Perspective - Not all calories created equal
terra819
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I made myself some giant veggie/chicken spring rolls for lunch today and it just amazed me the comparison of calories between them and some donuts my husband brought home this weekend. What are some calorie comparisons that you have discovered since using mfp that are pretty amazing?
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Yeh, but the donut tastes way better.0
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A calorie is a calorie. Just like a inch is an inch and a centimeter is a centimeter. What material you're MEASURING may be different though.
Lots of foods offer more VOLUME and NUTRIENTS per calorie than others, but if you're going to compared 300 calories of a wrap and 300 calories of a donut, it's still 300 calories to the body in terms of energy.
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I dunno, I love donuts but I'd totally have those spring rolls for breakfast right now. What's wrong with me?0
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I’d eat one of the spring rolls and half the donut. Boom, still at 300 calories, high yum factor.
Edited to actually answer question: I actually eat donuts all the time, just because they’re tasty and they can easily fit in my macros. To answer your question, I don’t think I found any food comparison that really strikes me, except maybe how much food I can eat instead of drinking liquid calories
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Yeah seriously, your spring rolls look really tasty! 0
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I will always take small quantities of food I want to eat over huge portions of food I don't.0 -
A calorie is a calorie. Just like a inch is an inch and a centimeter is a centimeter. What material you're MEASURING may be different though.
Lots of foods offer more VOLUME and NUTRIENTS per calorie than others, but if you're going to compared 300 calories of a wrap and 300 calories of a donut, it's still 300 calories to the body in terms of energy.
This. And I'd just eat both
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Spring roll? It looks like the lovechild of a svelte spring roll who crossed over to the wrong side of the tracks to samba with a burrito of ill repute...
I would still totally eat it though
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Spring roll? It looks like the lovechild of a svelte spring roll who crossed over to the wrong side of the tracks to samba with a burrito of ill repute...
I would still totally eat it though
lol, Couldn't make smaller ones due to the calorie count in the rice wrapper, was trying to increase my mileage
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Bet you would feel full way longer eating the spring rolls, though.0
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What kind of mustard is that?0
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I tried to conduct electricity through 6 inches of yarn...it was HORRIBLE! But 6 inches of copper wiring was awesome.
Conclusion: Copper wiring is good, yarn is bad. Not all inches are created equal.0 -
ceoverturf wrote: »I tried to conduct electricity through 6 inches of yarn...it was HORRIBLE! But 6 inches of copper wiring was awesome.
Conclusion: Copper wiring is good, yarn is bad. Not all inches are created equal.
ever heard of superconducting yams? 0 -
ceoverturf wrote: »I tried to conduct electricity through 6 inches of yarn...it was HORRIBLE! But 6 inches of copper wiring was awesome.
Conclusion: Copper wiring is good, yarn is bad. Not all inches are created equal.
Good thing we don't use inches to measure conductivity.
Just like we don't use calories to measure micro or macronutrient content.0 -
I'll take the donut, thanks.0
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ceoverturf wrote: »I tried to conduct electricity through 6 inches of yarn...it was HORRIBLE! But 6 inches of copper wiring was awesome.
Conclusion: Copper wiring is good, yarn is bad. Not all inches are created equal.
But that doesn't make the yard bad. Because if I want to wrap my baby, I don't want an afghan made of copper wire.
Along the same thread (oops, pun!), if what I need right now is the veggies, the spring rolls may be the right thing. But if I've met my protein needs and had enough vegetables but have the 300 calories left over, you bet I'm going for the sweet treat. Probably not THAT donut (sorry, it doesn't look like the kind I'd go for), but maybe a fresh bakery donut. Or half a pint of gelato. Because it's yummy and I have room.
Hmm ... I wonder in the analogy above which food is the copper wire and which is the yarn. Because both materials could be argued as being incredibly beneficial, just for different uses. So why can't the foods?0 -
EvgeniZyntx wrote: »What kind of mustard is that?
The authentic stadium mustard. really good! only 5 cals per serving.
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ceoverturf wrote: »I tried to conduct electricity through 6 inches of yarn...it was HORRIBLE! But 6 inches of copper wiring was awesome.
Conclusion: Copper wiring is good, yarn is bad. Not all inches are created equal.
Good thing we don't use inches to measure conductivity.
Just like we don't use calories to measure micro or macronutrient content.
(that's sort of the point I was trying to make to the OP's argument that 'not all calories are equal')ceoverturf wrote: »I tried to conduct electricity through 6 inches of yarn...it was HORRIBLE! But 6 inches of copper wiring was awesome.
Conclusion: Copper wiring is good, yarn is bad. Not all inches are created equal.
But that doesn't make the yard bad. Because if I want to wrap my baby, I don't want an afghan made of copper wire.
Along the same thread (oops, pun!), if what I need right now is the veggies, the spring rolls may be the right thing. But if I've met my protein needs and had enough vegetables but have the 300 calories left over, you bet I'm going for the sweet treat. Probably not THAT donut (sorry, it doesn't look like the kind I'd go for), but maybe a fresh bakery donut. Or half a pint of gelato. Because it's yummy and I have room.
Hmm ... I wonder in the analogy above which food is the copper wire and which is the yarn. Because both materials could be argued as being incredibly beneficial, just for different uses. So why can't the foods?
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Meh. I'd eat the spring rolls even if they were higher in calories than the donut. Who wants a dried out, crumbly, nasty old donut anyway?
But I'd absolutely eat 300 calories of steak rather than 300 calories of spring rolls. It's all in what you prefer.0 -
my issue with doughnuts and muffins and stuff like that is for the calories, they just don't fill me up. I typically have scrambled eggs with black beans smothered in NM green chiles with a low sodium V8 for breakfast. It clocks in somewhere between 400 - 500 calories; in the break room this morning I saw that someone brought in Blueberry muffins...out of curiosity I looked at the calorie count and it was 500...just not worth it to me...I don't like that kind of stuff much to begin with, but my belly would never be satisfied with that little muffin.0
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ceoverturf wrote: »I tried to conduct electricity through 6 inches of yarn...it was HORRIBLE! But 6 inches of copper wiring was awesome.
Conclusion: Copper wiring is good, yarn is bad. Not all inches are created equal.
I'll take the donut. I'd rather eat a food I like than a food I don't like.
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