Do you track fruits and veggies?

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  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,282 Member
    just_Tomek wrote: »
    Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »
    I feel like the question "do you track fruit and veggies" should be stickied because it seems like someone asks it every other day. It seems to be a prominent question with people who are just starting on this site.

    Many things should be sticky here........... but then again, judging by the same posts over and over, no one looks at them and no one even tries a search function.

    I was on a forum once where every repeat topic got amalgamated with a previous same topic thread.

    Might sound good but was not - it meant threads from years ago just kept getting added on to, super long threads all on same topic, many posters i n thread long gone.

    I think MFP way is better, especially if people title threads clearly.

    Then if anyone doesnt want to answer or read same topic again, just skip past it.

    If anyone finds it all too repetitive and gets jaded with it (this is me from time to time) - have a short break from forums and come back after a little while (usually a week or so for me)

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,226 Member
    Anyone who thinks something should be a sticky might consider crafting up a really excellent post on the topic, and hoping fans might nominate it for sticky-hood, maybe, eh? ;)
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    paperpudding wrote: »
    just_Tomek wrote: »
    Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »
    I feel like the question "do you track fruit and veggies" should be stickied because it seems like someone asks it every other day. It seems to be a prominent question with people who are just starting on this site.

    Many things should be sticky here........... but then again, judging by the same posts over and over, no one looks at them and no one even tries a search function.

    I was on a forum once where every repeat topic got amalgamated with a previous same topic thread.

    Might sound good but was not - it meant threads from years ago just kept getting added on to, super long threads all on same topic, many posters i n thread long gone.

    I think MFP way is better, especially if people title threads clearly.

    Then if anyone doesnt want to answer or read same topic again, just skip past it.

    If anyone finds it all too repetitive and gets jaded with it (this is me from time to time) - have a short break from forums and come back after a little while (usually a week or so for me)

    I was on a forum where new threads that covered the same topic as current threads would get closed with a link to the other thread. I liked that model.

    On that forum, stickies didn't get read and the search function was underutilized.
  • babyblu3sedan
    babyblu3sedan Posts: 3 Member
    Yes of course. Especially since I follow a plant based diet... if I didn’t track fruits and veggies I wouldn’t track anything lol. Food is food and all kinds of food have different nutritional value, macro and micro nutrients, etc. idk why you would ever not log one food.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Fruits, yes. Veggies, yes. Sauerkraut, yes. Mustard, no. Salt, usually not. Ground black pepper, yes.
  • oilphins
    oilphins Posts: 240 Member
    MikePTY wrote: »
    Yes. For weight loss, a calorie is a calorie, whether from a vegetable or a candy bar. Weight Watchers does its whole "zero calorie food" thing as a behavior modification tool to get people to eat "healthier" foods. And also to differentiate it from calorie counting and justify the price. But your body doesn't differentiate. Some fruits especially can be pretty caloric.

    For the best results, you want to count everything you put in your body.

    Agree 100%, Fruits and veggies all have calories so if you're trying to lose weight, you need to track them, Gala apples have 80 calories, a banana on average has about 90, and really watch avocado's, They have good fats but are high in calories. One avocado has about 300 calories if you eat the whole thing

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