How many π°π°π°π°π° did I eat?π
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Yum, pizza and cake fun. Was glad to hear her reception in travels was fun and warm.
Ok, lunch today crunchy cukes. Greens, green beans & asparagus, pepperoncinis, tangerine, craisins, mustard - calling it 4 bunnies :)
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That one keeps coming up :) - maybe we should make these personal decisions ? For me I don't count them because of the high calorie count and I'm trying to up my intake of other vegetables. But I think they are a great part of a healthy diet and if them being bunnies brings more into our lives they should be bunnies!
Okay. For the next big question :) Today I had a dill donut with two deep fried panko crusted dill pickle spears on it. (last day of birthday celebrations with a wonderful friend who is lean as a string bean and lives on donuts) Bunny????? π3 -
1 for the pickles
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From the op: 1 bunny = 85g of vegetables or fruits or 40g of dried.
So fruit counts
My food swap plan puts peas, corn and carrots with rice, grains, potatoes/squash and legume/beans and fruits.
We traditionally think of corn as a veggie...
But i would wonder why would a legume (plant) be excluded when corn is not?
We traditionally think of rice and oats as grains - not as a vegetable, but why exclude and then accept fruit?
All are plants sourced in natural states.
Potato chips from a bag? Probably not. Sugared cereals, um no. But Oats/oatmeal is more equivalent to rice, potatoes, corn and fruit.
Just some thoughts...
My craisins in my salad count, but not my garbanzos?
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I'm not sure why dried fruit counts to be honest. They are really up there on the calorie front? I don't count them - but I eat lots of fruit and veggies and am using this to bulk up my diet with low calorie foods rather than to achieve higher nutrient levels. I guess it depends on what your goal is????
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The only dried fruit I currently eat is 2 dates with PB in the morning. I would likely count them as they are an improvement to my diet.
Today will be a high bunny day with a salad for lunch and burrito bowls for dinner. Will likely have fruit as a snack too this afternoon (I have raspberries, watermelon, honeydew, or apples to choose from).
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You are on your way to having a great time at the happiest place on earth! No ride will be prohibitive. God up the good work Athijade!
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Yesterday's π where off in a greener field somewhere :)
πππ2 small apples & 1/2 English cucumber.
Today is starting much better though. Cupboards and fridge are in need of a refillβ¦AND I was hungry. So opted for some large flake oatmeal - and to keep that a bit more under control on the calorie front added 1 very large (my standards, not PAV's) ππ diced apple to the pot before the oatmeal and some spices. Made up half the oatmeal that I usually have :) and feel very satisfied. Bunnies at their full power :)2 -
Lunch chicken veg soup 2
Dinner chicken, veg 1.5
Today 3.5 bunnies
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So the bunnies started from the 5 - a day (veggies and fruits) from the UK and Australian food guides (and of course in other ones too⦠but at the time the UK and Oz were sort of talking about 5-a-day a bit more than the rest). Also there were some studies that showed better "outcomes" for people that were eating even more vegetables and fruits than 5 portions a day. In fact there were "better" outcomes shown when increasing from 5 to 8+ "80g" in some and "85g" in other portions of veggies and fruits a day.
Now. There was some level of concern with very high fruit counts but not with very high veg counts hence I mostly talk about veggies and fruits as opposed to fruits and veggies. The 40g of dried Laurie was part of the guidelines (the consideration of non starchy veggies was another). This was not strictly speaking a "calories" thing. it was more along the "variety of veggies and fruits thing while not unduly adding gratuitous calories".
Of course absolutely nothing stops us from refining this. But yes, the explanation of why grains and starchy veggies were not SUPPOSED to be included is as above. However at the same time I DID decide to include starchy veggies in MY countβ¦because really, I could calories anyway and for health purposes there is nothing wrong with starchy veggies.
The absurdity of using the 5 a day or 8 a day or 99 a day thing and considering peas, carrots and corn to be the same is easily seen by checking out the numbersβ¦. Peas and corn have WAY more calories than carrots or brussel sprouts. So yeah. Healthy combinations do not always mean low calorie and vice versa. Though I am fairly sure that ANY combination of peas, corn, and potatoes has less calories than cheesecake ;-)
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Yesterday's ππππππ
3 clementines, 1 beet/blueberry/spinach/lemon smoothie, sauteed veggies for pasta
Strange eating day - but under calories (per "them") :)
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