No veggies

I eat very little veggies because of crohn's disease and don't have wwight/health issues because of it (though I so take vitamins)

jolive7 wrote: »

Are you getting adequate fiber by not having them? There are some super green powders you can get from health food stores that aren't too bad tasting

Me I'm on a low fiber/low residue diet as fiber kills my gi system

You can lose weight without eating your veggies. I'm glad there are a few you like.

What your veggies give you are loads of vitamins and fiber. So take a multivitamin and benefiber instead. Don't bulk out your diet with fat and carbs to compensate.

I always hated veggies. I ate corn and potatoes but those are basically grains. I tried and finally found a few I can eat and it has definitely helped. Now, you absolutely can lose weight without veggies but they are good for you and make losing weight much easier. Do you like mushrooms? Those are great and very low calorie. Try cauliflower mashed potatoes cooked in chicken broth. I HATE the taste of green veggies but try this. They are actually good. Take fresh green beans (or even asparagus) coated with just a tiny bit of olive oil, season with salt, pepper, garlic, basil, whatever and bake at 400-425 for about 15-20 minutes (until they start to char). Then sprinkle with just a little parmesan and put back in for 4-5 more minutes. The green veggie taste is gone. Once you get used to the idea, try things like putting carrots into stews. Just let them cook till good and soft so they don't have that dreaded stomach turning veggie crunch. Other ways to get veggies and cut calories are things like putting salsa on your eggs instead of cheese. I change it up some but my goto breakfast is chicken breast, mushrooms, and egg whites covered in salsa. I love salsa but it absolutely CANNOT have chunks of onion that go crunch or it ain't going down. You could also try soups with things like spinach cooked in. Keep the pieces small and let them cook in really good and they blend in.

Have you tried zoodles? I got a spiralizer a few weeks ago and I swear, it's life changing. Zoodle spaghetti and meatballs, zoodles caprese, zoodles teriyaki. Options are endless.

Veggies might not be necessary for weightloss but as everyone has said they are very good for fibre, keeping you full and for minerals and vitamins.

perhaps try hiding your veggies in foods, for instance I make a slow cooker pulled pork with 2-3 onions instead of one, grated carrots and baby marrow - by the time you eat it you don't even know or taste it.
Another way is to use a typical french base " mirepoix" to all your recipes - sweat carrots, onion, celery, parsnip (any veggies really) and use this as a base for your stews, bolognaise etc.
You could also make a massive pot of veggie soup and then blend it so that you don't see the veg.

Of course you can, as long as you are in a calorie deficit. Personally, I can't imagine life without them. They taste amazing to me and without them my meals would be so tiny I would not be able to keep a deficit. If you are fine with small portions of other foods, why not? If you are worried about vitamins and fiber, you can supplement those.

You can hide just about anything in spaghetti sauce. I like to grate up squash or zucchini and cook it down in the sauce. You can't taste it at all.

cmriverside wrote: »

Do you like any of them? Carrots? Corn? Potatoes? Lettuce? Cucumbers? Tomato sauce? Beans? It isn't necessary to like all vegetables, but some are better than none. It is necessary to have some of the nutrients found in plants...

You can eat fruit to make up some of the nutrients, but there is a lot more sugar in fruit, so the calories are higher.

Corn, potatoes and beans aren't vegetables. Why don't you ask her about rice or pasta?

I put vegetables in everything! At first my boyfriend wasn't a huge veggie eater, so I would shred things really fine or blend them to mix with sauces. I actually used cauliflower ground up as the "meat" in a sloppy joe and he didn't even realize! You can also grind cauliflower to use as "rice". When I make mashed potatoes, I like to boil some carrots and parsnips with the potatoes and mash them all together. Adds some extra flavor, lots of good nutrients, and cuts the carbs from the potatoes.

Corn is a grain, I think beans are legumes but potatoes are veg...just a starchy root vegetable. Actually potatoes are very healthy, high in potassium and extremely high on the satiety scale. Don't skip potatoes

Eta: you don't technically need them to lose weight but they do make it much easier and they are really good for you. You could try roasting them, they are much tastier that way. And spinach is awesome in smoothies, it totally disappears tastewise.

Weight loss is about calories not type of food.
Vegetables do provide nutrients, fiber, water and are usually low calorie. If you don't want to eat them then don't. It is a choice. You could eat more fruits.
There are lots of kinds of vegetables though and ways to prepare them. Vegetables can taste pretty different depending on how they are prepared. If you haven't experimented with different thpes or cooking methods I would suggest doing so.