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

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  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    miratps wrote: »
    So by this I mean what food item (not drinks) that you do not either weigh or count towards your calorie total?

    I tend to count everything but I over time have stopped counting/weighing things like spinach, tomatoes etc.

    If it goes in my mouth I count it in my log. You have tomatoes in that list, but I eat tomatoes often and include them every time.
  • Jess_weightlossjourney
    Jess_weightlossjourney Posts: 6 Member
    Herbs & spices. Diet drinks. X
  • GlassAngyl
    GlassAngyl Posts: 478 Member
    If I forget leafy greens, I'm not to concerned about it. For everything else, I will even overestimate because I prefer to error on the side of caution. The over estimate can catch any mistakes I make in logging.
  • emmieems
    emmieems Posts: 27 Member
    Over time i realized it starts to drive me crazy to count things like vitamins, cucumbers, or spices. Spinach as well, when you look at it these things are like 15-30 calories and it isn't the end of the world.
  • bobbigirl83
    bobbigirl83 Posts: 37 Member
    Only seasonings. Everything else, from my vitamins to gum to individual pieces of cereal (I like dry cereal), is logged.
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    Spices. That's it
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    edited September 2017
    Also I don't measure hot sauce and garlic..I just guess on that... And sometimes I do that with spinach to
  • Tacklewasher
    Tacklewasher Posts: 7,122 Member
    Chef_Barbell wrote: »
    anybeary wrote: »
    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. :wink: I've never logged my supplements, though I do take enough pills every day to choke a horse.

    I log mine because I have a lot of kids and I forget if I took them or not.

    I can't even blame it on kids. I just forget so I log them.
  • elizabethmcopeland
    elizabethmcopeland Posts: 167 Member
    pickles, black coffee, spices/mustard
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    I don't measure my TB of half and half in my coffee, but I eyeball it and log it.
  • fitoverfortymom
    fitoverfortymom Posts: 3,452 Member
    I don't log spices or cooking spray, when used sparingly.
  • nightengale7
    nightengale7 Posts: 563 Member
    kristen8000 wrote: »
    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.

    You and I are kindred spirits :smiley: I'm pretty much the same, although I don't log mustard either.
  • Verity1111
    Verity1111 Posts: 3,309 Member
    Rebecca0224 wrote: »
    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.

    Glad it's not just me.
  • Troutrouter1968
    Troutrouter1968 Posts: 122 Member
    Lettuce and spices.
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