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    Do you count lettuce?

    Posts: 6 Member
    edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    Just curious, who hear actually weighs and counts lettuce?

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    • Posts: 843 Member
      Me.
    • Posts: 6,626 Member
      Lettuce can make you fat if you can manage to eat enough of it, so yeah, I weigh and count it.
    • Posts: 466 Member
      Add me to the weigh it group.
    • Posts: 28 Member
      ItsyBitsy246 wrote: »
      If I eat a bunch in a salad, yes I log it. A few leaves on a sandwich, no.

      ^ This. I only log it if I'm eating a meal sized salad, which is usually 4 cups or so for me. If 50 calories worth of lettuce is going to sink my weight loss, then I'm doing something wrong haha.
    • Posts: 18 Member
      Dont sweat the small stuff!
      xx
    • Posts: 9,487 Member
      I weigh it and count it.
    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      I used to weigh it. Now I just count it. I can eat like 60-100 calories of lettuce greens per day
    • Posts: 1,258 Member
      Yep I count everything even celery, though you burn more calories eating it & digesting it than it contains.
    • Posts: 1,570 Member
      If I'm having a salad, I count it... if I'm putting a leaf on a burger, I don't.
    • Posts: 26,368 Member
      I do, but it's usually 25 calories worth if I'm going to have some, so with a small deficit, it adds up!
    • Posts: 90 Member
      Yes, I log it, always, no matter the amount. I am accountable for all that goes into my body. :)
    • Posts: 303 Member
      Never.
    • Posts: 2,035 Member
      I count everything. (Almost) Everything has calories, so ... count everything. I know at least one person who eats TONS of vegetables and is still very, very overweight. You can overeat any food.
    • Posts: 154 Member
      I will eat a head of lettuce at a time. While I don't weight it, I count it as 53 calories. However I'm lazy and I should weight it.
    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      Yeah every time I eat lettuce I eat a whole bag or box (yeah I know it's expensive and a waste but it keeps me on target because I'm too lazy to meal prep).
    • Posts: 572 Member
      Yes. Even 15g in a sarnie.
    • Posts: 428 Member
      Nah. I'll log it as a cup or two, but I don't think 15 cals of lettuce is going to make or break me.
    • Posts: 74 Member
      edited July 2016
      I agree about not sweating the lettuce. OTOH, some of the biggest mammals on this planet eat only greens - Elephant, Rhino.... Hippos:)
    • Posts: 35,739 Member
      Yup. I eat a big heap of it, and it's easy - salad bowl on the scale, tear up the lettuce into it, note the weight, zero the scale; slice the cucumber into it, note, zero; throw the cherry tomatoes into it, note, zero . . . .

      Then if I look at MFP reports to see how I'm doing with various nutrients, everything's there (subject to the vagaries of the database); I have accurate-as-possible data to use in estimating my personalized calorie deficit and maintenance calories; I can count up my many, many veggie/fruit servings and gloat about it ( ;) ), . . . .

      You betcha.
    • Posts: 74 Member
      Hippopotamus...:)
    • Posts: 42 Member
      I estimate it 2,3,4, more cups and LOG it! I don't weight it though.
    • Posts: 806 Member
      For a salad, yes. For a burger, no.
    • Posts: 56 Member
      I log it always, don't always weigh it. However, I don't always weigh or log spices and herbs because I usually use very little of them. Helps me keep track of nutrients etc.
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