I usually enjoy eating mashed potatoes with gravy as a lunch I make the boxed kind, but i this a bad diet choice?
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1 devrat48 // Aug 9, 2008
Yup
2 lingail140 // Aug 9, 2008
potato = carb, even though it is a vegetable. so yes, bad diet choice.
3 fillmein // Aug 9, 2008
yeah it is too much carbs and not nutritious. all you are getting is sugars. especially everyday in lunch is not good.
4 guy g // Aug 9, 2008
The gravy is what makes it bad for a diet.
5 Victoria G // Aug 9, 2008
For a diet, you should pretty much avoid any kind of potato except for baked without any trimmings.
6 msozrocks // Aug 9, 2008
potatoes ok but gravy kills diets.
7 anonymous // Aug 9, 2008
Since you are eating starch/carbs for lunch, I would try to eat less carbs/starches at dinner and breakfast time. Just make sure your overall diet is balances.
The gravy may need to be replaced with a ‘lighter’ alternative.
I personally am not a fan of mashed potatoes, so I am unsure what else you’d want to put on it besides the “butter spray” thats like 1 calorie a spray?
good luck!
8 shut_your_pie_holes // Aug 9, 2008
it is but worth it cuz if u eat like salad and mp ull be fine. make them like a treat u get once a month
9 aokniquen // Aug 9, 2008
if your diet is for gaining weight, is perfect
if is for loosing weight, wrong go
10 Clo Clo // Aug 9, 2008
yes. Not good for you at all!!!
11 halosandhorns82 // Aug 9, 2008
because potatoes are pure starch, there isn’t much nutritional value in peeled, mashed potatoes. If it’s vitamins you are looking for then fry them with the peelings on as the skin of the potato contains most of the vitamins. If you are on a diet trying to lose weight then potatoes are not a good idea.
12 lovewinaka // Aug 9, 2008
ok first of all diets don’t work and are bad for you. second, I LOVE mashed potatoes and you should eat what you think is good for you
13 Arthur A // Aug 9, 2008
potatoes are one of the worst because of a lot of starch. my doctor said when dieting, don’t eat nothing white.
14 Helen S // Aug 9, 2008
yh deffo try to have a jacket potato wiv tuna if u like potatos tht much but dnt add n e mre butter : ) or just have a salade
15 byepats // Aug 9, 2008
i dont care what you people say, i love them and im gonna eat them all the time.
16 aiminhigh24u2 // Aug 9, 2008
No, just skip the butter, gravy or sour cream.
Answer: A small baked potato, about two inches in diameter has about 130 calories. A medium baked potato, about two and one-half to three inches in diameter has about 160 calories. A large baked potato, about three and one-half to four inches in diameter can have about 275 calories.
17 Candy // Aug 9, 2008
Trying eating a sweet potato instead. You can cook it in the microwave and mash it up. The nutritional benefits from sweet potatoes are endlesss!
18 Joe // Aug 9, 2008
carbahydrates are stodgey food and should be reduced when dieting
(carbs are usually white foods potatoes bread pasta)
19 ♫critter♫ // Aug 9, 2008
Carbs don't make you fat!!!!!!!!
The type of carbs at the wrong time make you fat!
Excess calories and not enough activity make you fat!
The fat/carb effect has to do with insulin response. The fat in the gravy will slow down the insulin response.
If you eat lunch early then this is not the worst thing you can eat.
Not the best either, but not the worst.
It would be much healthier though to make a pot of real mashed potatoes, preferably skin in, on a Sunday and put it in little Tupperwares for the week. You get more fiber this way.
20 Dr. Spooky // Aug 9, 2008
it all depends on portion size, exercise level, current weight. etc.
I have lost 30 pounds since March….I eat anything I want when want it, but my portions are very small and I ONLY eat when I am HUNGRY.
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21 G*G* // Aug 9, 2008
Yea, those are pretty bad! I would recommend you just have a baked potato if you must have a potato at all and instead of butter use olive oil as a topping which is a lot healthier!
22 Elan P // Aug 9, 2008
It has so many calories with gravy but potato mash without gravy could be a great substitute. So take out the gravy.
23 wajahat_khan88 // Aug 9, 2008
Bad if eated too much.