Thread: How to eat more fiborous veggies

Step 1: Grow some balls
Step 2: Open mouth
Step 3: insert fibrous veggies in mouth
Step 4: chew food
Step 5: swallow chewed food
Step 6: enjoy your new healthier life

Yea. I don't like them much either but I try to get them whenever I can. Broccolli is one of the best and I usually just try to scarf it down first and save better stuff for later. But just because youre eating it doesnt mean youre going to lose weight! You need to create a deficit to do that. That requires you monitoring your caloric intake to some extent. If youre throwing everything in sauces and recipes youre probably adding a ton of extra calories.

I hate them too, but I just eat them.

Just get a two and a half cup bowl and fill it with raw veggies and eat it and then you're done for the day.

Sometimes I will buy Garden Veggie soup from Whole foods. That helps too.

But seriously, you'll have to get over the idea that everything you eat needs to be enjoyable.

Originally Posted by KelJu

Step 1: Grow some balls
Step 2: Open mouth
Step 3: insert fibrous veggies in mouth
Step 4: chew food
Step 5: swallow chewed food
Step 6: enjoy your new healthier life

Step 1: Kiss my a$$
Step 2: Grow some balls
Step 3: Take the ridiculous cat off your avatar
Step 4: Did I say kiss my a$$

Make a soup with the veggies and puree them in.

Solved.

I just drink a V8.

Originally Posted by rahaas

I just drink a V8.

I read a post here that said V8's had too much sodium to drink it often enough to replace real veggies.

Or something like that..

Originally Posted by trapper124

Step 1: Kiss my a$$
Step 2: Grow some balls
Step 3: Take the ridiculous cat off your avatar
Step 4: Did I say kiss my a$$

Ok come on was this necessary ? if your asking for an opinion dont disrespect others please keep it friendly .

I myself only eat brocoli is the only i like and the reality is that , if you have a goal you have to do whatever it takes to get there , your not a little kid , just do what you have to do ok.

Originally Posted by allnaturalmyass

Ok come on was this necessary ? if your asking for an opinion dont disrespect others please keep it friendly .

I myself only eat brocoli is the only i like and the reality is that , if you have a goal you have to do whatever it takes to get there , your not a little kid , just do what you have to do ok.

seemed pretty necessay to me when somebody tells me to grow some balls!

take a joke.

But yeah, just eat the food. It takes sacrificies. Find a list of high fiber foods and experiment. Apples have good fiber in them, eat a couple apples a day.

Originally Posted by trapper124

seemed pretty necessay to me when somebody tells me to grow some balls!

I don't mind. You can flame me all you want. However, my intention wasn't to troll you. I was being blunt and to the point. There are many aspects of my training that I don't like. Some aspects I completely detest. But, I have developed the attitude that whenever I don't want to do something I think to myself "man up, grow some balls, and do it".

I don't start a thread about how to half ass something because I don't like it. Adding sauce defeats the many of the purposes of eating veggies in the first place. No, you can't add sauces to your veggies if you are cutting. No, you can't add thousand Island dressing to your lettuce if you are cutting. It defeats the purpose, you might as well be eating a cheeseburger if you are going to do that. There is lettuce on a McDonald's cheeseburger, but that doesn't make it healthy.

If you are serious about loosing weight, check out the stickies in the D&N forums. Take extra note to the carb-cycling threads. They go to extra length to explain what you can and can't have on a cut. Change your attitude. There will probably be a lot of things you don't want to eat, but have to, and there will be even more things you want to eat but can't. Its hard, but you have to learn discipline.


Ninja Edit:
And no, I will not change my avatar. My cat is rocks!

Originally Posted by pyromaniac327

I read a post here that said V8's had too much sodium to drink it often enough to replace real veggies.

Or something like that..

I agree not as good as fresh vegetables but it is made with "real veggies" and is better than no vegetables.

I'm on the road driving allot during the day so a V8 with my mid day meal is most practical for me and is offered only as a suggestion.

Originally Posted by rahaas

I just drink a V8.

V8 does not contain many of the nutrients in veggies, particularly fiber.

Also, it is mostly tomato, which is not a veggie but a fruit.

Originally Posted by Built

Make a soup with the veggies and puree them in.

Solved.

That's why I like my idea for veggie-haters.

Honesty, you don't even taste 'em.

Theres plenty of recipes in vegetarian cooking. If those are too bland for you and if you like Indian food, for e.g., there are plenty of spiced up veggie dishes.

Personally i don't bother with lettuce as much of a veggie esp iceberg lettuce. I pref to have eggplant, cauliflower, broccoli, mushrooms, cabbage, spinach..etc for my veggies

Originally Posted by Built

That's why I like my idea for veggie-haters.

Honesty, you don't even taste 'em.

I'm not a veggie hater - love'm matter of a fact...just kinda hard to eat soup while driving I have a tough time as it is text messaging

I like your apple Idea...I can handle that.

I'm with Kelju, there are times when the thought of eating vegetables is almost repulsive. But you still need to discipline yourself if you expect results.
If you do a little research on the kazillion different ways vegi's can be prepped, seasoned, etc. you can eliminate a lot of the bland, average results in flavor that most of us grew up with....hence the dislike for vegetables.
I'm not going to lie...raw vegi's taste like crap (to me anyway), and most people overcook the hell out of others, leaving the majority of the nutrients in the pot. But if you learn how to lightly sautee', bake or grill 'em the flavor is much different from what most people are used to.

Sometimes you gotta just eat stuff you dont like for the greater good.

I gag daily while im eating my raw tomato of the day, but i do it because i know its good for me!

Like Arnie said no pain no gain, its not just in the gym, its all the things in this lifestyle that we do that we dont like that make us stronger, in the mind and the muscles.

Originally Posted by Mclovin

Sometimes you gotta just eat stuff you dont like for the greater good.

I gag daily while im eating my raw tomato of the day, but i do it because i know its good for me!

Like Arnie said no pain no gain, its not just in the gym, its all the things in this lifestyle that we do that we dont like that make us stronger, in the mind and the muscles.

Seriously, you eat stuff you don't like?
I enjoy all the food I eat. I don't have to think every meal is a culinary delight, but I won't eat things that don't taste good!

Why suffer? There's a world of food out there!

Besides, it's easy to make things taste GOOD. Why not put your tomato in a salad with some nice balsamic and some good olive oil, salt and some herbs maybe? Steam some broccoli or green beans, butter them and salt them and they're delicious.

Originally Posted by Built

Seriously, you eat stuff you don't like?
I enjoy all the food I eat. I don't have to think every meal is a culinary delight, but I won't eat things that don't taste good!

Why suffer? There's a world of food out there!

Besides, it's easy to make things taste GOOD. Why not put your tomato in a salad with some nice balsamic and some good olive oil, salt and some herbs maybe? Steam some broccoli or green beans, butter them and salt them and they're delicious.

I love all vegetables and fruit, with raw tomato's being the only exception. Its actually one of the very few foods i dont like much. Not sure if its the texture or what, but it just sometimes makes me gag. Theyre so good for you in more than one way, so to answer you question, yes i eat it even though i dont like it.. I even feel good after its done, because it reinforces my comitment to succeed despite the challenges i might face.

Why not eat them in something you like? Why just choke one down?

I usually eat one when im feeling a bit peckish throughout the day, with half to a litre of water and it fills me up. Also when your body is breaking down a tomato, it actually expends more calories than whats in it.. So i use it to fill the gap when im hungry between meals or snacks, and consider it a neutral on my food diary.

I pre-plan my meals for the entire day, so by just having a few nuts, or a light snack etc, can turn a moderate or small deficit into a tiny one.

Besides my parents always used to make me eat tomatos at dinner... thats a good enough reason for me to keep doing it! its certainly not doing me any harm.

Mclovin!!! Hahaha, I fucking love that name. I am naming my next pet Mclovin.

McLovin'

nice pic!

Originally Posted by Mclovin

I usually eat one when im feeling a bit peckish throughout the day, with half to a litre of water and it fills me up. Also when your body is breaking down a tomato, it actually expends more calories than whats in it.

Ummm… wanna explain how that one works?

Originally Posted by Mclovin

So i use it to fill the gap when im hungry between meals or snacks, and consider it a neutral on my food diary.

I pre-plan my meals for the entire day, so by just having a few nuts, or a light snack etc, can turn a moderate or small deficit into a tiny one.

I pre-plan mine too. I don't see what this has to do with choking down food that could be made to be enjoyable.

Originally Posted by Mclovin

Besides my parents always used to make me eat tomatos at dinner... thats a good enough reason for me to keep doing it! its certainly not doing me any harm.

I didn't suggest tomatoes were causing you harm, but why eat them with nothing but water when you could eat them in a way that they taste GOOD?

Might defeat your purpose, but I personally like celery sticks with peanut butter. Sounds weird and nasty to some but it's great. Great bulking snack for me...celery is mostly water anyways...

Does vegetable salsa contain a sufficient amount of fiber?
To be specific, I'm not asking which is better fresh veggies or salsa because that's a no brainer. Just asking if salsa is sufficient enough.
I'm challenged in the kitchen and walking around job sites with a carrot of celery stick in my mouth is kinda silly not that chugging down a jar a salsa is any better but I do eat it on or with just about everything.