Re: veggies

[Guest guest]

I read the email on the apple, I eat between 1 - 2 apples everyday, I have a

8oz glass of grapefuit juice and the rest if celery, cucumber, corn or low

soduim v-8 juice! The thing for me is that I try really hard to eat 3 square

meals with one afternoon snack! I also discovered reading back through my

week 1 book that 1/2 cup of veggie is a seving so that means I 've been

having more than 5 servings a day? Kailu

[Guest guest]

And then there's the theory that we don't get fat eating veggies, so why count

them at all! LOL I never heard the veggies counting as points until I heard

from people who do WW online. The book doesn't say that, it says free, and you

should eat many servings. Sigh.....it's not a problem for me anyway.

, I think you have the best approach to it all. Your post sums it up well,

and I think it's a good rule of thumb to follow! Thanks.

Lyn

Re: veggies

> broccoli is always a zero point food. Carrots and onions count as 1 pt per

> cup. Cauliflower, tomatos, cucumbers, cabbage, zuccini, yellow squash, are

> always zero unless you add something to them.

Well, if you add cheese to broccoli, it certainly doesn't remain zero. All

zero point foods, if you add something not zero, will rise in points.

All zero point foods (except water) aren't always zero. They're zero points

for 1 serving. Have multiple servings at one sitting, and the point value

will go up (usually slowly)

They're zero points because the calorie content is very very low...but as

long as the calories aren't zero (which I think is only true for water)

once you have enough servings to get past 50 calories you've got a point.

(Servings are counted per meal...so if you have a serving at lunch and

dinner, you don't have to worry, it's zero both times.)

It's not a fiber content change...it's all in the water lost in cooking.

Since the water is lost, more cooked veggies will fit in that cup than did

raw. More veggies = more calories.

Now...all this said....

I am pretty sure, if you measure your serving of veggies while they're raw

-- before you cook them -- they don't become a point after you cook them.

They remain zero. It's only if you're measuring that serving after cooking.

So if you want a serving of zero-point vegetables, that are 1 point when

cooked, but you want them cooked, measure the serving while raw, and then

cook them. You'll get less, but it will remain zero points.

I'm not an expert, nor do I play one on tv

but this is what i believe

let me know if i'm wrong