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by 0xbadcafebee 610 days ago
You can melt a tablespoon of butter and toss a bunch of vegetables in it, and it will taste delicious. But it only "cost" 100 extra calories, which is nothing. So go ahead and eat an extra serving of carrots, broccoli, green beans, lettuce, radishes, etc. You are extremely unlikely to get fat that way.

I find it quite strange that people think home-cooked meals have to be calorie-dense. It's food. Where you cook it doesn't matter. And if you have to keep your food from being delicious to control your portions... the problem isn't the food.
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Karrot_Kream 609 days ago
Guidance for most sedentary American adults (ages 31-50 [1]) is to consume 1800 kcal a day. 100 kcal is 5.5% of your daily caloric budget. You just consumed 5.5% of your daily caloric budget with that one extra tablespoon of butter.

[1]: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-many-calories-a-day-s...

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0xbadcafebee 609 days ago
Right, like I said, it's nothing...

Assuming you have 3 meals a day, and assuming you have 600 kcals per meal, and assuming your nutritionist has prescribed a diet with a 50/20/30 carb/fat/protein ratio, and assuming one of those meals (dinner?) has 100 kcals from fat, that means 16% of the meal was fat. If you eat a lean protein (with a tiny amount of incidental fat) and carbs with that meal, that's actually the perfect amount of fat.

You can also mix up your meals so that, say, breakfast has very little fat, and dinner has more fat, or vice versa. It's all about balance.

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watwut 609 days ago
>You can melt a tablespoon of butter and toss a bunch of vegetables in it, and it will taste delicious. But it only "cost" 100 extra calories, which is nothing. So go ahead and eat an extra serving of carrots, broccoli, green beans, lettuce, radishes, etc. You are extremely unlikely to get fat that way.

Yeah, but only anorectic are able to keep eating this long term. Until they get to hospital with all kinds of body damage.

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0xbadcafebee 609 days ago
I know a lot of vegetarians who don't end up in the hospital from eating too many veggies, but I guess they're the lucky ones...
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watwut 608 days ago
They eat more then just vegetables with little bit of butter. It is possible to survive as vegetarian, just not from the meal you described.

Nuts, sugar, cheese, eggs, actually also fruits ...

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