I couldn't believe my breakfast entry!
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I like my OJ but the carbs and sugars are also high in fresh squeezed from just 3 navel oranges.0
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When I was working in my office, I made a point to look up the lowest calorie, tastiest options of any of the surrounding fast food joints so I would have a go-to. I knew bringing my own food was always better, but sometimes it just wasn't in the cards, so I would always have a fall-back.
Subway, Chick-Fil-A, Panda Express and Wendy's were usually my choices. High in sodium, but I could always find low-calorie, filling choices for these in particular, which were very close to me. On special days, I would go get a large hot and sour soup from the local chinese restaurant, full of mushrooms and tofu. Yum.
You learn over time what will work with your allotment and what won't. It's just a process. I think we all have those beginner "OMGWTF" moments... and still do, at times. No worries.0 -
I sometimes juggle my calories around just so I can have a higher calorie breakfast. Sometimes my oatmeal alone comes to 500 calories with the toppings and mix-ins.
Sadly, Sonic hasn't been a place I like to frequent. We've sat in the car reading the menu and looking up nutrition on our phones and then turned around and gone somewhere else. XD0 -
My normal breakfast is 2 eggs, 2 egg whites, 2 slices of bacon and half an avocado. 500+ calories.
I guess if you are being silly and trying to eat 1200 calories a day and haven't figured out your BMR and TDEE that's bad. For most people a 600 calories breakfast isn't all that bad.0 -
Shave 33, just 33, calories a day off the other 6 days in the week and you've made up that 200 calories (well.. 198).
I'd be annoyed if I misjudged 200 calories on a rest day, otherwise I'd just run another mile and a half or do 15 extra minutes or so of cardio before I hit the weights.0 -
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You would have to have one of these "disastrous" +200 calorie days for SEVENTEEN days in a row to equal one pound.
Or said another way, if you have this level of "failure" every single week for over FOUR MONTHS, you will be a pound heavier than you would be otherwise.
And yet, people let this kind of thing get them down to the point that they completely give up. It's that "all or nothing" mentality that is so incredibly dangerous (in regards to the successfulness of their efforts).
I haven't been to Sonic in over a year...
...but thanks to this post, I plan to seek one out later this week to enjoy one of these breakfast burritos...
...so at least some good has come of this.0 -
YES! in fact not only did I start to cry because I felt so "dumb" by giving up what I really wanted for what I THOUGHT would be a better choice. I even wrote a blog about my melt down
For me it was a shrimp salad and come to find out the dressing alone was 800 calories plus another almost 200 calories for the lettuce & shrimp.
Our Sonics have the calorie amount on the menu now, maybe you can ask your Sonic to do that.
Edited to say: don't be too hard on yourself. It happens when we have a calorie range we want to stay in but go over, so plan an extra workout or a walk around the block to burn off the difference. Oh and ignore the comments of those who don't encourage you... always gotta be a few. :flowerforyou:
Thanks. Apparently I need to give my entire life story in order for people not to make snap assumptions. I more than appreciate your nice words.
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I went to Zaxby's yesterday on the way home from the airport. I was exhausted and just wanted to get a salad and go to bed. I ordered their buffalo chicken salad and it came with toast which I did not eat. Thinking I was being good. I looked up the calories after I ate about half the salad and it was 810 calories without the toast. UNREAL!0
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any fast food is mega sodium.....0
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Me too. I almost always look before I eat. A big surprise is a turkey sandwich on wheat from quick trip is like 800 calories. A 2 oz beef steak from jacks link is 130. Grilled Breakfast sandwich at jack is almost 800 Cal. Can make at home for 1/2 Cal. Just crazy. That's why I try to stay away from restaurants or prepackaged foods.0
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Subway subs.
12 inch you eat two meals in one sitting.
Nacho's.
Taco Salad. One of those can have over 1000 cals.
*sighs.* It sucks.
Chicken burgers (chick fil la and the like.) can have over 500 cals. Add the French fries and what not? You got a meal that is high cals.
Though, I managed to cut back on all of that. If I want chick fil la I will have one item. That's all you really need.
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Restaurants? If you want to eat crap, feel like crap and look like crap, then go.
Make real food at home if you value your health!0 -
Almost everything is high in calories and overall just bad for you. Stick with whole fruits and vegetables - can't go wrong!0
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Everyone at work kept talking about the Arby's chicken salad sandwich, sounds good but it packs 840 calories!!! glad I checked before I got it.0
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Restaurants? If you want to eat crap, feel like crap and look like crap, then go.
Make real food at home if you value your health!
Fortunately, restaurants have started using actual food ingredients in their food prep instead of crap. Apparently, focus groups found it far more preferable compared to eating crap. Who knew?0 -
a few days ago i thought i would have some instant noodles just because it was quick and easy,
seriously how many calories can they have,
OVER 1000!!!
someone will probably say its obviously going to be high because they know better than me, but i was stupidly shocked when i entered them on here,0 -
A few weeks ago I was invited to a thank you dinner at a restaurant. I had had a terrible day - we had lost a pet that day and I found out my best friend had about a week to live. I went to the dinner very stressed out but reminded myself that there was no reason to freak out with food.
I looked for the healthiest thing I could on the menu (with all the chaos I didn't get a chance to look in advance online like i usually do). I ordered a dinner that had a chicken breast with BBQ sauce, side of broccoli and some mashed potatos (those has a sprinkling of cheese and a few bits of bacon). I knew the mashed potatos would get me but figured it wouldn't be that bad. I had about 850 calories left for the day out of my 1360.
When I got home - I looked it up - the meal was 1350 calories! I did cry....probably was more the emotion of the day then anything but I couldn't believe I was so off (I had estimated about 900 calories based on portions).
The next morning I just moved on and kept chugging away.
It is amazing what we think vs what things are sometimes. I don't think it is unhealthy to be upset. We do the best we can but we are human and sometimes we get upset at things. All we can do is move forward! :flowerforyou:0 -
Cheesecake factory. I exercised and planned on having a slice of cheesecake. I only ate half, thinking I'd probably had about 400 cals. Think again! When I looked it up afterward, I ordered the one cheesecake that was 1600 calories. Not my finest moment.0
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I did it this weekend, by my own stupid error. I had a piece of cake. Well actually, I had 1/2 a piece of cake, because I saw that the whole cake serving was 290 calories, and 145 calories seemed like a reasonable "treat" over the weekend, spread over 2 days. Somehow I missed that the serving size was TWO, not ONE. So 1/2 was 290, not 145. Oops. It's truly not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, except I already had a couple of 'high' days earlier in the week I was trying to balance out, and because I specifically bought the cake to be a 150 calorie treat. #fail0
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The bread. They usually put butter on the insides, and if it's texas toast, it's just saturated in butter. Also sad as I like their food, but definitely not the calories.I ate at Zaxby's and their grilled chicken sandwich was nearly 700 calories. My husband got a banana pudding milkshake and that was 800 calories. We are never eating at Zaxby's again.
It is weird because the same grilled chicken sandwich at Chick fil A is 310 calories, which is where we go instead.
The sandwich from Zaxby's was not even that good. That is a good thing, I won't be tempted to eat there. I like how I can put my own sauce on the Chick fil a sandwich. The one from Zaxby's was so messy and swimming in sauce. Gross.0 -
"Let the big flavor of the SuperSONIC® Breakfast Burrito get you out of bed. A medley of savory sausage, fluffy scrambled eggs, melty cheddar cheese, golden tots, diced onions, ripe tomatoes and spicy jalapeños all wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla"
I need to hurry up and eat before my stomach drives me to sonic...that description made my mouth water...0 -
The biggest eye opener for me was Boneless Buffalo Wings. I had no idea they were so full of calories.0
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Who'd a thunk, cheese, eggs and fried potatoes would be kinda calorie dense
"Let the big flavor of the SuperSONIC® Breakfast Burrito get you out of bed. A medley of savory sausage, fluffy scrambled eggs, melty cheddar cheese, golden tots, diced onions, ripe tomatoes and spicy jalapeños all wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla"
I'm sorry, but you just sold me on wanting to get that burrito now. Unfortunately, or fortunately, the sonic closest to me closed months and months ago.
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I went to Chili's one night and ate my usual quesadilla meal and thought "I am going to eat light and be careful here"... Got home and put in my entry... 1700 calories for the entree... Funny thing is that my wife prepares a similar quesadilla @ home using known preparation and ingredients and it is a fraction of that ... I eat other meals when I go to Chili's now. :-)0
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Yeah just today for dinner. Just now. I thought I'd give myself a little leeway and it turned into a LOT of leeway....one enchilada, margarita, half a chile relleno and 7 ounces of carne asada with tortillas and beans later, I'm stuffed and happy. And too tipsy to care if I went over a little. Really what's the big deal? There's like 6 more days in the week? That's plenty of time to workout more and go a little under cals for a few days if it's that big a deal.
NOTICE THE LETTERS SAY THE FOLLOWING...."IF everyday were like to day...blah blah blah...you'd weigh x number of pounds by y day." That's a big IF. Today was like today. Not tomorrow, tomorrow isn't like today. Not yet. If you get your head on straight it won't be. I pretty much decided since hubby had a horribly rough day to let him order for me which made him really happy and just enjoy time with him. He ordered like a champ and I ate like one. Its ONE day. It was worth it to me. Now lemme out of here, it's killing my buzz. Maybe next time you go over cals have a little margarita like I did, makes you care less. Way less. Wayhayhay less. Seriously. It's ONE DAY! :drinker:0 -
haha *big puffyheart for you* \m/I had two pop tarts and a Snickers bar for breakfast. I'll go running later today and have plenty of room for dinner and evening snacks.
No regrets.
This! Haha
Glad I'm not the only one grabbing a Snickers Almond or Reese's for bfast!
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Eating out will get you each time _either in calories or Sodium. If I have to grab something out then I amp up my workout and keep it moving. Can't beat yourself up_ ish happens.0
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Who'd a thunk, cheese, eggs and fried potatoes would be kinda calorie dense
"Let the big flavor of the SuperSONIC® Breakfast Burrito get you out of bed. A medley of savory sausage, fluffy scrambled eggs, melty cheddar cheese, golden tots, diced onions, ripe tomatoes and spicy jalapeños all wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla"
We don't GO to Sonic that often and that's just where my fiancé wanted to stop. (We live in a tiny town with 4 restaurants... if that helps you imagine anything at all). I just assumed something with veggies would be better to eat instead of the same sized burrito, stuffed only with cheese and meat. Obviously I have learned the error of my ways... No need to be a snot.0 -
a few days ago i thought i would have some instant noodles just because it was quick and easy,
seriously how many calories can they have,
OVER 1000!!!
someone will probably say its obviously going to be high because they know better than me, but i was stupidly shocked when i entered them on here,
... and that someone (or group of someone's) needs to be quiet.
Isn't that what these message boards were created for? HELPING one another? Not criticizing everyone for not being as "intelligent" as they are when it comes to healthy food.
I'm shocked as well. Calories literally floor me at times.
IF I KNEW WHAT WAS HEALTHY, I WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN 300+ POUNDS. I DON'T NEED SOMEONE BEING OBNOXIOUS, I NEED REINFORCEMENT AND TO OCCASIONALLY BE PROVIDED FEEDBACK IN A POSITIVE MANNOR. Everyone who CAN'T understand that can leave me alone.0
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