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Calories in the Vegetable Food Group

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Calories are a necessary part of life. Why....without calories, the body would just fall over and die.

While calories are more commonly viewed as 'something that makes one fat', calories are actually viewed as 'energy' by the body. Although common sense tells us that delicious pastries, pies, cakes, puddings, chips, and fried foods - as well as other fat-loaded foods aren't good for the body's circulatory system, the body recognizes calories as energy.

Smart Vegetable Choices for Weight Loss Results

If Dieter Debbie has consumed all the calories that her body requires for the day, and the hungries hit and she decides to munch on a bag of innocent, low calorie carrots - these 'healthy' calories will then be stored in Debbie's fat cells. Eeek - weight gain!

On the other Diet Hand, Dieter Debbie should be applauded for making a wise food choice. Rather than the body storing 35 calories she consumed, if she had relented to a slice of cheesecake, the body would have been storing about 700 calories.

Dieting or not - vegetables can  make one of the healthiest choices for weight loss and the closer they are to their natural state, the less calories they contain. Calories in vegetables can be found here at Diet Bites, and in the meantime, let's do a few calorie comparisons with vegetable that is a fan-favorite of most individuals - the healthy potato.

Vegetable Selection

Serving Size

Preparation Method

Calories

Potato - Baked

One 7-ounce

Baked and enjoyed plain with a little salt & pepper.

220 calories

Potato - Baked

One 7-ounce

Baked, enjoyed with regular sour cream, butter, salt & pepper.

340 calories

Potato - Baked

One 7-ounce

Baked, enjoyed with regular sour cream, butter, bacon bits, cheese, salt & pepper.

450 calories

Potato - Hash Browns

1 cup

Home prepared.

413 calories

Potato - French Fries

7 ounces

Fried also contains 9.3 fat grams.

297 calories

Potato - Mashed

1 cup

Prepared with whole milk added.

174 calories

Potato - Mashed

1 cup

Prepared with whole milk and butter added.

237 calories

Potato - Mashed

1 cup

Prepared with whole milk and margarine added.

237 calories

Potato - Scalloped

1 cup

Prepared with margarine.

216 calories

Potato - Chips

8 ounces

Plain variety, salted, commercially prepared potato chips.

1,242 calories

Potato - Chips

1 ounce

Plain variety, salted, commercially prepared potato chips.

155 calories

Potato - Salad

1 cup

Home prepared with Mayo.

358 calories

Potato - Salad

1 cup

Home prepared with Miracle Whip Light.

228 calories

Smart Vegetable Choices for Snack Time for Weight Loss Results

Here are a few great suggestions for dieters when snack time arrives:

- raw broccoli trees served with 45 calories of your favorite salad dressing

- 100 calories worth of sweet potato, mashed, sprinkled with cinnamon and no calorie sugar substitute

- one celery stalk filled with 1 teaspoon of peanut butter (using Peter Pan's Whipped Peanut Butter will save more calories)

- one celery stalk filled with 1 serving of whipped cream cheese

- Carrot & Raisin Salad: shred one large carrot and add 1 teaspoon of dark or golden raising OR dried cranberries add 1 teaspoon of Miracle Whip Light.

- an assortment of raw vegetables served with 45 calories of your favorite salad dressing or yogurt

- 100 calories worth of vegetable chips

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