10 a Day (800g) Veggie&Fruit Challenge Participants Check in!
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Checking in for today. Yesterday afternoon I started feeling ill (nothing related to my diet!) and didn't eat much. So just about 600g for the day.
Today has been a vegetable-palooza, though:
170g sauteed onions and mushrooms
420g crudites (radish, red bell pepper, celery, cucumber, sugar snap pea pods, grape tomatoes)
85g broccoli and pearl onions
350g tomato braised cauliflower
85g black beans
200g eggplant caponata
85g half a baked pear
For a total of 1395g!
(Question: Is it OK for me to post links to the recipes? I don't have any connection to the sites the recipes are posted on.)
I know I want the recipe for that tomato braised cauliflower!
Look up, 5 posts above yours.3 -
I thought of this thread while I ordered my roasted veggies tacos.
Then I weighed them when I got home and realized they only had about 75 g of veggies in them.1 -
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The previous Monday-Friday before the challenge
Avg net calories 1012
Avg protein g 70
Avg Fat g 53
Avg Carb g 145
Avg fibre g 23
5 challenge days
Avg net calories 923
Avg protein g 87
Avg fat g 50
Avg carb g 154
Avg fibre g 23
Before the challenge I averaged 400-550g a day. Didn't think I'd have any problem stepping up to 800g. I've always prepped my veggies everyday and make our food from scratch in the main.
My problem was the sheer volume of food. I normally have some high calorie foods likes of ramen noodles or garlic bread etc. I felt like I couldn't eat beyond veggies.
I felt like I could pop food wise. I've never really been a volume eater and I struggled with what felt like a medicine ball in my belly.
Toilet wise I had no difference really with solid deposits but liquid assets were a totally different ball game.
I was peeing for England with the increased potassium. At some points it also looked like I had visited homer simpson in the nuclear factory it was that bright yellow. All the B2.
My macros didn't really change much. I focused on protein so it was actually better, fat suffered a bit. I think in the main it was hitting my macros with bulk veg instead of just eating a carb/fibre bar type thing.
Net calories also dropped by almost 100 a day. That could be in part due to a training progression as I'm working on a progressive running HADD programme. The rest down to being full.
I think I'll go back to eating around 400-500g again.
It allows me ice cream, noodles, wine and vodka. That's a balanced diet to me so stuff the latest advice and the 10 a day
FYI I've eaten only 133g today. Going to drink my calories and give my digestive system a day off!
Edit to add for any newbies reading. Netting below 1200 is not a good idea, had I done my net over 7 days it would be much more as I eat/drink over 2000 at weekends.6 -
My poor little trundler was so full and heavy after today's trip to the veggie market that I had to come home before doing the next stage of my food shopping!!
That's approximately:
7.6kg of watermelon
2 kg of carrots
1.75 kg of avocados
just under 2 kg of grapes
1 kg of cucumber
1.5 kg of beetroot
725 g of lemons (I'll only be using the juice of those, so it hardly counts)
bunch of mint
I still need to get baby spinach and mushrooms (almost always terrible quality at the market).
Yes, that is for one person. Yes, I intend to eat it all.
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Beets. I do love them! I also love the fright you get in the bathroom later! LOL!4
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Right, add 600g of spinach and half a kg each of mushrooms, tempeh, and chickpeas to that lot (the chickpeas actually won't get used this week, they're a pre-emptive buy for next weekend's batch of hummus).
Is gelato a vegetable?
It was green (pistachio)... 3 -
800g today!
Orange, Apple, bunch of grapes
Salad of lettuce, asparagus, mushrooms, tomatoes
Eggplant and Sweet potatoes for dinner (SP is a gray area but it's high nutrition so for this I'm counting it, 750g without it)
I only ate 6 servings using my old method of counting (~50 calories per serving), so with my last diet (8 servings a day) i guess i was exceeding this challenge.
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I ate about 7 servings today. Incorporated a low sodium v8 which helped some of the fullness. I'm happy about this cause 7 servings is more than I averaged before.
And I'm not sure anyone mentioned this, but many fresh fruit and veg aren't that delicious or cheap this time of year because of the season in the US.5 -
After replenishing my fruit and veg stocks, I came in at 1201 for the day (possibly more, grapes kept falling into my mouth before I put them in the fridge out of sight!). Consisting of: watermelon, grapes, avocado, tempeh, baby spinach, mushrooms, beetroot. I did not count the gelato...
I had to move shelves around in my fridge to fit those two watermelons in, they're bigger than the ones I've been getting previously this summer. My eyes may have been bigger than my tummy (and calorie allowance) with those and the grapes... Thank goodness some of the veg is going to work with me tomorrow and will be stored in my fridge there!!
For those who have increased their fruit and veg this past week, have a look at your diary reports for various micronutrients to see the difference it's made. My Vit A went through the roof with all those carrots!5 -
WTF??? I just had my weekly weigh in and I'm down a whopping 4lbs!
This must be water weight due to the decrease in processed carbs I'm guessing?
I'm a slight female by the way with a bmi of 20 and losing the last couple of winter vanity pounds I purposefully put on to keep warmer over winter.6 -
RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »WTF??? I just had my weekly weigh in and I'm down a whopping 4lbs!
This must be water weight due to the decrease in processed carbs I'm guessing?
I'm a slight female by the way with a bmi of 20 and losing the last couple of winter vanity pounds I purposefully put on to keep warmer over winter.
Carbs are carbs - if you've kept your carbs the same, just from different sources, I can't imagine it would make that much difference. Less processed probably means less sodium, also more fibre - perhaps both have contributed?1 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »WTF??? I just had my weekly weigh in and I'm down a whopping 4lbs!
This must be water weight due to the decrease in processed carbs I'm guessing?
I'm a slight female by the way with a bmi of 20 and losing the last couple of winter vanity pounds I purposefully put on to keep warmer over winter.
Carbs are carbs - if you've kept your carbs the same, just from different sources, I can't imagine it would make that much difference. Less processed probably means less sodium, also more fibre - perhaps both have contributed?
My fibre didn't change and my carbs increased? The carbs just changed from noodles, bread etc to veg.1 -
RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »WTF??? I just had my weekly weigh in and I'm down a whopping 4lbs!
This must be water weight due to the decrease in processed carbs I'm guessing?
I'm a slight female by the way with a bmi of 20 and losing the last couple of winter vanity pounds I purposefully put on to keep warmer over winter.
Carbs are carbs - if you've kept your carbs the same, just from different sources, I can't imagine it would make that much difference. Less processed probably means less sodium, also more fibre - perhaps both have contributed?
My fibre didn't change and my carbs increased? The carbs just changed from noodles, bread etc to veg.
More potassium?2 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »WTF??? I just had my weekly weigh in and I'm down a whopping 4lbs!
This must be water weight due to the decrease in processed carbs I'm guessing?
I'm a slight female by the way with a bmi of 20 and losing the last couple of winter vanity pounds I purposefully put on to keep warmer over winter.
Carbs are carbs - if you've kept your carbs the same, just from different sources, I can't imagine it would make that much difference. Less processed probably means less sodium, also more fibre - perhaps both have contributed?
My fibre didn't change and my carbs increased? The carbs just changed from noodles, bread etc to veg.
More potassium?
Could be, I was certainly peeing a lot
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One thing to keep in mind:
MFP only tracks a limited subset of known micronutrients (vitamins/minerals), and only semi-accurately tracks those that are reliably on food labels (for example, potassium often isn't on labels). There are other vitamins & minerals, beneficial anti-oxidants, and other biologically useful compounds in those veggies & fruit . . . not to mention, probably, some yet undiscovered ones. (There are multiple substances considered vitamins now, that were not so in my childhood - I'd bet the discoveries aren't over.)
By increasing your fruits & veggies, you're getting all those forms of goodness - time-tested in most cases by thousands of years of human evolution - into your system. Good stuff!7 -
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Managed approximately 7 servings yesterday and was quite easy but these were high sugar items: baked beans, orange juice, tangerines, pear, strawberries, carrot, peas/sweetcorn.
I really enjoyed this challenge and the comments have been fun. I will continue for March if I can and probably indefinitely as it is helping me to keep my calories down and fullness up.
Thank you crzycatlady1 for setting up the challenge.2 -
I too am going to keep pushing the veggies for March. I'm going grocery shopping today, you should see my list with all the produce on it!
I've started eating a very large salad for my first meal of the day with a load of dressing made from Greek yogurt (for the protein) and that meal has been VERY satisfying for me. If this challenge has brought nothing else into my life, it's brought that, and I'm grateful for it. Oh, also, fruit and yogurt for dessert after dinner. With just those two things, I'd have a reasonable daily intake.3 -
I am going to also keep my consumption up. Though I am going to trim it back first and get an idea of just how much I was eating prior to this. Maybe I will visit the past entries in my diary to get a better idea. Then build from there.
Just wondering, will there be thread for anyone who wants to continue or will we just be doing this without any further forum thread?1
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