Trouble meeting calorie count! Help

damcgriff

I'm having trouble meeting my calorie count for the day any suggestions?

81Katz

Eat more calorie dense foods.

kindrabbit

you mean you're not eating enough calories? have you calculated the numbers correctly?

blankiefinder

Not sure if you mean that you are having trouble keeping within your daily calorie limit, or in reaching your calorie limit?

Are you using a food scale and weighing all your food?

damcgriff

Having trouble reaching calorie limit. I'm still learning how to input meals. For example if you eat a turkey sandwich are you just supposed to say turkey sandwich or count the two slices of bread as well?

janejellyroll

damcgriff wrote: »

Having trouble reaching calorie limit. I'm still learning how to input meals. For example if you eat a turkey sandwich are you just supposed to say turkey sandwich or count the two slices of bread as well?

You need to log, with proper weight, everything that is on the sandwich.

AmyRhubarb

Avocados, raw nuts, nut butters, olive and coconut oils, butter, bananas, full fat dairy, and ditch any and all "diet" foods. Small portions of these calorie dense foods will easily bring you closer to goal.

And as others said, make sure you are accurately measuring and weighing all your foods - if you don't have a food scale, get one - they don't cost much and are well worth it.

blankiefinder

damcgriff wrote: »

Having trouble reaching calorie limit. I'm still learning how to input meals. For example if you eat a turkey sandwich are you just supposed to say turkey sandwich or count the two slices of bread as well?

You would weigh every ingredient, and add it. 2 slices of bread that weigh 50g, might be 1.2 servings. 60g of turkey, 1 T Miracle Whip, 20g montery jack cheese, whatever you put on it, weighed.

macgurlnet

If you're logging a sandwich, what you should do is weigh each item individually (making sure you find the right entry in the database), add them to your lunch/dinner, then save it as a meal so you can add it to your diary on another day easily.

I can make a turkey sandwich that's around 250 calories and feel full. Someone else may make one that's closer to 500. The only way I know mine is 250 calories is that I weigh everything and have it saved as a meal

You can use the generic "turkey sandwich" entry if you eat at someone else's house or you're eating out and can't find a similar entry for that restaurant.

~Lyssa

damcgriff

Thank you all so much you are very helpful

juggernaut1974

Each item individually is going to be most accurate.

"Turkey sandwich" could be this:


Or it could be this:

arditarose

macgurlnet wrote: »

You can use the generic "turkey sandwich" entry if you eat at someone else's house or you're eating out and can't find a similar entry for that restaurant.

Even then, if you've been weighing and logging properly, you could probably eyeball how many ounces of turkey/mayo/etc are on the sandwich and still log most by weight.

macgurlnet

arditarose wrote: »

macgurlnet wrote: »

You can use the generic "turkey sandwich" entry if you eat at someone else's house or you're eating out and can't find a similar entry for that restaurant.

Even then, if you've been weighing and logging properly, you could probably eyeball how many ounces of turkey/mayo/etc are on the sandwich and still log most by weight.

Assuming you've got an eye for portion sizes, yep!

~Lyssa

arditarose

ceoverturf wrote: »

Each item individually is going to be most accurate.

"Turkey sandwich" could be this:


Or it could be this:

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