Do you log your veggies?
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Sweetredpoison
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Do you log the 3 slivers of red onion in your garden salad? How about the 1 carrot you eat with hummus? The lemon wedge in your water?
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I do. It all adds up and it helps to build the habit of logging faithfully and accurately.
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Often, yes. It looks ridiculous when you look at my food diary and each veggie in my salad is itemized, but those calories DO add up.
Sometimes, in the interest of time (and sanity) I lump sum based on past salad configurations and "quick add" or add a complete measurement (1 cup veggies) as the highest carb/calorie ingredient (say, 1 c. carrots instead of 1/4 c. tomatoes, 1/4 c. cucumbers, 1/4 c. carrots, 1/8 c onion, 1/8 c. radish).
Do what works for you, but also be aware of how close you come to your daily totals. If you normally have 100-200 cals to play with, you might skip itemizing your veggies. If you are squeaking up to (or past) your limit, itemizing is probably the way to go.
Good luck!!!0 -
Consensus is personal preference i guess. Maybe one day i'll be able to eyeball measurements.:ohwell:0
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I try my hardest to log EVERYTHING. Otherwise, I get in the habit of just skipping the "smaller" stuff....but that smaller stuff adds up fast.0
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Yes. I even log Calorie-free/Salt-free seasonings.
This website was created for a specific purpose and reasoning.
Therefore, I use it as it's supposed to be used and I log EVERYTHING.0 -
Yes. I log everything.0
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Often, yes. It looks ridiculous when you look at my food diary and each veggie in my salad is itemized, but those calories DO add up.
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I usually eat more than a sliver of onion. My servings tend to start at 1/4 c so I log my veggies.0
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I do because I track carbs not calories, and it's easy to go over with vegetables. I used to just make a couple of custom entries though to re-use like
"Garden Salad Small" which would be for any side salad like with a steak or something. 30 cals, and 3g Carbs
or you could have
"Salad - sandwich serve" and just work out the cals the one time, then reuse it in your diary.0 -
I don't add up empty and free calorie item like tea and coffee, but i log veggies, herbs and spices, etc... at the end of day i do eat 100 cals of those by 3 or 4 cals increments.0
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No. I usually don't log things that are less than 25 calories.
But I also don't log exercise.
It is a compromise I have found balances out in the long term and saves me logging time.
I would only recommend this strategy if you have already reached maintenance.
YMMV.0 -
If you bite it, write it. Someone said that to me once. Goofy, but wise. A little fudging here and there will multiply like rabbits eventually. It's best to keep good habits.0
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If you have the time, great... Log it. I find logging zero calorie items to be an inefficient use of my time. I work 12 hours days and have two kids under three (like many of us) so my circumstances call for any shortcut I can muster that doesn't Measurably affect my results.
Wish I had time to track oregano and iced tea, because it would be interesting to know. More data is nice to have.
But I have found that skipping zero cal items doesn't affect my results, so I skip them.
But I would never say logging them is a bad idea... Never.0 -
Yep I log it!0
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Heck yeah you dew0
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If a whole lemon gets used in a week for those waters, 1 day gets a lemon logged.
If one carrot a day with what ends up being a decent amount of ranch dressing over so many days, added on to 1 day, or the day I eat 2 servings, I'll go shy by however many I already had, but log the 2 servings.
So each day may not be super accurate, but the week is. And those total entries fall on different days, so balance is obtained.0 -
I don't. No one ever got fat because they ate too many vegetables and no one is not losing weight for eating too many veggies.
A MAJOR pet peeve of mine is when someone says they can only eat one handful of carrots or celery because it's too many calories. Believe me. Eat at much celery, broccoli, onion, and carrots as you want. That's not the problem if you're not losing weight.0 -
No, I don't log 3 slivers of onion; I take them off (hate raw onions). If I'm eating out, I don't count the number of carrot slices or the amount of lettuce in my salad. I cannot imagine the OCD'ness of counting veggies in a restaurant salad. Egad. I'll just round up to account for roughly whatever ingredients I see.
I don't log the juice from a lemon (in fact, those are gross, so I toss them). Microbes are everywhere, but I don't really like the idea of unwashed lemon rinds in my water. Please don't read the scary anti-lemon-wedge article if you're a germaphobe. :laugh:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/lemon-germs-wedges-restaurants_n_4659168.html0 -
Yes, I log veggies (most of what I eat anyway), so I can track cals, fiber, and potassium for the potassium-sodium ratio knowledge.0
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