Do you count?
 

Do you guys count the calories in vegtables like lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatos?

I do because when youre eating quite a few different ones a day it adds up :)

If it goes in my mouth I count it !!

If I eat a lot of it, then yes :)


Annie

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I definitely do!! It adds up! :)

ditto...I count everything.

I count everything too!

Yup, I count everything. Veggies may be low in calories, but it's still calories!

Yep!

I find that I have better weeks when I count EVERY bite, I even made a salad counter in excel so that all I have to do is put in the ounces of each ingredient going in and it tells me exactly how expensive the salad is in calories ;) it all adds up so I try and not estimate unless I must because of things not in my control.

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Me

I count the calories for my veggies as well as the fresh spinach I put in my salad. It all adds up in the end

another for - count everything!

I estimate veggies I dont weigh or measure them. I have a "salad" in fitday that contains the TYPICAL things that might be in my salad (lettuce, carrot, red pepper, cucumber). I have "large salad", "regular salad".

I eat salad 1-2 times a day and I am not typing it all in each time. The difference is so minimal and frankly if 20 calories one way or an other makes the difference I am on the wrong plan. I then manually log anything else I put on my salad

I do the same for the veggies for my omelete, oven roasted non-starchy veggies, and just mixed cut raw veggies.

So I count them, but not precisely. Somedays my veggie omelet only has a bit of onion in it and I am charging myself for the mushrooms, celery and redpepper. Some days I have loads of leftover veggies from the night before and am proably underrecording. It all evens out.

Even after a couple years calorie counting chafes and I need to make it as quick as possible. I have entire typical meals in fitday so I can enter it all in one line.

I count every single calorie that goes in... to my knowledge! I weigh and measure everything and it's just become second nature.

If I can't weigh or measure my food, I over estimate as much as possible.

I should clarify.. if I eat a "bagged" salad that has 3 pieces of shredded carrot in it, I'm just track lettuce. If I'm making the salad and I know I put in half a cuc, 1/2 carrot, etc then I will figure that out..

I'm not as rigid tracking fruit and veggies as I am with say, chocolate pie :rofl: