Sushi
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Sushi is ridiculously high in calories. It's a good example of why "good food/bad food" diets don't work. Before MFP I would have thought of sushi as a "good food". It feels virtuous. It's low-fat; it's fish, rice, and seaweed. The problem is: low protein, high carb. For the amount of sushi I'd normally eat at a sitting, I could have a bacon cheeseburger or two slices of pizza instead.
I think this greatly differs based on what you order. Sushi can be healthy if you order the right things and keep your portions in check.
Don't confuse calorie dense with unhealthy.0 -
Sushi is ridiculously high in calories. It's a good example of why "good food/bad food" diets don't work. Before MFP I would have thought of sushi as a "good food". It feels virtuous. It's low-fat; it's fish, rice, and seaweed. The problem is: low protein, high carb. For the amount of sushi I'd normally eat at a sitting, I could have a bacon cheeseburger or two slices of pizza instead.
Low protein? Your doing sushi wrong then
right? fishless sushi? must be doing the california roll.0 -
JeffseekingV wrote: »Sushi is ridiculously high in calories. It's a good example of why "good food/bad food" diets don't work. Before MFP I would have thought of sushi as a "good food". It feels virtuous. It's low-fat; it's fish, rice, and seaweed. The problem is: low protein, high carb. For the amount of sushi I'd normally eat at a sitting, I could have a bacon cheeseburger or two slices of pizza instead.
Calories 290 Sodium 275 mg
Total Fat 7 g Potassium 0 mg
Saturated 2 g Total Carbs 25 g
Polyunsaturated 0 g Dietary Fiber 4 g
Monounsaturated 0 g Sugars 7 g
Trans 0 g Protein 14 g
Cholesterol 51 mg
Spicy tuna roll = 8 pcs = 1 roll. Not bad.
One slice of pepporoni pizza
Calories 280 Sodium 560 mg
Total Fat 11 g Potassium 11 mg
Saturated 5 g Total Carbs 32 g
Polyunsaturated 0 g Dietary Fiber 2 g
Monounsaturated 0 g Sugars 3 g
Trans 0 g Protein 14 g
Cholesterol 25 mg
Not to bad but I'm going with the sushi
I think the sushi will keep you fuller for a lot longer than just a slice of pizza.
I still want both tho
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Sushi is ridiculously high in calories. It's a good example of why "good food/bad food" diets don't work. Before MFP I would have thought of sushi as a "good food". It feels virtuous. It's low-fat; it's fish, rice, and seaweed. The problem is: low protein, high carb. For the amount of sushi I'd normally eat at a sitting, I could have a bacon cheeseburger or two slices of pizza instead.
I think this greatly differs based on what you order. Sushi can be healthy if you order the right things and keep your portions in check.
Don't confuse calorie dense with unhealthy.
Im just basing it on sushi that's fried and loaded with sauces and such. That can't be very healthy for you. Calorie dense sushi that is healthier are avocado and fish filled rolls.0 -
Just my opinion but that's an abomination of what sushi is supposed to be. To me that's like calling almond chicken Chinese food0 -
Really too low (6 pieces only tho with just some salmon and avocado) the roll is not that large and i only have it with a bit of light soy sauce (15 cals for 1TB)
I dont get how to log calories!! ugh this is frustrating
If your weight loss is as expected, then you can tell that your estimate is pretty good. If you are not losing or losing too much, then you would need to rethink it.
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I just really want to try one of these sushirritos...
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WillLift4Tats wrote: »I just really want to try one of these sushirritos...
I want this and sushi pizza!0 -
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Sushi is ridiculously high in calories. It's a good example of why "good food/bad food" diets don't work. Before MFP I would have thought of sushi as a "good food". It feels virtuous. It's low-fat; it's fish, rice, and seaweed. The problem is: low protein, high carb. For the amount of sushi I'd normally eat at a sitting, I could have a bacon cheeseburger or two slices of pizza instead.
Low protein? Your doing sushi wrong then
Yeah, I looked at this like "wha... ?"0 -
Sushi is ridiculously high in calories. It's a good example of why "good food/bad food" diets don't work. Before MFP I would have thought of sushi as a "good food". It feels virtuous. It's low-fat; it's fish, rice, and seaweed. The problem is: low protein, high carb. For the amount of sushi I'd normally eat at a sitting, I could have a bacon cheeseburger or two slices of pizza instead.
I think this greatly differs based on what you order. Sushi can be healthy if you order the right things and keep your portions in check.
Possibly the #1 best thing I ever ate was Hamachi belly sashimi with razor-thin jalapeno slices on it. I could eat 10,000 of those. Perfectly healthy.
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My sushi day. Low protein? No. High carb? Yes. Totally able to fit into my macros though with proper planning.
ETA: It was the wine that set me over on my carbs. No regrets.
Your numbers don't make much sense though. There's no way one 75 calorie piece of sushi would have 13g of protein. But otherwise, yeah, definitely not low protein. They unfortunately don't fill me up that much though... still going to have some tomorrow night I think.0 -
My sushi day. Low protein? No. High carb? Yes. Totally able to fit into my macros though with proper planning.
ETA: It was the wine that set me over on my carbs. No regrets.
Your numbers don't make much sense though. There's no way one 75 calorie piece of sushi would have 13g of protein. But otherwise, yeah, definitely not low protein. They unfortunately don't fill me up that much though... still going to have some tomorrow night I think.
Eel is pretty much all protein.0 -
Yeah but it's sushi. A tiny piece of fish on rice. 3oz of eel is 16g of protein (and 156 calories), so the entry is totally wrong. Still though, even if it's only 4g of protein or something (plus 1 for the rice), it's still definitely not low protein.0
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Yeah but it's sushi. A tiny piece of fish on rice. 3oz of eel is 16g of protein (and 156 calories), so the entry is totally wrong. Still though, even if it's only 4g of protein or something (plus 1 for the rice), it's still definitely not low protein.
I just checked three websites, and they all come in around 75-80 calories a piece for anywhere from 9-13 grams of protein.0 -
My sushi day. Low protein? No. High carb? Yes. Totally able to fit into my macros though with proper planning.
ETA: It was the wine that set me over on my carbs. No regrets.
Your numbers don't make much sense though. There's no way one 75 calorie piece of sushi would have 13g of protein. But otherwise, yeah, definitely not low protein. They unfortunately don't fill me up that much though... still going to have some tomorrow night I think.
Eel is pretty much all protein.
Also, that's just one number. And it's not that far off. So let's not be dramatic.0 -
Yeah but it's sushi. A tiny piece of fish on rice. 3oz of eel is 16g of protein (and 156 calories), so the entry is totally wrong. Still though, even if it's only 4g of protein or something (plus 1 for the rice), it's still definitely not low protein.
I just checked three websites, and they all come in around 75-80 calories a piece for anywhere from 9-13 grams of protein.
Yeah it makes no sense when the usda data for eel is 156 calories and 16g of protein for 3oz.
But anyway... yeah, just one number, and either way it still has protein, lol.0 -
Sushi is ridiculously high in calories. It's a good example of why "good food/bad food" diets don't work. Before MFP I would have thought of sushi as a "good food". It feels virtuous. It's low-fat; it's fish, rice, and seaweed. The problem is: low protein, high carb. For the amount of sushi I'd normally eat at a sitting, I could have a bacon cheeseburger or two slices of pizza instead.
Bolded = sushi fail...
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Thanks for the help guys! Yes ive googled before i asked but i get such discrepancies. Would 242 calories 22.4g of fat, 52.5g carbs, 20g of protein seem like a pretty good estimate cuz thats what MFP has posted but its not with brown rice.
carbohydrates and protein have 4 calories for every gram(roughly) and fat has 9 calories for every gram.
52.5 x 4 = 210
20 x 4 = 80
22.4 x 9 = 201.9
=491.6
That entry is not correct.
You can ask anything you want, anywhere you want. Don't be afraid to ask what's in your food. It's going in your body, you have a right to know and this isn't a traditional high end Japanese sushi restaurant, they don't offer brown rice sushi at those places. You can't get it sticky enough, and it doesnt make proper tight beautiful rolls, they don't use it. You don't have to worry about offending some famous sushi chef. The guy making your sushi probably isn't even Japanese.
This place offering brown rice sushi is trying to appeal to health conscious individuals. You are their target demographic! They expect you to ask them questions about their sushi.
That being said it is a hassle, and it's hard for them to answer anything that isnt a very basic question. It costs a lot of money to do nutritional analysis(several hundred dollars per menu item) so only the big chains will have this information available.
You will be able to get it out of them if they use lots of sugar in their rice though and if they put mayo in the rolls, then you can ask at other places and find the healthiest lowest calorie place to eat at. Unfortunately you're not going to get any nutritional information out of anywhere but a medium or larger chain restaurant.
So yeah not much help, sorry, anything you do will be a huge guess.
Unless you got it to go and took it home and weighed everything individually and built a nutritional profile out of that provided you talk to them and find out how much sugar and other crap they put in the roll.0 -
Thanks for the help guys! Yes ive googled before i asked but i get such discrepancies. Would 242 calories 22.4g of fat, 52.5g carbs, 20g of protein seem like a pretty good estimate cuz thats what MFP has posted but its not with brown rice.
carbohydrates and protein have 4 calories for every gram(roughly) and fat has 9 calories for every gram.
52.5 x 4 = 210
20 x 4 = 80
22.4 x 9 = 201.9
=491.6
That entry is not correct.
You can ask anything you want, anywhere you want. Don't be afraid to ask what's in your food. It's going in your body, you have a right to know and this isn't a traditional high end Japanese sushi restaurant, they don't offer brown rice sushi at those places. You can't get it sticky enough, and it doesnt make proper tight beautiful rolls, they don't use it. You don't have to worry about offending some famous sushi chef. The guy making your sushi probably isn't even Japanese.
This place offering brown rice sushi is trying to appeal to health conscious individuals. You are their target demographic! They expect you to ask them questions about their sushi.
That being said it is a hassle, and it's hard for them to answer anything that isnt a very basic question. It costs a lot of money to do nutritional analysis(several hundred dollars per menu item) so only the big chains will have this information available.
You will be able to get it out of them if they use lots of sugar in their rice though and if they put mayo in the rolls, then you can ask at other places and find the healthiest lowest calorie place to eat at. Unfortunately you're not going to get any nutritional information out of anywhere but a medium or larger chain restaurant.
So yeah not much help, sorry, anything you do will be a huge guess.
Unless you got it to go and took it home and weighed everything individually and built a nutritional profile out of that provided you talk to them and find out how much sugar and other crap they put in the roll.
Can you not get a somewhat close estimation based on how the particular roll im asking about doesnt have anything in it other than avocado and salmon? But yes its extremely annoying, i wish i could know the accurate calorie information about everything i eat. That would be amazing! ahh a girl can dream.
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That's an actual STRONG 11th post.0
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Had sushi for lunch today Who said mondays suck?! 0
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WillLift4Tats wrote: »I just really want to try one of these sushirritos...
I want this and sushi pizza!
I love sushi.
And I love pizza.
But there is at no point any time at which I want my pizza and sushi to cross paths.
and AYCE sushi is where it's at.
But typically for AYCE- you have to be willing to eat 4-5 rolls to make it worth it- I can put down between 6-8 plus my appetizers so it's usually worth the effort- even if I can't walk for a few hours 0 -
WillLift4Tats wrote: »I just really want to try one of these sushirritos...
I want this and sushi pizza!
I love sushi.
And I love pizza.
But there is at no point any time at which I want my pizza and sushi to cross paths.
and AYCE sushi is where it's at.
But typically for AYCE- you have to be willing to eat 4-5 rolls to make it worth it- I can put down between 6-8 plus my appetizers so it's usually worth the effort- even if I can't walk for a few hours
Its not literally a sushi pizza. Its more like a bed of fried rice and on top they put raw fish, i get mine with salmon, and they usually put some sort of spicy mayo on top. You should google it! Its amazing (super unhealthy, but AMAZING) and most AYCE places have it.0 -
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Not sure what is unhealthy about sushi?WillLift4Tats wrote: »I just really want to try one of these sushirritos...
I want this and sushi pizza!
I love sushi.
And I love pizza.
But there is at no point any time at which I want my pizza and sushi to cross paths.
and AYCE sushi is where it's at.
But typically for AYCE- you have to be willing to eat 4-5 rolls to make it worth it- I can put down between 6-8 plus my appetizers so it's usually worth the effort- even if I can't walk for a few hours
Its not literally a sushi pizza. Its more like a bed of fried rice and on top they put raw fish, i get mine with salmon, and they usually put some sort of spicy mayo on top. You should google it! Its amazing (super unhealthy, but AMAZING) and most AYCE places have it.
Carbs, fat, Protein, fibre, potassium, other nutrients....Seems pretty damn healthy to me.
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ok this is nasty
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