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    Fruit and calories

    Posts: 20
    edited February 13 in Food and Nutrition
    My fiance and I can't seem to agree. I think I need to use the food guidelines provided here and count the calories if I eat a piece of fruit or a vegetable. He seems to think that they are negative calories and I shouldn't be documenting them in my daily calorie count. What do you do??

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    • Posts: 157 Member
      I track everything.
    • Posts: 29,136 Member
      LOLZ really?

      there are no "negative calorie foods"

      A half cup of green beans has - I believe - 25 calories...

      so ignore your fiancé and go with the counts on here..

      wow...
    • Posts: 12,294 Member
      count them. the reason being they do have calories in them, and your calorie goal (maintenance calories, to which a deficit is taken from) already accounts for the calories out due to digestions among other things.
    • Posts: 636 Member
      You are right - the idea with MFP is to log everything you eat and drink, along with your exercise. Fruits are a great, healthy addition to your overall diet, but you need to log to account for the calories in your daily total.

      Maybe your fiancee has done weight watchers before, and that is where he is coming from? The weight watchers points system did not count most fruits and veggies towards daily points totals when I last checked the program out. So, that might be what he's thinking of with not logging fruits.
    • Posts: 34 Member
      Continue to track. He may be on crack.:laugh:
    • Posts: 1,023 Member
      There are some extremely calorie dense fruits and vegetables out there. Avocados are 250 calories a piece, and bananas are usually 105-110 each. So yes, you need to count them.
    • Posts: 99 Member
      Continue to track. He may be on crack.:laugh:


      Your a poet and you don't know it!
    • Posts: 245 Member
      Fruit and Veg still have calories, they still add up...Continue to track... My 33 grapes at lunch are 113Cal.
    • Posts: 912 Member
      You should count your fruits on MFP. If you use a program like Weight Watchers, they already account for your daily recommended servings and they are freebies points-wise. MFP doesn't work like that.
    • Posts: 726 Member
      I'm sure your fiancee has heard of other plans that don't count fruits and veggies in their points. If you are using the MFP model, it is set-up to count all calories regardless of source. So I vote with you - track everything you eat, including the fruits and veggies.
    • Posts: 719 Member
      I can't think of any reason not to include fruit and vegetables. If you don't, you won't have a good gauge on your macros. Even if something has negligible calories, it has other things that could matter. I love pickles. Five calories for a Claussen pickle spear. But if I don't add it, I don't see how it impacts my sodium. I have BP issues, so that's important to me. That's kind of a negative example, but the other side is seeing how you got all those great vitamins and stuff without a load of calories.
    • Posts: 685 Member
      I always track them, fruit and all. LOL! I can't see not! A banana is around 100 calories and should "count".
    • Posts: 4,489 Member
      I count them, but I deduct calories for prep (peeling, cracking, slicing, etc) because every little bit matters.
    • Posts: 146 Member
      I AGREE NO DO NOT COUNT THEM.. THEY ARE NEGATIVES !!


      ... Just kidding, I felt bad for the guy cause man is he going to hear it when he gets home LOL LOL, But seriously I agree you should count them, They add up really fast.
    • Posts: 9,487 Member
      I want magical negative calorie fruits!!

      Your man is seriously misguided - count them.
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