Logging Fruits and Veggies.

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  • stricklee11
    stricklee11 Posts: 218 Member
    I've found fruits to be high in calories (one banana is 110 calories, an apple can be 72+ calories, a mandarin orange 50 calories). By not logging them, you will easily go over your daily goal. Veggies on the other hand tend to be lower in calories but as a rule of thumb, I log everything.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,757 Member
    DanOutdoors wrote: »
    A calorie is a calorie is a calorie.

    What that means is a calorie from a vegetable is the some as a calorie from a block of lard, there is no difference.

    I've seen people wonder why they haven't been losing weight and when I've looked at their food diaries I've seen they've had smoothies almost every day full of fruit, seems healthy but that can actually stop weight lose with the amount of sugar. Nothing in life is free no matter how much WW says so, remember it's in their interest to keep you there as long as possible

    You're contradicting yourself here. A calorie is a calorie but it's the sugar that's hindering weight loss? Sugar has calories. It's probably inaccurate logging depending on various factors.

    OP, I lost the bulk of my weight on WW but then moved to logging calories when I hit a plateau/WW changed up the plan.

    As others have said, there are ways of playing with the system if you don't want to log fruits and vegetables (not counting exercise calories, inflating the calories of what you *do* log) and it might or might not work. I need to keep an eye on fiber and should keep more of an eye on protein so I try to mostly log everything (except for my 200 discretionary quick add calories that may or may not go up to like 600 some days :)) As long as your weight trends the way you want it to, it's all good.

    Unless you're undereating (which is what happened to me on WW). Then....not so good...and why I will always suggest people on WW also log everything they eat on here just to make sure they're keeping their calories in check too.
  • zeejane03
    zeejane03 Posts: 993 Member
    edited March 2019
    DanOutdoors wrote: »
    A calorie is a calorie is a calorie.

    What that means is a calorie from a vegetable is the some as a calorie from a block of lard, there is no difference.

    I've seen people wonder why they haven't been losing weight and when I've looked at their food diaries I've seen they've had smoothies almost every day full of fruit, seems healthy but that can actually stop weight lose with the amount of sugar. Nothing in life is free no matter how much WW says so, remember it's in their interest to keep you there as long as possible

    Don't you mean the smoothies are full of calories?

    I eat green smoothies a few times a week and they can be calorie bombs-not from the fruit though, but from the Greek yogurt (big calorie variations), and the chia and flax seeds that I sometimes use in them.
  • WilmaValley
    WilmaValley Posts: 1,092 Member
    yes, it is all still calories!
  • New_Heavens_Earth
    New_Heavens_Earth Posts: 610 Member
    runnermom419 wrote: »
    New_Heavens_Earth wrote: »
    runnermom419 wrote: »
    Log everything. I weigh the majority of the fruits and vegetables I eat as well.

    I was curious the other day on how many calories in "free foods" I eat a day (if I were on WW). Curious because I have a few co-workers on WW. I calculated that over 500 calories would be "free" if I were on WW (for that particular day). How on earth would I lose weight with that many "free calories" AND eating my daily points?

    It's not mandatory to eat all of the points. There is a -10 to +5 range around your points value. So 23 pts, for example, is actually a range of 13 to 28. Works for many🤷🏾‍♀️

    I guess what I'm trying to get at is that I could easily eat ALL my calories from free foods AND still have 13 - 28 points to play around with.

    Got it. It might work for heavier people just starting out, but as you get smaller and closer to goal, it won't work anymore.
  • wanzik
    wanzik Posts: 326 Member
    _MichelleLynn__ wrote: »
    wanzik wrote: »
    If you want an accurate picture you need to log EVERYTHING that you eat. Just logging some stuff and not others doesn't really make sense to me. But I'm interested in watching carbs and sugar, not just calories. It's really easy to add apples, bananas and oranges so why not?

    Because you can lose weight without logging them. Just because you’re logging with MFP tracker doesn’t mean you have stick to their weight loss plan. I track all my food in MFP and at the in of the day I export it into WW.
    MFP is easier to track your food by calculation and it has a huge database.

    You log only some of what you eat and then export it to WW?

    Of course you can lose weight without logging everything. You can lose weight logging nothing. Fine with me what others do, but like I said, If I'm going to bother logging I want to see the complete and accurate picture, not just parts of it.
  • JaxxieKat
    JaxxieKat Posts: 427 Member
    Honestly, I'm not as strict with low calorie veggies. If I forget to log a cup of iceberg lettuce or a tablespoon of diced onion, I'm not going to sweat it. I do carefully log all fruits and starchy veggies, though. Corn, carrots, peas, potatoes, etc.
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