Bothering to calorie track veggies...

I track everything I eat, including veggies. Most are pretty low cal, but they do add up, especially if you eat a lot. Plus, I can make sure I've eaten enough veggies each day.

I have tons of items in my food diary but I'd rather know that I'm tracking everything, then wonder how much the stuff I'm missing adds up to. Lunch today was wrap with 1 cup of spinach and 1/2 a tomato (among other things) and I added both of those.

Some veggies have more calories than others - if you eat a lot of broccoli or the starchier veggies, those certainly should be added. The "waterier" ones like lettuce and cucumber, you could probably get away with not adding... but personally I'd add everything.

I just dont want to track "I had one tomato, a cucumber stalk, a mini pepper, and a fistful of raw spinach."

My food diary does look like that (on my good day)... but it doesn't bother me. :laugh:

I don't worry about it if I forget to add 5 calories worth of celery or something, but I try to pay attention to fiber and nutrients too, so it's definitely worth entering.

I add everything, but it's also to track how much fiber, carbs, etc I'm getting each day. Not to mention, but you'd be surprised how much 10 calories "here and there" might add up. Vegetables are great for you, but they're far from nothing in the calorie department.

i eat about 1400 cals.... 1000 of them are veggies. soooo ya id say yes! lol
sometimes it gets soo annoying i know. my salads are crazy so i have to be like ".5c cucumber, .5c green peppers, green onion stalk, 10 cherry tomatoes, 5 carrots, 2 cups spinach, one cup romaine.....etc" u get the point. lol
but i suggest yes.

Ditto this. I eat a lot of items in my salad and it does get tedious, but those calories do add up. That is how I got to the point of where I needed to lose weight - eating too many calories.

I track them but I fudge. If I'm eating a salad with 5 ingredients, I'll pick the one with most calories/worst stats and just say it was all that one type of veggie. Or maybe I'll put in the top 3 ingredients and fudge the rest. I also have built meals around my typical salad bar salads so I can just add the meal and then make any necessary adjustments, if it's too far off from how I built my salad that day.

Though I know I should, I don't eat all that many veggies. The veggies I eat tend to be pretty much the same: broccoli, bell peppers, fresh spinach...etc. I used to count calories for them all, and for spices too (they add up as well).

Now I just do the quick add calories and add a generous amount to include both spices and veggies. I am vaguely aware of how much they cost (calorie wise) and figure this should work fine for me until I stop loosing. At that point I will go back to being more strict and trouble shoot the problem. :-)