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    What is your 'I'm not measuring that'/'free food'?

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    • Posts: 9,382 Member
      jennyf55 wrote: »
      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.

    • Posts: 27 Member
      edited August 2017
      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.
    • Posts: 870 Member
      Vinegar, herbs, spices. Bites of food get a 100 calorie quick add.
    • Posts: 9 Member
      Seasonings and salt and vitamins.
    • Posts: 8,171 Member
      cmtigger wrote: »
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      Technically anything that flavors your food is a seasoning. Herbs and spices are subgroups. Extracts are another subgroup. As well as blends.

      Nope.
    • Posts: 1,092 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 3,177 Member
      I eat one Brazil nut a day for the selenium to help with my hypothyroidism. Don't log it, just nosh it.
    • Posts: 10,330 Member
      edited August 2017
      Cbean08 wrote: »
      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 in :(
    • Posts: 1,450 Member
      earlnabby wrote: »
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      Nope.
      According to https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seasoning
      It's anything that seasons your food. I wouldn't consider artificial flavors in there.
    • Posts: 132 Member
      If I eat a bite, I don't count it like a lick of my sons ice cream (I mean come on it's melting
    • Posts: 1,380 Member
      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!)
    • Posts: 103 Member
      The olive oil I use on my salad because I use 1 table spoon at best, also the seasoning because it's really useless.
    • Posts: 64 Member
      I don't bother logging non-starchy veges - salad, steamed veg etc. Meh.
    • Posts: 92 Member
      Just herbs and spices for me.
    • Posts: 8,171 Member
      edited August 2017
      cmtigger wrote: »
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      According to https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seasoning
      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.
    • Posts: 1,795 Member
      vitamins and seasonings/spices .
    • Posts: 59 Member
      I usually don't log spices unless its something thats high in calories or I want to check my sodium intake
    • Posts: 747 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 747 Member
      MollyJE19 wrote: »
      Today hubby and I went to Wendy's. I behaved and ate a salad. But I also ate 2 of his fries and I'm not logging that.

      My BF gave me a bite of cake at a friend's B-day party the other day. I decided if it comes off his fork, it doesn't go in my food diary!
    • Posts: 1,921 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 532 Member
      DX2JX2 wrote: »

      Ginger and garlic won't add up to anything significant unless you're eating amounts that would probably kill most mortals.

      Or vampires?
    • Posts: 2,163 Member
      DeweysMama wrote: »
      Coffee creamer! It is my one guilty pleasure, and it's not daily.

      I'm going to be honest, I do this too.

      But only if it's the ONE type of creamer I use, on a weekday.

      "Extras" like Starbucks runs, are always logged.

      This isn't the best, but it's the same amount every single day.
    • Posts: 6,840 Member
      DX2JX2 wrote: »
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      Ginger and garlic won't add up to anything significant unless you're eating amounts that would probably kill most mortals.

      Aloo gobi uses about half a cup of ginger garlic paste! A lot of Indian food uses significant enough amounts of spices that the calories should really be counted.
    • Posts: 77 Member
      edited August 2017
      I log everything but there's a lot of stuff that I don't bother to weigh out on my scale. Veggies, frozen burger patties, microwaveable meals. I log them all from either eyeballing (veggies) or based on the packaging for packaged stuff.

      For me, that's what I use my exercise calories for, taking care of the potential fluctuations in things that I don't bother weighing out.
    • Posts: 483 Member
      Herbs and spices, but if they contain a lot of sodium, such as garlic salt, I log it. This way I know if I went way over in sodium and notice I'm retaining water.
    • Posts: 16,049 Member
      Herbs and spices, except for mustard and curry powder, those 2 have quite a few calories. I have a spinach/rocket salad mix regularly, i just log 50g every time i have it, i don't weigh it anymore. I don't log pickles and mustard, both of which i don't eat often anyway.

      I weigh and log low cal veggies, because i like my macros/micros, especially fibre to be accurate.
    • Posts: 146 Member
      Gummies vitamins & dill pickles
    • Posts: 4,047 Member
      Herbs and spices except curry powder, that one can be 50 cals easy for a couple spoonfuls. Sugar free gum, Truvia sweetener, "zero cal" stuff in general. The one thing that truly has cals that I won't bother with is my cup of afternoon tea with tea and two sugars. It's not very often but I feel like it's my right as an English person.
    • Posts: 6,137 Member
      I count everything but things like dried spices or hot sauce, etc. I don't measure or weigh. I just approximate. usually just do a quick-add of 5-10 calories.
    • Posts: 1,706 Member
      I don't log coffee, diet soda, hot sauce, jalapeños, regular mustard, white vinegar, and gum (which I rarely have).

      I do log ginger and garlic because those add up when adding to a recipe. Other dried spices I don't bother.

      I try not to take bites or tastes of things because they are hard to track, but I've been known to snag a few French fries from my kids and I don't log them. Since it's only about once a month I'm not too worried.
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