big plate of vegetables for dinner?

I think you should eat some from other food groups as well.
There's no such thing as too much veg (unless you blow up your stomach or something), but there is such a thing as too little protein and carbs.

Maybe divide your plate the way Dutch people tend to do it:
about 50% vegetables
about 25-35% starches (potatoes, rice, pasta etc)
about 15-25% meat or meat replacement.

We were taught to see our plate as a clock: half an hour vegetables, 15-20 minutes potatoes and 10-15 minutes meat.

I think it's great to have a big plate of veggies for one meal a day.
I'd add a little more fat into your diet, to make it more satisfying and tastier, and to help your body absorb all the great vitamins in the veggies.

Maybe a darker cut of chicken like leg, deep sea fish like salmon or cod, a splash of olive oil, some full fat cheese or cream cheese as your veggie topping.

Never too much veggies, but don't forget lean proteins :-)

I think it's generally a terrific thing. I tend to have a similar meal most evenings (stir fry with tofu). Sounds like you know exactly what you're talking about, but there are a couple of things to watch out for according to my nutritionist friend!

- overloading on fibre (hello gas and digestive problems)
- vitamin a overload (from too much sweet potato or carrots etc)
- betacarotene overload (too many carrots, sweet potatoes, red capsicum and other red or orange foods...makes you turn orange; literally!)
- inability for the body to absorb calcium/iron/other vitamins properly (this is caused by over eating one particular vegetable and not having a variety)
- not getting enough calories and being tempted to binge on carbs/protein/fats later.

go the veg!

I've never in my life heard of anyone overdosing on carrots. You're probably safe.

Those examples I gave were definitely EXTREME examples! But they're interesting ones! :happy:

I go through phases like that where all I eat are raw veggies and fruit it seems. Those are the weeks I take full advantage of the weekends where I end up eating out every meal to eat plenty of protein and carbs. I find when I'm better about my weeks being mainly raw fruits and veggies (and therefore generally under my calorie goal, sometimes by a lot) and my weekends full of carbs and proteins, the weight just falls off. I seemed to have forgotten that trick for a month and barely lost a pound. This week I got back to that style of eating and it's falling off again. But I've always had trouble meeting my protein goal and no trouble at all meeting my fiber goal.

When i was a baby, my mom fed me carrots quite a bit because i would actually eat them all. My face actually turned orange!

Yes that's fine, in fact I usually have something similar for dinner (500-600 grams of vegetables) along with something like kidney beans or tofu for protein. No, that's not too many veggies, unless you can't tolerate the fiber and it's what you eat the rest of the day along with dinner that's going to affect whether or not you lose weight.

ONE HANDFUL OF PROTEIN

TWO HANDFULS OF VEG(not carrotts, tomatoes, beans/peas)

There's nothing really wrong with it, but make sure you're getting enough fat and protein in your other meals and enough total calories. Maybe also throw in some edamame or something similar for extra protein.

Sounds great. I assume you're not also eating a big plate of veggies for breakfast and a big plate of veggies for lunch?
Seriously, it sounds great. Eat something with protein and some fat throughout the day and you should be fine.

Or, add some chickpeas, some edamame or some kidney beans to the plate of vegetables and then you're doing great!

Folks here will comment about the lack of protein. But, oddly, most won't comment when someone says they eat no vegetables through out the day, as long as they "hit their macros".

- inability for the body to absorb calcium/iron/other vitamins properly (this is caused by over eating one particular vegetable and not having a variety)

This can happen, particularly with the B vitamins, but again you'd have to be taking large amounts of one singular vitamin to affect the absorption of other ones, and that happens more often with supplementation than when you're getting all your vitamins through diet. Generally food is pretty well-balanced vitamin-wise unless you're really focusing on one food group to the exclusion of all others.

I've never in my life heard of anyone overdosing on carrots. You're probably safe.

I agree, you're not likely to overdose on vitamin A from vegetables, beta carotene is converted into vitamin A in the body, and that requires other processes that make it almost impossible to get too much of it. It would be different if you were taking a vitamin A capsule or something, but even if you turned orange from too much beta carotene (which you'd almost have to be trying to do) it wouldn't negatively affect your health necessarily.

My son drank an excessive amount of carrot juice when he was a toddler. He actually had a nice tan-like orange glow from it. Didn't overdose. But he won't touch carrots now that he's a preteen.