Logging food properly

Wait. So, you're juicing your fruit/vegetables then adding a fiber powder?

Why don't you just eat them whole or blend them into a smoothie - fiber naturally without paying extra!

maximusartois wrote: »

Ah thanks for the swift reply!

Great to know it’s less calories.

I’ve been adding a protein / fiber powder to my juices.

Is the glycemic index something I should be worried about?

Thanks,

Christopher

Only you know whether you should be concerned about glycemic index: It may affect blood sugar levels. It may affect appetite.

Let me be more explicit about what I think: You're taking useful nutrients out of your fruits, then adding some (fiber) back in with an extra-cost supplement. I don't understand that.

Sure, there might be fewer calories in juice vs. fruit, but not very many fewer . . . and having things be a tiny bit lower calories, but meaningfully less nutritious, doesn't seem like a good trade-off to me. In effect, the juice is more calorie-dense, because you removed a lot of volume of the fruit.

There's a segment of the health/fitness marketing machine that trumpets juicing as the best thing ever for health. (Many of them are selling something related, like books, videos, diet plans, supplements, etc. Funny about that, eh?)

Remarkably few well-credentialed registered dietitians - y'know, the people with years of formal education, degrees, experience - are gung-ho for juicing. Many will suggest minimizing juice intake, because it leaves out some of the nutrients, and tends to be less sating while still quite high in calories compared to alternative choices of similar nutritional value. Most RDs will be telling you to eat the whole fruit.

So, I'd suggest eating the whole fruit, or, if you like drinking your food, making smoothies with the whole fruit so you get the fiber and other goodness.

maximusartois wrote: »

It’s been tough just drinking my meals in juice form everyday for weeks now!

Any particular reason you're making things tough for yourself? Liquid diet prescribed by a doctor? Otherwise, I'd simply suggest not drinking your meals in liquid form, if you find it tough and you have no particular need to do so...

maximusartois wrote: »

Thanks for all the replies!

It was mainly because the blender I used had a lot of pulp/thickness I suppose and it was tough to drink!

The juice and adding fiber thing makes sense! I should probably stick to maybe making smoothies.

It was mainly someone’s suggestion to just juice but after reading comments here I should definitely do some research.

It’s been tough just drinking my meals in juice form everyday for weeks now!

Drinking all my meals was tough for me when it was a medically necessary option when I literally could not digest food (gastroparesis). I can’t imagine how hard it would be to just randomly do on purpose!