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    do you count all the calories?

    Posts: 550
    edited January 24 in Food and Nutrition
    or just the bad ones? i dont need to count the calories from chicken breast or fruit do i?

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    • Posts: 2,833 Member
      Depends on whether you want the calorie counter to be a useful tool or a total waste of time.
    • Posts: 3,902 Member
      I count absolutely everything except sugar free gum.
    • Posts: 247 Member
      The whole point of tracking calories is to make sure you are either in a deficit to lose weight or in maintenance to maintain weight. If you only tracked the bad stuff it wouldn't be very helpful. You need to track every little thing you put in your mouth, including caloric drinks if tracking is to be useful.
    • Posts: 15
      I count everything, even a tiny dob of tomato sauce
    • Posts: 106 Member
      If it contains even 1 calorie, I log it. I even log coffee, which has none. Just because it's from something good for you, doesn't mean it's 'free'...it still counts towards your daily caloric intake.
    • Posts: 1,450 Member
      If you want to know how all of your food choices add up together, then you log everything. If you don't really care, then you don't bother.
    • Posts: 2,208 Member
      or just the bad ones? i dont need to count the calories from chicken breast or fruit do i?

      You should only count the calories that have calories. Don't count the calorie-free calories. For the most party anything other than water or coffee with on additives should be counted.
    • Posts: 3,958 Member
      I'm just counting your abs.:drinker:
    • Posts: 2,780 Member
      What counts as calories? Someone help me!
    • Posts: 127 Member
      or just the bad ones? i dont need to count the calories from chicken breast or fruit do i?

      Although chicken breast and fruit are healthy, you still need to see how much of them you are eating. Track the chicken to see how much protein you are eating, the fruit to see how many carbs/sugars. Maybe you aren't getting enough. You should track every single thing that goes into your mouth except for your toothbrush.
    • Posts: 14,025 Member
      I just count the ones with nutrition facts attached. The rest I assume are calorie free since there are no facts available.
    • Posts: 10 Member
      Anything you eat or drink that is not water, black coffee, or sugarless tea, is calories.
    • Posts: 550
      I'm just counting your abs.:drinker:

      you admiring?
    • Posts: 262
      If you close your eyes while eating, you don't need to log the calories. Also, if you open your eyes while eating, you only have to log the calories in foods that begin with "M".

      True story.
    • Posts: 327 Member
      or just the bad ones? i dont need to count the calories from chicken breast or fruit do i?

      Um, which calories do you think that your body digests? :laugh: (Hint: ALL of them!)
    • Posts: 327 Member
      or just the bad ones? i dont need to count the calories from chicken breast or fruit do i?

      I make smoothies for breakfast most morning. Consists of mostly fruit. Is usually in excess of 700 calories. So.. uh.. YES I count it.
    • Posts: 663 Member
      I would say most of my calories. I def don't count the pills I take, but I'm starting to slack on it...
    • Posts: 230 Member
      What counts as calories? Someone help me!

      Only calories from fish and pudding count. Everything else is free.
    • Posts: 9,834 Member
      wow. tough troll to spot this one.
    • Posts: 606
      This is a troll right? Two pounds to lose?
    • Posts: 1,941 Member
      Trolololololol
    • Posts: 3,958 Member
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      you admiring?

      ONE! ONE AB! AH HA AH AH HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

      TWO! TWO ABS! AH AH AHA H HAAAAAAAAAA!

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      you admiring?

      I am. Once again.
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    • Posts: 1,946 Member
      I count absolutely everything except sugar free gum.

      I count this too. The type I chew has 5 calories for every two pieces
    • Posts: 550
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      I am. Once again.

      haha. thats why i do it
    • Posts: 3,958 Member
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      haha. thats why i do it

      Dawwwwwwwwwww, how sweet.

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    • Posts: 882 Member
      This has to be a joke right?
    • Posts: 183 Member
      If it contains even 1 calorie, I log it. I even log coffee, which has none. Just because it's from something good for you, doesn't mean it's 'free'...it still counts towards your daily caloric intake.

      umm coffee doesn't have many calories but it's not zero :D


      I count everything. It's the only way to know whether I've eaten enough to be at maintenance or in a surplus.

      Total waste of time if you are only logging some things and not others. The only things I don't count are water and my green and herbal teas (zero kcals).
    • Posts: 531 Member
      This has to be a joke right?

      what do u mean? i was wondering the same thing as op
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