Originally posted by: forfor
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Originally posted by: vi_edit
beg to differ with you here but I have veggies only lunches several times a week and regard them as more than mere "fillers"
Your typical veggies - greens, tomatoes, onions, carrots, peppers, broccoli, ect are fillers. Nothing more. They "fill in the gaps" in nutrition and provide satiation. They on their own provide little caloric content or are energy sources. The fiber and volume they provide fill you up and help with digestion. They aren't replacements for carbs, fat or protiens.
I have come to really enjoy the taste of steamed or lightly sauteed veggies and consider them very important in my diet for a lot of reasons. the antitoxidents they provide, the proterction against colon cancer.
I don't exercise as much as I should but my diet helps me keep really good skin for my age and I believe firmly that my relatively high intake of nutrient rich veggies is in part responsible.
I absolutely agree that they are essential to a healthy body. I'm just simply saying I don't agree with the concept of them being used as replacements for other things your body needs. (IE: good carbs & protien).
Well, the majority of calories from my daily "super salad" comes from veggies, eggs, dressing, and pasta. I consider it the perfect meal. Here's what it has in it: lettuce, baby spinach, mushrooms, beets, cucumbers, carrots (shredded), egg whites (and probably 1/4 yolk total), baby tomatoes, red grapes and raisins (awesome antiox), sunflower seeds, pasta in vinegar w/ some chunks of cheese, and red wine vinegar (breaks up pasta starch in the stomach before it can be stored as fat) + regular ranch dressing (studies in the latest Men's Health show that regular dressing with more fat will allow the body to absorb 15X more fat soluable vit/min like beta carotene so skip the light dressings). I spend about $6 a day at the supermarket for this lunch salad, it's probably about 1500 calories and I never gain weight. I usually eat a regular chicken sandwich (canned 98% fat free) on whole wheat bread, and a customized slow burning protein (from proteinfactory.com) milkshake for breakfast.
I am sorry but I that's not good nutrition. Consuming 1500 calories is never good unless you are a 300 lbs boxer. A comment on the slow digesting protein shake: you should drink that before bed because your body does most of the protein processing during the first 4 hours of sleep, so its good to have protein in stock then.
Here's my diet:
Breakfast: 2 cup natural non-instant oatmeal with honey + 1 cup light cottage cheese + handful of almonds + green tea.
Snack: Half Turkey sandwich with mustard, lettuce, tomatos + a cup of natural yogurt + 1 apple
Lunch: Salad with chicken breast or at times baked fish (not a big portion)
Snack: Other half of the Turkey sandwich + a glass of milk + a peach.
Dinner: Steak + fish + chicken (any lean meat) + steamed veggies
Snack before bed: slow digesting protein shake + 2 tablespoons of natural, unsalted, unsweetened peanut butter.
This is just a sample of my daily diet. It keeps my metabolism up and running 24/7 and is rich in almost all nutrients.