Is there anything you don't bother to log?

battyfitch
battyfitch Posts: 117 Member
edited November 13 in Health and Weight Loss
I know the general consensus is to log every single thing that passes our lips, but is there anything you don't bother to write down?

I don't log vinegar, soy sauce, Tabasco, fresh and dried herbs, low calorie spray oil, spices, sweetener, diet soda like Coke Zero, and there's a certain brand of jerk paste I buy that doesn't have a nutrition label so I have never bothered to log that either. Also, sometimes if I'm prepping breakfast for the following morning I might lick the spoon after weighing out whatever I flavour it with, and I have never written it into my food diary.

I can't be the only one who does this?
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  • juliegilburd
    juliegilburd Posts: 145 Member
    Pretty much like you - spices, hot sauce, yellow mustard, vinegar. Also, unsweetened teas and coffees. When I'm being well-behaved with my logging, I log everything but these things.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    I don't log fresh herbs, spices, mustard, and other very low calorie items like that.

    I can't imagine cooking without tasting what I'm doing, but don't log that unless it's a lot of something high calorie or an unusually high volume of tasting. A taste could be 1/8 teaspoon or smaller, and I'm not going to fuss over something minuscule like that. However, when I'm making potato salad, my tastes are much bigger, so I do guestimate that.
  • Pam_1965
    Pam_1965 Posts: 137 Member
    I don't log diet soda or the spinach I put in my egg scrambles.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    battyfitch wrote: »
    I know the general consensus is to log every single thing that passes our lips, but is there anything you don't bother to write down?

    I don't log vinegar, soy sauce, Tabasco, fresh and dried herbs, low calorie spray oil, spices, sweetener, diet soda like Coke Zero, and there's a certain brand of jerk paste I buy that doesn't have a nutrition label so I have never bothered to log that either. Also, sometimes if I'm prepping breakfast for the following morning I might lick the spoon after weighing out whatever I flavour it with, and I have never written it into my food diary.

    I can't be the only one who does this?

    Does Soy sauce even have calories? Tobasco? Herbs and spices don't have calorie counts so I don't see why you would...diet drinks don't have calories either so I wouldn't see the point.

    When I logged, I didn't log things that were zero calories...also, if I was just throwing a splash of hot sauce on something, I wouldn't have bothered logging that either.

    I don't log anything anymore.
  • minizebu
    minizebu Posts: 2,716 Member
    Water
  • hollygirl101
    hollygirl101 Posts: 93 Member
    Salsa, hot sauce, spinach, mushrooms, and other things that only add up to less than 10 or 15 calories. I'm usually under my daily calorie allotment anyway so a few un-logged calories aren't a big deal.
  • pizzafruit
    pizzafruit Posts: 318 Member
    If I have rye toast for breakfast, I use a drop of honey and log it once in a while just for the accountability. I used to lick and taste but I don't anymore only because it led to "cleaning up" after dinner. I don't log diet soda but I do log coffee when I use a tblsp. of flavored creamer.
  • battyfitch
    battyfitch Posts: 117 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    battyfitch wrote: »
    I know the general consensus is to log every single thing that passes our lips, but is there anything you don't bother to write down?

    I don't log vinegar, soy sauce, Tabasco, fresh and dried herbs, low calorie spray oil, spices, sweetener, diet soda like Coke Zero, and there's a certain brand of jerk paste I buy that doesn't have a nutrition label so I have never bothered to log that either. Also, sometimes if I'm prepping breakfast for the following morning I might lick the spoon after weighing out whatever I flavour it with, and I have never written it into my food diary.

    I can't be the only one who does this?

    Does Soy sauce even have calories? Tobasco? Herbs and spices don't have calorie counts so I don't see why you would...diet drinks don't have calories either so I wouldn't see the point.

    When I logged, I didn't log things that were zero calories...also, if I was just throwing a splash of hot sauce on something, I wouldn't have bothered logging that either.

    I don't log anything anymore.

    Soy sauce is something like 9 calories a tablespoon, same with vinegar. Tabasco and other hot sauces are ridiculously low like 1 calorie a teaspoon, and it's the same with herbs and spices. Some diet sodas have calories as well. Coke Zero has 1 or 2 per can and I have bought some other diet drinks that are a few calorie per 250ml and there are days when I will drink 2 litres of the stuff, so it's not exactly zero calorie food but it's low enough that I don't see the point in logging it either.
  • AJF230
    AJF230 Posts: 81 Member
    Related note.... Coffee...I put 1% milk in my coffee and never bothered to check how much. its about 40 cal worth. 3/8 of a cup. A few days into MFP, I made sure I was logging that too.
  • cecsav1
    cecsav1 Posts: 714 Member
    Spices, hot tea
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,165 Member
    I don't log water and I don't always log spices. If something has calories I log it, if not then I don't.
  • Duchy82
    Duchy82 Posts: 560 Member
    Water, zero coke, salt(I don't track sodium) and pepper I do other herbs and spices because they can have some calories. I don't track tastes while cooking and I occasionally lick the knife (Nutella or peanut butter should not be left) that I don't log, I'm still losing so if that stops I may be stricter with myself.
  • kohrr
    kohrr Posts: 1 Member
    Zero-calorie things like black coffee, plain tea, or water. I also don't log gum or mints.
  • Raptor2763
    Raptor2763 Posts: 387 Member
    vinegar or the peanut butter cups i occasionally sneak (only kidding); just the vinegar
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    I don't bother to log water after the 64th oz consumed. My daughter seems to have lost one of my measure spoons so I'm not measuring my spices. I'm just shaking it out of the box. Last night I got home later than I had hoped and did not want to prepare my planned dinner, but I did not want to have a calorie or sodium excursion either, so I selected some low- and no-sodium things to consume in the general direction of nutrition for my needs and logged the rough information on the cans and packages while weighing only the apple. Yesterday was the first day I became aware that my weight loss journey has crossed into the Overweight range of BMI below 30, and I didn't want to put the train in 'reverse' just yet.
  • punkrockgoth
    punkrockgoth Posts: 534 Member
    Unsweetened coffee, tea, water. Also hot sauce, spices, the little bit of cocoa powder I shake into my smoothies, mustard. Sometimes I log soy sauce and nutritional yeast, sometimes I don't bother.
  • rachelr1116
    rachelr1116 Posts: 334 Member
    I don't log 0 calorie drinks (water, tea, black coffee, diet soda), mustard, spices, gum, or mints. I log salsa and hot sauce but I don't really measure it out, I usually just log whatever 1 serving is. Also, when I'm scooping something out with a spoon I will usually lick the spoon and log any additional calories for what I scooped with said spoon.
  • sarahlifts
    sarahlifts Posts: 610 Member
    Splenda, crystal light and sugarfree chewing gum that's it
  • missemmibelle
    missemmibelle Posts: 100 Member
    I log everything, including my peppermint tea (0 calories) and my multivitamin.

    But then, my diet isn't incredibly complicated.
  • BoxerBrawler
    BoxerBrawler Posts: 2,032 Member
    I don't log some condiments, black coffee or black tea (most of what I drink has no calories anyway), sugarless gum, most of the items I log I over-log so it guarantees me with a nice deficit at the end of the day. If I should have that small piece of chocolate or a cookie or something I consider it a wash :smile:
  • faidwen
    faidwen Posts: 131 Member
    I guess if you don't log sodium intake, then you don't need to log soya etc.... :)
  • st476
    st476 Posts: 357 Member
    No I log everything, even diet soda/zero calorie drinks and gum lol. Diet soda mostly so I just know how much I drank that day and because diet soda has a good amount of sodium and I like to track sodium just in case in gain weight so I can go back and see what made me retain water. I feel like you should log the oil spray though because it says 0 calories on the can but its actually around 10 calories for a 1 second spray. I'm sure you know that already but I didn't, I thought it was 0 calories before lol. :smile:
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