Anyone not count veggie calories?

Well it sounds like you answered your own question, if you want your nutritional records to be accurate so you can see how much fiber, vitamins, etc you're eating every day then log them. If you're not too concerned but just want to track calories then don't worry, most of the time they're only 10-20 calories.

Depends on the veggies. Sometimes I don't bother counting broccoli/cauliflower/spinach, sometimes I do. Won't really make a difference.

But for something like garden peas, then yes, you should be tracking them as they are much higher in calories.

Speaking of counting calories, why do people bother adding black coffee or spices?!

I always count my veggies! While all are healthy, some do have quite a few calories that need to be accounted for. I just had two raw carrots. That's 50 calories. Yep, I counted them. Otherwise I would go 50 over on something that is probably much less healthy than carrots.

Depends on the veggies. Sometimes I don't bother counting broccoli/cauliflower/spinach, sometimes I do. Won't really make a difference.

Broccoli is VERY high in calories.

I was not counting my coffee until this week. I never actually measured my whole milk that I added or the sugar until this week. my point was that I always drink 2 coffees in the morning. I am not going to increase or decrease them so what is the difference? well it is probably 160 calories for those 2 cups everyday IF I only have those 2 cups. As much of a pain that it is I do it. I count everything else so I count that two. I think if I could switch to Black decaf coffee or tea I would not count it. (it would be zero right)

I count my creamer and Stevia that I put in my coffee, but not the actual coffee itself. I also use low-fat and sugar-free creamers, which are only about 15-35 calories a serving. It adds up if you drink a TON, but it's usually fine!

As for veggies, I count them for the fiber mainly, and to know that I'm actually eating veggies (I am the WORST at eating fruits and veggies!)

Personally I would count them.

This brings me onto this bit though, I don't know where the idea came from originally that certain foods you don't need to count and that you can eat an abundance of.

Weightwatchers went over the to idea that fruit did not need to be counted, why? It has calories, so why should it not be counted?

Now this with the veggie via another source, it doesn't make sense to me in the slightest.

I always count veggies. The vast majority of veggies don't "cost" much in the way of calories, but everything adds up.

I count veggies. Especially Broccoli. I can easily eat 400 calories of broccoli in a day

hate to be in a locked room with you... :sick:

I count veggies. Especially Broccoli. I can easily eat 400 calories of broccoli in a day

hate to be in a locked room with you... :sick:

LOL. That's a whole lot of broccoli....1 kilo (2.2 lbs) has 340 calories, so more than that?! :huh:

I have to count everything including vegetables. I have a severe eating disorder -- I'm anorexic, bulimic and a compulsive eater. I haven't acted on the anorexia or bulimia in many years but it is still there -- waiting, until I take that one extra bite, whether it is vegetables or cake.

I can play (and have played) all kinds of games with myself saying that this food doesn't count, that food doesn't count, I can have as many vegetables as I want, I can eat all the salad I want, yada yada yada ya.

As others have said, it adds up. In one meal, I could easily eat 6 cups of Caesar salad (romaine and bottled dressing). I love the taste of it so it is easy for me to do. But the reality is I don't need 6 cups of salad for nutrition. I just don't. There just isn't a real circumstance where I need to eat 6 cups of lettuce.

So instead of fooling around and trying to 'cheat' I am concentrating on what works for me. That is finding the amounts of food that work for my current body size and the body size I want to be. I have made some adjustments in the month I've been doing this and finding that I don't have to give up anything that I really love, but I do have to learn to limit the amounts I eat of it. That is what I am finding with logging what I eat on this site. It's a revelation as I was so into the limiting and depriving and restricting that I wasn't enjoying eating and that would lead to the inevitable binges and the rollercoaster of guilt and more eating.

Good luck to you.

Yeah, I try to log everything. The chopped banana on my porridge in the mornings has a 100 cals. I'd log that in bread or chocolate so why not the banana. A 100 cals is a 100 cals.

I don't bother with lettuce or celery and the like. But I could see why someone would. I get a fair amt of produce in this old bod of mine "most" days, but if I wanted to count how many servings of fruit/vegetables I was getting, I would count it. I used to do that early on.

Someone asked about why someone counts coffee, etc. I track coffee because I want to see how much I'm drinking of it vs. water. I track vitamins because it helps me to remember to take them. I track 0 calorie soda so I know how many of them I'm drinking. You get the idea. It's not just calories that I'm looking at.

If I eat subway, I use the calculator from their website which does not seem to count calories from veggies. It does recognize the addition by adding more grams to the weight of the sandwich but it does not add calories.