not logging vegetables? good idea or bad idea...

okay, so I think that eating 1200 calories per day may be a bit too little for me and i've been freaking out about increasing that intake on my logs. do you think it would be a good idea if i logged everything i ate minus the veggies, and made sure that that added up to 1200? then i'd just go and eat my veggies as usual becuase i figured that it would probably never go over 200 cals, so my total would hover around 1300 calories instead of 1200...

thanks!

It depends on the types of vegetables you eat and how you prepare them.  Technically potatoes, peas, and corn count as "vegetables" on the food pyramid, but they are starches nutritionally.

I don't usually bother recording stuff like lettuce and tomatoes on sandwiches,  every vegetable in a salad, etc.  But I think it probably adds up to only about 20 cal a day.

Maybe you should just increase your calorie allowance to 1300.  

I record everything because even if it doesn't add many calories, I like to see my vitamin counts go up.

I don't add a single leaf of iceburg lettuce if I had it on a sandwich for lunch, though.

...unless I have time to kill. ;) 

haha, well i don't really eat potatoes and corns that much... and by vegetables i just meant stuff like salads , broccoli, carrots, spinach, and the sort. thanks though :)

I think it is a good idea to try and log veggies because if nothing else it is good positive re-enforcement for eating good things. I would rather eat a cup of awesome veggies for a double digit caloric intake than most other things that are in the triple digits. That said, I am far less worried about logging veggies perfectly. I tend to estimate how much I ate rather than measuring.

I think to do true dilagance, you must log everything.  I do just to see where I'm at.

G/l

Bob

I can easily eat 125 calories of broccoli in one sitting, so for me I log them when I'm in the mood to.

If you're not going to bother logging something, then veggies are the safest things to cut out, but the really starchy ones probably should be logged.