Not logging Drinks???

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  • refuseresist
    refuseresist Posts: 934 Member
    zamphir66 wrote: »
    I log it. Black coffee and diet coke do have calories.

    The diet coke in my fridge has zero calories. The can even says, "zero calorie soda." Do you have a different kind of diet coke?

    A 500ml bottle has 2 calories I think. They are allowed to say zero calories because its less than one calorie per 'blah' amount. I guess it's negligible, but I still log it :-)
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,455 Member
    I'm with them ^^

    I can't afford to drink calories any more. It doesn't help me stay full and if I want fruit I eat fruit. I very rarely have a Coke or anything that is zero nutrition. I have some milk in my coffee, then it's water the rest of the day.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited August 2016
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    I only log drinks with calories, I would think everyone does the same.

    This.

    I also don't log water, since I always drink plenty and always have.

    Coffee (black) has a few calories, but since I always drink it and it's not that many I don't bother logging. If I ever decide to cut down I will. Maybe. Maybe I'll check the water thing for it to be confusing!
  • hludwig980
    hludwig980 Posts: 102 Member
    I drink water and unsweetened tea the vast majority of the time so I do not log it. Now, if I have a soda or lemonade or something, that I will log.
  • claraoswold
    claraoswold Posts: 89 Member
    If I drink something with zero calories I may or may not log it. Most times I do. The rest of the time I just brink water with Mio or something like that. The calories in that are negligible and within the margin of error that it doesn't matter.

    Or right now I have a bottle of sparkling flavored water. Don't know if I'll log or just add water.
  • c2111
    c2111 Posts: 693 Member
    I log all my drinks, water, tea, coffee, lemon water, i log everything ;)
  • cityruss
    cityruss Posts: 2,493 Member
    In the UK we have labels like this for zero calorie carbonated drinks.

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  • Codefox
    Codefox Posts: 309 Member
    I mainly drink water, coffee, and La Croix. I'll log the milk in my coffee but I don't bother to log my water all day.
  • JinjoJoey
    JinjoJoey Posts: 106 Member
    The only liquid I log is stuff with calories. I drink a lot of diet soda and I don't bother with that. 1-2 calories per soda isn't going to change my figure.
  • CindyFooWho
    CindyFooWho Posts: 179 Member
    The only calories that are worth drinking are booze calories, which I most definitely log.
  • upoffthemat
    upoffthemat Posts: 679 Member
    Coffee and tea have very minimal calories and I only have a couple cups so I don't log them. Mostly I drink just that, water, or diet soda. When I do drink milk I will log it.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    I log my coffee, and the creamer that goes in it. Otherwise I drink water. lol I know, boring.
  • RachelElser
    RachelElser Posts: 427 Member
    I log my drinks- but I only drink Coke Zero, water and coffee. Milk is gross, juice has to many calories.
  • JenMc14
    JenMc14 Posts: 2,389 Member
    I only log drinks with calories. I log my coffee, only because I'm logging my creamer at the same time. Other than the occasional treat drink, I don't drink my calories, I like to save them for food I can chew.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,645 Member
    cityruss wrote: »
    In the UK we have labels like this for zero calorie carbonated drinks.

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    Grr. I'm jealous. I wish we had that in the states.
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,235 Member
    cityruss wrote: »
    In the UK we have labels like this for zero calorie carbonated drinks.

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    Grr. I'm jealous. I wish we had that in the states.

    Ditto. I would love an accurate label here.
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,333 Member
    some people log everything..even vitamins .. I can't get that obsessed … if a drink has calories then you'd log it.. i also skip alcohol logging at times because i don't want to be judged.
  • Wynterbourne
    Wynterbourne Posts: 2,235 Member
    edited August 2016
    some people log everything..even vitamins .. I can't get that obsessed … if a drink has calories then you'd log it.. i also skip alcohol logging at times because i don't want to be judged.

    There's no way I could justify not logging that many calories on the occasion it happens. :wink:
  • CincyNeid
    CincyNeid Posts: 1,249 Member
    I only drink Water, UNsweetened Ice Tea, and Black Coffee. All of those are 0 calorie drinks. That's why I typically do not log drinks through the day. If i do a Zero Cal Powerade then I do log it. And if I do something like a electrolyte powder I do log it as well.
  • stevencloser
    stevencloser Posts: 8,911 Member
    cityruss wrote: »
    In the UK we have labels like this for zero calorie carbonated drinks.

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    Awesome for Pepsi Max cherry.
  • Keladelphia
    Keladelphia Posts: 820 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    I only drink black coffee, black tea, water, and seltzer. So I don't bother logging those.

    Drink calories are basically the first thing I completely cut because they're pretty much never worth it for me (except a latte once in a while, but I still don't add sugar).

    Same for me, just black coffee, water and seltzer so I don't see the point in logging drinks most of the time. Every now and again I add some cream to my coffee or drink some wine/ciders and I do log those.
  • CincyNeid
    CincyNeid Posts: 1,249 Member
    some people log everything..even vitamins .. I can't get that obsessed … if a drink has calories then you'd log it.. i also skip alcohol logging at times because i don't want to be judged.

    I'm one of those people. I log my MultiVitamin... but I do the same one all the time So it's just there in my recents. I have a separate column for supplements. Whey Protein, Vitamins, Energy Gels, all of that type of stuff gets thrown into that section so it's an easy find.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Unless its coffee I am not wasting calories on drinks usually. Last night was Happy Hour - I used some calories for that drink. Therefore coffee would be the only drink I'm likely to consistently log. Zero calorie drinks I may or may not log.
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    I log it. Black coffee and diet coke do have calories.

    Technically there might be one or two calories, but if it doesn't show up in your log what difference does it make? Unless you created a diet coke entry that adds 2 calories to your total.
  • SkippSprott
    SkippSprott Posts: 2 Member
    Help! 30 days in and 12 lbs lighter but I have a question that is bothering my OCD...does the water in my coffee and tea countable towards my daily "suggested" take? If so, what about the ice in the tea? (toldya I was OCD)...so if I drink typically 2- 8oz cups of coffee for breakfast and two more at lunch...and add that to the 32 oz of unsweetened iced tea, and another two 8 oz glasses of go old H2O (with my meds), so how much water do I log? Anyone out there? Please HELP my OCD!
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Help! 30 days in and 12 lbs lighter but I have a question that is bothering my OCD...does the water in my coffee and tea countable towards my daily "suggested" take? If so, what about the ice in the tea? (toldya I was OCD)...so if I drink typically 2- 8oz cups of coffee for breakfast and two more at lunch...and add that to the 32 oz of unsweetened iced tea, and another two 8 oz glasses of go old H2O (with my meds), so how much water do I log? Anyone out there? Please HELP my OCD!

    What do you think that water turns into when you add flavor????? It's still water - it still counts. It doesn't all the sudden become sand - it's water.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    So I checked a lot of food diaries and it seems that either 1. Everyone just drinks water ALL day or 2. No one logs what other drinks they have!?! I'm confused they are a part of your diet so why do people keep them out or is that normal?? ( They STEAL my junk food calories!)

    When I kept a diary back in the day I only logged beverages that had calories...and for the most part I drink water...if I'm not drinking water it's beer or booze and sometimes wine which all were logged.
  • hali1
    hali1 Posts: 54 Member
    If I ever get to the point where the 6-8 calories daily from the oil in my coffee beans is the only thing keeping me from my goal weight, then I will adjust my goal weight. ;)
  • LUHAN27
    LUHAN27 Posts: 211 Member
    I prefer eating my calories lol but if I do drink something with calories in it, I log it in. :) I mainly drink water though haha
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,347 Member
    Help! 30 days in and 12 lbs lighter but I have a question that is bothering my OCD...does the water in my coffee and tea countable towards my daily "suggested" take? If so, what about the ice in the tea? (toldya I was OCD)...so if I drink typically 2- 8oz cups of coffee for breakfast and two more at lunch...and add that to the 32 oz of unsweetened iced tea, and another two 8 oz glasses of go old H2O (with my meds), so how much water do I log? Anyone out there? Please HELP my OCD!

    This will really mess with you - even the water in your food counts towards your 'suggested' intake.
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