count fruits and veggies????

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  • mogadad
    mogadad Posts: 41 Member
    I count everything
  • lasinbb
    lasinbb Posts: 14
    Seems like WW is a GREAT first step to help people eat more fruits and veggies. Once people are eating well, however, I think we have to count them. I'm a vegetarian and if I didn't count them I could eat all day and night and gain lots of weight and not have any idea why. Those carbs add up.
  • Nmhahn14
    Nmhahn14 Posts: 2
    I am currently wondering the same thing! When WW switched to PP I dropped it because I wasn't losing anything anymore. I think it's important to be conscientious of how many fruits you are eating especially (like someone said fruit cals add up, bananas are like 200 cals!) however, the reason WW does it that way is because they feel the benefit of eating fruits and veggies outweighs the calorie intake. In sum, I count high cal fruits, but not veggies :)
  • TonyaCrego
    TonyaCrego Posts: 59 Member
    I am doing WW PointsPlus and just canceled my WW membership. I just bought a Food companion and the points calculator and am using MFP to log. I enter all my food in my diary, then under the notes I log my flex points for the week and my points for my meals. I am using the points (values) rather than calories so I am counting fruits/veggies free as WW does. I love their new PointsPlus program. They really improved it this time!

    i was beginning to feel alone in my thinking on this subject! Thanks for your input! I also have the companions and calculator but wasnt doing good without the support at the meetings so i gained all the weight back! I am now doing Body by vi so im going to log everything and see how it goes! Good Luck :)
  • TonyaCrego
    TonyaCrego Posts: 59 Member
    I am currently wondering the same thing! When WW switched to PP I dropped it because I wasn't losing anything anymore. I think it's important to be conscientious of how many fruits you are eating especially (like someone said fruit cals add up, bananas are like 200 cals!) however, the reason WW does it that way is because they feel the benefit of eating fruits and veggies outweighs the calorie intake. In sum, I count high cal fruits, but not veggies :)

    well apparently, to sum it up, you should count EVERYTHING!!! lol
  • Shanicolet1
    Shanicolet1 Posts: 5
    I think you'd run into trouble if you don't count them. You're counting calories not counting points. The points allowance is set to allow free fruits and veg, the calorie allowance isn't.

    Yeah counting calories is different from WW in that you are responsible for whatever you eat. No freebies on MFP! If it has calories log it!
  • firesoforion
    firesoforion Posts: 1,017 Member
    I think logging everything is a good idea, and I thought that even though those fruits and vegetables had no points, they did once you reached a certain amount? I only did the "I found the info online for free" version, but that's what I thought?
  • BeckyKSmith
    BeckyKSmith Posts: 212 Member
    I dont' count cucumbers or celery...it is too redicuously low. By the time you walk to your computer, sit down, and log it, then stand back up you have already burnt it off.
    Fruit...absolutely!
  • takehimaway
    takehimaway Posts: 499 Member
    I log and count zero calorie stuff; I logged a SAMPLE OF YOGURT the other day. If it goes in your mouth, log it.
  • Sweet_Potato
    Sweet_Potato Posts: 1,119 Member
    I ate about 300 calories worth of fruits and vegetables today-- that's one-quarter of my calorie goal. And my fruit/veggie consumption was relatively light compared to other days.

    So yes, absolutely count it!
  • giggitygoo
    giggitygoo Posts: 1,978 Member
    It's really to your benefit to track everything you eat. This way, you can go back and look at the times when you were doing really well, and try and replicate. You can also go back to when you hit a bump in the road, or a gain to see what caused it.


    The more information you have, the better.
  • maryjay51
    maryjay51 Posts: 742
    i count all the fruit and veggies.the only thing i really dont count is putting in a dab of chopped onion in my egg or food or a few pieces of red bell pepper in something..
  • Bentley2718
    Bentley2718 Posts: 1,689 Member
    They have calories, so I count them. Even if I eat a ton of raw carrots and it's only 30 calories, I still count the 30 calories. Heck I count when I have 5 calories worth of pickles. :) If it goes in my mouth it gets counted.

    30 calories worth of carrots is not a lot of carrots! Damn sugar bombs of the veggie world.

    That said, I'm sloppier with some foods than others. Celery, I never bother to weigh. Cucumbers, nope. Spinach, eyeball. Carrots, I weigh. Most fruit, I either weigh, or know how much fits in a certain container (I always taken melon in the same size container). I log everything, I'm just more anal about getting the portion size right for some things.
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