How many people log every fruit and vegetable they eat?
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endlessfall16 wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »lifestylechange888 wrote: »but I remember years ago when I was in Weight Watchers my instructor said "nobody has even become overweight by eating too many apples"
This kinda makes sense if you follow this:livingleanlivingclean wrote: »price101110 wrote: »
But you should eat the fruit and vegies before filling your cals up with other things, not the other way around.
If I've hit my calories for the day and then eat unlimited fruit and veggies then yeah, i would gain weight. It really depends which way you look at it. If the only things i ate day in day out were fruit and veggies, then no i probably wouldn't put on weight because of them.
If you've hit your calories for the day and then (try to) eat unlimited celery and cucumber, would you still gain weight?
Point is, it depends on the kind of veggies. Use common sense.
100 calories is a surplus. It's not hard to eat 100-250 calories worth of veggies. Use common sense.13 -
Anything that crosses my lips gets logged. Unfortunately for me.0
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I log everything, vitamins, salt, spinach...everything.3
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endlessfall16 wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »lifestylechange888 wrote: »but I remember years ago when I was in Weight Watchers my instructor said "nobody has even become overweight by eating too many apples"
This kinda makes sense if you follow this:livingleanlivingclean wrote: »price101110 wrote: »
But you should eat the fruit and vegies before filling your cals up with other things, not the other way around.
If I've hit my calories for the day and then eat unlimited fruit and veggies then yeah, i would gain weight. It really depends which way you look at it. If the only things i ate day in day out were fruit and veggies, then no i probably wouldn't put on weight because of them.
If you've hit your calories for the day and then (try to) eat unlimited celery and cucumber, would you still gain weight?
Point is, it depends on the kind of veggies. Use common sense.
100 calories is a surplus. It's not hard to eat 100-250 calories worth of veggies. Use common sense.
A 301 gram cucumber is 47 calories. Do most people eat more than 5 to get over 250? That's assuming you know exactly the amount you burn that day to consider it "surplus".
Just eat 2 cucumbers and walk a pet. 1 -
I log them, but I'll admit that if I'm using them in a recipe and entering the ingredients ahead of time, if it's a non-starchy vegetable or a fruit that isn't an avocado, I'll use the generic "1 medium onion, 2 large carrots" as a placeholder and not necessarily go back and fill in the actual weights at the time of cooking. I will do so with stuff like corn and potatoes, though.
If I'm throwing a salad together for lunch, I weigh and log as I go.
*Keep in mind also that when I do a recipe, I live on it for part of the week. So, if an apple is 90 for a "medium" but 140 for 175 grams (I am making up numbers without checking the database for this example) but the recipe yields six servings... my inaccurate logging means I'm off by under 10 calories. I'm not really that worried about it. Still, little things add up and should I hit a plateau, it's something I'll look at.3 -
endlessfall16 wrote: »endlessfall16 wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »lifestylechange888 wrote: »but I remember years ago when I was in Weight Watchers my instructor said "nobody has even become overweight by eating too many apples"
This kinda makes sense if you follow this:livingleanlivingclean wrote: »price101110 wrote: »
But you should eat the fruit and vegies before filling your cals up with other things, not the other way around.
If I've hit my calories for the day and then eat unlimited fruit and veggies then yeah, i would gain weight. It really depends which way you look at it. If the only things i ate day in day out were fruit and veggies, then no i probably wouldn't put on weight because of them.
If you've hit your calories for the day and then (try to) eat unlimited celery and cucumber, would you still gain weight?
Point is, it depends on the kind of veggies. Use common sense.
100 calories is a surplus. It's not hard to eat 100-250 calories worth of veggies. Use common sense.
A 301 gram cucumber is 47 calories. Do most people eat more than 5 to get over 250? That's assuming you know exactly the amount you burn that day to consider it "surplus".
Just eat 2 cucumbers and walk a pet.
Yeah no. I'd need to log two cucumbers I have no room for error. And I have eaten two cucumbers in a day for sure, plus a whole pepper, 300g of tomato, 120 calories worth of leafy greens, 400g of zucchini and squash...etc. 12 -
endlessfall16 wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »lifestylechange888 wrote: »but I remember years ago when I was in Weight Watchers my instructor said "nobody has even become overweight by eating too many apples"
This kinda makes sense if you follow this:livingleanlivingclean wrote: »price101110 wrote: »
But you should eat the fruit and vegies before filling your cals up with other things, not the other way around.
If I've hit my calories for the day and then eat unlimited fruit and veggies then yeah, i would gain weight. It really depends which way you look at it. If the only things i ate day in day out were fruit and veggies, then no i probably wouldn't put on weight because of them.
If you've hit your calories for the day and then (try to) eat unlimited celery and cucumber, would you still gain weight?
Point is, it depends on the kind of veggies. Use common sense.
I didn't think about it this in-depth
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I used to, but no longer. My go to snacks are now raw broccoli florets, green or snap peas, tomatoes. They are relatively low in calories but full of fiber and healthy nutrients and do a great job of preventing cravings by filling your body with the good stuff.0
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I always log them but I'm less accurate with weighing them. For example, I know that the romaine hearts I buy come up to about 35 calories each (I've weighed them and checked and their between 30-42) so I just log them at about 35. Also, I weigh out my tomatoes I'll usually just round it. Sometimes if I nibble a couple extra cherry tomatoes or brocolli as I cook and I won't log that but I'm also at very close to my goal weight and lost weight (20 pounds in about 5 months?) so I'm not too concerned. I'd say if you're not losing at your desired rate, then tighten the screws on logging but it's important to include veg and fruit into your diet because they will fill you up for a lot less calories and keep you healthy 1
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Christine_72 wrote: »endlessfall16 wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »lifestylechange888 wrote: »but I remember years ago when I was in Weight Watchers my instructor said "nobody has even become overweight by eating too many apples"
This kinda makes sense if you follow this:livingleanlivingclean wrote: »price101110 wrote: »
But you should eat the fruit and vegies before filling your cals up with other things, not the other way around.
If I've hit my calories for the day and then eat unlimited fruit and veggies then yeah, i would gain weight. It really depends which way you look at it. If the only things i ate day in day out were fruit and veggies, then no i probably wouldn't put on weight because of them.
If you've hit your calories for the day and then (try to) eat unlimited celery and cucumber, would you still gain weight?
Point is, it depends on the kind of veggies. Use common sense.
I didn't think about it this in-depth I always like your style of posting. Easy breezy.
When I was counting I made my life easy by counting only the protein, the starchy carbs and the sweets. I ignored green veggies. I counted all dressings as 50 calories. Made things quick and importantly consistent. Worked well losing 15+ lbs in couple months. 4 -
Why would you not log something that has 100 calories?2
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I log fruits and vegetables. Why not?0
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I log everything, and use a food scale. I lost 70 pounds and into a few years of maintaining. All attributed to accuracy and accountability. Science shows us a large number if not most of us will regain, I keep this in the back of my mind.1
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When I'm losing weight I'm logging everything0
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I logm everything, but I mark my 5 cucumber slices and 4 pieces of bell pepper as 25g each. Every avocado half is 90g unless I notice they've really changed in size. Oh, and my giant spinach bowl is always 1c spinach unless I think it's more like 2. I always have 1 tbsp of dressing (when I measured for a while I found I almost always overestimate).
I weigh the first couple of pears or apples in a bag and, if they look relatively uniform in size & shape, they then all weigh the same as the heaviest.
When I have trouble losing weight it's not because I forgot to weigh a celery stick. It's because I chased it with a giant slice of ice cream cake that I didn't bother logging or accounting for.5 -
I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables. If I didn't log them I'd be going over ,y calories every day.0
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Yes because it's just as easy to weigh all the parts of my meal as to only weigh some of them. That said, when we make salad for the family, I just call my share 1 cup (or 2 cups) of lettuce and half the dressing used. I don't worry about being over or under by 1/2 cup of lettuce!
But fruit I definitely log. As others have noted, a banana can easily be 100 calories.0 -
How many people log every fruit and vegetable they eat?
Absolutely do! Right down to the 2 radishes I have with my cottage cheese. 0 -
I don't log the fruit calories. I have seen progress and some weight loss without logging any kind of fruit!1
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It takes a couple of seconds, so not sure why it would cause stress or take time, if you're not logging them your data isn't accurate. If further down the line you find you're not losing at the rate you expect how could you truly know the cause if you're not logging everything?0
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It doesn't stress me out to log them (or anything else actually) or take long at all (not longer than anything else, probably a few minutes over the day), and it gives me a better picture of all that I'm eating. I quite like seeing things which are nutrient rich on my log.0
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I log everything except water and herbs.0
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I log everything. Unless I forget something, then it's a one-off, so I move along...As veggies take up more than half my daily diet, I'd be a fool not to log them.0
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I log em'. But..........when it's something low cal, like lettuce, I eyeball. I've been doing this for 4 years, so I allow a little leeway on some low cal items that I have weighed often. The rest, I weigh religiously.1
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If I eat it I log it!0
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Yes, I log fruit and veg. I probably log them more loosly, as in I don't weigh them. I estimate for large, medium or small. But some fruit like papaya, persimmons, grapes, bananas can reeally add quite a lot of calories, so those kind of fruits will make me more watchful to get a bit more accurate.
Fruit and veg play a part in all meals of the day that I eat and then a piece of fruit between meals if I get hungry.
I usually prelog the day's food and if at dinner, say I end up eating a half a cucumber instead of a quarter or a third, I won't usually go back and change it. If that were a half cup instead of a quarter cup of corn or green peas, I'd for sure relog the peas/corn though.
Like other people mentioned Thwt for them the macro content is something they want to know. I am also logging to see how those features of eating, such as sugars, carbs, protien, fats are up to the levels I believe to be healthy.
If you feel comfortable not logging fruit and veg perhaps you could just estimate that you eat 200 or 400 calories a day of fruit and veg for instance and add that as 'Quick Add' calories at the end of the day? See how that goes and if you are seeing the results you want to see in your weight plans, then great good, if not, then you could switch to logging the veg and fruit individually.1 -
I weigh and log pretty much everything, to the tenth of a gram. Necessary? Hardly. Useful? Maybe.2
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I don't see it as time consuming/stressful. It's just part of my daily routine. I vigilantly log everything I eat.1
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I log it all! For me, it's very easy to eat 3 tangerines and a punnet full of grapes without thinking about it. So I log.
Keeps me accountable 0
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