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How many veggies do you squeeze in for the day?
I've been modifying my diet and taking in fairly high amounts of fat and protein, and while I feel great, I'm having trouble squeezing in all the vegetables everyone keeps telling me I need.
Exactly how many servings of vegetables do we need? I know there's all sorts of cool nutrients in vegetables, but I've also read that people have had great success on controversial all-protein/fat diets, so I'm curious what other VSGers are doing.
And how the heck do we get all the veggies in without eating all damn day? I just can't eat both fat/meat + veggies at the same meal because I fill up so quickly.
[5'2": 35lbs lost pre-op. SW: 245 GW: 115 CW: 130.0]
meanwhile, I have some Green Vibrance I bought a long time ago and I plan to go back to drinking it. as I recall, it doesn't taste to wonderful mixed with water but it's fine with juice.
there are all kinds of "Green" drinks available, you can google them. I would prefer to eat "real" food but it doesn't feel like enough. I think with veggies, the more the better.
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I been doing Veggie Only snacks.... Even though I love veggies with meat......trying to get them in with protein always means less protein....
frisco
SW 338lbs. GW 175lbs. Goal in 11 months. CW 148lbs. WL 190lbs.
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if i eat yogurt i add 1/4 cup blue berries to my 1/2 cup yogurt and so far that has been the only way for me to even get fruit in, or have 1/4 apple as a snack
I even tried eating 1/2 whole wheat round with pb to get grains in, but then i started craving protein again i noticed after a few days i was back to eating nothing but protein..
I only eat 3-3.5 oz of protein at a time and if i cut back on that i wont make my protein numbers .. so i enjoy veges and meat for special occassions..
I guess that is one reason we must stay on top of our vitamins..
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I try to have veggies 2-3 times a day which generally works out to 2 servings (because of how little fits in each time) and fruit 1x (though I sometimes have more).
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Lately I've been better because I'm trying to fill up more on lower calorie foods.
Some things I do:
mix cottage cheese with ranch dressing powder and scoop it with celery (can use greek yogurt)
mix tuna fish with cottage cheese (or make tuna salad however you like it) and roll it up in green leaf lettuce (lettuce wraps, can use any filling)
eat salad with meat in it
mix blue cheese with cottage cheese and dip celery in it (can use greek yogurt)
Then I also have been eating broccoli or cauliflower with my dinner.
Can't eat very big servings of these veggies, but I try to include them at least twice a day.
HW: 249 SW: 229 GW: 149 Age: 63 - Body by Sauceda - 12/2011
