Why I Hate Zoodles (Zucchini Noodles)
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- Exploring the downside to this gluten free, raw, 'super healthy' pasta replacement. Other topics covered: Protein cravings, calorie math.
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Average protein 91 grams/d: ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/...
Protein Requirements Write-up: healthyeating.sfgate.com/many-...
Breast milk: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3...
The BROAD study:
www.nature.com/nutd/journal/v7...
Propionate: gut.bmj.com/content/early/2014...
Add zoodles to your actual spaghetti haha otherwise, you're right. Could never be satisfied or get full off of just zoodles. So many people just look at a plate of food and if it looks large, they think it's a lot of food... Without considering how nutritionally adequate the plate is. I was once eating a large plate of pasta & beans with a huge side of tomato and cucumber salad.. And this dude was like "are you eating for three?".... Like bitch, this shit is like 500 calories max and half water. Lol.
How did I just see your channel now?! Your name is my life mantra! Subbed.
Cheap Lazy Vegan k
Preach! Meat eaters shame me for eating what looks like a lot of food but what they don't get is my giant salad has the same amount of calories as their couple strips of bacon, just a lot more nutrients and a lot less cruelty
Cheap Lazy Vegan 😂😂😂 I love how sassy you're getting!
If you ate, what you say, a LARGE plate of pasta and beans, that stuff by itself was more than 500 calories, just saying :P
Haha you make a good point but still...I'm obsessed with zucchini noodles. It works out for me because I have a huge appetite and I could easily eat a whole package of pasta in one go. So I like to do half zoodles and half "real" pasta and it fills me up. I also love using zoodles as a substitute for salad greens just to make life more fun. ;)
Sarah's Vegan Kitchen I love you Sarah!! Check out her channel, it's my recent addiction. She makes me a very happy vegan 😊
You can eat 5 cups of salads and feel full but your body won't get the calories needed
Same here! As long as we're getting enough cals, it's all good. :)
thats really more of a meal, pasta with zucchini, some garlic, some basil, some nuts, a good simple meal.
Sarah's Vegan Kitchen Mic is wrong.. Enjoy your zoodles!😉🌟🌟
This just encouraged me to eat more Zucchini noodles!
Me Too🤣
Me too! 😂
same. i actually find it hard to stay full on a lot of plant based meals (for reference i can eat six chipotle sized burritos a day) so i end up racking up really high calories without low calorie options
Uhh me too!
Nothing qrong with them if you know what you're getting but they are bad for making new vegans think they can't sustain themselves. I love things like this because I'd rather have a huge bowl of low calorie food with a rich protein source. 600 calorie meal that looks like it should be 1000 😍
Up until a few days ago I was considering going back to eating meats because I felt like trash. Instead I tracked my calories in myfitnesspal and found out I was under eating by almost 1000 calories.
JAMEZY just do it like me and eat a fuckload of potatoes
Eat meat
Ernesto Panza nah I'm good.
Eat it...
My brother started to eat more plant based after all the discussion we had over veganism, and I noticed he was undereating, so I showed him Simnett nutrition channel. Now he's feeling better and improved his fitness routine. Eating well is perfectly doable, just research.
* cough * raw christina * cough *
Roheryn Design but she neglects nutrition values such as protein and iron by adopting a totally raw diet...she may put food into chronometer but she doesn't pay enough attention to how her diet innately restricts access to valuable nutrients
I've seen her add 2 whole avocados to a pesto sauce for her zoodles tho!! That's hardly lo-cal. I'd get fat on that!
If you think she restricts, overloads, or does anything out of balance, take that up her doctor. I do not have her level of activity, so automatically eating exactly like she does just wouldn't make sense. We should be researching our chosen eating plans anyway, not just following someone. Complaining about someone else for how they eat seems pointless unless they are your parent, and they are forcing the same on you.
Archit Dharod I love her, but yeah. She's helped me so much with going high raw vegan but she's a bit too "out there."
Sharleena Freeman But are there any complex carbs? You can't starve the brain of carbs completely, that is more the point. You will screw up glucose levels that the body, especially the brain requires for optimal functioning.
Instead of swapping out pasta for vegetables, i like to spiralise carrots and add it into spaghetti! It looks more interesting and adds more texture and nutrition :-)
same!
Ezra that actually sounds like a good idea
Ezra I'll have to try that! Sounds awesome
Ezra
Best of both worlds
Yep i was going to say the same :)
People who say "zoodles" taste like pasta must have mistaken marijuana leaves for lettuce and put it in their salad...Just sayin'
Alina Toft Petersen OMG best comment ever xD
how does anyone think zucchini could taste like pasta? whaaat...
eating marijuana leaves WILL NOT get you high, cannabis has to be decarboxylated before it becomes psychoactive; but I get what you want to say! ;)
Artur K actually, if you use lemon juice or peanut butter as dressing, you might get an effect. Ever heard of weed lemonade or firecrackers? But still unlikely yes :p
Alina Toft Petersen Cannabis leaves taste like pasta? You must not be joking that it'll make them high, because the flowers, not the leaves contain THC
Cannabis will not get you high if injested if not heated first because the THCA is non psychoactive and turns into THC when heated though vaporization or combustion.
Starving yourself is not veganism. I'm tired of people thinking I only eat salad.
And this anti-carb crap is pissing me off.
Show them the high carb vegan evidence :) facebook.com/PlantBasedEvidencePaleoDiet/?hc_ref=ARQ2Rim7CSqPRq_Y4BzTy4_RS_Lg1l8pOzzQ3o9USrk8ipFg4PWJI941beyb-Y5qNQ8&fref=nf
What mine? No, read the whole site!
I agree!!
Then don't do it. It helps many people lose weight and get healthy. Zoodles are great for people who can not have pasta, breads, starches etc.
@@baritonebynight Oh yeah for sure low carb is great for weight loss. I've used that method before. I'm talking about the folks that think carbs are literally posion or something. Same with the people that think gluten is posion even if you aren't allergic to it.
I tried zoodles because people acted like it tasted like pasta.... Nope.
Carbs Are Happiness matty healy
AmyKinso hello hello
Harl Mctrusty "matt"
Harl Mctrusty Nah, man... But, you're entitled to your own opinion.
Did you sprinkle it with nutritional yeast though? Tastes exactly like cheese!
LOL
we always eat zucchini noodles with a very high calorie sauce with tofu pieces in it and we feel super full after two plates
Same. I think he's reaching for drama here. It's just one veggie, part of a bigger meal.
He's arguing against eating zoodles as a meal. Nothing else.
What makes the sauce high calorie, and did you already stuff loads of calories in before hand?
natureasintended Almond butter and maybe the smoked tofu (not sure about the calories in tofu)
also, a little off-topic, I often eat just broccoli with vegan mayo (mostly almond butter again) and It makes me full. I think veggies plus a sauce can make a super easy, delicious meal. maybe not super healthy because of the fat? i'm really not sure anymore if nuts are healthy or not, everyone is saying something different
Quote from comedian John Pinette "She wanted me to have salad as the food! No! Salad isn't food. Salad comes with the food. Salad is a promisary note that something good is
going to happen... and I should just wait right here."
Zoodles are a wonderful alternative but you still need to supply your body with sufficient calories at the end of the day. Combine them with other healthy foods and you'll be good to go.
Eric Banaszewski exactly!
I eat zoodles as a side like salad
Had to tell my sister that. She invited me over for a vegan dinner, (she's not vegan) and this is what she prepared. I told her that we are going to be starving soon, and we did. So I suggested that she cook a side of brown rice and she did, and then we were satiated.
missivy phillips aww how sweet 😊
When she was fixing this with love, she was probably wondering how the heck you could go vegan. You opened her eyes to a whole new world 😊👍
This is so sweet
Once again I thank you. People like you are helping people like me tremendously!
lol this is important. My dad tried going vegan a couple of times (before I even considered the lifestyle) and he always felt hungry because he was doing that raw bull shit. He wasn't eating enough calorie dense foods because "raw foods are always the best foods". He still restricts himself to this day and he even wakes up in the middle of the night to eat sugary cereals. The other day we were grocery shopping and he bought 11 boxes of cheese and pepperoni pizza. He's not satiated eating meat, and he's not satiated eating plants, so maybe his calorie intake is too low. Now that I'm vegan, he's always like "are you getting enough nutrients because veganism is really calorie restrictive" it really upsets me. I eat more often than anyone else in my family I eat about 2,800 calories a day (I'm very active, that's why) but he still thinks plant based eating is starvation.
Delà De La Reconnaissance oh wow you must feel bad because you instinctively want to help him but even with the evidence in front of him(you) he's not making the connection. I'm sorry 😐
Veronica Salas It's fine it'll get through to him eventually. I started talking to him about why I went vegan (because he asked) in the health and environmental aspect (he doesn't care about ethics) and he surprisingly agreed with a lot of what I was saying. He's given up milk and he's aware of the dangers of consuming cheese but he still snacks on it, but I think he'll give that up eventually. I believe he's taking baby steps :).
it is sad when people mistake veganism with low-calories, low fat, raw, etc diets.
I'd suggest you to show him the vegan food pyramid. might give him a better idea of how to eat and get enough nutrients and calories.
Maybe he has parasites. I used to have them and id eat meals for 4 persons and still wasnt satisfied. But once I got rid of these nasty creatures, my apetite is normal and I dont binge on food. Definitely reccomend u to read more about it and if hw has symptoms he should do a detox. Check out dr morse
TheJoyLoveMoney Well, yeah, that's just your opinion. Do what works for you. Don't like the starch pushing then don't eat starches yourself. I know plenty of people OFF UA-cam who track their calories and eat Carbs and are healthy and look amazing as well.
Can you do a video on people saying they can't go vegan because of their blood type?? I have been hearing this as an excuse lately for why they can't go vegan.
blood type diet has been proven to be BS
Mic did that video. I'm an O blood type. 10 years vegan. blood type diet debunked.
Mark Pignataro oh he did?? I will search for it now then! Some woman told me she got cancer while on a vegan diet, and was told for her blood type she needed meat to survive. Apparently near cured her cancer 😒
Jasbir Kaur Villaschi 😂
ShinyEvenWonderღ Apparently, my blood type (B) thrives on dairy... Mmm...cholesterol...fat...pus...yummy. Barf!! 😊
Mic defends gluten. Thank you, my ego needed this
he didn't defend gluten, did he? he defended calories. he actually cited calorically high gluten free pasta
He never even said gluten on the video
There is NOTHING wrong with gluten, unless you have coeliac disease, which only very few people do. I know someone who does, she's my sister's friend from school. Once, in the 1980s, she slept over at our house, and she had her own bread. Those were just corn wafers that looked like what we were giving our hamster as a treat at the time. :-( I'm so glad that there is PROPER gluten free bread available now because some people really need it. In fact, I've tried a leftover gluten free bread, and I must order it again (they only do it by order now), because it was honestly delicious!
“The ghost of pasta past” I’m dead 🤣
So far this is one of my favorite vids of yours. :-) Great job.
I eat organic whole wheat noodles
Yes
Aint zoodles a side dish? Like a salad ?
Fat is satisfactory but whole starches are fulfilling.
Sweet! New channel about building your own tiny house? I'm in!!!
I agree about the whole zucchini noodle trend. Raw zucchini doesn't really appeal to me anyway, but I tried it. It's definitely not enough, unless you make a more calorie dense sauce. People could mix it half and half with regular noodles to reduce the calorie load, while still getting lots of fiber, nutrients, and improved satisfaction, if weight loss is the goal.
Loved this- Thanks Mic!
I'm so excited you have a tiny house channel I'm gonna go find it! All of your videos make my life better lol your sense of humor and lack of dealing with stupidity is right up my alley!
I just want to say that the attitudes and mindsets towards food that you promote here are really helpful to me. I am newly vegan and am trying to recover from an eating disorder. Vegan creators like you have helped me look at food in a more positive way. Thank you :)
Hey, To help prove your point on 5:19: I've been eating normally until I was full for about 9 months now. I never "dieted" I just ate when I was hungry, just replaced all my food with Vegan food. I'd even snack on chips once in awhile.
Now I am up to 70lbs lost. It's quite literally the easiest diet. So anyone asking if they should cut calories? Don't even bother. Just eat until you are full. Our bodies were designed this way to eat until we were full.
Anyway, great video dude, keep it up.
Thank you so much for this one! Much needed. I wish I knew this in the beginning. My family struggled at first for reasons just like this.
Been waiting on this one
Awesome video 😂 this is so accurate to how people think! 😂 and I'm always explaining the "you're actually craving fat" to people who "don't like vegan food"😂
I love Zoodles. I just don't think they should be presented as pasta, because they are not. But I definitely think they can be a main dish, especially if you eat it with sauce and other vegetables/grains/legumes. Zoodles always leave me full but without that heavy pasta feeling I get. #teamzoodle
So glad someone made this video. I should've done this a while back lol.
It's good to hear from your side of view and for you to let other people know the benefit and the downside of zoodles. I'm on this weight loss journey right now, and I am a big fan of noodles, espeially ramen. So I am trying to eat on a healthier path by, for example eating Zoodles instead of pasta, and brown rice instead of white. Naturally, coming from an asian family, we make a lot of side dishes. So I could definetly incorporate fishes and veggies to get to that fullness.
love this! its hard for me to listen to meat eaters say they tried going vegan but it "didnt work for them". bet majority of them just werent getting enough calories and when i talk to anyone interested in going vegan, i always stress that they need to eat enough calories. i definitely eat more calories on a vegan diet compared to my vegetarian diet previously and ive lost 15 pounds (im now 115-120 so i wouldnt want to lose anymore weight than that) and of course nothing beats the way i feel. keep doing what youre doing Mic :)
I went to a wedding recently and was told my vegan dish would be pasta and I was so happy. It ended up being a plate of zoodles! 😡
Jenni Lee I'm sorry, how disappointing 😖
yeah. it pains me when people go out of their way when they invite vegans and ends up serving them those weird foods. we eat normal pasta too, Y'know. we aren't all into that gluten-free boat. =S
I had that case with chips lately. I was served veggie crisps. I mean, thanks for the though, but I like regular crisps too.
Jenni Lee At least they made a legitimate effort to avoid eggs and milk, which are sneaky and appear in everything😊
vivalianna true
You can’t be a vegan and eat eggs and dairy. Which is what most pasta is made of. Nice try. Fake vegans are so annoying.
your channel is so helpful and convenient! I wish I could subscribe more than once!
I think about this all the time. No one has broken it down before. Thanks Mic. Amazing as usual.
Thank you for your helpful videos. I recently switched to a vegan diet but I felt it's wrong to feel hungry all the time 😅
Rosa Clemens check out Sarah's Vegan Kitchen. You'll love it guaranteed. I'm a new vegan and I look forward to the satisfaction I get from her recipes.
I love "zoodles" (we call them courgetti which imo is much cooler) but in a salad. In no way would I replace actual pasta with them. I would be starving.
Great information! Thanks for keeping it real :-)
Thank you very much for the advice on how to bump up the caloric content of vegan meals. I'm in the transition phase, and this is extremely helpful for preventing the most common roadblocks from happening in the first place. You may hate zoodles, but I'm still excited to have a new spiralizer, because (baked) sweet potato curly fries. :) I'm also big on texture in my food, so it's nice to have extra variety, color, and texture options.
When you first meet another vegan: Wow! Awesome. It’s so cool to be able to talk to someone I can agree with!
Five minutes later: You’re doing it wrong.
Hahaha. This is so spot on. Yes!
I love zoodles with yummy sauces but it's definitely a salad and a side dish for myself, not a replacement for whole grain pasta - aka my love. Gimme those carbs!!
Emmensely needed video. Thank you
good and information-rich video as always!
Mic, usually people having this type of food are low carb higher fat which doesn't necessarily mean oils. so a Pad Tai from a raw vegan restaurant has its fat in the dressing usually a Tahini base.
This was totally skipped over
"Zoodle based diet." lol
Fantastic video topic!
This is one of the most RIGHT info I have seen on you tube!
I'll have 4 portobello burgers please.
Potatoes are usually my base filler, I just love them, tip is to not add fat to them. I can't stand raw zucchini, it's gross! lol
Right on point as usual. Thank you Mic! 👌👊✌
You suggested brown rice twice near the end of this video as an alternative yet what about it's high arsenic content?
Zoodles sound like some sort alien parasites, I got a bad case of zoodles while visiting Uranus.... Vom!
NowhereNomad 😂😂😂😂😂
😂.
We like adding zoodles in with our normal pasta. Or we make more carb intense meatballs and put those over the zoodles. If I had to just eat zoodles on their own 😂... would be starving in 5 minutes 😂
You're the person I owe my future health to. Been vegan for a few months now after seeing your video about "how your body changes on a vegan diet" and it's been a cool journey of experimentation with nutrition, having family and friends getting really worried at times about my changing shapes (I was skinny enough already before the transition) and being hungry all the time, but my life is ultra dope now and I understand way better the initial struggle. Thank you, Mic!
You brought up some really great points!
Hahaha! Am I the only person who hasn't tasted that yet? I was gonna try that someday, but now I don't think I will. 😂
Olivia Brownie it's delicious just don't eat it without carbs.
Oh, I haven't tasted them either. I don't have a spiral cutter or whatever you need to make them, and none of the restaurants I've been to had them either. Anyway, I only eat spaghetti at home, no matter what they are made of.
They’re okay as a side, but not to replace pasta.
Hi, Mick.
You’re hilarious!!!! I am laughing out loud by myself at all your videos 😂😂😂😂
I love learning from you! How do you find all of these studies? How can I find and learn from them?
I make the best veggie burger and no meat loaf too with black beans lentils, oats, and mushrooms! Yummmmy! Very filling. I lost 17 lbs (from 142 to 125!) YAY! No effort, just all plant based, and exercise! I am my goal healthy BMI weight, AND more important reversed my deadly CHF heart disease (my daddy was not sooo fortunate in 1983 @ age 58 he died from this - but then again no one was educated enough, we were all sooo ignorant to tell him to go all plant based - even his doctors - they did know this: nothing but oh, ya horrible pharma!) I almost did not know how to reverse my own heart disease (not many cardiologists know how to do this) but I prayed to the L-rd for help and he sent me my dear Dr. Panni, et al., - Praise G-d! I did not listen at first when he kept after me to go plant based. I finally did it, and wow, I am good - I see him in April and he will be soooo happy.
I am having fun learning so many great cooking ideas, yes thank you Ms. Cheap Lazy Vegan - Love your show too! G-d bless all y'all!
I've seen ice berg lettuce buns
Tiny house goals - love it brother - you're on it!
This might be the funniest video I've seen from you (or anyone) recently lol
I love zoodles, however, I don't replace pasta with them. Zoodles are a fun way to eat zucchini.
raw courgettes are just not my thing. courgettes are awesome, don't get me wrong. but cooked. same goes for coliflower and brocolli.
I love your impressions of people claiming they were missing protein. This is how I see it in my head when people say this!
Great vid and channel !!!!!!
I just tried zoodles the other day. Probably the last time too.
Why?
Not as satisfying as normal brown rice or quinoa pasta. I just don't see the point using them as a replacement for pasta. Maybe I would try them again as an addition to something more satisfying, but personally I'd rather just chop up zucchini normally rather than spending the money on a spiralizer :P
It's pretty good when you put the zoodles together with some calorie heavy tomato sauce.
Julienne slicers are also cheaper then spiralizers.
Because that pasta you love is contributing to you looking rather bloated. But keep eating grains and pasta and see the weight keep going up
This is ridiculous. You don't eat zucchini noodles by themselves. You eat them with other foods like quinoa, cashew dressing, cucumber, chickpeas, etc. Get creative people. Come on!
I agree. I found it ridiculous in more ways than one.
Great video!
Mic, I really love your channel! A lot of vegan youtubers come with a side of disordered eating, but you recommend a diet that is actually healthy, not taking it too far and supported scientifically. Keep up the good work!
Your metabolism is way faster than mine. If I ate 2000 calories a day, I'd be 200 pounds. No thank you!
Laurie Paris no you wouldn't, it depends on where you calorie came from
Kalleb Vieira That's bullshit. I eat 1200 calories a day of whole vegan foods and I'm not losing weight, so if I'll eat more than that I'll gain it. While eating a whole foods diet is way better, I agree, calories are still calories.
astrozombie That's my situation as well, any total over 1200, means gain for me. After my initial pity party, I realized not needing to eat that much, freed up cash for higher quality food, or whatever.
astrozombie then try eating 1200 calories from mc Donald and steak and come back here, ik this from experience
do you guys exercise? just curious
Hi! Can anyone give me some recommendations for plant based "high fat" foods other than avocados and oils? Thank you :)
Legumes and other beans. Cashews are my favorite. If I'm feeling naughty I will cover them in dark chocolate and coconut.
Eat the nuts and seeds the oils come from... drop the oils ;)
All the nuts and seeds are high in fat.
NunyaBiz legumes and beans aren't high fat. Try pumpkin seeds, pretty much every nut is full of fat. (Good fats) avocado, granola, coconut milk and coconut milk based yogurts, hemp seeds and chia seeds, flax seeds
And coconut flakes, those are full of saturated fat
i've been vegan for 2 weeks, and my first few days i was starving. i watched one of your vids that suggested cronometer and i am SO GLAD, because i could see i wasn't getting nearly enough calories. i increased my caloric intake, found that i can eat twice as much in volume than I've ever eaten before, and i feel great! thank you so much for suggesting cronometer to a new vegan like me. it also helped me see that i wasn't getting enough vitamin E or K and I was able to adjust for that.
Thanks so true!! great video
"Hangry vegan" 😂.
there is also konjac noodles or "miracle noodles" they are good but they are zero calories zero carbs bleh
Naomi Nyznyk- sounds depressing...
Hi Mic,
What is the name of the application you are using to track your vitamin intake?
Can't find your tiny house channel. Was not able to find it through search. Can you please provide the link. And thanks for all you do. I love the channel.
Found it.
When I hear people saying their goals are shit like 1,300 calories a day, my head explodes.
Eat food, y'all. Food is fucking amazing.
Veg Moto it's different if you're trying to lose weight
Veg Moto food IS amazing but some need to restrict it because not dying of obesity related illnesses is even more amazing
Each person should eat according to their needs. And it shouldn't be restrictive if you are eating the amount you need. Considering the fact that I haven't grown in size since grade 7 (i.e. I'm a very small human being), it makes perfect sense my caloric needs are seriously below that of average.
“Wholesome 2000 calories” unfortunately, zoodles work great for me as I am on a 1200 calorie limit!
Hey mic! Ive learned a lot of things from your videos! I was wondering if you could do a video on intermittent fasting as a vegan and if you recommend it? Ive seen so many conflicting beliefs on this and I dont know what to believe anymore haha. Thanks!!
If you are grating veggies as components of a salad, grated raw vegetables or cooked ones, add texture and flavor. I use leftover cooked vegetables in my salads. Even sliced cold yams works too. But then there are things you can add to salad which give is the staying power to make it from one meal to the next. If you put salad in the center of your plate then make quesadillas stuffed with cooked rice and refried beans, add taco seasoning if you don't know your mixture of spices. It is good, the plate looks fun to eat. 2 tortillas make 6 wedged, even add a sprinkle of vegan grated cheese. Use salsa as your dressing for the salad. Eat with a half of an ear of cooked corn. This is one of our favorite meals.
Adding grated veggies to a stir-fry (I use vegetable broth and no oil), put over brown rice with grilled tofu seasoned with poultry seasoning and garlic with soy sauce. If you add the twirly grated veggies slightly steamed as a garnish is good as when I do my stir-fry, I also add mushrooms and bean sprouts. I add cooked sliced yams to my stir-fry as it adds a bit of sweetness. Sometimes I add some Boca original turk'y burger crumbles. It is satisfying but does not make me gain weight. My husband who never thought he could do without meat, eats all of it and feels good and his appetite is satisfied.
No, zucchini is not a substitute for pasta.
Make a video about SV3RIGE, please I want you to watch his videos
You can eat enough calories eating only zucchini if you eat enough zucchini :) I don't crave anything and I eat enough calories eating mostly fruits. I like your videos a lot but this one makes me think that it's more just to make a video just to have something.
Nearly any fruit is way higher in calories than zucchini, so I vehemently disagree.
(*the following doesnt really implicate the point you made*) Nevertheless, the point is that you should know you are eating enough calories, regardless of the volume you eat or whether you get cravings. A lot of people can't 'trust their body', since many of us have huge issues with their body image, bodily satisfaction, or personal standards. I don't agree with counting calories regularly, but when developing a standard for how much or how many calories you tend to eat, it's much better to set a healthy calorie threshold than to allow potential changes in mental health to warp the way you see things.
Makes so much sense! I tried the Zoodle thing once and all I felt like afterwards is that it just wasn't the same as pasta. BECAUSE IT WASN'T SATISFYING MY CARB CRAVING lol because it wasn't enough fuel for my body!
Another great video, Mic. I often eat salads for a meal but I like to add a bunch of slices of tempeh or a bunch of garbanzos or other beans and some hemp seeds. Kicks that salad right up to a good amount of calories and is super nutrient dense!
For once I disagree with you Mic. Considering the overweight to obese percentage of people in the US and the fact that most people eat 400 extra calories a day beyond their needs, I think substituting 50 calories of zoodles in place of 400+ calories of pasta ( which isn't all that nutrient rich especially white noodles) would be a step in the right direction. no they don't taste like regular pasta, but if you put a good tasting sauce on top with mushrooms and garlic you might like them just fine. Who really eats the pasta plain for the taste of it anyway?
Most people in the US aren't vegans though, and studies I've seen found vegans have less issues with weight than average. People around their ideal weight don't need to cut calories, they need to maintain their weight. It depends on someone's situation really.
Except if you just eat courgette instead of pasta youll be hungry in half an hour and end up having to eat again. Might aswell just eat a normal portion pasta and stay full.
First of all, zuchinni is a fruit not a veggie. Secondly, society's obsession with protein is just as annoying and distracting as its obsession with calories. I'm sorry Mic, but you're only looking at this from one angle. Zucchini may not have a lot of calories, but what about its effect on the body? What about its electromagnetic energy? What about its detoxifying effects? Nutrient content? Biophoton levels? Just because something doesn't have a lot of calories doesn't mean it isn't a viable food. I know you didn't necessarily say that, but that is how people will interpret it. I eat zuchinni pasta all the time and I never have a problem getting full because I make avocado sauces or a raw marinara to put on it, and I also put lots of tomato chunks, squash, and greens in the pasta so the whole meal ends up being a huge bowl containing around 500 to 600 calories, not that it matters in my opinion. I eat a fruitarian diet, I don't count calories, and I have a healthy body weight. People who are new to vegan diets are usually very receptive to zucchini pastas because they are a fun spin on something they are familiar with, and so much better for you than regular pasta, which is awful for you
first of all, I feel like you didn't get his message. he is not saying Zucchinis are bad and never eat them. He is just saying don't eat Zucchini as the main base of your meal. you have to eat something calorie dense like rice, potatoes etc. Secondly, fruit, veggies, are all labels made by men. who cares, its all plants. if this was a Botany vid sure but its a video about proper vegan diet. your comment towards this video is not logically sound.
Yes, Amber C. No one is saying one shouldn't eat zucchini, but it shouldn't replace the substantial complex carbohydrate (and other nutrients rich) food. In fact it needn't even be gluten rich if that's an issue, Mic mentioned brown rice. Potato, sweet potato, quinoa, millets, wild rice, brown rice, any of these could replace the noodles or spaghetti.
This is an amazing video! When I started vegan diet I did exactly this mistake and I was starving myself. I felt full from all the veggies but had very low calories, which was even worse! The same thing happened later when I started using sprouted lentils instead of normal lentils. I started feeling tired until I found out that sprouting reduces calories of the food by a significant amount!
You're great. Just found you. Thanks for facts!!!
But people are not saying ONLY eat zoodles, don't just assume that! Zucchini is good for you! Also that whole " eat at least 2,000 calories a day" thing is such a lie
Helen Kolousek no it's not?
Care to explain what part of 2k calories a day is a lie?
Helen Kolousek A lot of people do say that, usually in the raw vegan community or the low-carb crowd. Replacing calorically dense food with calorically void food is very dangerous.
And yes, we all have slightly to drastically different caloric needs, but 2,000 is the average that's needed for most people to ensure they're meeting their energy and nutritional needs (assuming they're eating a somewhat healthy diet). Actually, if a quarter or more of the population has access to less than 2,100 calories per day, that nation is said to be experiencing a famine.
You would maybe gain a small amounts of weight but no way massive. Your TDEE is absolutely not under 1500 and that is for sure. I think you're not counting all the calories you're getting if you gain a lot of weight at 2000.
+AdeGH " no one really just sits at home and does nothing all day"
You'd be surprised.
you're focused too much on calories and not so much on nutrition
I actually noticed that many vegans on youtube promote meals which don't have enough calories, so I'm sure that Mike does a great job reminding people not to die.
Starvation is a far stretch of the imagination too call it though
a plate of zoodles has no calories unless you add them in other forms. you can bulk it up with some nuts or something, but what I have seen is a raw salsa, so you have a whole plate that is maybe 200 calories max. Thats not the sign of a healthy diet when you have to eat 3 plates to hit 600 calories.
Red Pill Whole grain pasta is VERY nutritious.
also VERY mucus forming
I love this..thank you!
Thank you for the good information.
Veganism is an ethical stance, not a health thing.
Not necessarily. I'm practically vegan (95% of calories) because I think it's healthier but don't have an ethical objection to people eating animals.
cubs - it's both. It can absolutely be both.
Okinawa diet is healthier then veganism.
That is something only a small sector of the vegan community claims. My parents were vegans in the 70's and don't agree at all with this anti-health, only ethical vegan mentality. They yell at me that our gen is ruining veganism.
THANK YOU. Made zoodles 2 weeks ago and an hour later was eating everything in the kitchen. And damn, are we the same person? I'm hoping to go tiny eventually so thank you for the new channel!
LOVE THIS!!! I worked at Whole Foods for a number of years and always rolled my eyes at the whole zucchini noodle trend. Give me ALL the carbs!
Thanks Mic love this one lol :)