after all this time I should know better

bainsworth1a

I sometimes still eat things before I look up the nutrition value and find out it is way too many calories and not worth eating. . Do others have the same problem?

Christine_72

Nope. I prelog my day every morning. Then I can tweak things if I have to

Hollisamara

I used to in the past but soon learnt my lesson. So now I look it up before I eat.

BicepsAndBows

I always know the nutrition info of what I am going to eat and add it all up before I eat it. Otherwise it's too easy to get off track. It also helps that I already know the nutrition info for most of the foods I eat on a regular basis.

If I am going out to eat, I look up the menu and nutrition info ahead of time to plan out what I will get. Only exception to this is when I go to a family member's house and they make something home cooked. That is the one time I won't know exact nutrition info, but even then before I eat the meal I look up as much as I can figure out about it and give it my most accurate, educated guess about the amount of calories,etc. I will be eating.

If you want to make your life easier and prevent issues, just start logging before eating

bainsworth1a

thank you moon_childxo and jellytot3 I will work harder at logging before I eat and checking mfp before I order at restaurants.

pariskathryn

My partner has that issue. I used to, but just had to get into the habit of looking up my food before I ate it.

spk1982

I look up before eating. But i had the same problem earlier

i4gv777

I'm new at calorie counting so I too eat first and look it up later only to be walloped by how many calories those few bites added up to. So now I warily look it up first and am very glad I did! :-)

Alatariel75

What I hate is when you make what you think is a good choice, rather than having what you actually want, only to find out that your 'good' choice was actually more calories than what you really wanted.

Meganthedogmom

Alatariel75 wrote: »

What I hate is when you make what you think is a good choice, rather than having what you actually want, only to find out that your 'good' choice was actually more calories than what you really wanted.

Ugh tell me about it!

williams969

I've been at this nearly a year. Yet, there are occasions when I "screw" up, meaning I didn't prelog, *thought* I made a mindful, healthful choice (usually happens at a restaurant or at the campus canteen), and find out I consumed a very indulgent meal.

Seriously, I *should* know at this point that peanut sauce is very high in calories (PEANUT sauce, duh---just one recent example--still totally delicious and worth it).

Whoops! It happens. It's okay--these occasions will become fewer and longer between instances as you learn to make meals fit your day.

earlnabby

williams969 wrote: »

Whoops! It happens. It's okay--these occasions will become fewer and longer between instances as you learn to make meals fit your day.

Very true. It rarely happens to me any more, but that is because I have been doing this for 14 months now and have a lot of experience behind me.

Once in a while you get a pleasant surprise, like how few (comparatively) calories are in a Krispy Kreme (less than 200)

skinnymeenae

Happened to me as well, indeed as the posters above mention it's a lesson you learn fast!

morey235

I log my food for the day, first thing in the morning, then I go back if I need to change anything..

gothchiq

It happened tonight. We were at a friend's house, working on our cars. Along with a dinner of known factors was this Irish soda bread with raisins. HOLY CRAP. I think I must have eaten like 1000 calories of that. Basically, the rest of the things on the table, uh, fell a little short for the number of people, but this was a big loaf. So I was still hungry and I ate 3 chunks. By the time I found out how serious it was, it was way too late. I know better than to start down the road of puking things up so I'm stuck with it being like 1000 calories over for the day or so because I'm short and old and my daily allotment is a joke. I'm not happy lemme tell you. Tomorrow I'm going to be killing myself in the gym trying to burn that mess off.

purple44444

It's not easy but so worth it to stay within calories! Remembering how just staying within my calories makes the scale go down motivates me to continue.

Mr_Knight

bainsworth1a wrote: »

I sometimes still eat things before I look up the nutrition value and find out it is way too many calories and not worth eating. . Do others have the same problem?

Hey, don't beat yourself up, it takes a while to get used to that.

:drinker:

Camo_xxx

Look before you leap....errr eat.

00figg

i had a doh! moment last week. son came home from college and we were in target. i was paying for his loot and he asked if i wanted anything from starbucks. it was cold so i said yeah, get me something skinny. so he chose a skinny white chocolate mocha. i drank it. enjoyed it. later logged it. all 350 'skinny' cals...it fit into my day, but still...

Soopatt

I have only eaten things once or twice without logging first and really learnt my lesson last week with some sushi I had for lunch. I had this idea that I could eat a mountain of sushi, but boy was I wrong. I skipped dinner and was still way over for the day. Never again.

Francl27

gothchiq wrote: »

It happened tonight. We were at a friend's house, working on our cars. Along with a dinner of known factors was this Irish soda bread with raisins. HOLY CRAP. I think I must have eaten like 1000 calories of that. Basically, the rest of the things on the table, uh, fell a little short for the number of people, but this was a big loaf. So I was still hungry and I ate 3 chunks. By the time I found out how serious it was, it was way too late. I know better than to start down the road of puking things up so I'm stuck with it being like 1000 calories over for the day or so because I'm short and old and my daily allotment is a joke. I'm not happy lemme tell you. Tomorrow I'm going to be killing myself in the gym trying to burn that mess off.

Bread sucks. I could eat 2000 calories of it and still not be full one bit.

CockneyLady2014

Over the weekend I incorporated rice cakes into my plan + some potatoes. This morning, thankfully not weigh in day, I have gained 1.5lbs. I have been under my calories and basically done nothing different to last week. So I need to cut back on certain carbs. Those foods are not worth a gain.

earlnabby

CockneyLady2014 wrote: »

Over the weekend I incorporated rice cakes into my plan + some potatoes. This morning, thankfully not weigh in day, I have gained 1.5lbs. I have been under my calories and basically done nothing different to last week. So I need to cut back on certain carbs. Those foods are not worth a gain.

The good news is: if you had been eating lower carb and you had one high carb day, the weight your scale registered is water weight. Excess carbs (over your norm) like excess salt causes water retention. Drink more fluids than normal and you will lose that in a couple of days.

ETA: it doesn't matter what kind of carbs, it only matters how many carbs.

999tigger

It happens, but I tend not to get overexcited about small hiccups and will work it off at the gym. Most of my foods are known now and anything new I'm good at looking at labels.

earlnabby

999tigger wrote: »

It happens, but I tend not to get overexcited about small hiccups and will work it off at the gym. Most of my foods are known now and anything new I'm good at looking at labels.

And even if you can't work it off at a gym, it is one small hiccup in a long process, and you have added more info to the database in your brain.

SezxyStef

nope I prelog my week...leaving room for change of course.

If something comes up at work (which is typically where it would happen) I know just by the look of the dried out cake it's probably not worth the calories...just as an example.

bainsworth1a

Alatariel75 wrote: »

What I hate is when you make what you think is a good choice, rather than having what you actually want, only to find out that your 'good' choice was actually more calories than what you really wanted.

Yes I have done that a lot

bainsworth1a

thank you all for the suggestions and the support. I feel better knowing that I am not the only person who has had difficulty with the.

bainsworth1a

00figg wrote: »

i had a doh! moment last week. son came home from college and we were in target. i was paying for his loot and he asked if i wanted anything from starbucks. it was cold so i said yeah, get me something skinny. so he chose a skinny white chocolate mocha. i drank it. enjoyed it. later logged it. all 350 'skinny' cals...it fit into my day, but still...

I have done that. I'm usually even worse and get the full blown white chocolate mocha grande (My favorite). I haven't had one in almost a year so I have made progress.

teanahk

Alatariel75 wrote: »

What I hate is when you make what you think is a good choice, rather than having what you actually want, only to find out that your 'good' choice was actually more calories than what you really wanted.

So this. Like when the kale and quinoa salad was 1200 calories but the individual thin crust pizza was only 600.

I keep the nutritional info for the places I eat at regularity bookmarked on my phone. It helps, but sometimes I'll still eat first then log and cringe a little. It happens.

Velum_cado

christinev297 wrote: »

Nope. I prelog my day every morning. Then I can tweak things if I have to

Totally read that as "twerk things if I have to".