Who Counts Their Fresh Fruits & Veggies?

If you bite it, write it. Just as an example, a medium banana has 105 calories and a medium apple has 80 calories. If you had one of each and were on a 500 calorie deficit to lose a pound a week, you have just erased more than one third of your daily deficit.

In the past I have used Weight Watcher's to help manage my weight and on their plan some fresh fruits and veggies aren't counted towards your daily points. So the question I have for everyone is who adds their fruits and veggies to MyFitnessPal, who doesn't and why? I keep going back and forth of whether or not I should add them. Thank you

If you want to do WW, then do WW...if you want to count calories, then count calories. When you count calories, everything has calories so you count everything. With WW, everything is points and those points may or may not have a direct correlation to the calories consume...i.e. zero points for fruits and veg, while other things have more points attributed to them than what their true calorie score would be. This is how they essentially net things out.

If you're counting calories, it is important to actually count all calories. I eat about 300 + calories per day in fruits and veg alone...considering I only have a calorie deficit of 250 calories per day from maintenance, if I didn't count them and still ate to my calorie goal, I'd actually be at a calorie surplus.

I used to be on Weightwatchers and I could never understand why I struggled to lose weight some weeks. I would lose some, but it was never as much as I had predicted. Since starting MFP I've realised why my weight loss was so erratic on WW - it's because of all this so-called 'free food' that I was eating!

Unbeknownst to me, I could sometimes be eating up to 500-600 calories MORE than I thought I was eating because I assumed the food was 'free'! Don't get me wrong, I know if you sit and eat 20 lettuces a day you're going to be eating a fair amount of calories, despite lettuce being healthy... but on WW I would eat things here and there - a salad with my lunch, carrot sticks for snacks, sugar free jelly, gherkins, tomatoes cucumber etc... and these little snack-y things added up! Sometimes they added up to quite a significant amount of calories! So when I thought I was consuming 1200-300 calories (thus expecting around a 2lb loss each week) I could sometimes be eating more like 1800-900 in a day, which is why I was so confused about my slow weight loss.

Now that I'm using MFP I'm able to see the calorie content of all these 'free' foods, and it's quite scary how I was deluded into thinking I could eat as much of them as I wanted without eating many calories! The first time I made myself a salad and logged it on MFP (one that I wouldn't have counted in my points on WW) it was round about 100 calories!

So I make sure I log absolutely everything I eat on here - even down to the herbs and spices I use haha. Maybe a bit obsessive, but I find it interesting to see how the calories can quickly add up when you're not paying attention!! :P

(edited to fix the terrible grammar akin to a 5 year old... :P )

If you eat it, log it.

That's they way MFP works.

^ Yes

I do!!

My macros would be pretty far off-base if I didn't, and my calories would be off by a couple hundred a day. For someone my size, that's a lot, so I absolutely add them.

if it goes in my mouth, i log it - regardless of what it is

That's why its weight watches and many ppl fail with their logic.
Have Food relapses and gain all the weight back

I count everything that goes in my mouth no matter what it is a piece of fruit to a tic tac period!

If you eat it, log it.

That's they way MFP works.

Yes, yes.