Do you record all your fruits and veggies??

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

Mustard, you don't have to weigh because any reasonable amount you'll use is still 0 calories.

True, but if you are watching micronutrients or trying to get into good habits, it may be worthwhile weighing. Some people extend the mustard rule to stuff like caesar dressing with poor results.

I eat about 200 calories worth of veggies a day, if I didn't log it, I'd fill that 200 calories with something else, then I'd be 200 calories over for the day thinking I'm not

melcling wrote: »

I'm just getting started recording my food and was curious if you feel it's necessary to record all veggies? I can understand recording fruit due to the high amount of carbs/sugars, but I don't feel it's necessary to record low cal veggies cooked without oil like cucumber, zucchini, squash, lettuce, etc... Its basically just me not wanting to have to record all my veggies, but I don't want to skip it if it's going to hurt my chances of losing weight. Any thoughts/advice??

Depends on the amount. I skip lettuce sometimes. A full 4.5oz bag (bigger than youd think) is 25 calories and I find I dont eat more than 10 calories of lettuce at a time. I record tomatoes although I guess thats fruit lol. It depends on if youre eating half a carrot (25 calories) once or twice a day or 25 baby carrots (100 calories) - big calorie difference.

Absolutely every last gram. I eat a good amount, though, most days.

i don't weigh cucumber/lettuce for the amount i will put in a sandwich.If i'm going to make a salad with them, then yes, i'll weigh them.All other veggies and fruits i weigh and log.

Absolutely.

I log everything. I raided my parents fridge yesterday and stopped and logged the deviled egg I popped in my mouth prior to eating it.

My salad is 60 calories without dressing so I don't know about you but if that were 1/2 an English muffin would you log that? It's the same calories.

Veggies and fruits have calories so yes I log them. I would think that if I was lax about logging them it would spill over to other foods anyways. The only things I don't log are dried spices and vitamins. I know there are calories in vitamins but I am taking them no matter what and not worried about the small amount they put me over. They used to say that eating celery -as an example used up more calories than you actually consume. Although I doubt eating too much celery will make you gain a significant amount of weight- being over your calories will prevent you from losing weight . We need to accurately log everything or else we will be in the " Why am I not losing weight ?" place .

When I'm logging I do. It adds up and I eat a lot of vegetables, so my calories would be way low and my day look weird without them.

Bigger issue, since I suppose I could set a low goal to make up for that, is that I don't understand not minding logging but not wanting to log vegetables. I like logging them, because I feel good about eating them. If I am having a hard week and look back to see what's up and see I've been lower than usual on vegetables, that's helpful and something I can fix, and I also sometimes (when logging) look back to see if I've been getting a good variety. For a while I logged on Chronometer (when I log again I probably will there), and since the point is to see how well you are doing on nutrients, it would be sad without vegetables. For me logging vegetables is related to seeing my goal as eating a healthful diet and getting in the nutrients I need (and protein and so on too, of course), and not merely trying to be low cal.

(I am willing to estimate vegetables more roughly, though, especially greens which I may log as 1 cup or 2 cups vs. weighing. I mostly weigh when chopping, though, so even though not necessary I think it's easier to weigh zucchini when logging than make myself estimate.)