Calories in vegetables
acmorris77
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Curious to know if you count your vegetables in your daily calorie count? I usually only count corn, and higher starch veggies.
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acmorris77 wrote: »Curious to know if you count your vegetables in your daily calorie count? I usually only count corn, and higher starch veggies.
Yes. Of course. Why wouldn't you?20 -
Everything is food and all food has calories. I count everything because if I don't I easily eat 1000 extra calories in salad alone, not even counting the dressings.9
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My friend was saying how in WW most veggies are zero points.10
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I weigh and log everything I consume. Losing weight is all about being in a calorie deficit. How do you know you're in a deficit if you don't log your calories?7
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That is true, but WW does not have a goal of getting you to lose weight... it has a goal of selling you a product and a service. Tracking calories is free and has been successful for hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Which do you prefer? A free method that works, or a business model designed to gain and keep customers?24
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acmorris77 wrote: »My friend was saying how in WW most veggies are zero points.I weigh and log everything I consume. Losing weight is all about being in a calorie deficit. How do you know you're in a deficit if you don't log your calories?
If you're using MFP follow the system. If you want to follow Weight Watchers system, follow that. Don't crossbreed them.23 -
acmorris77 wrote: »My friend was saying how in WW most veggies are zero points.
I think they also assign fewer "points" or calories to your day though.
Yes i log everything, i eat lots of vegetables and added all up that can easily be over 200-300 calories a day. and for the last few months i was on a small deficit of 250 calories a day - which the veggies more than cover alone.5 -
Vegetables have calories7
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acmorris77 wrote: »My friend was saying how in WW most veggies are zero points.
WW gives people a lower goal to allow for their "free foods". It's just a way to try to get people to eat more of some foods and penalize them for eating others.
Your body counts the calories from vegetables whether you do or not
. I log veg because I can sometimes eat 100-200+ cals of veg and I also want to see accurate numbers for fiber. I tend to eyeball servings for lower cal veg rather than weigh them out though.
One of the benefits of accurate and consistent logging is that if you hit an obstacle in the future, you can troubleshoot by looking back at your diary and seeing an accurate accounting of what you've been doing.14 -
My 150 grams of beans I eat for lunch is like 60 calories. It doesn't seem like that much, but if I never logged them or any others I'd be in a much smaller deficit.6
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I’m a vegetarian and probably 60% of my calories come from vegetables in one form or another! I’d be in a right pickle if I didn’t log them!14
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So far today I've eaten 399 calories from fruit and vegetables. If I didn't log them I'd be in trouble 😧7
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When I log I do. I like to eat 10+ servings of veg daily (that's generally non starchy veg, as I consider beans and grains like corn and pulses like peas to be a "starches" category). Trust me, even non-starchy veg can add up, and I want to know my real calorie numbers.
More significantly, I like to be able to see what I've actually been eating, and consider logging veg encouragement to eat more. It's good to be able to look back at a day that was easy and see that you ate 1800 cal, 300 from veg, and think "oh, yes, eating veg is helpful for me." If you see the day as 1500 cal, no veg, that doesn't tell you much. I also think logging veg helps you see if you happen to not be eating enough or sufficient variety for a while!3 -
Get a food scale, weigh and log EVERYTHING..Keep calories within your daily deficit and you'll lose weight.2
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I count them to track nutrients2
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A monstrously huge 434 gram cucumber has 70 calories. If I ate one at each meal and snack, aside from being sick, it's over 300 calories added on to my day. You'd log that 300 if it were cake, why not veggies?6
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acmorris77 wrote: »My friend was saying how in WW most veggies are zero points.
Points aren't the same thing as calories. WW gives them zero points to encourage eating more of them...but they inflate the points of other things to compensate...they also give a lower point total.
Personally, I wasn't as meticulous with veggies as other more calorie dense things, but I still logged them. I average around 4 cups of veggies for both lunch and dinner and that can add up. For salads, I just created a generic vegetable salad recipe in the recipe builder and used that and then just logged whatever other toppings, meat, cheese, etc that I would put on it.5 -
I have to count them. They can occupy 25 percent of my daily calorie allowance.
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If one eats a material amount of veggies/fruits (say, the recommended 5 servings), but doesn't log them, one is giving up the opportunity to fine-tune weight loss rate that comes from having reasonably accurate calorie totals, or giving up a degree of accuracy in (eventually) using one's logged intake and weight loss experience to make a personalized estimate of maintenance calories.
Neither of those benefits is essential to a happy life, but for some of us it's enough (on top of general accuracy and interest in nutrient tracking) to make it worthwhile to track them.
And for me, personally, I'm one of the people who often eats 10+ servings, so several hundred calories of vegetables daily (let alone fruits) isn't at all unusual.3 -
If one eats a material amount of veggies/fruits (say, the recommended 5 servings), but doesn't log them, one is giving up the opportunity to fine-tune weight loss rate that comes from having reasonably accurate calorie totals, or giving up a degree of accuracy in (eventually) using one's logged intake and weight loss experience to make a personalized estimate of maintenance calories.
Neither of those benefits is essential to a happy life, but for some of us it's enough (on top of general accuracy and interest in nutrient tracking) to make it worthwhile to track them.
And for me, personally, I'm one of the people who often eats 10+ servings, so several hundred calories of vegetables daily (let alone fruits) isn't at all unusual.
I stopped trying to figure out my vegetable servings. Now I just go by the number of pounds. However, if I went by 98 grams per serving I would be eating around 15 a day... not to outdo you or anything.
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Yeah, for the most part. I'm gonna be honest, I'm not terribly concerned about how much lettuce, onion, or cucumber I eat. If a vegetable normally only has a few calories per serving, I'm not super strict about weighing and logging it. I may log a rough estimate, if anything. But there are plenty of other fruits and vegetables that have a measurable number of calories, and I make sure to log them. A calorie from a vegetable counts just as much as a calorie from anything else.1
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I'm concerned about my protein, iron, and fiber. And being vegetarian, there are times when a significant number of my calories come from non-starchy veg. I'll admit that in a social setting, I might just put some cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, and cucumbers on my plate and not bother logging (or roughly guesstimate later), but for the most part? It's food. I eat it, I log it.6
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If one eats a material amount of veggies/fruits (say, the recommended 5 servings), but doesn't log them, one is giving up the opportunity to fine-tune weight loss rate that comes from having reasonably accurate calorie totals, or giving up a degree of accuracy in (eventually) using one's logged intake and weight loss experience to make a personalized estimate of maintenance calories.
Neither of those benefits is essential to a happy life, but for some of us it's enough (on top of general accuracy and interest in nutrient tracking) to make it worthwhile to track them.
And for me, personally, I'm one of the people who often eats 10+ servings, so several hundred calories of vegetables daily (let alone fruits) isn't at all unusual.
I stopped trying to figure out my vegetable servings. Now I just go by the number of pounds. However, if I went by 98 grams per serving I would be eating around 15 a day... not to outdo you or anything.
I estimate servings based on 80g = 1 serving, left over from the 10 veg/fruit a day challenge here a while back. Sounds like you eat more than I do, though 15+ 80g servings isn't all that unusual for me. Feel free to outdo me: I wish more people ate more veggies/fruit.9 -
If one eats a material amount of veggies/fruits (say, the recommended 5 servings), but doesn't log them, one is giving up the opportunity to fine-tune weight loss rate that comes from having reasonably accurate calorie totals, or giving up a degree of accuracy in (eventually) using one's logged intake and weight loss experience to make a personalized estimate of maintenance calories.
Neither of those benefits is essential to a happy life, but for some of us it's enough (on top of general accuracy and interest in nutrient tracking) to make it worthwhile to track them.
And for me, personally, I'm one of the people who often eats 10+ servings, so several hundred calories of vegetables daily (let alone fruits) isn't at all unusual.
I stopped trying to figure out my vegetable servings. Now I just go by the number of pounds. However, if I went by 98 grams per serving I would be eating around 15 a day... not to outdo you or anything.
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Approximate vegetable counting is still better than no counting, so if ya dont have weight scale/ like eating in restaurant or outdoor. Still count.2
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It's simple...... log everything that you consume! Making exceptions leads to more exceptions and dilutes achieving goals.6
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If one eats a material amount of veggies/fruits (say, the recommended 5 servings), but doesn't log them, one is giving up the opportunity to fine-tune weight loss rate that comes from having reasonably accurate calorie totals, or giving up a degree of accuracy in (eventually) using one's logged intake and weight loss experience to make a personalized estimate of maintenance calories.
Neither of those benefits is essential to a happy life, but for some of us it's enough (on top of general accuracy and interest in nutrient tracking) to make it worthwhile to track them.
And for me, personally, I'm one of the people who often eats 10+ servings, so several hundred calories of vegetables daily (let alone fruits) isn't at all unusual.
I stopped trying to figure out my vegetable servings. Now I just go by the number of pounds. However, if I went by 98 grams per serving I would be eating around 15 a day... not to outdo you or anything.
I estimate servings based on 80g = 1 serving, left over from the 10 veg/fruit a day challenge here a while back. Sounds like you eat more than I do, though 15+ 80g servings isn't all that unusual for me. Feel free to outdo me: I wish more people ate more veggies/fruit.
Yeah, let's not talk about my meager fruit portions. I am kind of meh about eating it most of the time and I don't find it satiating so 200 grams is about my limit. Especially right now while I am under a stricter calorie restriction. When it is over I may need to add a little more.0 -
Yeah, for the most part. I'm gonna be honest, I'm not terribly concerned about how much lettuce,onion,or cucumber I eat. If a vegetable normally only has a few calories per serving, I'm not super strict about weighing and logging it. I may log a rough estimate, if anything. But there are plenty of other fruits and vegetables that have a measurable number of calories, and I make sure to log them. A calorie from a vegetable counts just as much as a calorie from anything else.
I’ve bolded ‘onion’ in this because I’m often upset and surprised how little onion you get for your calories! For a veg that seems to have such a lot of water in it, much like cucumber and lettuce, it has a surprising amount of calories in my book.0 -
I do log them, but since I'm in maintenance instead of losing, I just estimate the amount.
I still weigh out the calorie dense stuff just to make sure I'm eating an appropriate portion (that's what's always gotten me in trouble - I've eaten healthfully all my life, just too much!), but I'm happy to estimate what a handful of carrot sticks weighs. If my weight starts trending up again, I'll go back to weighing everything again!
As others have mentioned, though - I'm pescetarian and fruits/veg make up easily 30-40% of my total daily intake; if I didn't log them at all, I'd be in trouble!1 -
Veggies have calories, I am logging calories, why would I ignore those calories?3
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