Sushi

Does anyone know if sushi will hurt your diet I think that it is all good for you but I know that the rice is high in carbs.

Will it hurt your diet? For most diets no, not unless you eat too much of it. For carb-restrictive diets, yeah... not so good.

Most nigiri has 30-60 calories per piece, with a few fattier things being higher. Rolls are all over the map, depending on the ingredients, but you can use your common sense to estimate them.

Sashimi, on the other hand, is pretty universally healthy.

with sushi, is there even a way to calculate the calories accuratly? thats why o dont like gettting it; because you just dony know. also i wish every place made it on brown rice. that would make sushi even better. but i do agree the sushami is probs the best option

Is there a way to calculate 100% accurately? No. However, you don't need to. In fact, you don't need to count any calories 100% accurately-- you just need to be in the right ballpark.

Let's say that you search the web to find out how many calories a piece of maguro nigiri has. You see answers of 37, 45, 48, 50. Well, OK, those look like they're all on about the same page... let's declare that a piece of maguro nigiri has 50 calories, because that's a nice round number and easy to remember.

It's dinner time! You had off to the sushi restaurant for dinner, and wind up feeling monothematic. You order ten pieces of maguro nigiri and a cup of hot tea for dinner. How many calories was that? Well, let's see, 50 calories per piece, 10 pieces... scribble, scribble, wait, pull out the calculator... you just had a 500-calorie dinner. OK, record that in your food journal.

But hey, the chef was in a mood today. Plus, anybody who orders ten pieces of the same thing for dinner must really like it, so he gave you extra generous pieces of fish. Oh no! Your calorie counts are off. OH NOOOOOO!

So in reality, every piece of sushi had 60 calories rather than 50. What now? In reality, your dinner was 600 calories, a mistake of 100 calories. Is that a big deal?

Answer: no. Hell no. No no no no no with a stomp of the foot.

Calorie counts are pretty much all approximations anyway, because you're almost never eating exactly three ounces of chicken and one cup of rice. Plus, chicken isn't a completely uniform product, and some chickens may be fattier or leaner than others. I figure that my daily calorie counts have a margin of error of about 20%. Some days they'll be over, and some days they'll be over. It doesn't matter.

Calorie counting and dieting are not precise sciences. Focus on the big picture, and don't obsess over the details. You really only need to be not-massively-wrong in order for it to work.

I love eating sashimi, and I've gotten pretty good at eyeballing about what an ounce is. Also, if you get sashimi at some place like whole foods they will weigh it for you.

If you're not on a low-carb diet, the only sushi you should really limit is any kind with mayo/creamy sauces &/or tempura, since you'll be picking up extra calories there. But in general, sushi rice & all of the other ingredients are wonderfully low in fat, so I say enjoy it!!!

I am on Medifast as well and the sushi unfortunately isnt on plan.. the rice and it is also high in salt (some) sashimi as others have posted is okay.. you can still have some wasabi and soy sauce( a very small amt) to make it feel more like sushi!!

Oh, one other thing. Rolls can be dicey... the ones that are deep fried, buried in sauce, laden with mayo and cream cheese, etc. probably are high-calorie. It's easy enough to use common sense in your choices... stick to things that are made with fish and rice, or fish and vegetables and rice, and you'll probably do OK in terms of calories.

What an appropriate topic for me today. This afternoon, I met my mom at Whole Foods for lunch and shopping and went straight to the sushi bar for a lunch I knew would work on my diet. I chose 4 oz of salmon sashimi and a maki made with poached salmon, avacado, and WF's special multigrain blend -- I avoid Sushi rice because it is higher glycemic. As Hoser suggests, I used my common sense to estimate the calorie count, as follows:

Lunch 12.03 29.09 44.00 411

1/2 cup brown rice 0.81 22.92 2.26 109

4 slices ginger root 0.07 1.56 0.16 7

1 serving nori - 1.00 1.00 10

1/2 serving poached salmon 4.40 0.55 14.20 100

4 oz salmon sashimi 6.72 - 24.52 166

2 tbsps soy sauce, reduced sodium 0.03 3.06 1.86 19

I eat once or twice a week at a pan Asian restaurant that's almost next door to my office. I decline the rice they offer with sashimi and their hot dishes. Instead of rice with sashimi, they give me sliced avacado. Instead of rice with hot dishes, I ask for extra veggies, like steamed broccoli -- or skip it and order a side of steamed edamame. And as Hoser points out, I avoid all the fancy maki with tempura shrimp, spicey mayo, etc. These are delicious of course, but they sort of defeat the point of eating sushi, from a nutrition standpoint.

California rolls are always a good option. Good fats with the avocado. And sashimi is always a good choice. Salmon is a huge favourite of mine!

I find that I eat less at a sushi restaurant because everything looks so pretty and therefore I eat a lot slower, actually savouring my food. And when you eat slower, you will feel satisfied sooner.

And most places offer the option of having your rolls made with brown rice.