Do you track salad etc
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claireashj
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Do I need to track EVERYTHING?
Salads and veg etc
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I log and weigh everything that goes into my mouth
otherwise your calories will be off 12 -
Yes, that is how MFP is designed to work. Think of it this way - your body will count those calories so you should too.6
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Yes, everything: food, beverages, solids, liquids, shakes.2
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For the most accuracy, yes. Different people will succeed at different levels of logging from everything to not at all.2
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Yes, salads and veggies can really add up.4
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i log everything but water and saliva.2
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yes, salad, salad dress, sour cream, oils1
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Your body counts everything, so yes.
Once you get a couple of months of logging under your belt, you might find there are some things that you eat often and aren't very calorie dense that you can estimate and it's not a big deal. But if you're going into your diary to log your salad dressing or chicken, you might as well log the lettuce too.7 -
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If I eat a salad, I will often log everything with a lot of calories accurately, by weight, (oil, sauce, cheese, meat, etc.) but I might ballpark the green vegetables, especially if I forgot to weight them separately. So a bowl with 300g of lettuce, green pepper, cucumber, etc. might be logged has 300g of "green pepper" just because I'm lazy.
I often ballpark stuff out of laziness, but I always "log" everything. I prefer to live with the inaccuracy, I accept that I might be wrong by some calories a day, but I do a 750 calories deficit so I can live with it.
But I would advise beginner to log religiously for a few weeks. People often eat the same thing, so you will become good at it after a while. But I have to weight cheese, chocolate, peanut butter, … I always put more then I think, even after a few years at this.
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Log what you feel is necessary to log for your goals. But the first thing anyone will ask if you're not achieving your goals is how accurately you log calorie intake and estimate calorie burns.6
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Certainly. Particularly if your salad is more than plain lettuce. Some salads can contain things that contain a whole lot of calories. A calorie from a vegetable counts just as much as calories from beef jerky.4
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I don't track lettuce, raw spinach or seasonings, but track other veggies & salad toppings. Sometimes I'll log all the other veggies combined as red peppers, even though it might be a combination of cucumbers, onions, carrots, peppers, etc... Other toppings are logged separate - dressing, fruit, proteins, grains, etc....1
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Honestly I log as accurately as I need to to hit my goals.
at first i was guestimating veggies and some foods. not entering gum. using cooked chicken weight. as i got closer to goal in order to keep my rate of loss going i had to start logging all these things (and moving to logging chicken/meat by raw weight VS cooked).
i find weighing vegetables very very quick and easy though.
ETA: not sure if by salad you mean only the VEGETABLES in the salad, but a full salad can be super high calorie depending on dressing and what is added (nuts? protein? seed? cheese? it adds up SUPER fast)1 -
I do because I eat giant salads and my spinach and romaine can sometimes add up to a lot. Todays spinach, romaine, green onions, radishes and cucumber which are usually very low calorie amounts intake adds up to over 50 calories so it can make a difference. I mean if your talking one leaf of iceberg on your sandwich that won't make a difference but everything else yes, I do weigh and log.6
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The veggies can have a more minimal impact on daily calories, but the company they keep...yeah it adds up.5
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There aren't really any "free" foods, even though a popular diet subscription service would have you believe otherwise. That service lowers your daily calorie start value; it's a game to encourage you to eat more veggies.3
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I'm glad this works for you but for a new person who is trying to understand calorie counting, it's not a good way to get started. Depending on how often they eat salads and what they are putting on the salad, it would be easy to over or underestimate the calories being consumed.funjen1972 wrote: »I don't track lettuce, raw spinach or seasonings, but track other veggies & salad toppings. Sometimes I'll log all the other veggies combined as red peppers, even though it might be a combination of cucumbers, onions, carrots, peppers, etc... Other toppings are logged separate - dressing, fruit, proteins, grains, etc....1
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