Is it worth it?

starships0108
starships0108 Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Is it worth counting the calories of fruit and vegetables when trying to loose weight?

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  • KatKat1209
    KatKat1209 Posts: 229 Member
    edited August 2016
    Yes, since they also have calories :) and depending on how much you want to loose, eat on fruits and veggies and how much room you have between your maintenance calorie intake and your weight loss calorie intake it could be crucial and cause you not to loose weight if you disregard those calories.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Yes. Always. Particularly fruit which can be quite high calorie, three pieces of some fruit could wipe out your deficit.
  • RayahEllen
    RayahEllen Posts: 40 Member
    edited August 2016
    Yes. Absolutely yes. Fruits and Vegetables, while healthy, do carry calories that would make an impact on your CICO if you decided not to count them.
    Say you eat 4 ounces of chicken for dinner and 100 grams of broccoli. The total count for this meal would be somewhere around 220 calories. However, if you only counted the chicken, you would count 185 calories. Now imagine that you ate chicken and broccoli 4 times a day. Your total calorie intake would be 880 calories for the day if you counted the broccoli but only 740 calories if you just counted the chicken. Now that sixty calorie difference doesn't seem like a lot, but if you put that in perspective of the week, there goes a large chunk (980 calories) of the 3500 calorie deficit amount it would take to lose a pound that week. And that's just with this scenario, hopefully you'd be eating more variety of fruits and veggies, and more calories in general. You could easily overeat by not counting fruits and veggies.

    I hope that all makes sense.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,889 Member
    Fruit and vegetables have calories. If you count calories, track the fruit and vegetables too.

    Losing weight is a simple process that is controlled via your behavior, and you can (hopefully) control your behavior. So there is no need to "try" to LOSE weight. Just do it. As long as your goal isn't underweight, that is.
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 26,595 Member
    Mangoes are my favourite fruit. One mango comes in at 135 calories. On a 1350 cal diet, that's 1/10th of my daily total.

    Today, I'm just having a banana and apple for fruit. That'll be about 180 cal.
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    Why would you not log them - because they don't have many calories? But when you are trying to calculate a total, the little things matter as much as the big ones.

    As part of my job I have often had to calculate the weight of a ship by adding up everything on it. The ship might weigh as much as a thousand tonnes. You might think that in that huge weight, things like knives and forks and pillows and cable ties wouldn't count. But those little things add up, and if you don't count them, your final total could be many tonnes out and your ship could sink. Genuinely.

    It's the same with calories. If you only count the things you consider "high calorie" and miss out all the little things, like fruit and veg and a spoonful of sugar in your tea, you can end up hundreds of calories out and then find yourself not losing weight, or even putting it on.

    You need to log *everything*.
  • DetroitDarin
    DetroitDarin Posts: 955 Member
    edited August 2016
    Sure. Everything gives data and the picture of what you're ingesting.
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,487 Member
    Why would you not want to count calories in everything that you are eating when counting calories?
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    In fact, it might be worth considering why you're resisting the idea of logging everything. It's such a simple concept and having some things you log and others you don't would make it harder and more complicated, not easier.

    It's it possible that part of you - the part that is used to overeating and resists change - is looking for loopholes?
  • JDixon852019
    JDixon852019 Posts: 312 Member
    Yes and you must measure your portion sizes of them as well.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    starships0108 wrote: »
    Is it worth counting the calories of fruit and vegetables when trying to loose weight?

    Yes. Better accuracy in your logging helps you have better results. If you are going to count calories it is worth counting everything.

    Vegetables and fruit calories add up just like anything else you consume. A lot of vegetables and fruits are at least 30 calories for a serving. I wouldn't stress about not logging one lettuce leaf on your sandwich but a banana can be around 100 calories, one potato might be over 200 calories, an artichoke 60 calories, a serving of corn might be around 100 calories. Would you skip logging a slice of bread or a cookie with those calorie counts?
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    On a given day easily half of my calories are from veggies
    I'd be missing a lot if I didn't log them!
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