Eating unlimited fruits and vegetables
Mikestruggle
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Can i still lose weight if i fill up on fruit and smoothies all day?
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As long as you're on a deficit, yes.3
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Measure then accurately and log them and stay under calories and yes. If you mean eat them all day long and not count them, unlikely. Fruit can be high calorie, smoothies very much so.5
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If unlimited means you're still within your calorie goal.
Newsflash: Fruit and vegetables have calories.
Oh, and you can put anything in a smoothie.5 -
Probably not. Fruit is ridiculously high in calories and they add up quickly especially when blended into a decent sized smoothie.6
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If you a keeping a deficit then yes you will lose. I'm not sure why you'd want to eat nothing but smoothies though, would get a little boring?1
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If i can fill up on smoothies it prevents me from eating junk food. My smoothies are almost always 2 bananas 1 cup of berries and some ice0
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You didn't answer if you log your smoothies. 2 bananas and a cup of berries could run close to 300 cals.3
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Mikestruggle wrote: »If i can fill up on smoothies it prevents me from eating junk food. My smoothies are almost always 2 bananas 1 cup of berries and some ice
Yes, as a guy most likely you can - if two of these are filling you up it is at most 500-600 cals and you are staying active it might not be a problem. If you are drinking much more, no, it's going to be a problem.
What matters is your total intake, not part of your day.0 -
kommodevaran wrote: »If unlimited means you're still within your calorie goal.
Newsflash: Fruit and vegetables have calories.
Oh, and you can put anything in a smoothie.
FALSE!!!!
Apparently, according to my MSN front page, SOME Fruits and veggies have NEGATIVE cals. So according to the article you can eat tonnes of it and it will actually take calories away from the burger lol
hahaha made me lol
Oooh! Gimme some!
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I don't know about anyone else but smoothies I make end up 400 to 600ish calories each. I'd gain if I had those unlimited.
I treat a smoothie as a dessert or special treat since they are high calorie and not long term filling.2 -
AmazonMayan wrote: »I don't know about anyone else but smoothies I make end up 400 to 600ish calories each. I'd gain if I had those unlimited.
I treat a smoothie as a dessert or special treat since they are high calorie and not long term filling.
I usually do 1 banana (100 cals) 30g flavoured protein (140 cals) and a dollop of plain yogurt (50 cals and about 50 cals of berries or greens).
350 cals or so. With the protein, I find it pretty filling. YMMV.1 -
kommodevaran wrote: »If unlimited means you're still within your calorie goal.
Newsflash: Fruit and vegetables have calories.
Oh, and you can put anything in a smoothie.
Exactly this.
I find I can eat lots and lots of veg and not hit my calorie limit, since they are more filling than their actual calories. That's not the case with fruit, although I generally won't want more than 3 pieces of fruit (or the equivalent serving of berries) in a day, and don't love the huge fruits like melons enough to eat all of them, so also eat less than how filling they are to me.
If you love high cal fruits like bananas or go nuts with them or juice high cal fruits, it's quite possible to eat more than you should, though, so I'd track them.
I typically think that I eat unlimited veg, but I track, so I cut other things if my veg would push me over. Unlimited does not mean untracked. I basically do the same with fruit, but wouldn't recommend it for someone really into fruit (I actually like most veg more, although in season strawberries and peaches are hard to resist and I do love a good pear).0 -
Maybe, maybe not. I prelogged 450 calories from fruits and vegetables so far today (and I'll probably have another 150ish more for dessert). My calorie deficit each day is only about 250-300 calories, so if I didn't count the calories from my fruits/vegetables I would be gaining weight (at a rate of about a half pound gained per week) instead of losing.1
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kommodevaran wrote: »If unlimited means you're still within your calorie goal.
Newsflash: Fruit and vegetables have calories.
Oh, and you can put anything in a smoothie.
FALSE!!!!
Apparently, according to my MSN front page, SOME Fruits and veggies have NEGATIVE cals. So according to the article you can eat tonnes of it and it will actually take calories away from the burger lol hahaha made me lol
Don't say that stuff out loud, there's people who are going to believe you.11 -
I get the drift - if you eat above your calories you will get fat. But don't steer clear of fruit and milk. A 200ml whole milk smoothie with 100gms of fresh fruit is a great breakfast. It's not a snack though! (Sorry about the metric - I'm English)suzyjane1972 wrote: »Probably not. Fruit is ridiculously high in calories and they add up quickly especially when blended into a decent sized smoothie.
Salads like cucumber, celery and leaves are very low in calories so I'd say go ahead and munch!
Best of luck.
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Mikestruggle wrote: »Can i still lose weight if i fill up on fruit and smoothies all day?
Calories are king. Smoothies can have A LOT of calories in them. Fruits add up, too.0 -
Mikestruggle wrote: »If i can fill up on smoothies it prevents me from eating junk food. My smoothies are almost always 2 bananas 1 cup of berries and some ice
Nutritionally that's better than junk food. Calorie wise that all depends. What you're describing here is as many calories as I eat for lunch.0 -
kommodevaran wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »If unlimited means you're still within your calorie goal.
Newsflash: Fruit and vegetables have calories.
Oh, and you can put anything in a smoothie.
FALSE!!!!
Apparently, according to my MSN front page, SOME Fruits and veggies have NEGATIVE cals. So according to the article you can eat tonnes of it and it will actually take calories away from the burger lol hahaha made me lol
Oooh! Gimme some!
You asked
foodiejunky.com/8-negative-calorie-foods-what-should-you-be-eating/
Sure, negative calories in a vacuum. In reality, nope.0 -
There is nothing wrong with 'junk' food every now and then. I lost over 80lbs including so called junk. I just see all food as energy.Mikestruggle wrote: »If i can fill up on smoothies it prevents me from eating junk food. My smoothies are almost always 2 bananas 1 cup of berries and some ice
But unlimited fruits and veg? Nah. You could easily gain weight eating more than your maintenance calories of fruit and veg every day. still weigh and log the fruits and veg. Include fat and protein sources, too.
Too funny! I am glad I finished my diet coke before I read this.kommodevaran wrote: »If unlimited means you're still within your calorie goal.
Newsflash: Fruit and vegetables have calories.
Oh, and you can put anything in a smoothie.
FALSE!!!!
Apparently, according to my MSN front page, SOME Fruits and veggies have NEGATIVE cals. So according to the article you can eat tonnes of it and it will actually take calories away from the burger lol hahaha made me lol
Negative calorie... *snort*0 -
No.. Everyone needs to count calories in the beginning and not try to stuff themselves with "GOOD" calories. You'll probably go over your calorie intake boundary with all the sugar from bananas, and eating several a day, well, you may do the opposite and start gaining weight instead. MFP is used to count... so count with us!
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If you maintain a caloric deficit, you'll lose weight regardless of what you're eating and/or when you eat it.
The question that has yet to be asked....where are you planning on getting your protein from? Eating fruit and drinking smoothies all day isn't going to give you any significant amount of protein. A large caloric deficit and insufficient protein is a great recipe for losing a lot of lean body mass (i.e., muscle) along with the fat.1 -
OP are you planning on counting the calories from fruit and veg, and logging it? Some people think fruit and veggies are "free foods", when they most certainly are not.1
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Fruit is high calorie?! A cup of watermelon is 47 calories. A cup of blackberries is 85 calories and etc...0
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Christine_72 wrote: »OP are you planning on counting the calories from fruit and veg, and logging it? Some people think fruit and veggies are "free foods", when they most certainly are not.
People on Weight Watchers who truly believe that eating unlimited fruits and vegetables has no bearing on their weight3 -
alyssa0061 wrote: »Christine_72 wrote: »OP are you planning on counting the calories from fruit and veg, and logging it? Some people think fruit and veggies are "free foods", when they most certainly are not.
People on Weight Watchers who truly believe that eating unlimited fruits and vegetables has no bearing on their weight
Yeah they do, and yes it does.
I believe Weight watchers keep their calorie allotment on the too lower side to account for the calories in the "free fruit and veg"
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I love fruit! Even when I don't count fruits I still lose weight. Many times when I've already finished my calories for the day I have a fruit at night, maybe one or two extra, and I still lose weight.1
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Listen to the deficit. You can lose weight if in a deficit. But done improperly, you can lose more muscle than you should at the same time. Think of both. That means figuring out where the proteins are coming from, and most include some fat.
As for the keeps you going and not hungry, more individual. Even though I enjoy a lot of different types of fruit, I tend to not overeat it ever. Smoothies, that's a whole new thing for me. I reserve them for when I need quick recovery stuff or have calories in hand. I can easily kill 500-600 calories of smoothie as a warm up for a bigger smoothie. Those same calories in whole fruits fill me up a lot better, but in my case almost any solid vs liquid of equal calories satisfies me more.
Unlimited isn't a word you should even really use in regards to food if losing weight. There are a few things that would be hard for most people to overeat, but in reality each individual isn't most people. If that 400-450 calorie smoothie keeps you from eating 600-700 calories of junk, that helps. But only if that few hundred calorie difference allows for a deficit.
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kommodevaran wrote: »If unlimited means you're still within your calorie goal.
Newsflash: Fruit and vegetables have calories.
Oh, and you can put anything in a smoothie.
FALSE!!!!
Apparently, according to my MSN front page, SOME Fruits and veggies have NEGATIVE cals. So according to the article you can eat tonnes of it and it will actually take calories away from the burger lol hahaha made me lol
there are no fruits or veggies that have negative calories. all food except water has calories. look it up and do some research and you will see.1 -
Mikestruggle wrote: »If i can fill up on smoothies it prevents me from eating junk food. My smoothies are almost always 2 bananas 1 cup of berries and some ice
each of your smoothies has around 275 calories or very possibly more. it's no wonder you're not snacking - that's as many calories as i have in a lot of meals. it's certainly the same amount of calories as a third of a blaze pizza with toppings, a bowl of dryer's slow churned ice cream or 2 servings of potato chips.
according to the FDA, 1 medium banana has 105 calories, medium being defined as 118 grams. 2 of them means 210 calories, although if you're having larger bananas, you could easily be eating 300 calories of bananas alone. then there's the berries - about 65 more calories (you're not weighing them, so could be more.3
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