What is your 'I'm not measuring that'/'free food'?
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Wow, no wonder I'm not losing a lot of weight. Gotta log my seasonings and spices? And my vitamins? Never even considered that stuff. I wonder how I should log my medications....haha. I guess if it isn't plain water, and you put it in your mouth, you should be logging it, right?
I dont think there is any right or wrong abut it - you should log to the level of accuracy that works for you. I have always been a fan of lazy logging for myself - and estimating, skipping logging things like lettuce etc works fine for me
I also highly doubt that the reason you are not losing is not logging spices and vitamins
Seasonings like sauce (ketchup) , if you use a lot could be a logging issue.
if it is not working as you expected, perhaps start a separate thread asking for help and we will ask for more detail and try to pinpoint your individual problem.
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Vegetables. Namely lettuce, cucumber, peppers, onions, kale, broccoli, spinach, mushrooms etc. I don't eat any of those vegetables in super large amounts at any one time so I decided against tracking it. It has no negative effects on my weight loss results whatsoever. For me, tracking to the gram is a means to an end. I assume most people would eventually like to be free from the crunch of counting calories to the gram.2
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Vinegar, herbs, spices. Bites of food get a 100 calorie quick add.0
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Seasonings and salt and vitamins.0
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Wow, no wonder I'm not losing a lot of weight. Gotta log my seasonings and spices? And my vitamins? Never even considered that stuff. I wonder how I should log my medications....haha. I guess if it isn't plain water, and you put it in your mouth, you should be logging it, right?
If it has calories, it should be logged. That "splash" of creamer in your coffee can add up quickly.
Most who log vitamins do so in order to see the daily amounts of micronutrients, not for the calories.
Herbs and spices have few if any calories so most don't log those. Seasonings, on the other hand, often have salt and/or sugar in them so people watching their sodium or carb intake should log them.
FYI: herbs are the leaves of a plant, spices are any other part of the plant, seasonings are a mixture which can be anything from lemon pepper to Mrs. Dash, to Old Bay, to chili powder (not powdered chili pepper, that is a spice).
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I usually don't count or track seasonings. But I bought TJs Everything but the Bagel seasoning for the first time and noticed it has 5 cals per 1/4 tsp. So I tsp is 20 cals and 1 tablespoon would be around 80 cals. That could actually add up considering I love how it tastes.1
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I eat one Brazil nut a day for the selenium to help with my hypothyroidism. Don't log it, just nosh it.0
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I usually don't count or track seasonings. But I bought TJs Everything but the Bagel seasoning for the first time and noticed it has 5 cals per 1/4 tsp. So I tsp is 20 cals and 1 tablespoon would be around 80 cals. That could actually add up considering I love how it tastes.
Yes, that's why I log larger than usual servings of spices and seasonings. A word of wisdom: if you go through a lemon and poppy seed flavored oatmeal phase, log the poppy seeds if you're going to be dumping 2 tbsps in0 -
Wow, no wonder I'm not losing a lot of weight. Gotta log my seasonings and spices? And my vitamins? Never even considered that stuff. I wonder how I should log my medications....haha. I guess if it isn't plain water, and you put it in your mouth, you should be logging it, right?
If it has calories, it should be logged. That "splash" of creamer in your coffee can add up quickly.
Most who log vitamins do so in order to see the daily amounts of micronutrients, not for the calories.
Herbs and spices have few if any calories so most don't log those. Seasonings, on the other hand, often have salt and/or sugar in them so people watching their sodium or carb intake should log them.
FYI: herbs are the leaves of a plant, spices are any other part of the plant, seasonings are a mixture which can be anything from lemon pepper to Mrs. Dash, to Old Bay, to chili powder (not powdered chili pepper, that is a spice).
Nope.
It's anything that seasons your food. I wouldn't consider artificial flavors in there.0 -
If I eat a bite, I don't count it like a lick of my sons ice cream (I mean come on it's melting1
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Seasonings (including salt and pepper), lemon juice. That handful of rocket leaves I put in my sandwich for lunch. I don't measure the milk I pour on my granola, but I weigh the granola in the same bowl so I know how much to put in as I did weigh it the first few times (it comes up to a particular squiggle on the pattern!)0
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The olive oil I use on my salad because I use 1 table spoon at best, also the seasoning because it's really useless.2
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I don't bother logging non-starchy veges - salad, steamed veg etc. Meh.0
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Just herbs and spices for me.0
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Wow, no wonder I'm not losing a lot of weight. Gotta log my seasonings and spices? And my vitamins? Never even considered that stuff. I wonder how I should log my medications....haha. I guess if it isn't plain water, and you put it in your mouth, you should be logging it, right?
If it has calories, it should be logged. That "splash" of creamer in your coffee can add up quickly.
Most who log vitamins do so in order to see the daily amounts of micronutrients, not for the calories.
Herbs and spices have few if any calories so most don't log those. Seasonings, on the other hand, often have salt and/or sugar in them so people watching their sodium or carb intake should log them.
FYI: herbs are the leaves of a plant, spices are any other part of the plant, seasonings are a mixture which can be anything from lemon pepper to Mrs. Dash, to Old Bay, to chili powder (not powdered chili pepper, that is a spice).
Nope.
It's anything that seasons your food. I wouldn't consider artificial flavors in there.
I am retired after working for a long time for a well known spice merchant. There is a difference between something that seasons food and a "seasoning". One is a generic term describing usage and the other is a term that describes a specific type of product. We are going to have to agree to disagree on this because we are coming at it from totally different experiences.0 -
vitamins and seasonings/spices .0
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I usually don't log spices unless its something thats high in calories or I want to check my sodium intake0
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Sriracha, hot sauce, pickles, pickled jalepenos, water enhancers, spices, sugar free gum/mints, tea. I log mustard, because I eat a ton of it. I don't weigh lettuce - usually put 5 ounces for all salads (eye ball it). No one ever got fat by eating too much lettuce.1
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rheddmobile wrote: »I don't log spices, black coffee, or tea, and I usually forget to log ginger and garlic. Which can add up!
Ginger and garlic won't add up to anything significant unless you're eating amounts that would probably kill most mortals.0
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