What surprises have you found about foods you didn't realize before logging?

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  • melodyis4reals
    melodyis4reals Posts: 186 Member
    Thin sliced whole wheat bread has a lot of protein!
  • futuremanda
    futuremanda Posts: 816 Member
    lizholloway1003 wrote: »
    The amount of added sugar in everything. I don't avoid sugar but I don't understand why one 5 or 6 oz cup of yogurt needs 17 grams of sugar?!?

    It doesn't... not exactly. Dairy has natural sugar. A serving of dairy often has ~12 grams of sugar in it. So that's 5 grams of added sugar, which probably came with the flavouring (like jam if it's a fruit flavour).

    You can always buy plain and mix in your own jam. It would likely still be similar in terms of sugar content, but you might feel more in control.
  • skbrodie
    skbrodie Posts: 81 Member
    I ate WAY more salad dressing than I thought... so sad.
  • Lefty1290
    Lefty1290 Posts: 551 Member
    jinkeys26 wrote: »
    The very first week thatI logged was a real eye-opener! I considered myself a reasonably healthy-eating gal, I was disabused of that notion pretty quickly haha! Logging has become everything for me.
    The item that shocked me the most when I first logged was my daily morning pack of pop-tarts: holy moly!
    200 cal sugar bomb, for what I was basically using as a morning pick-me-up between breakfast and lunch. I don't even like them that much!! They were just 'easy' :neutral:

    Yeah, 400 calories and 38g of sugar for two Pop-Tarts makes me sad.
  • SbetaK
    SbetaK Posts: 400 Member
    Surprise was about myself, haha. Have become a food snob. Label reader. Someone at work in the lunchroom was raving about eating single serving frozen meals as she could then control her portion sizes in her quest to lose weight. After she left, I picked up the box her meal had come in. Had 720 calores, but 45g fat and over 1000mg of sodium. Made mental note to never eat that particular frozen meal.
  • Susieq_1994
    Susieq_1994 Posts: 5,361 Member
    The fact that the calories in big, fluffy pita bread (around 100g of bread, to be fair) is equal to sadness and despair. :'( Around 300 calories a piece!! I used to down like four or five of them in a meal X_X
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Susieq_1994 wrote: »
    The fact that the calories in big, fluffy pita bread (around 100g of bread, to be fair) is equal to sadness and despair. :'( Around 300 calories a piece!! I used to down like four or five of them in a meal X_X

    Bread just sucks.
  • mls100771
    mls100771 Posts: 125 Member
    That eggs actually have carbs in them! Who knew?
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    HappyCampr1 wrote: »
    Francl27 wrote: »
    Susieq_1994 wrote: »
    The fact that the calories in big, fluffy pita bread (around 100g of bread, to be fair) is equal to sadness and despair. :'( Around 300 calories a piece!! I used to down like four or five of them in a meal X_X

    Bread just sucks.

    Bread doesn't bother me. Most of the bread I eat tends to be 100-120 calories a slice, and I'm ok with that. Muffins, on the other hand, were totally surprising to me. So sad that I can have a piece of cake for the same calories as a muffin. :frowning:egu9ur83ju4g.jpg

    I haven't had a muffin in ages. Just not worth it! Like brioche... it's just never worth it anymore.
  • bibimazoon
    bibimazoon Posts: 50 Member
    I went to Macaroni Grill couple days ago. Selected what I thought was a decent lunch option Chicken Florentine Salad then checked MFP...almost 900 calories!!! Mine was mostly orzo pasta with very little chicken ugh! Totally not worth it and why I eat at home

    I ate half and brought the other home to the husband
  • manukahoneybadger
    manukahoneybadger Posts: 30 Member
    That mushrooms are mainly little puffs if potassium and not much else :)

    Also I noticed this on the labels of spices... a lot of them I use thinking I'm dodging salt (eg mild chilli powder) but have recently noticed they actually have salt listed in their ingredients also :|

  • cmtigger
    cmtigger Posts: 1,450 Member
    A serving of shrimp is pretty big.
  • shrcpr
    shrcpr Posts: 885 Member
    echmainfit619 wrote: »
    The eye opener for me was portion control and weighing my food. I was eating a crazy amount of calories before I started doing that routinely.

    Don't remember where I read this, but someone determined that we're usually satisfied by a relatively small amount of a particular food. But if it's on the plate we keep eating it because it's there.

    Me, too! The amount of food I need and feel good at looks so tiny. But then again I eat around 300 calories 5 times a day (just my preference - I know it's not necessary).
  • sunandmoons
    sunandmoons Posts: 415 Member
    How many calories are in condiments. I had no idea.
  • MrsCaitlinBeltran
    MrsCaitlinBeltran Posts: 241 Member
    The amount of sodium that is in pretty much every single food on this planet, lol. I don't have a medical condition that requires me to eat a low sodium diet but, if I consume over 3000mg of sodium in a day I feel super bloated and the scale jumps up like 4 pounds--it's ridiculous.
  • JustMissTracy
    JustMissTracy Posts: 6,338 Member
    The amount of sugar I consume every day....blows my mind when I look at my diary some days...mostly in fruits and beverages....Tim Hortons may be the death of my success!
  • k2mexox
    k2mexox Posts: 72 Member

    HeySwoleSister wrote: »
    All those sesame and chia seeds I was sprinkling on food? Have WAY more calories than I thought.
    yes!! I quickly stopped using them once I realized the calories. I don't feel like the benefits are worth the calorie count.

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  • michelle7673
    michelle7673 Posts: 370 Member
    The day I went to Maggiano's for a team lunch, ordered salad and diet coke, and realized later that I could have had tiramisu and espresso for fewer calories. That was a sad day.

    I think of things as "good deal" and "bad deal". Avocado and cooked bacon are surprisingly good deals, granola (sadly) is a very bad one. Peanut butter is delicious but not the greatest deal, and is susceptible to a big calorie error for a small measuring error. Legumes generally not the greatest deal, as advertised. Grilled chicken breast adds up more slowly than I expect, and even lean ground beef adds up more quickly than I expect.
  • Monklady123
    Monklady123 Posts: 512 Member
    I've learned a few things:

    -- how many calories I was actually eating. omg... once I logged a typical day I was shocked.
    -- what my "one glass" of wine was really worth calorie-wise. lol. And it was way more than one serving.
    -- why my typical bowl of cereal was worth. The serving says 3/4 Cup but of course I never measured it pre-MFP.
    -- one teaspoon of sugar is enough for my tea and it's not a lot of calories. I was using way more than 1 t pre-MFP.
    -- a mixed drink such as a gin and tonic using diet tonic is surprisingly few calories (compared to drinks such as wine or beer)
    -- peanut butter is not a good source of protein unless you eat a ton of it, which of course means you'll weigh a ton also. :open_mouth:
    -- how many calories I was eating just in bread... toast for breakfast (two pieces usually), a sandwich for lunch.. Now if I have toast it's one slice and often the same for a sandwich, I'll make an open-faced one and stick it in the toaster oven to get hot and/or melty if I've added cheese.

    Those are just a few off the top of my head.
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