Do i need to keep track of vegetables ?

RelentlessWyll · May 2019

Hello everyone,

Back at you with this quick question , do i need to track green vegetables like green bean or vegetables in general like tomato or carrot etc . ?

Panini911 · May 2019

it is best to track yes.
but you can try not tracking and see if it is impacting weight loss or not.

whitpauly · May 2019

I usually don't bother with some veg,a whole bag of premade salad only has like 20 something calories and if I have a slice of tomato on my sandwich is hardly worth logging to me

AnnPT77 · May 2019

I can't speak for you, but I sure do need to. The day's not over, and I'm already at 284 calories worth of them, and that's not even counting the 218 additional calories of lentils, or the 45 of fruit.

Beyond that, I like logging veggies to keep an eye on important micronutrients (the MFP database doesn't always have correct values for these, but I can spot check logged days with better sources if I start wondering if I'm not getting enough of something), to get reasonably correct numbers for fiber, and so I can subjectively monitor my goal of eating plenty of veggie servings.

If you have a fairly high calorie goal, only eat tiny amounts of veggies (which may not be nutritionally ideal in itself), don't really care about monitoring micros or fiber or veggie servings, then it's probably not important to you to log veggies.

It's hard for any of us to answer for you.

I personally also find it easier to log everything, not go through a "log this or don't log this" thought process about everything. YMMV.

echmain3 · May 2019

Count. Every. Calorie.

Dandylines · May 2019

Yes. I know WW generally does not. I do not mind if I go over carbs if it is mostly veggies, but yes you do need to record them to make sure you are getting enough calories. Also veggies have fiber.

lemurcat2 · May 2019

AnnPT77 wrote: »

I can't speak for you, but I sure do need to. The day's not over, and I'm already at 284 calories worth of them, and that's not even counting the 218 additional calories of lentils, or the 45 of fruit.

Beyond that, I like logging veggies to keep an eye on important micronutrients (the MFP database doesn't always have correct values for these, but I can spot check logged days with better sources if I start wondering if I'm not getting enough of something), to get reasonably correct numbers for fiber, and so I can subjectively monitor my goal of eating plenty of veggie servings.

If you have a fairly high calorie goal, only eat tiny amounts of veggies (which may not be nutritionally ideal in itself), don't really care about monitoring micros or fiber or veggie servings, then it's probably not important to you to log veggies.

It's hard for any of us to answer for you.

I personally also find it easier to log everything, not go through a "log this or don't log this" thought process about everything. YMMV.

All of this.

Personally, when I log I log at Cronometer and am interested in stuff like potassium, and without veg my numbers would be useless. Even when I was logging at MFP I liked actually knowing what I ate when I looked back, as I could monitor whether I was eating a good variety of veg or if the reason I overate was that it was a low fiber day or what not. If you leave out veg you don't get a good look at your real diet, bad or good.

If you don't think you eat enough veg for it to make a difference, that might be something to work on, also.

RelentlessWyll · May 2019

Super thank you guys for all your input , I've logged my veggies for today

It was a great green salad & tomato bowl + a bowl of green beans it totaled out at around 100 kcal I think or maybe less I don't really remember.

Either way I was still in my dailies so it's great!

And I'll make sure to log EVERYTHING from now on , love this !!