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Counting calories

jmaya26
jmaya26 Posts: 12 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
when adding fruits and veggies to your MFP food diary do you count the calories/serving size? I know with Weight Watchers they don't count fruits and veggies in their points system. Those are "free" foods. Thanks all

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  • believeinme0430
    believeinme0430 Posts: 270 Member
    Hello! Yes on this site you track anything that enters into your mount that has calories. :)
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    jmaya26 wrote: »
    when adding fruits and veggies to your MFP food diary do you count the calories/serving size? I know with Weight Watchers they don't count fruits and veggies in their points system. Those are "free" foods. Thanks all

    Weight Watchers gets away with it by setting a lower goal to account for those added fruits & veggies. You need to log them here.
  • Faithful_Chosen
    Faithful_Chosen Posts: 401 Member
    Weigh and log everything! ^_^
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Yep - if you're tracking calories you track everything.
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    Since they too have calories, yes, count them.
  • abatonfan
    abatonfan Posts: 1,120 Member
    Yup. Looking at my diary today, I consumed at least 250-300 calories in fruits and vegetables today. I'm shooting for a half pound weight loss per week, and not logging those foods (while still eating my calorie goal) would wipe out my deficit.
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    Track every single thing.absolutely count fruit and veggies. Seriously. Even little Things like butter, oil, dressings, sauces, half and half , splash of milk in our tea, all add up !
    If you didn't count all those things, your logging would be off by hundreds of calories per day ( depending on how much you use . for me, those small things like half and half and butter and dressings add up to almost 500 cals per day.)
  • jmaya26
    jmaya26 Posts: 12 Member
    Thanks everyone! I will be counting everything
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