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    Do you count lettuce?

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    • Posts: 2,831 Member
      I tend to estimate lettuce and record it primarily for vitamin A content. That said, if you're new to calorie counting then weigh it. It's way too easy to not count this or not count that in the beginning, and these run the gamut from lettuce and vegetables to "just a little" coffee creamer or "eyeballing" peanut butter. Don't start by skipping your entries.
    • Posts: 25 Member
      I weigh or measure everything I eat. Lettuce included.
    • Posts: 2,235 Member
      Unless it's toothpaste or mouth wash, if it goes in my mouth, it's weighed and logged.
    • Posts: 15,487 Member
      edited July 2016
      I count it all.. I am even stupid enough to log vitamins..

      But I am a data person. I need to see what I am eating, what I am taking so if I need to look back and see the picture of the past it is there. .

      So I log it all, even the 14 calories of lettuce. Plus I copy meals between other user profiles. Got to see it all..
    • Posts: 3,252 Member
      Nope. One handful of lettuce (or spinach) gets logged as 85g. Two handfuls is 170g. The few times I've checked, I've drastically overestimated. Its not going to hinder my loss, and I eat enough that it's not going to put me in danger of undereating.
    • Posts: 289 Member
      I eat salads made out of baby spinach, but same different I guess. I weigh it, but I'm not as nit-picky about it as other stuff. 40 grams vs 42 grams of some spinach isn't going to make or break my whole day
    • Posts: 6,208 Member
      Yes
    • Posts: 393 Member
      I weigh/log lettuce and spinach primarily because I'm interested in tracking my fiber.
    • Posts: 463 Member
      Absolutely! I'm weighing everything else, why not?

      Besides calories, I'm tracking for fiber, sodium, and vitamins, too.
    • Posts: 9,520 Member
      CupcakesMom2 wrote: »
      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.

      I would only use 2 to 3 leaves. Tonight I logged my lettuce and it showed as 6 calories, 1 carb, and 3 sodium.
    • Posts: 595 Member
      The only time I weigh greens is it I want to make sure I'm eating enough of them for a nutrient. I way over estimate how much I serve myself...
    • Posts: 2,111 Member
      I log it but don't weigh it. My partner is a chef who creates prepackaged fitness meals for a living making him pretty good at estimating... Better than me.
    • Posts: 16,049 Member
      I've weighed spinach and lettuce enough times that i guesstimate these days. I log it because i watch my macros/micros, vitA and fibre particularly for me.
    • Posts: 12,344 Member
      If I just have a couple of pieces on a burger or sandwich, sometimes I'll skip it. But normally, yes.
    • Posts: 680 Member
      ItsyBitsy246 wrote: »
      If I eat a bunch in a salad, yes I log it. A few leaves on a sandwich, no.

      ^^^ This.
    • Posts: 1,403 Member
      I estimate everything.
    • Posts: 2,246 Member
      Depends on the amount. Usually no.
    • Posts: 49 Member
      I log it approximately, not necessarily for the calories but so I can keep an eye on things like fibre at the end of the day.
    • Posts: 4 Member
      I log everything, even lettuce.
    • Posts: 588 Member
      "Do you count lettuce?"

      I log my cod liver oil capsules, so yes I would.
    • Posts: 325 Member
      Hard to believe that people actually log lettuce (and I assume celery). But if it works for you, it works for you.
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    • Posts: 1,026 Member
      edited July 2016
      arditarose wrote: »
      A salad will easily have 35 calories of lettuce. (Mine have more but I'm a volume eater). A slice of Laughing Cow cheese has 35 calories. Would you not log that? Calories are calories.

      Right on!!!!

      I also eat a lot of vegetables and fruits ( about 500 gram daily in veggies and lots is lettuce....each)

      When you work with a very small deficit like me ( about 100-150 calories daily so i can eat a bit more in the weekends) than those "only couple calories for lettuce" wipe out that small deficit.

      I drink a lot of coffee good for about 60 calories a day, which a lot of people dont count either....add the only 35 calories ( for example because i eat more than that) for lettuce and bamm deficit is gone.
      Add my spices ( good on a daily base for 30 to 80 calories...think of fresh cilantro/parsley garlic etc) and i am even surplus.

      It is indeed what works for you.

      I like to count and know what i get. Potassium is very important for me ( some medical issues). So when i count it all i also know that i get my needed nutrition like potassium ( spices veggies and coffee have a lot of it)

      But it is whatever works for you. I only explain this to let you understand that there can be more reasons to log everything besides losing weight.
    • Posts: 1,445 Member
      I log is exclusively because im trying to track my nutrients along with my calories right now :) not that lettuce has a ton of those either, spinach is more nutrient dense, but all the same I log it.
    • Posts: 1,358 Member
      I've never weighed anything, just eyeballed it. I do log lettuce (on the rare occasion that I log which isn't very often these days), but mostly for tracking macros. Never paid much attention to calories.
    • Posts: 298 Member
      I log everything. Rubbed some coconut oil on my face & hands earlier. Thought about logging THAT. (I didn't. But I thought about it.)
    • Posts: 800 Member
      edited July 2016
      I don't, but that's because I hate lettuce and don't eat it.

      Yesterday my husband asked me to stop by Jimmy John's and bring an unwich to him at work for his lunch. I thought, "I'll try that," and got myself one. One bite and I realized I needed to take most of the lettuce off before I could eat it. :s It's like it's so bland that it actively sucks the taste out of other foods!
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