The Vegetable Diet Dilemma

Which vegetables are good for you to eat?

When it comes to a vegetable diet you would assume you could eat as many and any type you want. This is not true. Some vegetables are much higher in fat and calories than others.

If you plan to use vegetables in your diet to help keep your calorie count down and your belly full, you will need to know which ones to go for and the ones to avoid. Even the ones low in calories cannot be used in a gluttonous manner.

Calories do add up, no matter how low they start out at. If you want to keep your calories as low as they can go be sure to eat your veggies raw and with a fat free dressing or no dressing at all. Once you know what you can eat and how much you will be able to snack freely and feel fully satisfied.

Starch Verses Fiber

When it comes to low calorie veggies to help with your weight loss, you will want to stay away from vegetables with high starch content. These vegetables that include yams, potatoes, sweat potatoes, and eggplant. They are extremely high in carbohydrates, which makes their calories count per serving rise.

The types of vegetables you want to use in a vegetable diet are the ones that are high in fiber. Fiber is indigestible. This is why snacks using these types of veggies are great for snackers. You can eat a serving size often to help you feel full without having to use precious calories.

All dieters know that each calorie you eat makes difference in whether you will lose weight or not. The higher in fiber the veggies are the more you can eat before you are really racking up the calories against you.

The One Cup Rule

There are a few rules to adding a vegetable diet to your life. One is to remember that how much you eat counts. Most high fiber veggies are extremely filling. If you are constantly eating them non-stop all day you can actually do more harm than good.

Too many can keep you from eating the amount of calories you need. When you deprive your body of other food groups you can not only get sick, but also you can gain back any weight you lose as well. You want to stick to the one-cup rule when eating your vegetables.

You should only snack on one cup of vegetables per sitting. This is one serving size of most veggies and has so few calories, could be less than seven, that it can be considered ‘free’ food to most dieters. When you are snacking for weight loss you will want to be sure that if you add any dressing to your snack it will effect the amount of calories.

Sticking with a fat free dressing will keep your snack free, if you add a fat free creamy variety then you will have to take the calories in that serving into consideration.

Richard Larson

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