Do I count calories from fruits and vegetables?

If it goes in your mouth, then count it.

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Sorry if I'm repeating other posts (I haven't read them all!) I have double tracked for quite a while (the new ww points and mfp) and have found that on mfp you should track fruits and vegetables. With weight watchers it seems that they have given you a base amount of calories that is about 300-400 lower than mfp, but when you add on the fruits and veg it works out at about the same. If you didn't count them you will end up going over by the 300 - 400 calories they have taken off for ww each day.
I'm not sure if that makes sense!! Also this is only my observation after double tracking for a couple of months.

Oh yeah - they recommend 2 servings of fruit and 5 of vegetables per day, I'm usually over for the fruit (maybe 4 serves) and I'm still losing weight, but I imagine if you went fruit crazy you could easily go way over the 300 - 400 calories they've allowed as 'free' per day.

If you bite it, write it

I did WW for a while and fruits and veggies were "free" (except corn, potatoes, avocados, and bananas). I'm counting the calories of everything that I eat except the fruits and veggies; I feel like I shouldn't "punish" myself for choosing cherry tomatoes over Hershey's kisses.

Should I be counting the calories of ALL the foods I eat, including the fruits and veggies? Again, I don't want to "punish" myself by subtracting calories from my daily amount, even though I chose wisely. Suggestions? Anyone else not counting their fruit and vegetable calories?

Thanks

Many people eventually plateau on WW because of the unlimited fruits and veggies. While these are great foods for you, they can still be high in sugar (like a cup of grapes is pretty much your whole sugar for the day, maybe even over) so you should definitely track them. Calories are calories so you should definitely include every calorie that goes in. Also, (I just learned this) you should play around with your calorie allowance. Apparently 1,200 is too low for many people. Use the BMR calculator in the tools option to find out how many calories is best.... try increasing to around 1400-1600 and see how that goes. Adjust as needed.

P.S. By "everything" I mean on days that I actually log my food. There are definitely days when I know I'll be eating things that I'll never know the calories of, so I don't track those days.

I have those days as well, but I do the best I can to find the foods on MFP and enter them anyways. Everything gets entered everyday. I might put a note on the posting that "Today was a free day"... or cheat day... or whatever you want to call it.

Yes, count them. It's not a punishment. Your body counts them whether you do or not.

I tried that way of thinking and the scale didn't move for over a month...You can over eat on anything even veggies and fruits..Calories are calories at the end of the day. I started logging everything and stopped looking at this a punishment (and even splurge once in a while on "junk") but stick within the calories set in front of me.

I count my veggies and fruit..

It isn't a punishment, it is just an honest account of what you are taking in. No more, no less.

This.

every calorie counts, say if you have 3 servings of veg and 3 servings of fruit that prob around 240 calories give or take right there... im on a 1200 cal diet and that amount is way too much not to be accounting for