Hi!
I am trying a cutting diet for the first time. Do I have to count the calories, carbs, proteins and fats coming from vegetables? When I say vegetables, I mean broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce etc.
Thanks 
nope
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In fact, if Im not mistaken, you actually burn more calories digesting some of those foods then you actually intake. So you should eat more! Well maybe not, but yeah no need to bother counting those.
No need to count those calories, Eat as much of these as you like. Use them to keep yourself full when you reduce calories.
Why not? I mean i don’t, but the notion that they are calorie free or subtract calories from your system is false. Its not that it will flip over the budget, but in my mind, the mathemathics dont fit.
[quote]Mikael LS wrote:
Why not? I mean i don’t, but the notion that they are calorie free or subtract calories from your system is false. Its not that it will flip over the budget, but in my mind, the mathemathics dont fit.[/quote]
I’ve done both before and it’s never mattered. I have my own theories as to why, but it doesn’t really matter since the outcome is the same.
Sometimes the math doesn’t need to fit.
You’d have to eat a truckload of them to reach an appreciable amount of calories and much of the carb sources in them are fibers which don’t get absorbed in the bloodstream and instead are crapped out.
You do have to watch out for the starchy ones like carrots, peas, and beets.
And corn too, something that which I don’t even know how fell into the veggie category. Same goes for potatoes.
If your biggest concern ends up being the caloric content of the veggies you eat, I’d say you’re in pretty good shape.
[quote]Mikael LS wrote:
Why not? I mean i don’t, but the notion that they are calorie free or subtract calories from your system is false. Its not that it will flip over the budget, but in my mind, the mathemathics dont fit.[/quote]
True, but if someone went over their calorie “budget” for the day…it wasn’t the vegetables that did it!
I do agree that not counting them seems to work for most of us, myself included, I just find it an weird exception to the otherwise totally controlled way to execute a diet. Fiber is not calorie free - the fermentable type is converted into fatty acids and taken up by the body, supplying around 2cals/g (depending on a lot of factors though). If you are not to count your vegetables, then why not stop counting your omega-3’s, or only counting 2/3rds of the protein? It seems arbitrary and inconsistent
Hi!
Thanks to all of you for your replies.
[quote]tolloxtollox wrote:
Hi!
I am trying a cutting diet for the first time. Do I have to count the calories, carbs, proteins and fats coming from vegetables? When I say vegetables, I mean broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce etc.
Thanks :)[/quote]
It really depends on how much of them you eat. I eat at least two pounds of frozen organic broccoli per day, sometimes three pounds. Each pound is about 100 calories each. I do count those calories. Hard not to count 200-300 calories ingested. Works like a charm to keep you full.
Nick Radonjic
[quote]Nick Radonjic wrote:
[quote]tolloxtollox wrote:
Hi!
I am trying a cutting diet for the first time. Do I have to count the calories, carbs, proteins and fats coming from vegetables? When I say vegetables, I mean broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce etc.
Thanks :)[/quote]
It really depends on how much of them you eat. I eat at least two pounds of frozen organic broccoli per day, sometimes three pounds. Each pound is about 100 calories each. I do count those calories. Hard not to count 200-300 calories ingested. Works like a charm to keep you full.
Nick Radonjic[/quote]
I don’t even think I can fathom eating two pounds of frozen broccoli, that just seems like a lot. I’m going to weigh my broccolli when I get home tonight to see how much I’m actually consuming now. It may be smaller than I’m thinking, but it seems like a lot.
Is broccoli the only vegetables that you eat during the day?
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Gremlin
Jesus 3lbs of broccoli, I steam fresh broccoli and eat it with 1-2 meals a day and barely eat 1lb. I buy about 3 at a time and it usually takes 3-4 day to go through it. Honestly that is a serious load of broccoli, how do you not get tired of it?
If I count them, it’s usually to see how much fiber I’m eating, not so worried about the cals.
[quote]gremlin1267 wrote:
[quote]Nick Radonjic wrote:
[quote]tolloxtollox wrote:
Hi!
I am trying a cutting diet for the first time. Do I have to count the calories, carbs, proteins and fats coming from vegetables? When I say vegetables, I mean broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce etc.
Thanks :)[/quote]
It really depends on how much of them you eat. I eat at least two pounds of frozen organic broccoli per day, sometimes three pounds. Each pound is about 100 calories each. I do count those calories. Hard not to count 200-300 calories ingested. Works like a charm to keep you full.
Nick Radonjic[/quote]
I don’t even think I can fathom eating two pounds of frozen broccoli, that just seems like a lot. I’m going to weigh my broccolli when I get home tonight to see how much I’m actually consuming now. It may be smaller than I’m thinking, but it seems like a lot.
Is broccoli the only vegetables that you eat during the day?
v/r
Gremlin
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No. Spinach also. I make an effort to eat 2% of my bodyweight in vegetables daily. I weigh about 185. It has worked like a charm for keeping me full on less calories.
Nick
[quote]renzema wrote:
Jesus 3lbs of broccoli, I steam fresh broccoli and eat it with 1-2 meals a day and barely eat 1lb. I buy about 3 at a time and it usually takes 3-4 day to go through it. Honestly that is a serious load of broccoli, how do you not get tired of it? [/quote]
I always loved broccoli and it is convenient. The veggies go quick. On the way to work, I’ll eat a pound of the broccoli. Another pound I’ll eat throughout the day. I can tell you this. Your blood tests will liekly improve dramatically. I’m the farthest thing from a vegan or vegetarian. I just have a large appetite, and this seems to satisfy it due to all the fiber probably.
Nick
Is it raw or cooked? I don’t think I’d want to eat lots of cooked broccoli.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Is it raw or cooked? I don’t think I’d want to eat lots of cooked broccoli.[/quote]
Raw. Frozen one pound bags from Costco.