What is your 'I'm not measuring that'/'free food'?
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Lime wedge in my tea (I eat the lime flesh when the tea is gone), some herbs & spices, some near-non-caloric drinks like coffee. That's about it.
If I didn't weigh/log non-starchy veggies I'd be a couple hundred calories off, some days. Love me some veggies!2 -
Fresh vegetables. I have BED and seeing the low calories triggers me to binge. It's the thought of "oh all those vegetables were only 35 calories I can eat a lot more of that" and then it gets bad so I just don't log them.8
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After peaking into some food diaries, I notice that a lot of people even log their vitamins/supplements. Thoughts on this? I can see doing it if you consume all your vitamins in gummy form. I've never logged my supplements, though I do take enough pills every day to choke a horse.
Some do it so that they can see their micronutrients.6 -
I log everything except herbs and spices. I do log seasonings. I measure everything except my Walden Farms calorie free dressing.2
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Chef_Barbell wrote: »Spices and seasonings
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Spices, seasonings, leafy greens: spinach leaves, dandelion greens, arugula... (I just leave a 50 calorie wiggle room). I'll literally munch on a few of them every time I feel like munching, but I'm not hungy. 3 baby spinach leaves are weird to continually add throughout the day.3
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The only things I don't log are calorie and sodium free. Like the flavor drops for water, though I do track the water, or non salt containing spices since the calorie count is too low to matter.
I need to watch sodium for medical issues, so if it has salt, but no calories, it gets tracked.0 -
I never log mustard. Sometimes I don't log celery, but I do if I'm trying to hit a fiber goal. I usually log fish oil because that's 20 calories.2
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I don't log spices, diet soda, and sugar free gum, and generally estimate spinach.2
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I don't log diet soda or other no calories sweeteners.0
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Soy sauce, mustard, garnish veggies. I like logging spinach and broccoli for the fiber, but I won't log them if I'm eating them because I'm feeling peckish late at night and it puts me over my calorie goals; I know it's dumb, but I don't like penalizing myself for munching on veggies late at night.
Also coffee, tea, hot sauce, cucumber, celery.6 -
Soy sauce, mustard, garnish veggies. I like logging spinach and broccoli for the fiber, but I won't log them if I'm eating them because I'm feeling peckish late at night and it puts me over my calorie goals; I know it's dumb, but I don't like penalizing myself for munching on veggies late at night.
Also coffee, tea, hot sauce, cucumber, celery.
Agreed about the munching on veggies. When I feel like I eating for no reason and kind find a way to NOT want to eat (tried drink/gum etc. already) then having some Spinach should not be a punishment - the times I do go overboard on other stuff instead makes me feel terrible so if anything, when I munch 'needlessly' on veggies over a whole pack of biscuits I actually consider it a victory of sorts4 -
Salt, black pepper, dried herbs, and non-significant amounts of spices. I also don't log tea and coffee (I just add a quick 20-50 calories when I want and don't add when I couldn't care less). Strangely I log lemon juice and garlic, sometimes by weight other times not. No reason why, I just log them because I OCD if I don't log these two for some reason.1
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My biggest guesstimate is lettuce. 100g 200g not much of a difference log 200 even if it seems less than that1
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Herbs and spices except for recipes so I know which ones I added last time. Everything else is counted.1
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Most vegetables (except for things like avocado)
Creamer
Strawberries (unless I'm eating a ton of them)3 -
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Lettuce, vitamins, tomatoes, cucumbers1
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paperpudding wrote: »
It's what I do. Buy a box of cookies, crumble them all up and eat it all guilt free......
I wish it worked like that7
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