10 a Day (800g) Veggie&Fruit Challenge Participants Check in!
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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!
This is why I search to find more complete info. I hate that some of the best stuff is omitted from the labels.0 -
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?
I have to disagree here. Not all carbs are created equal. Some are known to spike the blood sugar while others digest much more slowly and do not create this spike. If a person is hypoglycemic they would certainly feel the difference.1 -
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The lettuce was raw. The others were cooked.0 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »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!
Photo please!!ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »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?
I say we just keep using this thread
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I've just confirmed that the little fridge I acquired for my lab/office late last week is bung and freezes things. Luckily I suspected this was the case and didn't bring my cucumbers with me, just enough for today. Also luckily there is another unused fridge where this one came from so I'll just swap them over 0
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I went to check the Canadian Food Guide and I'm falling short on meeting those guidelines! *sigh*
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/basics-base/quantit-eng.php
Don't ask why dry foods are given liquid measurements.0 -
Tomorrow I am going to try my hand at spring rolls. I mean, they may not be "traditional" but I think this would be a nice way to change it up a bit.4
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Veggie chopocalypse for the coming week. Mr. French Peasant helped by chopping a large Blue Hubbard left over from Halloween decorations. (Not as good as butternut). I made a big pile of roasted root veg and squash, am planning a squash soup, and made German red cabbage although it is not as tasty as, say, the Berghoff in Chicago.
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I went to check the Canadian Food Guide and I'm falling short on meeting those guidelines! *sigh*
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment/basics-base/quantit-eng.php
Don't ask why dry foods are given liquid measurements.
Whoa, that is a lot of grain products! Six to seven servings a day for women (not that there is anything wrong with that, just something I don't eat a lot of, even less now that it seems gluten is one of my eczema triggers![:\](https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\")
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We're having spaghetti bolognese for dinner (with kangaroo mince).... I always pick zoodles over pasta - nearly at my day quota just in zucchini (700g)
We add vegies to our bolognese - normally zucchini, red capsicum and mushrooms, but capsicum weren't available this week. Boo. 150g mushrooms and 50g onion. Plus 345g passata.
150g berries, 35g avo, 50g zucchini and that's me on 1480g for today4 -
One of the major benefits of eating fruits and veggies is the fiber content. I found this article about all the effects of fiber really interesting. Some stuff i had never heard of!
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/fiber-its-natures-broom.html/1 -
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.
Stalls and whooshes are a very mysterious thing. Women tend to have a lot more problems with water retention than men. I don't completely understand it (i don't think anyone does) but you might find this article interesting: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.html/ My weight is constantly going up and down seemingly without any reason. I just ignore it and look for a general trend.0 -
Glad to see some of you still challenging yourselves! I'm also going to keep at it in March, but probably just weekdays, and I think I'll focus on hitting the 600g mark and then go from there lol. Reflecting back, I now realize I was probably averaging 300g-400g before the challenge. So anything beyond that I consider a win
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Though this has been fun, I think drop back to just reading what others post on the thread, and maybe weighing in with a comment if I think I have anything helpful to add. I'll leave off posting daily lists - I was kinda cheating anyway, since I've been eating large amounts of veg/fruit for a long time.
If anyone finds it inexplicably entertaining to see the daily veggie/fruit consumption of someone who eats lots of them most days, you're welcome to friend me and follow my food diary as if it were a soap opera.
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Though this has been fun, I think drop back to just reading what others post on the thread, and maybe weighing in with a comment if I think I have anything helpful to add. I'll leave off posting daily lists - I was kinda cheating anyway, since I've been eating large amounts of veg/fruit for a long time.
If anyone finds it inexplicably entertaining to see the daily veggie/fruit consumption of someone who eats lots of them most days, you're welcome to friend me and follow my food diary as if it were a soap opera.
Haha, good point. My diet is incredibly monotonous (but tasty!!) at the best of times, and even moreso at the moment because of the eczema (note the complete lack of nightshades, no enjoying big bowls of summer ratatouille for me
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This week is tough because I'm moving states in 5 days and we are trying to eat whatever food is in the house without buying much else. Ugh. Maybe I should just prep a bunch of fruit and veg.
I already packed most of my tupperware.
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lulalacroix wrote: »This week is tough because I'm moving states in 5 days and we are trying to eat whatever food is in the house without buying much else. Ugh. Maybe I should just prep a bunch of fruit and veg.
I already packed most of my tupperware.
Ugh, moving sucks!
Just do the best you can
1547 for me today, by virtue of the fact dinner was watermelon, a lot of it.2 -
lulalacroix wrote: »This week is tough because I'm moving states in 5 days and we are trying to eat whatever food is in the house without buying much else. Ugh. Maybe I should just prep a bunch of fruit and veg.
I already packed most of my tupperware.
Did that last month (one town over though lol), and yep-by the day before our move out we were eating dry cereal with our hands
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lulalacroix wrote: »This week is tough because I'm moving states in 5 days and we are trying to eat whatever food is in the house without buying much else. Ugh. Maybe I should just prep a bunch of fruit and veg.
I already packed most of my tupperware.
You could always buy some throw away plastic containers or use quart sized food storage bags instead.3 -
Though this has been fun, I think drop back to just reading what others post on the thread, and maybe weighing in with a comment if I think I have anything helpful to add. I'll leave off posting daily lists - I was kinda cheating anyway, since I've been eating large amounts of veg/fruit for a long time.
If anyone finds it inexplicably entertaining to see the daily veggie/fruit consumption of someone who eats lots of them most days, you're welcome to friend me and follow my food diary as if it were a soap opera.
You were responsible for getting me to try raw celeriac. I've had it cooked before.
OMG.
I adore it.2 -
lulalacroix wrote: »This week is tough because I'm moving states in 5 days and we are trying to eat whatever food is in the house without buying much else. Ugh. Maybe I should just prep a bunch of fruit and veg.
I already packed most of my tupperware.
Moving is just the worst. We moved a year ago the day after Thanksgiving. Never. Again.2 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »lulalacroix wrote: »This week is tough because I'm moving states in 5 days and we are trying to eat whatever food is in the house without buying much else. Ugh. Maybe I should just prep a bunch of fruit and veg.
I already packed most of my tupperware.
Moving is just the worst. We moved a year ago the day after Thanksgiving. Never. Again.
Yep, did it last month for first and only time. Utter nightmare and the next time I do that will be when my kids are forcing me into the old folks home
Of course it didn't help that the seller of our new house was completely insane and we had to get the sheriffs dept. involved with our move in 
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Sooo, thanks to another thread going in the general forum area I now know what the tare button on my scale does (insert sheepish smiley face here lol). Going to make weighing up my veggies a lot easier!
Taco salad for lunch and I'm up to 222g so far. Going to get in a banana/pudding bowl before I head out for errands in a bit, and then baked sweet potato with a spinach salad for supper 2 -
I'm doing my best to keep up, not the U.K. limits though, but we've got a freezer full of food that we're plowing through this week. Not many fruits/veggie in those.
Sad to admit this, but I feel like a loser for not being able to come close to 800 grams a day.0 -
I'm doing my best to keep up, not the U.K. limits though, but we've got a freezer full of food that we're plowing through this week. Not many fruits/veggie in those.
Sad to admit this, but I feel like a loser for not being able to come close to 800 grams a day.
800 g is a LOT. Especially if a person is trying to get in meat, dairy, grains etc.... For a vegan or vegetarian it is not going to be as hard. Don't feel like a failure. You can only eat so much.2 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Though this has been fun, I think drop back to just reading what others post on the thread, and maybe weighing in with a comment if I think I have anything helpful to add. I'll leave off posting daily lists - I was kinda cheating anyway, since I've been eating large amounts of veg/fruit for a long time.
If anyone finds it inexplicably entertaining to see the daily veggie/fruit consumption of someone who eats lots of them most days, you're welcome to friend me and follow my food diary as if it were a soap opera.
You were responsible for getting me to try raw celeriac. I've had it cooked before.
OMG.
I adore it.
Yes. Everyone should try raw celeriac, if they haven't. (May love it, like you & me, may not, but for heaven's sake, try it!). Also, kohlrabi and jicama.3 -
ThatUserNameIsAllReadyTaken wrote: »I'm doing my best to keep up, not the U.K. limits though, but we've got a freezer full of food that we're plowing through this week. Not many fruits/veggie in those.
Sad to admit this, but I feel like a loser for not being able to come close to 800 grams a day.
800 g is a LOT. Especially if a person is trying to get in meat, dairy, grains etc.... For a vegan or vegetarian it is not going to be as hard. Don't feel like a failure. You can only eat so much.
Yeah, i have 3 goals: protein, fruit & veg, and calories. It's taken me a while to figure out the balance.
Starchy foods are a bonus, and i sure am eating a lot less of them than i used to. I just don't have the calories left for much of them. (Though i usually find a way to fit chocolate in. ) My total carbs are hovering just under 50% though, so not exactly a low carb diet, just less from seeds! 2 -
800g met today with corn, green beans, peaches, and applesauce. Not a lot of variety, just larger portions.1
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Yep, sweet corn counts, which raised my eyebrows as well. Go back and double-check the 5-a-day doc in the initial post. Also, a heaping tablespoon of tomato puree (such as you would presumably have on pasta) counts. I don't get it. A jacket-on baked potato doesn't count, a full-fiber kale n' sprouts n' banana smoothie only counts as one (because when fruit is pureed, sugar is released, while when it is chewed or chopped, it magically DOESN'T release sugar, apparently?) but you can eat a whole big pile of sweet corn.
I've been hitting just over 800 g the past couple of days, particularly by taking advantage of the one-juice gimme (green machine or V-8....150 ml counts as an 80-g serving) and then by combining veg: having carrots instead of pretzels with hummus, and using sweet potato chips with my guac instead of tortilla chips. A 1-oz serving of raisins also counts, so I am busting out the snack packs I've had stashed in my desk the past year, because I forgot my grapes at home. Sad panda.2
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