Calorie anxiety

natashabamford7
natashabamford7 Posts: 26 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Does anyone else get very anxious about calories when someone else is preparing their food or drink?

For example I get a small skinny latte with sugar free caramel syrup from Costa every weekday and I find myself getting very anxious thinking if they misheard me and gave me full fat milk or something. It makes me worry that I'm not counting my calories correctly.

:D Silly I know but just want to know if other people get this?

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    not really
  • SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage
    SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage Posts: 2,668 Member
    A little at first, but not anymore. Keep an eye on that line of thinking, it's a slippery slope.
  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    I don't even think about it.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    Seems a little disordered.
  • Gska17
    Gska17 Posts: 752 Member
    I used to but I'm mostly over it. Along my journey to maintenance I indulged in questionable foods now and then which did no harm. I still made it, so I relaxed.
  • azulvioleta6
    azulvioleta6 Posts: 4,195 Member
    natashabamford7 wrote: »
    Does anyone else get very anxious about calories when someone else is preparing their food or drink?

    For example I get a small skinny latte with sugar free caramel syrup from Costa every weekday and I find myself getting very anxious thinking if they misheard me and gave me full fat milk or something. It makes me worry that I'm not counting my calories correctly.

    :D Silly I know but just want to know if other people get this?

    Ha! A couple of weeks ago, I ordered a coffee drink (rare for me...I usually make coffee at home) and it took the barista THREE TRIES to get it right. It wasn't even anything complicated. Just watch them as closely as you can and let it go.
  • slaite1
    slaite1 Posts: 1,307 Member
    natashabamford7 wrote: »
    Does anyone else get very anxious about calories when someone else is preparing their food or drink?

    For example I get a small skinny latte with sugar free caramel syrup from Costa every weekday and I find myself getting very anxious thinking if they misheard me and gave me full fat milk or something. It makes me worry that I'm not counting my calories correctly.

    :D Silly I know but just want to know if other people get this?

    I don't get anxiety but I am definitely that obnoxious customer that asks 5x if the drink has skim milk. And sugar free. And I work in a coffee shop :wink:

    I'm the same way with diet soda. I can't always tell the difference when it is from a fountain. The BF just tastes it now for me by default
  • DuckReconMajor
    DuckReconMajor Posts: 434 Member
    I have this issue with food prepared in restaurants since the calorie/nutrition given is often not accurate given the way the food is prepared. So for something like numbers given by Chipotle's nutrition calculator I log it as 1.5 servings.
  • Keith3481
    Keith3481 Posts: 91 Member
    edited July 2015
    If they mess it up one time, it's not going to derail your weight loss goal. Just put it in perspective by thinking about this way: I started out with 44 lbs to lose. 3500 calories x 44 lbs = 154,000 calories to run at a deficit over the course of months. A single 200 calorie error is tiny - one tenth of one percent - compared to the total amount of deficit I have to run. If you were ordering the full fat version on purpose each time, it would be a different story because those calories add up quickly. This is especially true with daily habits like coffee. But a single error wouldn't hurt you.
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    No. You lose you dont lose. It you arent losing and its a big deal then eat less move more or be patient.Be responsible for what you eat. People stress themselves out when its not needed.

  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    I drink water, so no issue there.

    Eating in a restaurant that isn't a salad bar is something I do only on occasion. When I do it, I'm fully aware that it will be a ginormous calorie load, so I don't worry about it a lot. I knew it going in. Does it cross my mind a few times? Of course.

    When you're weighing every bit of food, it's natural to think twice about calorie bombs. It would be strange to be so detailed about calories that you weigh every bite and then not think at all about a cream sauce, and buttery garlic bread. IMO, anyway. :)
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Um.....no
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    Nope.

    I'm just happy someone else is cooking for a change.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    Yikes, no! I couldn't live like that.

    When I weigh my food, it's so that the little calorie bombs like coffee treats don't screw everything up. I like to be as accurate as possible for the times I can't be as accurate.
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    I'm pretty sure that baristas only mess up your drink if they hate you. I've never had to re-order a drink.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,209 Member
    When I first started on MFP I went through a period that I was. As you realize that what matters is what you do 80% of the time (provided you don't go hog wild the other 20% of the time), you will probably relax a bit.

    I still keep an eye that the McDonald's crew won't hit cream instead of milk for the ice coffee. It has only happened twice this summer :smiley:
  • RoxieDawn
    RoxieDawn Posts: 15,488 Member
    I used too in the beginning... I now know how many calories are in this and in that and just how big a portion size really is...

    I pretty much know what I should and should not be consuming... If I am going for a latte or a dessert or some sort of treat, I really do not care because it is a treat or something out of the norm and is ok...

    I guess this question is to be answered by those that are not in maintenance or never been in maintenance and are still loosing weight while in a deficit, so I can understand why all those calories would freak ya out... it did me in the beginning.. I now have too much knowlege I wish I did not have sometimes..
  • maroonmango211
    maroonmango211 Posts: 908 Member
    Honestly I used to have this when eating with family on occasion. Especially with certain family members that knew how hard I worked to lose weight and get fit (along with figuring out my IBS triggers) and lets just say weren't so supportive. I worried about sabotage and being fed trigger foods. I really don't worry about calories at restaurants and get together otherwise though, a little miscalculation in the long run isn't going to hurt if it's rare, and it saves me my sanity.
  • CurlyCockney
    CurlyCockney Posts: 1,394 Member
    No, although I do double check that they didn't mishear my "extra hot" as "extra shot". I didn't know Costa did sugar-free syrups (I've had plain skinny lattes since I started calorie counting), but I'm going to see if they have sugar-free gingerbread syrup next time I go, so thanks for the heads-up :-)
  • senecarr
    senecarr Posts: 5,377 Member
    Yes. It has gotten so bad that now I also have premature digestion.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    edited July 2015
    Nope, I make sure they know exactly what I want.
  • Kimegatron
    Kimegatron Posts: 772 Member
    Yes I do if I go out. I just don't know what to do or how to log it. It seems like wherever we go, I can't find nutritional information. I ate an eggplant rollatini from Nino Salvagios, and I couldn't find the nutritional information, so I emailed them. They didn't email me back, so I emailed again a week later... then another week later. They probably think I'm crazy HAAAAAAAAA. I couldn't find the nutrition on a certain pizza from Buddy's Pizza either, and it was driving me crazy. Or when there is a family outting, and someone brings the pasta salad, I have NO idea how to calculate that. At least I try, and that's good enough for me, I guess.
  • buket1819
    buket1819 Posts: 73 Member
    Kimegatron wrote: »
    Yes I do if I go out. I just don't know what to do or how to log it. It seems like wherever we go, I can't find nutritional information. I ate an eggplant rollatini from Nino Salvagios, and I couldn't find the nutritional information, so I emailed them. They didn't email me back, so I emailed again a week later... then another week later. They probably think I'm crazy HAAAAAAAAA. I couldn't find the nutrition on a certain pizza from Buddy's Pizza either, and it was driving me crazy. Or when there is a family outting, and someone brings the pasta salad, I have NO idea how to calculate that. At least I try, and that's good enough for me, I guess.

    That's exactly me ahahah

  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    I started out that way. MFP was working so well that I'd lose my s*** over being uncertain about a particular food or meal. 40 lbs in and I'm definitely more relaxed about the whole thing. No single screw-up can set me back that much.
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    Um, no. I'm just not going to mistrust everyone in the food industry that much. They probably know what they're doing enough to make my food and drink the way I ordered it. If one time, someone didn't, and I got an extra fifty calories, it was an extra fifty calories one time. It didn't make me gain any weight.
  • crys_todd
    crys_todd Posts: 41 Member
    I got irrationally angry once at McDonalds. I was driving a long distance through the middle of nowhere for work and got very thirsty. I stopped at McDonalds and ordered a large Diet Coke. I drive away and took a phone call and distractedly started chugging the thing because I was so thirsty. It wasn't until I had finished the conversation and took another sip that I realized it wasn't diet and I had drank at least 200 calories of soda I didn't even want and therefore couldn't eat the gelato I had been planning for all week without going over.
    I sort of fumed the rest of the way back to my office.

    A drop in the bucket long term but in the short term all I could think about was how much I wanted 200 calories of gelato not crappy soda.
  • Mo0npie
    Mo0npie Posts: 15 Member
    I get this ALL THE TIME, I hate hate hate not knowing how to log something, and not being quite sure of what they are putting in your food. I usually massively over-compensate if I know Im going to be going out later - by hardly eating anything the whole day - just to be sure that the restaurant food wont do too much damage to my calorie count haha. So now I try to just make everything myself!

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