anything you dont count in daily calories?

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  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    raventwo wrote: »
    water, coffee, tea, and pickles - if the jar says 0 calories per serving. I count everything else, including garlic cloves when cooking.

    Don't pickles have more calories than garlic. There's at least 5-10 in each.
  • lexbubbles
    lexbubbles Posts: 465 Member
    zeal26 wrote: »
    I don't count my cordial (fruit concentrate I sometimes add to my water). I can't really be bothered measuring it and it's not much anyway.

    This. I also don't log green tea most of the time because it is 0 cal.

    I don't bother logging spices, either - although I do log stuff like vanilla essence in my baking.
  • lillyrose2020
    lillyrose2020 Posts: 178 Member
    The only thing I do not log is drinks, which only consists of tea, water and very occasionally fruit juice. I log condiments because I like mayo which all adds up.
  • meridianova
    meridianova Posts: 438 Member
    i don't log anything that has less than 5 calories, so that covers my crystal lite drink packets (i use half a packet per 32oz of water) or diet soda. i also don't bother logging spices because overall, they aren't adding much of anything to the total recipe.
  • amcook4
    amcook4 Posts: 561 Member
    Tea (nothing else is added) & diet cola.

    I also don't track herbs & spices, except for salt. I cook with a lot of flavor, and I used to add them all in, but because I use so many herbs/spices it was a lot of logging and hardly any calories.
  • llUndecidedll
    llUndecidedll Posts: 724 Member
    I don't count unsweetened tea or coffee, diet pop, water, seasoning, fish oil supplements, yellow mustard (most of the time), lettuce (most of the time), sugar free gum, Pam cooking spray. Basically anything that's pretty much 0ish calories.
  • jessready
    jessready Posts: 129 Member
    I log it all even spices. I figure this way I have a log if a medical issue would come up.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    I don't log spices.

    I do log condiments, but for ketchup, I log the next serving up rather than take time to enter the exact amount.
  • GeeWillickers
    GeeWillickers Posts: 85 Member
    I don't log coffee and tea because I take them straight mostly. If I'm adding milk, cream, sugar or honey I always log it
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    Water and tea, basically. Everything else gets logged, for now.

    I may get a little more casual about small things later on. But at the moment I'm logging not only to count calories, but to make sure I'm getting adequate nutrition within those calories. Logging everything helps me make sure my vitamins and nutrients are high enough and my sodium and such are low enough.
  • joanthemom8
    joanthemom8 Posts: 375 Member
    I didn't used to count my coffee creamer until I measured it and realized how much I was using...there was about a 70-100 calorie difference.
  • AmazingShrinkingMan
    AmazingShrinkingMan Posts: 18 Member
    I rarely track condiments (ketchup, mustard, steak sauce, etc.).
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    AmazingShrinkingMan wrote: »
    I rarely track condiments (ketchup, mustard, steak sauce, etc.).

    I have to track ketchup, I am a ketchup monster.
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  • tulips_and_tea
    tulips_and_tea Posts: 5,741 Member
    billieljaime wrote: »
    I don't add anything zero cals zero sodium if there are zero cals but a sodium count I log it because sodium can tell a story too :)

    Same here! I actually started my healthy eating quest years ago by tracking sodium and sugar more so than fat and calories. Quite an eye-opener!
  • woofer00
    woofer00 Posts: 123 Member
    <25 cal drinks - Water, coffee/espreso, tea

    I'll leave out most salt-free spices.
  • ethompso0105
    ethompso0105 Posts: 418 Member
    I don't track most spices (as long as it's under a few teaspoons). I also don't log my supplements--they come out to about 60 calories. I know that can add up, but I can't cut out the supplements, and I eat a bit below my MPF calculations most days anyway. Everything else is logged.
  • shortntall1
    shortntall1 Posts: 333 Member
    hard candy and gum..coffee but I log the half and half..mustard..pickles (sour).
  • KayleighIsGoingFatToFit
    KayleighIsGoingFatToFit Posts: 203 Member
    I track and log everything I eat and drink, no matter how little the calories are including Pepsi Max, spices, 1 cal spray and defiantly condiments. They all add up :smile:
  • MarziPanda95
    MarziPanda95 Posts: 1,326 Member
    Instead of bothering to log the hour of walking I do on Wednesdays and Thursdays, I often just don't log a few small things that I know will have been burnt off by the walk; like an apple or some fruit juice :)
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Spices, gum, vitamins, cough drops.
  • onefortyone
    onefortyone Posts: 531 Member
    Diet soda, ketchup, most green veggies, spices, salt, or my multi-vitamin gummies. I only track calories, not macros, and leaving out the smaller-calorie items hasn't affected my loss so far. I know where to look though if I do plateau :)
  • DragonShoe_GCole
    DragonShoe_GCole Posts: 137 Member
    I leave NOTHING out (including water; but that's just me...
  • TheSatinPumpkin
    TheSatinPumpkin Posts: 948 Member
    I don't log Salt, Pepper or Mrs Dash.
  • Alidecker
    Alidecker Posts: 1,262 Member
    Spices, diet soda and drink mixes. Everything else I count...unless I choose not to count anything for a day, which happened this weekend. Whoops.
  • ritahammett
    ritahammett Posts: 1 Member
    I log everything - even my supplements. It isn't due so much to the calories as it is to track my intake of nutrients.
  • JLCrunch
    JLCrunch Posts: 46 Member
    edited October 2014
    billieljaime wrote: »
    I don't add anything zero cals zero sodium if there are zero cals but a sodium count I log it because sodium can tell a story too :)

    This. Otherwise I log most everything else except dashes of pepper.
  • 111YoYo111
    111YoYo111 Posts: 213 Member
    jakicooke wrote: »
    I dont add tea coffee and sugar in those drinks but if I had a lattee or cappuccino then I do. im sure I will get to a point when I will have to log these as well but while I can get away with it I don't. the odd boiled sweet I don't bother but if I have a few in a day then I log them

    what is a "boiled sweet"? if I may ask?
  • stacyjh1979
    stacyjh1979 Posts: 188 Member
    I don't log gum. Some condiments I do and some I don't. If it is ketchup I don't bother but if it was mayo, tarter sauce, honey or something like that I would log it. Basically if it's less than 10 cal I don't bother because I'm usually in a large deficit anyway.
  • etterwoman
    etterwoman Posts: 3
    paperpudding wrote: »
    I don't log water,spices,tiny amounts of things like lettuce or pickles. I don't always log diet soft drinks.
    If I used no calorie sweeteners or sugar free gum. I wouldn't log that either.

    I would log pickles for the sodium content.

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