Vegetables and Fruits.....do you log them?
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Everything I eat and drink is logged. Everything has calories and they add up.
To avoid another post that comes up daily, "Why am I not losing weight"?
Weigh it, measure it, and log it all. Stay within your calorie amount, and you will not be posting one of the daily "why am I not losing", topics.0 -
If you bite it you write it!
Fruits and Veggies have calories. Bananas usually around 110 calories ish. Apples around 80 depending on size. That can all add up!0 -
"If you bite it, write it!" Is my philosophy.
That being said, I am very careful in measuring portions with calorie-dense foods (like pasta, cheese, etc) and a little more relaxed about measuring low calorie veggies (like cucumber slices).
I like to use a kitchen scale for most measuring. Much easier and more accurate than volume for most foods. So, I would ALWAYS weigh a piece of pizza if I splurged on that (and figure out calories from that ). I might just estimate a handful of veggies.
This also encourages me to eat the veggies, because it is less work to log them : )
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Both of them have calories in them so of course I log them.0
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Doesn't matter if you eat a diet of 100% steak or 100% vegetables...if you are eating more than you are burning, you CAN get fat off of it. I'm vegan. I'm almost entirely a whole-foods vegan and have been nearly my entire life. 90% of what I eat on a daily basis are vegetables, and guess what? I got fat. Of course you should log them. If it has calories, log it.0
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I log them as well.0
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Yes and no. I always log the fruit I have with breakfast and lunch. But the veg that I have on the side with dinner really depends on how close I am to my calorie limit. 100g of brocolli is about 30 odd calories. I don't eat close to 100g of brocolli with my dinner, so I'm not t0o bothered about logging that 15 calories.
But I'm losing weight when I want and maintaining when I want. The moment that I stop being able to do either of those then I would start logging everything.0 -
I log veggies, except sometimes I won't log lettuce I put on something. Lettuce may as well be air, IMO.0
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Log them. They are still contributing to your overall calorie intake. If you have 2 pieces of fruit per day and 5 servings of veggies, that could be in excess of 200 calories, why wouldn't you log that?0
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