What is one thing or more that you don't bother tracking calories

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  • Pam_Shebamm
    Pam_Shebamm Posts: 167 Member
    Hot sauce/mustard/gum/spices/salt/coffee(I do log the creamer)/diet soda/anything with no calories.

    If it's basically free of calories and macros, I don't bother.
  • perkymommy
    perkymommy Posts: 1,642 Member
    Butter usually for me. I only use 1/2 tbsp when cooking so I don't track it all the time. I keep in mind how many calories though.

    This past weekend I stopped tracking Saturday night all through Sunday. I made a few bad food choices and didn't feel like tracking them. I will do that on weekends since those are my cheat days usually. Always back on track on Monday. :)
  • Losewtforlife4him
    Losewtforlife4him Posts: 423 Member
    perkymommy wrote: »
    Butter usually for me. I only use 1/2 tbsp when cooking so I don't track it all the time. I keep in mind how many calories though.

    This past weekend I stopped tracking Saturday night all through Sunday. I made a few bad food choices and didn't feel like tracking them. I will do that on weekends since those are my cheat days usually. Always back on track on Monday. :)

    Glad I'm not alone :smile: back at it today though but feel like I overdid it too much and especially yesterday
  • LJGettinSexy
    LJGettinSexy Posts: 223 Member
    Licorice, I don't normally eat a full serving and I eat it so sporadically that I don't bother to count it and I do it guilt free. Which is very hard to accomplish.
  • MommyL2015
    MommyL2015 Posts: 1,411 Member
    If it has calories, I track it. If it doesn't, I don't.
  • Expatmommy79
    Expatmommy79 Posts: 940 Member
    Vinegar
    Lemon juice
    Hot sauce
    Mustard
    Spices
    Ginger
    Garlic
    Lettucy type greens

  • rbfdac
    rbfdac Posts: 1,057 Member
    Coffee, mustard, tea, gum, flavor packets for water, any sort of spices or seasonings (like, If I mix up a batch of taco meat with taco seasoning, which has calories, I still don't log the seasonings). I also over-log some things throughout the day, just to make sure I'm covered, so it seems to balance out. I lose 2 pounds a week just fine.

    a side note- I don't typically eat ALL of those things in one day. If I did, I actually would log them.
  • thingeringer
    thingeringer Posts: 241 Member
    Carrots. I love them. I eat a lot of them. Lost the weight I needed to and have maintained for over three years. Lots and lots of carrots. Not logging them is a secret little gift I give myself. But not a secret any more.
  • Losewtforlife4him
    Losewtforlife4him Posts: 423 Member
    thingeringer wrote: »
    Carrots. I love them. I eat a lot of them. Lost the weight I needed to and have maintained for over three years. Lots and lots of carrots. Not logging them is a secret little gift I give myself. But not a secret any more.

    Haha not a secret anymore...love it ;-)
    As I'm eating baby carrots and snap peas right now and not tracking. I mean good grief. If we seriously need to track veggies, there's a problem. I sometimes just put in 30-100 calories depending on how many I eat. Congrats on losing and maintaining even without tracking your carrots! :smiley:
  • StacyChrz
    StacyChrz Posts: 865 Member
    Black tea and the lemon I flavor it with.
  • NovaDuck
    NovaDuck Posts: 63 Member
    Herbs, spices, salt and pepper, vinegar... generally anything for seasoning, I don't count any of that. Fry Light I don't usually count unless I go over 10 squirts. Basically if it's under 10 calories, I won't bother logging it.
  • lisalewis7588
    lisalewis7588 Posts: 76 Member
    Calcium chews. They're about 15cals and I have one a day. I don't log them. I don't know why because I add my multivitamin/fish oil (10cals) and even breathmints (3cals each). I don't know, it's weird.
  • XSaturnsMoonX
    XSaturnsMoonX Posts: 14 Member
    Tea I make at home doesn't get logged. Tea I get at Big Foot java with my flavor shot does. Spices I don't log, never have logged them. I always forget to log my water. I always log my "Cheat" meal on Saturday, I usually double burn off the calories since Saturday is my most active day. I'm horrible at eyeing out portions so I always grab my scale, I go over a little for the 1/4 cup of raisins for oatmeal instead of weighing it because i can pack a ton of raisins in that 1/4 cup, and I know it would be like half if I weighed it but since I make it for myself and my 2 lil'uns I overdo the raisins.
  • KAYRRIE
    KAYRRIE Posts: 201 Member
    LazSommer wrote: »
    Water.

    There should be an lol button so i could press it.

  • gramarye
    gramarye Posts: 586 Member
    I chew a few sticks of gum a day, and I don't count that.

    I only every log 1 cup of black coffee, regardless of it I have 8 or 24 ounces that day. (It's usually around 16.) I do, like many people here, log any creamer or sugar that might end up in it.
  • JodieP13
    JodieP13 Posts: 94 Member
    Frank's Hot Sauce
  • tugsandpulls760
    tugsandpulls760 Posts: 206 Member
    joobey wrote: »
    Is there any food item that is a "freebie" for you that you never track and still have been successful with your weight loss? For me it would be coffee but I do add the creamer. Just curious ;)

    I use non dairy creamer and don't always log it
  • coolfry
    coolfry Posts: 48 Member
    I don't track normal mustard, buy if its honey mustard I do. I don't always track the raw veggies in my salads, unless they are on the higher calorie side. I'm bad about tracking my iced coffee with milk but I probably should
  • OyGeeBiv
    OyGeeBiv Posts: 733 Member
    Black coffee, plain tea, water, spices. I do log vegetables because I eat a lot of them. A LOT.
  • CorneliusPhoton
    CorneliusPhoton Posts: 965 Member
    The spritz of olive oil in my scrambled egg pan
  • Shells918
    Shells918 Posts: 1,070 Member
    ReaderGirl3 wrote: »
    Water, diet soda, tea with 0 calorie sweetener added, the DaVinci 0 calorie raspberry syrup I add to my hot cocoa, mustard, hot sauce and then spices. Everything else is recorded.

    I wasn't tracking my artificial sweetener until
    I recently learned my zero calorie sweetner has .96 of 1 carb per packet. No big deal if you use 2 but I literally use 24 in my morning 6 cups of coffee. Almost 25 carbs and I'm on a carb restricted diet. Now I track them and am giving up my beloved blue packets for stevia which has no carbs. It pays to pay attention.
  • mlinci
    mlinci Posts: 402 Member
    Plain green tea and most diet soda just isn't worth tracking for calories.
    Salad leaves I log only so I keep track of eating enough fruit and veg, not for the calories - there's usually something like 5 calories per portion.
    When I use the recipe builder for soups and stews, I got in the habit of logging all my dried herbs and spices as either paprika or garlic powder - let's say I've used 5 tablespoons of various herbs and spices - I'll just log 5 tablespoons of garlic powder. I hope nobody can see/ is trying to copy my recipes...
  • sunflowerhippi
    sunflowerhippi Posts: 1,099 Member
    water, 0 calorie water flavor mixes, diet soda, anything labeled as a 0 calorie.
  • Cave_Goose
    Cave_Goose Posts: 156 Member
    CorneliusPhoton wrote: »
    Brewed coffee has fairly puny levels of potassium. Maybe you saw the level in the whole beans?
    https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/4255?fgcd=&manu=&lfacet=&format=&count=&max=35&offset=&sort=&qlookup=coffee

    We will disagree on what's "puny." For starters, what most people call a "cup of coffee" is usually 1.5-2 cups of measured liquid. So when I drink 3 "cups" of coffee per day, I'm actually taking in 4.5 8oz servings. Which translates to 558mg of potassium, or the equivalent of a medium (156g) banana.
  • olive1968
    olive1968 Posts: 148 Member
    I log everything, including water, because I am trying not to fool myself. I'm also one of those poor 1200 calorie people and I need to be dead-on accurate so I can find ways to eat more! I do not lose if I don't track really, really closely.
  • pinggolfer96
    pinggolfer96 Posts: 2,248 Member
    Everything
  • Crisseyda
    Crisseyda Posts: 532 Member
    edited April 2016
    I used to only count carbs... that was for learning purposes. Now I just eat real low carb food and count nothing. There's no need :p
  • silvilunazul
    silvilunazul Posts: 59 Member
    I don't track black coffee or herbal tea. Very often I forget to track ketchup (I use the reduced sugar and salt variety) and mustard. When it comes to things like a few leaves of lettuce, spinach, few slices of pepper, or one tomato wedge, I just estimate or use generic measures, I don't weigh. I lost all the weight doing it like this, haha.
  • lsecula
    lsecula Posts: 19 Member
    I should but don't log Dentyne Ice and gummy vitamins. I don't bother logging anything that has "zero" calories marked on the package: hot sauce, diet soda & iced tea...
  • eileen0515
    eileen0515 Posts: 408 Member
    Water, black coffee, black tea, herbs, spices. I weigh and track anything that has a calorie. I'm working on a few vanity pounds, so I find it's critical to be thorough, to maintain a deficit.

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