Okay, I was wondering if I could still lose weight by logging all foods, sauces topping and cheese.......well basically everything except veggies? I have been treating raw green veggies as free foods. Will this effect my weight loss?
I eat a LOT of veggies so YES i log them all.
many ppl don't realize that veggie do indeed contain calories. Not many in most cases but I would log them.
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some veggies have more calories than others too, so get familiar with which ones can SOMETIMES be counted as free and which shouldn't. Most of the time I don't count onions lettuce and tomato on a sandwich, because its in very small amounts really..maybe 10 calories for everything. But if i'm having a salad with tomato and onions and other veggies for lunch, then I will definitely count as much as possible because it will add up..
same if you're having steamed veggies for lunch or dinner. Its low cal but it adds up.
I suppose you all are right. I am just lazy. I didnt feel like adding up lettuce tomato and mushrooms, but i do add up the sugar veggies like carrots and beet and stuff. it is true it does add up.
I too rarely count lettuce, tomato, cucumber, spinach, or sprouts on sandwiches; some vegetables like avocadoes (well, I guess they're technically a fruit) are really high in calories. So are olives (for their size) and other stuff you might put on sandwiches or in salads.
Also with fruit...I figure its healthy stuff so Im not gonna be dead strict on counting, so a bowl of chopped fruit I count 100 (normally 1 apple, grapes, satsuma and a couple strawberries)
I say be strict with the high cal stuff but the good stuff just add a rounded amount on to make your life easier.
This is what I do...side veggies, weigh and log, veggies in small salad eyeball and log unless it one radish or one baby carrot,( I count these as free because as others have said the weight is negligible) in BIG salad: weigh and log every thing especially if it beet root, large tomatoes, corn, beans etc.
I was talking to a friend who has done W.W. with great success, using the points system and they tell you not to count raw vegetables because it takes so many calories to digest them. Keep in mind that tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, and basically anything with seeds is actually fruit and typically contains more sugar and therefore more calories. Like someone else said, count vegetables definitely if they are cooked, as that makes them easier to digest and the calories are no longer neglible (at least accoording to my friend who does WW).
That's my 2 cents!
Everything, even lettuce, has a calorie value and they still all count towards your calorie intake. So, I weigh and count everything. So much of my diet is vegetarian these days that if I didn't count the calories of vegetables I would pretty much not be counting anything at all.
Well obviously every food has calories! But I did talk to my nutritional science professor about the calories involved with vegetables, and basically he said that veggies are the one thing you can eat unlimited amounts of and will never get fat. & this is because 1. it's fiber content and 2. the cellulose is too hard for your stomach to digest.
But personally, I still count vegetables towards my daily consumption just because they make me feel so bloated & I can't bring myself to believe that they won't make me fat 
I count them cause that way I get A grade heehee
Yes, by all means eat them and as much as you can take because they are amazingly good for you. I just meant that if I am counting calories I personally need to count them all or I am in doubt of how many I have had. Plus, I get some weird kick of putting in like 100 grams or more of a veg and having it show up as 20 calories or something silly like that. It helps to show me which calories my body gets the most out of and which were a waste to but in my mouth.
Most veggies don't have a lot of calories so if it is was a small thing, it isn't a big deal not to count them for your calories. Unless it just a bit of salad on my sandwich, I count them, not because of the calories but it gives you a better picture of your nutrition and what you might need to eat more of because calorie count tells if you get enough fibre, Vitamin A, C, etc.
