How do you track pizza???

Jessyrabbit

I live in Northwest Indiana (45 minutes out of Chicago) so safe to say that we have the run-off of pizza places in my area. No one really eats Pizza Hut/Papa Johns etc... unless they are under 15 or broke. The problem is that none of these places are large enough to be required to list nutritional information. Even if it was just a basic pizza thin crust with crust sauce and cheese I would have SOMETHING to log and consider when counting my calories.

Ive been doing really well logging everything and afraid if I fall of the wagon cause of pizza.

How do you track your pizza intake?

P.s. I know I shouldn't have it at all, but I already plan to have a side salad with it so I eat less pizza.

Sued0nim

Why shouldn't you have it? If you can fit it in your calories pizza and salad has great nutritional value

Go for the nearest equivalent

jaga13

Just pick a comparable option in mfps database. A chain restaurant. That's exactly what I did today.

ASKyle

Choose the chain restaurants equivalent "Pizza hut- large, thin crust pepperoni, 2 slices" for example.

We can't be perfect all the time, and that is okay.

Ready2Rock206

Even if I didn't eat pizza hut the calories are still probably pretty close to what I did eat - so I find the closest thing in the data base and log it. And that nonsense about not having it... get over that. Food is not the enemy. Make it fit your calories and enjoy life.

jeepinshawn

I do what the others have said, find the closest equivalent and log that. I can usually fit in a couple of decent sized slices and a salad or veggies pretty easily in my daily routine. You can't not eat the things you love, thats the fastest way to fail and revert back to unhealthy eating patterns. Instead eat an appropriate amount and make it fit into your daily count.

ndj1979

I find the closest thing and go with that. Honestly, I would not worry about being 100% accurate for a night out of pizza. Eat as much pizza as you want, have some beers, and log it as best as possible and move on to tomorrow…

i usually look at three entries and pick the middle one….

karyabc

my idea of pizza is usually the one that I go and get in NJ: big and cheesy *_*, I just log it as something like 450-500 calories and move on , the options I find says that they are like 300 cals. but I seriously doubt it

karyabc

rabbitjb wrote: »

Why shouldn't you have it? If you can fit it in your calories pizza and salad has great nutritional value

Go for the nearest equivalent

yeah I miss that part completely, why you shouldn't have it??
girl let that guilt go and enjoy your evening!

swift13b

As others said, just find a similar pizza from a chain. Here in Australia I find that not that many places offer nutritional values, not even all the fast food places. I use a lot of American sources when I'm eating out since I figure they're probably higher in calories and I'm over-estimating anyway.

Kimegatron

I definitely ate too much pizza last night... I am not sure, but it was probably more than 700 calories

ncboiler89

Kimegatron wrote: »

I definitely ate too much pizza last night... I am not sure, but it was probably more than 700 calories

That's typically only two pieces. That doesn't even get me started.

Francl27

I find a chain equivalent too. But I don't have pizza often (I save it for when I crave it, which is once every two months or something).

Still not sure why Sbarro pizzas are 150 more calories per slice than Papa John though.

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970Mikaela1

asflatasapancake wrote: »

1 pizza at a time.

Lol. That's the way I do it. Order pizza. Eat the pizza. All of it...

Liftng4Lis

Why shouldn't you have it? Log it just like everything else.

ncboiler89

970Mikaela1 wrote: »

asflatasapancake wrote: »

1 pizza at a time.

Lol. That's the way I do it. Order pizza. Eat the pizza. All of it...

Atta boy/girl.

catt952

you know what i did last night? there was nothing good in the house so i ate some random burnt pizza crusts from a plate sitting by the sink from my brothers frozen pizza he cooked last night (you know what leaning tower ones?). Don't make my mistake, that was 300 calories (i weighed it of course) for bad pizza! if you don't give i to your cravings once i a while you may blow out your calories on burnt pizza crusts in desperation like me. I went over my calorie goal for those too!I walked briskly for an hour today to make up for that too!

maxit

I just started making my own so I could put it in recipe builder and i actually likes what comes out of my kitchen better than anything I can get delivered. For a 14 in pie with 8 slices it comes out to 130 calories for the crust (edited - per slice) then whatever i build on it can be anywhere from 125 to 250 added calories a slice in toppings~

Merkavar

I found an entry that was close in mfp. Slightly higher calories.

ncboiler89

catwils1 wrote: »

you know what i did last night? there was nothing good in the house so i ate some random burnt pizza crusts from a plate sitting by the sink from my brothers frozen pizza he cooked last night (you know what leaning tower ones?). Don't make my mistake, that was 300 calories (i weighed it of course) for bad pizza! if you don't give i to your cravings once i a while you may blow out your calories on burnt pizza crusts in desperation like me. I went over my calorie goal for those too!I walked briskly for an hour today to make up for that too!

Ya. That's just gross

Mizz_Mo

I look at the toppings the pizza joint is using - then use a Round Table Pizza with similar toppings - and I use the extra large size (we order medium size so it's gone with no tempting leftovers) just to keep me honest!

Orphia

Yep, I find a chain store version of the pizza I'm having, weigh my serve, and log in grams. Nom!

nordlead2005

I make my own pizza almost every week. A slice of a 16" cheese pizza (average crust) starts at ~300 calories, and the toppings add up. My sausage pizza comes in ~430, and pepperonni is ~350

So 2 slices are are almost 800 calories. I ate pizza 4 times in the last week and I may have it for lunch today cause I still have some in the freezer.

LearnFromTheRed

Not gonna lie: I don't track it. If I do have loads of pizza, which doesn't happen that often, I just round up to the maximum calories for the day and forget about it...

ClareDoherty42

I eat about 1,000 cals of pizza yesterday. Not even sorry. Curbed a craving && I can now move on.

SaffronSunrise

970Mikaela1 wrote: »

asflatasapancake wrote: »

1 pizza at a time.

Lol. That's the way I do it. Order pizza. Eat the pizza. All of it...

Yep! I do the same with wine. Can never seem to be able to get that cork back into the bottle. lol

Jillish23

I ate pizza this week from Dominos (in the UK) and I downloaded their nutritional information first and tried to make better choices i.e. thinner base and lower fat cheese. How about using a nutritional information document like that and just do your best to log the closest version to what you're having? I'm consistently losing weight and will NOT miss out on pizza - just a case of it fitting my calories for the day or even having a day at maintenance calories.

Here's an example of the how the information is displayed per slice. It's quite helpful.

Jillish23

cwolfman13

find something similar in the database and do the best you can...personally, pizza night is just kind of a free night...pizza is pretty calorie dense so I don't have it all that often...so when I do, meh...I just eat the pizza.

slideaway1

I use an App which tracks how long it takes my Pizza company to deliver it. I waited 45 mins the other night. Bloody disgusting service!