do these carbs count while cutting? if say im getting 100 grams of carbs from vegetables only, things like spinach, broccoli, celery, ect… should i count these in my macronutrient ratios?
if i am trying to cut and have a goal set of less than 50g of carbs daily, should i include carbs from these sources or just carbs from others such as oatmeal and brown rice?
thanks
I feel like I answer this question every week or so… I must be getting Alzheimers or something…
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I think veggies are “free” carbs. If you check out the carb cycling articles here, you should find something saying “starchy carbs” being under a certain level. Veggies are good, eat them. Fruit is good too, so if the worst thing in your diet is an apple, you probably don’t have much to worry about.
If something has calories it affects your energy blance. If you take in more energy than you expend you will not lose weight. It’s that simple
Yeah, some fruit and vegetables even, have a lot of sugar (are high GI for those who believe in that, I guess there’s arguement about it). Sugar is sugar. You can mix it with a lot of water and fiber so you get a less violent spike in blood sugar, but it’s still sugar-based calories.
Here is what you do. Use Fitday (or something comparable that has the fiber information as well). Weigh/measure your veggies and enter into the program. Count ALL grams of fiber in each serving of vegetables and subtract from the total amount of carbohydrates.
Example
blahetable
Serving size: blah
Carbohydrates: 20 g
Dietary Fiber: 15 g
Sugar content is 5 grams/blah serving.
I dont count vegetables like broccoli or spinnach but I would count vegetables like corn.
[quote]Davinci.v2 wrote:
I dont count vegetables like broccoli or spinnach but I would count vegetables like corn.[/quote]
Corn is actually a grain, not a vegetable
Yeah, the term “vegetable” is pretty meaningless. Cereal grains can be considered a vegetable. All vegetables more or less have “fruit” on them. Corn, a cereal, is the fruit of the corn plant. Weird, huh? You can argue that eating leaves and stalks of plants, that contain lots of fiber, and very little energy, don’t count.
Any time you eat the seed or “fruit” of a plant, you are getting lots of stored energy, either as fats (like in nuts), or as a sugar (carb) like in fruit and grain.
This one comes up every week or so.
OP: If your goal is a daily intake of 50g of carbs or less, don’t eat any oatmeal or grains or pasta or rice. Just eat green veggies, lots of green veggies, and don’t bother with counting the carbs coming from them.
It’s as easy as that.
Most of the carbs in green veggies ar fibrous anyway and won’t be used by your body like, say, starch from rice oder potatos, etc.
If you want to switch from such a low-carb regimen to, e.g., moderate carb days, simply add 50-75g of carbs coming from oatmeal, yams, brown rice to the first meal of the day.
If you want to go high carbs add anoher 40-50 grams of carbs from strachy sources to 3-4 other meals.
Coun’t the carbs coming from fruits, though. I’d recommend having fruits in the first meal of the day only, to refill liver glycogen stores.
Personally, I eat 750-1,000 grams of earchveggies a day and don’t count the carbs in them.
ok i wont count the carbs from green veggies like spinach, parsley and broccoli. but do i count the calories from them or not??