Any foods you don’t log?

Garlic, mustards, vinegar (most of the time, sometimes I do), salt, pepper, in fact most spices. Coffee and tea (I drink them black).

Lemons/lemon juice, sometimes mustard, most fresh herbs, green onions, celery, added salt or any other spices, cooking spray... Basically, anything with 0 calories or close to it, I don't bother with. I do log my coffee, though, for some reason. I think I logged it waaaay back when I first joined and was logging every single thing ever, and it just became a habit (and when I have bad coffee, I add creamer, so the coffee log reminds me to not forget to log the creamer).

oreos don't count right I don't log condiments or for my salad I made a recipe entry for salad that gets usual ingredients but if I swap zucchini for broccoli one day I don't sweat that.

I don't log salt and pepper. There are a few other spices I looked up at some point and figured the calories were irrelevant so I skip those too. But regarding actual mouthfuls of food, even if I had a mid-day or evening snack that was zero calories I log it as its own zero-calorie meal because I like knowing I did it so I am mindful about whether I'm actually hungry or eating out of boredom or something. And re: coffee, tea, and water, I like knowing how much caffeine I've had and how hydrated I am. These are not calorific and therefore fat loss-related, just other stuff I'm glad to be able to track on this site.

ETA: It just occurred to me that the reason behind this enquiry might be about how much effort one was willing to put into their logging vs. the need for accuracy. To that end I should add that I'm one of either the shameful minority or silent majority—don't know which—who eyeballs food or just uses cup measurements. I do this despite the risk of wild inaccuracy because in my case I knew I would never weigh food for the rest of my life, and I did not want to do any version of a 'diet' where I changed my behaviour after reaching goal weight (i.e., I wanted a lifestyle shift instead). Luckily enough it has worked in my case so far and I've mostly lost as predicted (faster than predicted in the first couple of months). That may change as the difference between my deficit and maintenance calories gets smaller near goal weight, but that's where I'm at right now.

TL;DR: I log everything except some spices, but not because I am looking for my calorie total to be precise.

Cooking spray, lettuce, diet drinks and sometimes spices.

fuzzylop72 wrote: »

I don't log diet sodas at all, and I don't weigh protein powder. The rest of the non-liquids I weigh.

I would weigh the powder if I were you. You maybe cutting yourself short on protein if you don't. The scoop that comes with ON Gold Standard, for example, does about 20 grams and the serving the 1 scoop serving size is listed at 31 grams.

I don't usually log sparkling water or crushed pepper. I log my candy weird, I eat 1-2 peanut butter m&ms most weeks days from a candy dish, it's part of a weird social habit I've developed at work. I refuse to log 1-2 m&ms so on Friday I log that I ate half a pack and figure it'll even itself out on my weekly average. I'm in maintenance though and I've been tracking for years so I feel like I have a pretty good general idea of what range I need to stay in and what that looks like.

Gum should be logged if swallowed or by the person that steps on it.

I don't count veggies, mostly the green ones (broc, spinach, kale, etc.) unless I cook in a fat (olive or coconut oil)

There were times I didn't bother logging vegetables. My calorie target was high enough it was hard to imagine I could possibly overeat my target due to something like lettuce or broccoli and I was eating enough that tracking individual nutrients didn't seem worth it either.