Weight-Loss Steamed rice

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Ben2

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Is steamed rice good or bad for you? Does it have any nutritional benefits? Also, about how many calories are they per serving? I'm thinking of having my parents go out and buy some next time they go to the store because it's one of my favorite foods and it fills me up.
 
Plain white rice has little to no nutritional value. Brown rice is where you should go. It has a little more protein than white rice, and MUCH more fiber.
 
People need to get out of the mindset of "good" food vs. "bad" food. Some foods are better for you than others, but food itself is not inherently bad.

I get frustrated with these types of questions: Is X bad for me? Should I stop eating X? and so forth ... because they are absolutist. As though eating or not eating one food would make a difference, or as though one food has some kind of magical (or evil) properties.

There is nothing wrong with rice. A 1/2 cup serving of steamed white rice is 90 cals, 2g of protein, 20g of carbs, 11% of your RDA of iron, and 2% of your RDA of calcium. That's not bad for you at all.

Now the question is, are you going to eat 1/2 cup of rice as part of a balanced meal, or are you going to eat 4 cups of rice a day and nothing else?

THAT is the question.

Rice is not bad for you. Lots of rice is not good for you. People need to start thinking of foods in terms of a single part of a whole eating plan ... not as one single standalone food.
 
KaraCooks said:
Rice is not bad for you. Lots of rice is not good for you. People need to start thinking of foods in terms of a single part of a whole eating plan ... not as one single standalone food.
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That's hard for a lot of people! For instance, my husband wants to just avoid any food that is on the 'don't eat too much of' list (Mostly the high GI foods). He finds it simpler, and he doesn't have to worry that he'll cross the line of when the amount is past 'reasonable'. He also has zero desire to count calories, and this restricts him enough that he's eating at a deficit without counting... On the other hand, I am still shooting for a reduced insulin response, but I try to judge by the whole meal, and not by a specific ingredient.

But he's still losing weight, and he was able to get off his cholesterol medication, so if it works for him... Well, as long as he doesn't expect me to do the same :p
 
That's hard for a lot of people! For instance, my husband wants to just avoid any food that is on the 'don't eat too much of' list (Mostly the high GI foods). He finds it simpler, and he doesn't have to worry that he'll cross the line of when the amount is past 'reasonable'. He also has zero desire to count calories, and this restricts him enough that he's eating at a deficit without counting...
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Honestly I don't have a problem with that at all. It works well for some people. What I have a problem with is demonizing a food as "bad" ... when it's not.

There are some things I don't eat at all because I know they're trigger foods for me. Sourdough bread is one of them. There's nothing unhealthy about a slice of sourdough bread with dinner. It's not "bad". But if I eat a half a loaf with dinner ... that's BAD. :D

So I get the whole restricting somethign to avoid a trigger or even restricting to just make it easier.

I just don't want people to think that makes that particular food "bad".
 
Mmm, sourdough bread... I'm not sure the last time I had some. It's very very good... in a not good for your self control way ;)
 
Jeanette401 said:
That's hard for a lot of people! For instance, my husband wants to just avoid any food that is on the 'don't eat too much of' list (Mostly the high GI foods). He finds it simpler, and he doesn't have to worry that he'll cross the line of when the amount is past 'reasonable'.
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Avoiding high GI foods is a good idea, but there are some things on the 'don't eat too much of' list that you really should get some of, like omega-3 fats.
 
The omega-3 fats are not on his 'Don't eat too much of' list ;)

Really it's just refined starches and sugars that are on his watch list.
 
Jeanette401 said:
That's hard for a lot of people! For instance, my husband wants to just avoid any food that is on the 'don't eat too much of' list (Mostly the high GI foods). He finds it simpler, and he doesn't have to worry that he'll cross the line of when the amount is past 'reasonable'. He also has zero desire to count calories, and this restricts him enough that he's eating at a deficit without counting... On the other hand, I am still shooting for a reduced insulin response, but I try to judge by the whole meal, and not by a specific ingredient.

But he's still losing weight, and he was able to get off his cholesterol medication, so if it works for him... Well, as long as he doesn't expect me to do the same :p
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I follow the same principle as your husband, that is complete avoidance of all high, and even medium, for that matter, GI foods. I simply can not be arsed to count calories or measure half cups of rice. I tried measuring, weighing, and counting for a few weeks and it consumed way too much of my precious time.

I know everything what I can eat now, and I just come up with my low-GI meals ad-hoc. I've been gourmet cooking for myself, and on occasion for restaurants, for a long, long time, though, so it's pretty easy for me.

We men are no-nonsense creatures. Something either works or it doesn't. If it takes too much time, then it doesn't work.
 
It's also generally easier for men to produce a deficit without counting since they tend to have a higher BMR and therefore more wiggle room ;)

But truth told, I don't count & measure all the time, but I did enough to get a general idea of where my limits were, so I'll still mix high GI ingredients in things. I put pineapples in my cheese logs, for example, and make higher protein/fiber waffles for myself because I know the overall GL is fine for me, and I'm not going to go over calories. I don't really have 'forbidden' foods, just foods that I have to not over-indulge in :D
 
I'm a calorie counter. There is no other way for me.

Calorie counting takes too much time? I don't spend more than about 10 minutes a day counting calories. I use a glass top food scale to measure things like meat and potatoes. No need to weigh the low calorie stuff or the fluid. I might spend a minute per day measuring. It's just a few minutes to enter the day's meals into my spreadsheet. Compare this to hours a week most spend exercising. Which is a better use of your time?

Without calorie counting I would have to eat less to make sure I lost weight. Eliminating carbs wouldn't work for me. I don't want to give up fruit or bread, and could still eat too many calories in fat or protein.
 
I personally think it's probably good for most people to at least try the calorie counting method for a couple weeks. Reason being that most people are horrible estimators. However, I often skip the weighing and measuring (especially when I cook something with multiple, hard to define portions) because I've now got a much better idea of how much is too much.

Most of the things I eat, weighing/counting is pretty easy. I have a nice scale with a 'zero' feature, and it's quite straight forward.

The 'hard' part of calorie counting comes in when I'm making recipes and don't have an easy way to measure exactly how much of the chicken, mushrooms, evaporated wine, chicken broth, cream, onions etc. actually made it onto my plate in a given serving ;)

Maybe if I measured all of my cooking pans, and then could determine the total weight of all ingredients after cooking, then determine what percentage of that went on my plate, and then use that to determine total calories... :D
 
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