Vegetable juice

Raymondsworld22

I like to juice vegetables. Should I count them as my carb intake or it doesn't matter? Some people say count them other say if you can't lose weight with eating veggies it's something wrong with you lol...help

peleroja

Vegetables have calories (and those calories are mostly carbohydrate). Relatively few compared to an equal amount of butter or cookies or something, but yes, you should absolutely count them if you're trying to accurately track calories.

When you juice, you are removing the fibre (the stuff that keeps you full and provides bulk) while retaining most of the carbs and sugar (and therefore the calories.)

janejellyroll

If you're counting carbohydrates, why wouldn't you count the carbohydrates in juice?

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt

They will count both towards your carbohydrate intake and your calorie intake for the day.

Re:

if you can't lose weight with eating veggies it's something wrong with you lol

If the vegetables that you consume put you over your TDEE, you will gain weight. Juicing tends to concentrate the sugar in your fruits and vegetables, resulting in a more calorie-dense food than the fruit/vegetable itself. So yes, you could easily go over your calorie goal if you drink a lot of vegetable juice without counting it.

Nutbutt24

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