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If you want to try lower calorie alternatives, you can actually make decent potato chips in the microwave. I have the "chip-tastic " tray, and I can do about a medium potato in 5-6 minutes. 110 calories gets me a good size bowl of chips with the texture of kettle chips.
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I find baked potatoes topped with black beans and salsa very filling, and you get a lot of food for only a few hundred calories. Non-starchy veggies are great for volume, but I don't find they really satisfy me on their own. They make great "filler", though, if you like to eat a lot. Soups, salads, stir-fry, curries -there…
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I eat almost entirely foods that are considered "carbs", but since all foods are some combination of the three macronutrients, the only way to get exclusively carbohydrate is to eat a synthetic or at least entirely refined diet. If you actually did try out carbohydrate only nutrition for any length of time, you'd be in for…
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What kinds of food are you eating? For a time, I tried to centre my diet around fruit and non-starchy veggies with smaller portions of beans and grains and though my energy and mood were great, hunger was an issue. Now I eat more starchy vegetables, beans, and whole grains, and I feel much more satisfied. I do need to eat…
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Start by just logging what you are eating now, so you can go through your logs and identify the easiest changes that will make the biggest differences.
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Finally a diet plan I could stick to for life :smiley:
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Ok, that makes more sense I think I interpreted the question differently, and thought that you were saying that people should eat meat just in case this happens, not "here's a case where people should eat meat" I hope I didn't seem aggressive or badgering. I just wanted to know the scientific basis of the claim I…
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This isn't a compelling argument to me. Obviously someone with a medical condition that precludes them from making cholesterol will need supplemental cholesterol from outside the body. This is no different than a type I diabetic who needs insulin because their body doesn't make it. You can't extrapolate medical conditions…
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When I first joined MFP, I was absolutely shocked at the way posters were attacked for saying they liked certain products, ideas, etc, After a while, though, I realized most people were criticizing the idea. Even if they said things like "easy way out" or "take responsibility", it was often about their past experiences…
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I learned to like the blander, sweeter fruits and veggies, like apples, carrots, lettuce, sweet bell peppers, etc. I also really like stuff like rice and beans now, or pasta marinara, which would have been boring and bleh a couple of years ago. Will I ever like kale? Unlikely. Probably won't eat chard, eggplant, zucchini…
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Vote Vegan! A tofurkey in every pot, and a Prius in every garage :p
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No insight I'm afraid, but you are definitely not alone. One thing I have done, though only for small things so far, is to record a video of myself when I am feeling motivated and energized to tell the future me about all the great reasons why I'm doing this, and remind me that I don't always feel discouraged or apathetic.…
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Maybe think of it more like being fasted. If you have a blood test, and you are told to fast for 12 hours, but you eat something 4 hours before the test, you aren't fasted. You can identify with being fasted if you want, but you don't meet the criteria. It's not a judgement. It just the meaning of the word fasted. I think…
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People tend to think that vegans, as a whole, judge everyone else on the basis of their diet. I can say personally that I don't, because I know for a fact that every day I do things that cause harm to someone, somewhere, even if I'm not aware of it. My clothes, my coffee, my electronics, those all had a cost. It breaks my…
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Honestly, I don't think she self identified as vegan as much as she just wasn't sure what the right word for her mostly plant diet was. She literally said "not sure", so I don't think we are trying to rob her of her identity as much as clarify a word definition she wasn't sure about. hmilly, if you are looking for a…
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Unfortunately, I can't see a link to the original study, but assuming this description is accurate (and the numbers seem to agree with what I've seen elsewhere), it's rare to find a person who is overweight by BMI standards but in the normal range of body fat percentage. Most of the misclassification is due to normal…
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This study was done on a much larger sample (~12k ) with varying age groups and both genders and found about a .8 correlation for women. Body fat was determined by DEXA. http://m.ajcn.nutrition.org/content/89/2/500.full RESULTS Basic descriptive information about the analytic sample is shown in Table 1. Differences in mean…
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I eat a lot of rice and beans, oatmeal, and simple, cheaper fruits and veggies like potatoes, carrots, onions, apples and bananas. I mostly shop at regular supermarkets, but I like to go to the farmers markets when I can, too. I also use a lot of frozen veggies and berries. They are usually much less expensive than fresh,…
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There is nothing wrong with having treats, as long as you are getting enough nutrients and staying within your calorie goals. If you can fit them, no need to feel guilty or like you are doing it wrong. On the other hand, many people find that when they consistently have trouble sticking to appropriate portions, or are…
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You didn't sound bitchy at all; I just figured you were probably from a family of good cooks :)
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I don't think giving up sweets has to necessarily mean doing a full 180 and drinking kale smoothies and such. I would definitely say my diet is drastically different, and I think it's healthier, but I still tend to go for sweet/ salty bland tastes. the difference is now it's things like apples, carrots, lettuce, oats and…
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I would think it would be great for weight loss, though. Especially after you break most of your teeth on it and switch to a liquid diet.
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It might depend on what op means by "not a fan". I find that when I have hyperpalatable foods, they make everything else pale in comparison, and I don't enjoy eating "regular" food. When I cut most of the treats, stuff I used to find unappealing started to taste a lot better. It didn't do anything for foods I really…
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I loved mine and used it a lot, but I didn't bring it with me to my current apartment because I don't have space for it. For me, the convenience of not having to watch and stir was an even bigger deal than the low fat aspect.
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Most of the fruits we think of as vegetables are in the veggie category because they have nutrition profiles closer to the vegetable group than the fruit group. The fact that they are botanically fruits isn't that important in terms of nutrition. You are right to classify those foods as vegetables for diet purposes.
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It's kind of interesting to note that a lot of these fads actually have a small nugget of truth at their core. It's like someone read a small footnote somewhere about an interesting but insignificant bit of weight loss trivia, and saw their million dollar idea. The cold starch diet was probably based on resistant starch…
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My mom was on weight watchers throughout my entire childhood. Liver once a week, fish twice, and the same dry evil angel food cake for every birthday and holiday. This explains so much. I've never truly understood people's sentimental attachment to food before. Now I realize it's because they probably associate it with…
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Assuming that: 1. They fit in your calorie budget, And 2. You still have enough calorie room to eat a good variety of other healthy food and meet your nutrient targets, Eat as many as you like.
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The Fitbit adjustment is based on the difference between your Fitbit calculated total calorie expenditure and your MFP estimate. If you log an activity on MFP, the difference is reduced, so the adjustment will drop or disappear. It's great for reducing double counting with step based exercise (that's automatically…
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If you're going to make a claim like that, you should really include some proof. Please provide some links from credible medical journals or health organizations that show harm from eucaloric low fat diets in humans. Yes, SOME fat is essential. No one here has talked about a no fat diet.
