Wanna eat rice every day.

lauriehouse
lauriehouse Posts: 17 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I'm going through a phase or something, where Im really into rice..and I want to eat it every day for breakfast..or most days. With some soy sauce.

How healthy is this??

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  • glin23
    glin23 Posts: 460 Member
    As long as it fits your macros, it's fine. Personally I wouldn't advise just eating rice for the whole day, but I'm sure you knew that.
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    I'm willing to bet that it's fine to do so if:

    1) You're not consuming so much rice that you're gaining fat from eating too many calories.
    2) Your rice consumption isn't pushing other needed nutrients out of your diet.

    Sort of a common sense rule to apply here. If you only ate rice you'd run into problems. If you eat a diverse diet with the appropriate calorie intake, and you happen to include rice daily, I'm willing to bet you'll be just fine.
  • itsscottwilder
    itsscottwilder Posts: 317
    eating a bowl of rice isn't the question. The bigger idea is to make sure your daily carb intake doesn't go through the roof when you combine a bowl of rice with the rest of your diet.
  • georgina1970
    georgina1970 Posts: 333 Member
    If its white rice it's pure Hi GI carbs and won't keep you full for terribly long.
    Try the brown rice - Low GI, keeps you full for longer, has more nutrients and fibre. Much better for you!
    If your craving carbs, review your food diary and over calorie intake. You may have set it too low for the amount of activity your doing.
  • norahwynn
    norahwynn Posts: 862 Member
    If you want to eat it with soy sauce each time, i'd maybe look into the low sodium (or another sauce all together) as soy sauce takes a huge amount of your daily sodium goal.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Eat it.
    Know that it's not the most nutritious choice, but it's tasty. How it fits in your "macros" really depends on your macros.
    Know that you might be hungry again soon after (I usually am, after white rice).
    Know that soy sauce is high in sodium.

    As side steel says: common sense applies.

    cheers
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
    I eat white rice about just about every day, with dinner and/or lunch. As far as i can tell I'm doing fine.
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    I do too.
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Depends on what all else you're eating. Nothing inherently wrong with eating rice and soy sauce every day. It's your overall diet that matters.
  • madtownjeremy
    madtownjeremy Posts: 249
    Yep. Macros. If it fits, eat it.

    I read about someone over at bodybuilding.com once who was eating McDonalds every day and continued to cut. That's the beauty of macros...track them carefully and you'll find you have room for a bit of junk food. :)
  • Myhaloslipped
    Myhaloslipped Posts: 4,317 Member
    Try black rice. They sell it in regular grocery stores, and I discovered it the other day. Apparently it's even better for you than brown rice, and it tastes much better, in my opinion.
  • what_lola_wants
    what_lola_wants Posts: 129 Member
    An Asian here, we have rice like everyday, at least 2 meals out of a day that rice is a must!
    Control the portion, watch out your macro and play with different types of rice, white rice, brown rice, and etc etc
  • Cikan_Vuz
    Cikan_Vuz Posts: 32 Member
    Brown rice or White rice or Wild Rice?

    me, I love em all but it is said “eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit,
    little starch, and no sugar”, and rice falls under starches if white, you get grains if brown or wild but still in starch category.
    Remember:
    Protein contains 4 calories per gram
    Carbohydrates (whether it's sugar, complex, sugar alcohols or fiber) contain 4 calories per gram
    Fat contains 9 calories per gram

    Also, you can use Bragg, Liquid Aminos, Natural Soy Sauce Alternative too

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