Vegetable calories

Sweet_Potato

If I didn't log vegetables it would look like I was starving myself!

KandieLantz

I log everything. Veggies, coffee, spices... etc..

Nattiejean57

Technically you should log everything as the other posters said, but I found it hard to do when you eat something like, say, a mixed chopped salad. It's easy for me to get lazy about logging, which in turn makes it easy to be lazy about eating and staying under my limits. Not good. So, I take some shortcuts so that the logging task is not too painful. For example, if I had 2 c. of a mix of several steamed vegetables, I might only log 2 c. broccoli and assume that broccoli = (more or less) = carrots = califlower etc. Or I might ONLY log the salad dressing and not the salad, but increase the salad dressing a bit (say to 1.5 servings instead of 1 serving) to account for the salad itself. Not 100% accurate, but keeps me from having to spend half the day logging foods.

This is what I do

cofakid

i log everything and thats what your suppose to do.

i eat over 400 calories of fruit and veg in an average day. At a rough guess id say its about 500 calories. Thats a third of my daily intake. i know that if i didnt log that i would think hey ive got a spare 400 calories im going to have chocolate cake and then id be over calories for the day. Also its important for me to see how my meals are going eg if i have a big lunch i know to cut back on dinner a bit. my lunch is normaly a sandwhich and only fruit and veg, so if i didnt track that id have no idea how big my dinner should be.

When your counting calories its important to know whats going into your body, and theres no point only counting half of what you eat because then your just cheating yourself.

it feels time consuming to begin with but u get use to it and it just becomes part of your day

ConkreteChic

Why wouldn't you want to log your fruits and veggies? I'm so proud of myself when I get my f&v in! It's part of over health and fitness - keeps me motivated!