What surprises have you found about foods you didn't realize before logging?
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My peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were probably 1000 calories :-(0
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Alcohol doesn't fit in...at all. I'm a huge beer nerd...who also likes margaritas...and whiskey sours...and Bloody Marys...and recently sangria.0
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HeySwoleSister wrote: »See, now I thought I would get less cheese per serving than I actually do. I have a cheese plane that cuts whisper thin slices of hard cheeses, and, believe me, there are a LOT of slices in an ounce of sharp cheddar, if you slice it super thin.
Of course, if you are like CERTAIN HUSBANDS and insist upon taking bites directly out of an 8 oz block of Cabot Seriously Sharp? You have a rude awakening coming your way.
There's a guy at my work, that before I started there, he'd eat a 1lb block of cheese for lunch EVERY DAY. Apparently he had a heart attack.
He does not eat that pound a cheese for lunch anymore. haha.
Now whenever I see him that's all I can think of, and just kind of be disgusted at the thought of eating a whole pound of cheese for lunch.
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I bought Girl Scout cookies this year but only bought the Thin Mints (4 cookies per serving!) and the Savannah Smiles (5 cookies per serving!). I wanted the Cranberry Crisps ones, I believe they had 4/5 as well, but they were north of me.
And amazingly, there are still quite a few left as they live in the freezer for a while.
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For years I had attributed my weight creep to my wine consumption. Turns out I was probably right. Now I make room for it in the cals, or I don't get to drink it.0
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Granola... I used to love nibbling on a handful dry. Then I started MFP and decided to have a little handful, weighed it... and then realised half of my bodyweight is probably past dry granola nibbles.
Also sauces knowledge made me sad- I used to be all about the sauces (not Mayo, but tomato/ horseradish/ mustard/tartare & whatnot) Sauces probably account for the most of other half of me.
But in the happier way- asparagas and mushrooms literally blow my mind every time
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One food that I found that surprised me: bacon. From the package, you'd think it's terrible for you. From the package today, my Fletcher's Masterpiece Farmer's Cut bacon is 360 calories per 2 slices (66 grams). I split the 500 gram package with my wife, which should equal 1363 calories of bacon... for each of us!
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If you actually look at the USDA info for cooked and drained bacon, it's actually not bad. My 500 grams of raw bacon yielded 147 grams of cooked bacon plus about a cup of liquid fat. The USDA data on cooked bacon is 150 calories per ounce, so my 1300+ calories of raw bacon ends up being about 393 calories with 25 grams of protein. A 72% calorie reduction, and reasonable macro ratio!
If you're weighing and logging bacon, it's the ONLY food I can think of that you should log cooked rather than raw. It's still a special occasion indulgence for Mother's day today, but it's not crazy indulgent like I thought.0 -
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'
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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?!?0
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One food that I found that surprised me: bacon. From the package, you'd think it's terrible for you. From the package today, my Fletcher's Masterpiece Farmer's Cut bacon is 360 calories per 2 slices (66 grams). I split the 500 gram package with my wife, which should equal 1363 calories of bacon... for each of us!
BUT!
If you actually look at the USDA info for cooked and drained bacon, it's actually not bad. My 500 grams of raw bacon yielded 147 grams of cooked bacon plus about a cup of liquid fat. The USDA data on cooked bacon is 150 calories per ounce, so my 1300+ calories of raw bacon ends up being about 393 calories with 25 grams of protein. A 72% calorie reduction, and reasonable macro ratio!
If you're weighing and logging bacon, it's the ONLY food I can think of that you should log cooked rather than raw. It's still a special occasion indulgence for Mother's day today, but it's not crazy indulgent like I thought.
Oh wow... that's some bacon. I hate bacon because it's a PITA to log.0 -
Thin sliced whole wheat bread has a lot of protein!0
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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.0 -
I ate WAY more salad dressing than I thought... so sad.0
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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'
Yeah, 400 calories and 38g of sugar for two Pop-Tarts makes me sad.0 -
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.0
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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 0 -
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.0 -
That eggs actually have carbs in them! Who knew?0
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HappyCampr1 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.
I haven't had a muffin in ages. Just not worth it! Like brioche... it's just never worth it anymore.
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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 husband0
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