Do you count non-starchy vegetables in food diary

I count it all

Logging everything gives you a much better picture of what you are eating and allows for easier dietary adjustments in my opinion

Wondering what your nutritionist has against other types of carbs though

I do. This is why Weight Watchers failed me.

It is kind of the whole point of calorie counting to log everything you eat and drink. Just because they aren't starchy doesn't mean they don't have calories. Yes some are very low, but things like sweetcorn and peas have a higher calorie content than say asparagus.

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I do, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, carrots, onions, mushrooms, green beans, lettuce, cucumber, beetroot, peas (starchy), sweetcorn (starchy), beansprouts, bamboo shoots (go in my sweet and sour); all get counted. Not only do they have calories (OK not many but when you have half a plateful a couple of times a day that's a couple of hundred calories) but it's an easy way of keeping track of my 5 a day (minimum).

Edit: And I track my fibre as well, so they all add up there.

Yes, it's food.

definitely! If it goes in your mouth, log it. You dont want to be fooled by the extra calories.

I do, not that I'm terribly concerned with the caloric value of the vegetables I eat (I tend to eat a lot of lettuce, celery, chard, and tomatoes, all of which are pretty low calorie) but because it gives me an accurate record of what I ate. That way I can see at a glance if I'm getting enough fruits and vegetables (I aim for 7-9 per day) and I have a good record. On some days I find I'm not hungry enough to eat all my calories, and on some days I want to chew my left arm off, so by keeping an eye on my food diary I can tell what kinds of food are keeping me satisfied. Leaving out the veggies would render that worthless.

I log everything as well.

i log it all. even though the veggies are low in calories, for me i like being able to look back and see what i've eaten on those good days when i come in under my calories, yet i'm not hungry

This. I use the diary as a record of what I ate, so I can see what's changed when I do better vs. when I struggle.

I also like to track how well I do at meeting my micros and macros and, especially, getting a wide variety of vegetables, so logging them allows me to see that and also makes me more likely to get in more vegetables--it makes me happy to log them and I think I eat more when I do (I guess the WW theory is different, but I don't get the purpose of points vs. calories anyway).

Plus I often cook them in a little olive oil (I log spray as .1 or .2 of a TBSP, depending on how long the spray was), and want the diary to make sense.

Finally, I'd prefer not to leave out things that end up contributing calories (even if a relatively small number, although they do add up if you eat a lot) and sugar and fiber and so on. And I find I learn things by seeing what comes up when I log vegetables--I wouldn't have known how the calories in Brussels vs. asparagus vs. broccoli or carrots vs. butternut squash vs. parsnips compared without logging everything (parsnips are pretty high in calories vs. what I would have thought, actually, if only because they are pretty dense, although certainly worth eating).

The one thing I do different with vegetables is that I often eyeball amounts and log them as cups for greens, especially salad greens, since it makes little difference. I weigh everything else, including greens I cook usually, just because it always seems easier to me to weigh than try to estimate volume when the scale is being used for other things anyway. But I don't worry overmuch if water from rinsing them is inflating the weight--it's not going to make much difference.

I count everything that I eat in my diary, since they have calories.

Yes. Not to be snarky or anything...but I consider that the entire point of this website, to count ALL of my food calories.

The only things I do not count:

pepper
vanilla
cinnamon
most ground spices, actually
chewing gum
one fish oil capsule per day
toothpaste ;-)

That's it.

FWIW, I don't count them by design, although I agree with those who say that's the whole point of the diary. But going into this I hated vegetables and I knew if I had to subtract their value from my total calories (which seemed soooo low at the time), I would never eat them. So I created personal foods for non starchy veggies (spinach, lettuce, broccoli, etc.), counted their calories as 0, but added nutritional information so I could keep track of that.

I didn't really know what I was doing at the time but it has worked well for me. I do eat (and enjoy) veggies now and I don't worry about how many I eat and it hasn't seemed to hurt me up to this point. In fact, it has helped a great deal to keep me full and satisfied, and to get the vitamins I need. I can understand why others may think it's not the way to go, but in my situation I think it's been one key to my success so far. Whatever works ...

However -- I'm currently at a plateau and I might need to rethink this strategy. Ugh.

Yes. They can have a surprising amount of protein and fiber for not many calories.