What *don't* you track in your diary?

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  • Mykaelous
    Mykaelous Posts: 231 Member
    I generally don't track vegetables or even fruit that I eat as a snack. If I decide to have a random orange or some carrots I guess I just feel that the calories are insignificant and that the nutritional value outweighs any negative impact on my calorific intake. Ill tack them if I have a meal, but if I just finished a workout and decide to have a banana the 70 calories IMO are not going to make or break my diet, what will is whether I decided to have a salad for lunch or a 6 dollar burger.
  • laurenbausch
    laurenbausch Posts: 146
    Plain herbal hot tea...I drink a ton of it but limit my caffeine intake, so only 1 or 2 green teas a day, but I drink many other varieties.

    Vitamins...nope, don't track those either.

    Spices...I don't add salt to my food though and cook without salt.

    A few low calorie non-starch veggies I top my salad with.

    Water intake, but I'm always over 8 glasses anyway. I'm always thirsty and make plenty of bathroom runs because I can't put down the H2O. My husband thinks it's hilarious.

    Everything else is meticulously tracked though.
  • runlaugheatpie
    runlaugheatpie Posts: 376 Member
    like many others: spices, gum and diet soda (non-caffeine) as I might only have one a week.
    coffee I track because I'm trying to be conscious of how much I drink.
    I also don't track the Vit D I take every morning or the mag.citrate I take at night (if I take it)
  • MeaganFeds
    MeaganFeds Posts: 3 Member
    I don't track spices, water, or medication. I've been taking Robitussin and cough drops, but I figure I'm buring off those calories with all my coughing anyway :)
  • YoungDoc2B
    YoungDoc2B Posts: 1,593 Member
    Spices. It's too tedious of a process for something that doesn't have calories most of the time.
  • contingencyplan
    contingencyplan Posts: 3,639 Member
    I don't track anything that has 0 caloric value, or only 5-10 calories per serving (like coffee, which I drink black).
  • SeasideOasis
    SeasideOasis Posts: 1,057 Member
    Alcohol!! Yep, I said it.

    When I track alcohol and know I am going over due to that alone, I get the "screw it" attitude and just eat whatever. However, in the last two and a half weeks, I stopped tracking alcohol and only food and saw the scale moving down again. I think its because I stopped stressing about my food and just ate what I knew I should.
  • hellokitty41489
    hellokitty41489 Posts: 93
    I don't track water; I just don't see the point in it I rarely drink anything besides water so it isn't like I don't get enough of it and need to remind myself to drink it
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  • kylesmommy89
    kylesmommy89 Posts: 356 Member
    When I am logging, I log everything except water.
  • jogglesngoggles
    jogglesngoggles Posts: 362 Member
    I track everything but salt pepper and water. Even 0 calorie things like coffee and vinegar just so I can see what I put in my body every day!
  • sonjalucia
    sonjalucia Posts: 120 Member
    I do not track Redbull *zero.

    Before, I did not track my splenda or gum, but realizing now that they have carbs and small traces of calories, I will!
  • LuckyAng
    LuckyAng Posts: 1,173 Member
    grocery store food samples.... today I had a cube of pepper jack, a 1/4 of a laughing cow baby cheddar circle, and a slice of a peach. SO, not going to bother.

    Hahaha, this too. Trip to Sam's or Costco? I burn those samples off just pushing that huge heavy cart through the madness!
  • hypallage
    hypallage Posts: 624 Member
    I don't track tea - I used to but I have so little milk in it I can't be bothered
  • Hrl1993
    Hrl1993 Posts: 106 Member
    grocery store food samples.... today I had a cube of pepper jack, a 1/4 of a laughing cow baby cheddar circle, and a slice of a peach. SO, not going to bother.

    Hahaha, this too. Trip to Sam's or Costco? I burn those samples off just pushing that huge heavy cart through the madness!

    Plus samples don't have calories. It's science :p
  • Hrl1993
    Hrl1993 Posts: 106 Member
    Weekends!

    sigh...

    HAHAHA been there!!!!
  • xoxobollywood1991
    xoxobollywood1991 Posts: 75
    water, salt and spices and 1-calorie veggies :P
  • saustin201
    saustin201 Posts: 270 Member
    herbs and spices and vitamins
  • love2cycle
    love2cycle Posts: 448 Member
    I use half and half in my coffee, not a lot, and I don't think it's worth it to count.
  • AaronG91
    AaronG91 Posts: 20
    I try to count all major items, I usually under estimate my exercise by a few minutes which I think should account for vitamins and spices.

    I have tracked water a few times, but I drink so much it becomes quite an effort to increase it one by one.

    Sometimes useful to track coffee to see roughly how much caffeine I'm having.
  • lauravasseur
    lauravasseur Posts: 62
    I don't track things that have no calories.
    I don't weigh things that have very low calorie density, but I do estimate and track those.
    I don't track vitamins, which do have calories.

    Learn something new everyday, don't know why I never considered that vitamins have calories
  • ImperfektAngel
    ImperfektAngel Posts: 811 Member
    gum
  • happythermia
    happythermia Posts: 374
    Booze. I know that's crazy, but I'm losing at a rate that I'm happy with.

    Until that stops, I will enjoy my cocktails :-)
  • LilynEdensmom
    LilynEdensmom Posts: 612 Member
    Spices vitimans medicines
  • Inebriated
    Inebriated Posts: 271
    Spices, tea, coffee, coke zero, gum, not sure what else.
  • galaxiegal
    galaxiegal Posts: 90
    I don't track diet drinks, like diet coke, water, spices, coffee (I use splenda so no sugar) other than that i try to stay true and track all consumed calories
  • Windy32
    Windy32 Posts: 54
    Spices, breathsavers, and water
  • eli_802
    eli_802 Posts: 60
    I track EVERYTHING besides toothpaste, but i'm not eating that!

    hahah i love this
  • sdavis0224
    sdavis0224 Posts: 23
    Any vegetable that was 0 points in weight watchers. If I can eat an infinite amount of celery in one system, I can eat an infinite amount of celery in another system.

    Thank you cause I was thinking the same thing... how am i get hit with eating green beans on here but when i did weight watchers they were "0" points....
  • brooke432
    brooke432 Posts: 17
    Mustard, spices/seasonings, and vitamins.

    In addition to these: Any zero calorie beverage.

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