Who Counts Their Fresh Fruits & Veggies?

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  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    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.
  • Kimdbro
    Kimdbro Posts: 922 Member
    I log the fruits religiously as I track my sugar and calories, both of which can be quite high in fruit. I log the vegetables when I have a lot of time and doesn't bother me to spend 5 minutes on my iphone searching for calories in a carrot... other than then no to logging veggies, because it's friggen tedious and the 3 calories in a cup of lettuce, or the 0 calories in a cucumber, I can't be bothered with logging. Having said that, I always round up in my portions as well so there's def. extra calories covered for what veggies I don't log.
  • bellaa_x0
    bellaa_x0 Posts: 1,062 Member
    if it goes in my mouth, i log it - regardless of what it is
  • amyann2
    amyann2 Posts: 69 Member
    I log them, not because I'm concerned about the # of calories they add, but because it pleases me so much to see that can eat a generous portion of fruits and veggies and they're really so FEW calories! :-)

    Plus I think it's worth having the data in case you want to look back and try and identify patterns. For instance, I know that when I really eat a lot of fruits and veggies, I get fewer and less severe migraines.

    (I have done WW too.)
  • nope31
    nope31 Posts: 174
    That's why its weight watches and many ppl fail with their logic.
    Have Food relapses and gain all the weight back
  • KimLee76
    KimLee76 Posts: 89
    I track everything I eat, including fruits and vegetables. I even log my morning tea, which has no calories.

    Yeah this ^^^

    I am not using MFP as just a calorie counter. I track other nutrients and also like to have a complete picture of the meals.

    Also, I'm sure WW's point system is based on some elaborate algorithm that accounts for those missing fruit & veggie calories, but you should think of MFP as an abacus :smile:
  • TheNewLorrain
    TheNewLorrain Posts: 138 Member
    I count everything that goes in my mouth no matter what it is a piece of fruit to a tic tac period!
  • mfreeman0921
    mfreeman0921 Posts: 51 Member
    I absolutely count fruits and veggies. At least 400 calories a day goes toward fruit alone in a day for me. I would bet that it I didn't log my fruits and veggies I would not have lost even close to what I have by counting them.
  • coliema
    coliema Posts: 7,646 Member
    If you eat it, log it.

    That's they way MFP works.
    Yes, yes.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    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 :smile:

    Why wouldn't you? It's a food log, not a game.

    If you imbibe, play the scribe.
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    if it goes in my mouth, i log it - regardless of what it is

    Show of hands, other than me, anyone else get a chuckle?
  • Isakizza
    Isakizza Posts: 754 Member
    I do my best to count every bite I take.
    A calorie is a calorie, even the good ones. :wink:


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  • sapphies
    sapphies Posts: 45 Member
    I follow WW to lose so I don't log fruits and veggies that are 0 WW pts on MFP. I use MFP to sync up with my Body Media arm band. So I just log food that has actual points. So far it has been working for me. I have been losing about 2lbs a week.
  • xandra
    xandra Posts: 101 Member
    I log everything I eat or drink. No exceptions.
  • xinit0
    xinit0 Posts: 310 Member
    I get why you might not bother - 5 cups of spinach is basically nothing, as far as calories go... but it does have iron and other stats I'd like to track. Besides, enough of those "10-50 calorie veggies" over the course of the day...

    I generally don't log things like spinach or other greens just because they are so low calorie and it hasn't made a difference. At first I would try to weigh out one serving on my food scale but one serving of spinach is HUGE and doesn't even fit on a plate.

    Basically if something comes in at under 15 calories, I usually don't bother. It isn't going to make much of a difference for me and it isn't like I sit there and eat 100 calories worth of 15 calorie things to get out of logging. I figure it balances out with activity that I don't log.

    I will throw an apple on the scale, or a bowl of melon or a tomato or cucumber that I'll be slicing up, but I mostly only eyeball the quantity of greens in cups.
  • ThatSoundsHard
    ThatSoundsHard Posts: 475 Member
    Is it food? Did you eat it?

    Then it counts.
  • xinit0
    xinit0 Posts: 310 Member
    I count everything that goes in my mouth no matter what it is a piece of fruit to a tic tac period!

    I don't always log regular coffee, but I drink it black with artificial sweetener, so I consider the 5-10 calories as in my 'margin of error' :)
  • x_JT_x
    x_JT_x Posts: 364
    I don't understand this idea of picking and choosing what to log and what not to log. Doesn't leaving out any food (regardless of the reason for doing so) kind of negate the whole purpose of calorie counting? Wny go to all the trouble of weighing/measuring/logging your intake, only to leave some out? Doesn't make sense to me.
  • QueenE_
    QueenE_ Posts: 522 Member
    I do.
  • RCottonRPh
    RCottonRPh Posts: 148
    Calories count! Count em all.
  • gekcsk
    gekcsk Posts: 52 Member
    Nothing is free. I am on WW but I use the old points plan...when you had to count your fruit. I count everything. Works so much better for me.:drinker:
  • 81Katz
    81Katz Posts: 7,074 Member
    Log them!

    I've eaten 434 calories worth of FRUIT and VEGGIES already just today!
  • Rowan813
    Rowan813 Posts: 170 Member
    I was curious about the comparison for a while and logged on both MFP and WW. I found that if I stayed at my points target I was almost exactly at my calorie goal on MFP. It was never off by much, always less than 50 cal. Of course that does not figure in any of the weekly points WW gives you because I rarely used them. I limited my fruit to 2 servings a day to keep from throwing myself way off target because the calories do add up.
  • Cheeky_0102
    Cheeky_0102 Posts: 408 Member
    I log all of my fruit, but i won't kill myself to get specific about veggies... i pretty much bunch them all in together; if i made a stir fry and used about half a cup of mixed greenish veggies, i will call it all broccoli instead of counting out each mushroom, each celery, etc I'll be withing 50- calories in the meal as long as i don't ignore outlier (like avocado's or even carrots that are calorie heavier than the average veggie)

    I'm a little less strict about my tracking though because i know everything will have variances so even if i weigh each ingredient, I'm still working with averages.
  • norahwynn
    norahwynn Posts: 862 Member
    Sometimes I wish you didn't have to log them, but you do! I've consumed 549 calories of fruit/veg as of 11:30 this morning. On a limit of 1200, it gets a bit rough, but you have to be honest with what you logging or your numbers won't be accurate.
  • happythermia
    happythermia Posts: 374
    I do. I'm counting calories, not points :-)
    Add to that I could probably eat 1,000 calories in fruit a day without even thinking about it!
  • c_faulkenburg
    c_faulkenburg Posts: 158 Member
    I count everything. I even weigh out spinach.. Which is silly.. But I get a kick out of seeing how much I can eat.
  • tasharock
    tasharock Posts: 136 Member
    Log it. If it goes in your mouth, then it should be logged.

    Yep, I always say "If it goes in your mouth, it goes in your diary."
  • Caitlinhappymeal
    Caitlinhappymeal Posts: 185 Member
    ive had 326 calories in fruit and veg today, this is typical sometimes its more but rarely less, thats 2282 cals per week, why would you even consider not logging this, it defeats the whole point of being on this site and logging? :noway:
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    Me. They have calories. This is a calorie counting website. They are in the database. SO I coun't them.

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