Do you all count veggies?
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raeofsunshie99 wrote: »@orphia I don’t count potatoes as a veggie but as a starch and would count it as a carb. I’m taking spinach, collards, kale, broccoli etc.
Do you count avocado and pumpkin?
Aren’t avocado and pumpkin fruits not veggies?
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Yes especially broccoli. I regularly eat 120 cal of steamed broccoli. My salads have 60 calories of lettuce, etc. If I didn't count that I would think I was eating a few hundred calories less per day.6
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I count veggies - but often loosely - each carrot is 1 carrot, I dont weight them all (same goes for fruits like mandarines too)
(higher calories ones like potatoes I do)
and I dont bother with things like one slice of lettuce or tomato in a sandwich0 -
when I was doing keto, I was surprised at how quickly even green leafy vegetable carbs added up. If you have a carb goal, I would say count everything.7
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I usually eat at least a few hundred calories of vegetables per day. If I didn't count them, my weight management would be a mess because I'd be way underestimating what I was eating.4
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yes, i log vegetables including broccoli, cabbage and green beans.1
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Yes, and no. I can easily eat 300kcal of veggies in a day - if I didn't count them, I would be over my goal and not achieving what I want to achieve. However... I don't necessarily count every single gram - if I know my sandwich usually has 3 pieces of lettuce, i'll use a regular count - e.g. every sandwich has just 10g of lettuce accounted for, even though it might be 6g one day and 14g the next. The calorie value is just too low to worry about too much.
I have some veggie-heavy recipes that, for example, use one carrot, three zucchini - I don't modify the weights inside the recipe as the value is negligible across the whole dish.3 -
I count them, but rarely weigh them properly. I guesstimate, use things like "half a package" and copy the previous entry of the same veggie regardless of how much I actually ate it. I pay more attention to avocado, since it's pretty high calorie.3
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If it goes in my mouth then I count it because even if I don't count it my body will7
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I didn't count nonstarchy veggies on the reducing part of my plan (although I did exclude things like tomatoes and carrots), but I do now on maintenance. On the other hand, I stayed under 1100 calories that whole time to allow a little leeway. Now I'm more serious about monitoring my TDEE.1
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ruqayyahsmum wrote: »If it goes in my mouth then I count it because even if I don't count it my body will
Nah my body won't do any significant counting of the calories in one slice of lettuce or tomato.
And law of averages counting works fine for my body too.
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