriented to lose as much weight as possible it is important to log everything we intake! It would be easy to go 200+ over everyday without logging all fruits AND veggies! and ketchup, ranch dressings, sugar and coffee creamers!

I found it also helps calling it INTAKE rather than eating because it makes you think "I am taking this in, gonna have to burn it up somehow or it's gonna get stored"