Is Stir Fry everyday ok for weight loss?

yesbuddie

Hi Guys.

Just looking for advice on my diet. I've starting eating veg for the first time recently. Usually I wouldn't be mad on veg but I like it stir fired.

My daily diet usually consists of:

Breakfast: Porridge with low fat milk.
Snack: Apple
Lunch: Soup or 2 ham sandwiches
Dinner: Stir Fry consisting of 1 or 2 Chicken Fillets with loads of veg (peppers, sweetcorn, onions, mushrooms) and noodles with a small bit of soy sauce.

Other snacks mite be McCambridge Brown Bread with butter.

I don't really get sick of stir fry's every day and was wondering is it ok to have them this often?

How good/bad is this diet?

Thanks in advance.

yesbuddie

Anyone?

username2010

I think you're ok once you're not putting loads of oil in the wok to cook it in....

mightybashful

Try tofu in the stir fry

RobAMerc

good protein and lots of fresh veg, looks good to me! what oil you using?
You also need to be careful with SOY sauce as it can be loaded with sugar I think.

yesbuddie

Cool.

The soy sauce I'm using 3 cals per 5ml, so sees fairly good.

I use Primadonna Extra Virgin Olive oil. The noodles are 200 calories per portion.

Should I be able to lose 1 or 2 pounds a week?

Sometimes I have Sweet Chilli Sauce as a treat or oven chips once a week.

RobAMerc

olive oil is very good for you but supposedly not heated so maybe try coconut oil instead, and for weight loss I would drop the noodles (empty cals )and sweet chilli or chips!

remember it's about cals in vs cals out for weight loss.

ArphaRima

be careful with SOY sauce as it can be loaded with sugar I think.

It's salt I think it's high in

The Sparrow

yesbuddie wrote: »

Cool.

The soy sauce I'm using 3 cals per 5ml, so sees fairly good.

I use Primadonna Extra Virgin Olive oil. The noodles are 200 calories per portion.

Should I be able to lose 1 or 2 pounds a week?

Sometimes I have Sweet Chilli Sauce as a treat or oven chips once a week.

Why don't you work the amount calories you need to be consuming each day to lose weight and then work out the calories of everything you eat? Then you are taking out the guesswork. Buy a notepad and keep a food diary and add up your calories every day. Or you can use sites like Fitday.com to count your calories.

See the stickies for a advice on working out what your daily calorie intake should be.

Oh and use grounnut/ peanut oil for stir frys... olive oil is not a very good choice as it doesn't get hot enough.

The Sparrow

RobAMerc wrote: »

olive oil is very good for you but supposedly not heated so maybe try coconut oil instead, and for weight loss I would drop the noodles (empty cals )and sweet chilli or chips!

remember it's about cals in vs cals out for weight loss.

Agree about the olive oil but not dropping the noodles. A stir fry with chips would be a bit of a disaster imho.

RobAMerc

The Sparrow wrote: »

Agree about the olive oil but not dropping the noodles. A stir fry with chips would be a bit of a disaster imho.

I meant a stir fry with just veg and meat, not with chips instead :eek:

Torakx

Im on an anti candida diet which means no/low carbs alot of good fats and protein with veg.
As someone said if the idea is to lose weight you could replace the noodles with brown rice.

I buy organic wholegrain brown rice now(healthfood shop) and use that to go along with a stir fry.
I make my own chicken stock now too which i add to the stir fry and drop it onto the rice after.
Its amazing

The brown rice is the safest carbs for me to eat and its very very good for you.
Something to do with the kernels or shell not being taken off is why its apparently so much better and nutritious than white rice.

ps. after using the homemade chicken stock i cant possibly make a stir fry without it!
Its better than any ive had in a restaurant or takeaway by far.

RobAMerc

If you are trying to stay away from carbs try Julienne a carrot, parsnip or courgette and fry at a high heat - they are exactly like fried noodles !

You can also make cauliflower rice - tastes better than rice , soaks up sauce better imo and is better for losing weight ( thermogenics ) Rice and spuds imo are useless fillers that are not required.

BraziliaNZ

Why don't you leave out the noodles? Put in more veg? That's what I do.

yesbuddie

If I'm using fitday, how would I estimate the value of a cup full of veg containing Chilli's, Corn, Onions and Mushrooms.

Also, I presume Noodles aren't that bad. Think their a good source of energy.

Thanks in advance.

El_Dangeroso

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

Why don't you leave out the noodles? Put in more veg? That's what I do.

+1 Beansprouts are an excellent sub in for noodles.

My stirfry sauce:

Tamari
Drop of sesame oil
tabasco
paprika
tumeric

yesbuddie

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

+1 Beansprouts are an excellent sub in for noodles.

My stirfry sauce:

Tamari
Drop of sesame oil
tabasco
paprika
tumeric

What exactly do beansprouts taste of? I presume you cook them i boiling water.

Also, I usually just add a bit of soy sauce for my stir frys...very nice

El_Dangeroso

yesbuddie wrote: »

What exactly do beansprouts taste of? I presume you cook them i boiling water.

Also, I usually just add a bit of soy sauce for my stir frys...very nice

Nothing really.. they're all texture. Don't cook them beforehand, just stir-fry with the rest of the veg.

Oh, stir fry with coconut oil if you can too, it's got a lovely flavour and is great for weight loss as the fat turns straight into energy.

Stench Blossoms

yesbuddie wrote: »

If I'm using fitday, how would I estimate the value of a cup full of veg containing Chilli's, Corn, Onions and Mushrooms.

Also, I presume Noodles aren't that bad. Think their a good source of energy.

Thanks in advance.

You shouldn't presume they aren't that bad. It depends on the portion side.

Brown rice would be a better option - or cauliflower rice which has already bee suggested.

rubadub

yesbuddie wrote: »

Also, I presume Noodles aren't that bad. Think their a good source of energy.

Depends on your idea of good/bad. Noodles are extremely high in energy, i.e. very high in calories, I expect more people would view this as a bad thing than good.

A single pack of mcdonnells supernoodles can be up to ~600kcal. This is bog standard boiled noodles, if they are fried the kcal will be higher.

Rice/bread/noodles pack huge amount of kcals, theres about the same kcal in a burger bun as in the 1/4pounder pattie.

I now usually only get starters in Chinese takeaways, so I do not have to get any rice or chips with it. The starters like ribs etc are usually intended for 2 people and are big enough on their own.

yesbuddie

Well the noodles I use are 220cals,

How much calories would I attribute to stir fry veg?

Also, Looking at the back of the Olive oil bottle. There seems to be a nice bit of calories. Should I be counting these? I thought Stir Fry's were healthy? I have a stir most almost every day or 5 times a week.

Lastly, I heard that you can use water to cook veg in a stir fry as its the steam that cooks them. Myth or truth?

Cheers

Stench Blossoms

yesbuddie wrote: »

Well the noodles I use are 220cals,

220 cals for how much? Do you weight them out according to the packet?

yesbuddie

Yes it’s according to the packet. They come in 3 separate packets and it says on the back “220cal per packet”

Stench Blossoms

Have you read the stickies about how many calories you should be consuming a day?

I'd start there and then use fitday or myfitnesspal for example to see how many calories you actually are consuming. You'll get a fair idea if your on the right track or not

BraziliaNZ

yesbuddie wrote: »

Yes it’s according to the packet. They come in 3 separate packets and it says on the back “220cal per packet”

Why not leave them out and put in more broccoli or something? They are empty calories with no nutritional value

ronan45

Im Gonna follow this thread im starting to eat more veg also. Just a quick Question that might be of interest to the OP also. If one was to GORGE on vegetables, (GOOD ONES) Hypothetical Question!
Broccoli Cabbage Brussel Sprouts etc. Would you still start dropping weight or would you still need to check the cals you were taking in from these?

BraziliaNZ

ronan45 wrote: »

Broccoli Cabbage Brussel Sprouts etc. Would you still start dropping weight or would you still need to check the cals you were taking in from these?

No, with greens like that they barely add to your calorie count, I eat tonnes of them and it makes no difference, except you get lots of vitamins

Newaglish

I don't know if this has really been emphasised but if you plan to eat a stir fry for dinner every single day for the rest of your life, there isn't a hope in hell that you will stick to this diet.

Learn to cook some varied meals from fresh, whole ingredients - it doesn't have to be complex or difficult, it only takes about 10-15 minutes of prep and cleaning time for most everyday healthy meals once you are used to the recipe.

If you're not crazy about certain types of vegetables, try roasting things like carrots, sweet potatos, peppers, butternut squash, onions, etc. - they can be quite sweet and tasty, very easy to prepare and almost impossible to cook incorrectly.

There are so many simple, healthy things that you can make from scratch - stews, curries, salads, omelettes, quiches, not to mention various beef, lamb, pork, fish, prawn, etc. dishes.

Without variety you will rapidly get bored of whatever you're cooking but if you learn to cook some simple, healthy dishes, you can eat better than all the people you know who live off ready meals and take-aways.

BraziliaNZ

Newaglish wrote: »

I don't know if this has really been emphasised but if you plan to eat a stir fry for dinner every single day for the rest of your life, there isn't a hope in hell that you will stick to this diet.

I don't know, I pretty much eat the same thing for dinner monday to friday, and have done for years. It's usually some kind of variation of a load of vegetables and meat or fish in some kind of sauce, stir fry sauce, or curry sauce. I make curry sauce from a can of tomatoes and spices. Each meal is absolutely delicious and by the time i get home after gym and work hunger always proves to be the best sauce.

A load of veg and meat can be spruced up in many ways. I pig out a bit more at the weekends though, life is too short!

Newaglish

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

I don't know, I pretty much eat the same thing for dinner monday to friday, and have done for years. It's usually some kind of variation of a load of vegetables and meat or fish in some kind of sauce, stir fry sauce, or curry sauce. I make curry sauce from a can of tomatoes and spices. Each meal is absolutely delicious and by the time i get home after gym and work hunger always proves to be the best sauce.

A load of veg and meat can be spruced up in many ways. I pig out a bit more at the weekends though, life is too short!

Sorry, what I was getting at is that the OP seems to want to eat the exact same stir fry every day with the same meat and sauce.

When you break it down, my meals are essentially meat and vegetables also but you can cook them in a million different ways.