Eating White Rice For Weight Loss
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jimmytube718
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HI,
I was wondering is white rice ok to eat to lose weight ? I am eating 100 grams at lunch and dinner , oatmeal and a banana for breakfast ,
thanks
I was wondering is white rice ok to eat to lose weight ? I am eating 100 grams at lunch and dinner , oatmeal and a banana for breakfast ,
thanks
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In a calorie deficit sure. Same with anything else. Calorie deficit15
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Eat what you like.9
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as long as it fits in your calorie goal, sure11
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It's fine as long as it fits you calories. I hope rice, oatmeal and banana aren't the only things you are eating today though. That would be very few calories for an entire day.10
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you could eat ice cream at every meal and as long as it still put you in a caloric deficit you would still lose. The same goes with rice.15
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Yes. The difference between white and brown rice is negligible, and I regularly fit white rice into my diet no problem.4
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Calorie deficit.3
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firecat1987 wrote: »you could eat ice cream at every meal and as long as it still put you in a caloric deficit you would still lose. The same goes with rice.
But you'd be doing your body a huge diservice nutrition-wise. A calorie may be a calorie, but there are certainly high-quality and low-quality calories. How your body processes those calories will also be differnt because of chemistry and the reactions they have within the body.
Here's the simple breakdown on white vs. brown rice from a simple Google search: Brown rice is a whole grain. ... White rice, on the other hand, has had the bran and germ removed, which are the most nutritious parts of the grain. This leaves white rice with very few essential nutrients, which is why brown rice is usually considered much healthier than white.
Yes, you can choose to consume white rice, but you should look to get the nutrition by other means if you do.44 -
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OnFireWithin wrote: »firecat1987 wrote: »you could eat ice cream at every meal and as long as it still put you in a caloric deficit you would still lose. The same goes with rice.
But you'd be doing your body a huge diservice nutrition-wise. A calorie may be a calorie, but there are certainly high-quality and low-quality calories. How your body processes those calories will also be differnt because of chemistry and the reactions they have within the body.
Here's the simple breakdown on white vs. brown rice from a simple Google search: Brown rice is a whole grain. ... White rice, on the other hand, has had the bran and germ removed, which are the most nutritious parts of the grain. This leaves white rice with very few essential nutrients, which is why brown rice is usually considered much healthier than white.
Yes, you can choose to consume white rice, but you should look to get the nutrition by other means if you do.
If I'm not mistaken, brown rice also has more arsenic than white rice.. so no thanks..I'm going to pass. I eat my white rice with plenty of vegetables anyhow so I'm good.27 -
OnFireWithin wrote: »Here's the simple breakdown on white vs. brown rice from a simple Google search: Brown rice is a whole grain. ... White rice, on the other hand, has had the bran and germ removed, which are the most nutritious parts of the grain. This leaves white rice with very few essential nutrients, which is why brown rice is usually considered much healthier than white.
Actually false, from a more detailed Google search. If you compare nutritional data of different types of white rice to their brown rice equivalents, the difference is so minimal as to be laughable. Most white rice is enriched, which means the food companies added back in most of what was stripped out.
The glycemic index value of white is much higher, but that number only really matters if you eat a meal of just white rice. Eat anything else and it makes that number mostly irrelevant.
Also fun fact, as paraphrased from smarter people than me, the fiber and phytate in brown rice act as anti nutrients, which hinder the body's ability to absorb most of the vitamins and minerals in them anyway.
Basically, eat whichever you want they are pretty close to the same.19 -
And so nobody accuses me of not citing my sources, here's one: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/282287712
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You'd get better weight-loss results eating mashed potatoes rather than rice. I stopped eating rice 2 years ago.58
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Sure. Excess calories, not a specific type of food, is what causes obesity. The Japanese and South Koreans has some of the world's lowest obesity rates and they eat diets high in white rice and other grains. They also have great health outcomes.14
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dukeingram wrote: »You'd get better weight-loss results eating mashed potatoes rather than rice. I stopped eating rice 2 years ago.
Boiled baby potatoes for me! Or bbqued in the summer!!!3 -
Eating whatever you want is not a good idea. All calories are not equal. You can eat a pizza with 1000 calories and feel like crap or eat protein waffles with 1000 calories and feel great. It takes more than just a calorie deficit to lose weight. You have to keep the body healthy to have the energy and mindset to lose weight.65
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dukeingram wrote: »You'd get better weight-loss results eating mashed potatoes rather than rice. I stopped eating rice 2 years ago.
How do you figure that?? 200 calories of rice is the same weight loss as 200 calories of mashed potatoes, everything else being equal17 -
dukeingram wrote: »You'd get better weight-loss results eating mashed potatoes rather than rice. I stopped eating rice 2 years ago.
How do you figure that?? 200 calories of rice is the same weight loss as 200 calories of mashed potatoes, everything else being equal
I would assume because they, just like myself, find potatoes to be more filling than rice.
of course someone else might find rice to be more filling than potatoes and that's absolutely legit too.
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dukeingram wrote: »Eating whatever you want is not a good idea. All calories are not equal. You can eat a pizza with 1000 calories and feel like crap or eat protein waffles with 1000 calories and feel great. It takes more than just a calorie deficit to lose weight. You have to keep the body healthy to have the energy and mindset to lose weight.
What if I already had enough protein for the day but needed fat & carbs? Can I have a veggie pizza then? (Not a serious question because it doesn't matter, 1000 calories is 1000 calories no matter where it comes from.)
I lost most of my weight while being pretty ill so, no, you don't have to be healthy to lose weight but losing weight could improve your health.16 -
dukeingram wrote: »Eating whatever you want is not a good idea. All calories are not equal. You can eat a pizza with 1000 calories and feel like crap or eat protein waffles with 1000 calories and feel great. It takes more than just a calorie deficit to lose weight. You have to keep the body healthy to have the energy and mindset to lose weight.
What if I eat a pizza and don't feel like crap. And what if I have pizza with meat on it and get my protein that way. Maybe protein waffles with artificial sweeteners make me feel bad or I had waffles for breakfast and don't want the same thing for dinner. And yes in the end of you are not in a deficit, you will not lose weight.27
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