Do you eat your vegetables?
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summpear
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I'm curious how good you are at getting your veggies in every day.
Before I joined MFP, one of my strategies for losing weight was to eat a veggie with every meal. It was mildly effective and I got so. Many. Veggies.
Now that I'm logging, I find myself going for protein goals, which leaves me so full I'm almost never reaching for veggies and my intake has gone way down.
Before I joined MFP, one of my strategies for losing weight was to eat a veggie with every meal. It was mildly effective and I got so. Many. Veggies.
Now that I'm logging, I find myself going for protein goals, which leaves me so full I'm almost never reaching for veggies and my intake has gone way down.
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3-5lbs of them a day usually6
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Yep 10 servings plus a day... I love my micros!4
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I'm vegetarian. Mostly they're incorporated into my mains, though I'll eat them in other dishes, too.1
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Not as great as I'd like but decent. I prioritize protein over everything right now so veggies come in second, and sometimes I just don't have the room for them.1
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My lunch is usually veggie based, either salad or mixed veggies, then topped with cottage cheese, meat or a veggie burger. Dinner is usually a meat, a carb, veggies.0
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No exaggeration, just my lunch is two pounds of veggies which I follow with a two pound fruit bowl.7
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Yes, veggies are an important part of my diet1
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Sorry my phone was going crazy.
My veggie intake has gone down since I started logging because I'm always working on reaching protein goals.
Not an anticipated side effect of "dieting" and definitely something I need to address.2 -
I don't. Only about 2 days each week I get as much as 1 lb of vegetables. In my breakfast 5 days each week I include 12 grams of LivFit Superfood Blend of powdered vegetables. I don't pretend it's adequate.0
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I subbed out my starch with dinner for a 2nd veggie most nights. Plus an actual serving is so small that between my usual lunch salad, my double/double dinner veggies (2 veggies, about 2 servings each), a piece of fruit with breakfast and random odds and ends (veggies in soups, etc), I’m doing pretty well.1
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I've been more focused on overall calorie intake and not so much on macros, as I'm trying to lose a ton of weight. With that, I don't want to feel hungry all the time either, so I eat a ton of veggies in order to be able to eat a lot more volume and feel full.
I'll usually start my meals with some finger food, namely veggies that I've cut up so I can dip them into my low calorie homemade hummus.
When the weather was cold, I was roasting veggies and tossing them with a little soy sauce or pineapple teriyaki sauce.
Besides that, at least since I've been refocused on my weight since December, my dinner's main course has been pretty veggie-centric. I've been making soups, zucchini bakes, chili, etc. So that's helped getting some veggies in as well.1 -
Honestly. I could do a lot better, that’s for sure. I don’t get the recommended amount. It’s simply a convenience thing for me, and I need to do better. I’m a sucker for convenience foods0
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Yes, I love them! Lunch today was a homemade Asian soup with broccoli, red onion and mushrooms. Other days I have dinner leftovers, which usually have plenty of veggies, or I'll have a side salad with lunch, or a side of veggies such as cherry tomatoes and cocktail onions. Carrot sticks with cream cheese is a snack I have often, again, so is cherry tomatoes. Dinner usually has about 3 serves of veggies in it too.0
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At dinner always but I’m pretty inconsistent with lunch. Today I ate a protein bar that was in my desk0
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I eat about 1 lb of raw veggies most days of the week--at least in the summer. Our produce sucks in the winter and I'll have to figure out how to keep up the habit once it gets cold again.1
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I love veggies. Always have. I like to add lots to every meal.0
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since my husband started eating lower carb it increased my veg intake for my evening meal. its rare these days for me not to hit at least the recommended minimum.1
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For me a meal is not a meal unless it comes with a large helping of veg ( usually 2 different veggies) Protein is the issue for me, I have to work at hitting my target because I'm just not fussed.1
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I'm at an advantage here because I've always loved and eaten vegetables in large amounts, so I don't really "eat my vegetables", I just eat and they fall in place. I'm with you on protein making things hard to balance sometimes. I sometimes find myself hating the fact that it takes up as many calories as it does, and I'm not even aiming for high protein.2
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I'm not "good", that was one of the things I gave up when I joined MFP. I do however enjoy many vegetables, I like how all the components work together to balance a meal, and I don't consier a meal a real meal without vegetables.2
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