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Biggest lesson learned by tracking calories?
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I love my food scale -- and just ordered two more! One for my desk and one for my purse for on-the-go. I already have one at home and one in the office kitchen.0
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For me it's how calories are actually in cake. I'm in maintenance now and I still rarely have calories spare for it. When I have some after lunch I often find my lunch and the cake are similar in calorific content!
I also never realised how great cake was until now...0 -
I realized how calorie dense walnuts and other nut products are, but they're so great for your health!0
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It only works if you know how much energy you actually need, and then actually weighing/measuring your food will make or break it. Eyeballing, guessing, and trusting serving sizes without accurate measurements was a recipe for failure.0
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I have been pretty sick. I logged about 300 calories one day. Well, the last two days, even with people commenting how little I was eating, I ate about 1100. It is depressing how quickly it can get out of control. I mean, I have been tracking for a month and I was still shocked to find out how much I had consumed at those meals, while thinking I was grossly undereating!
On the plus side, it is liberating how much variety I can have when I have more control over my food.0 -
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I learned the difference between being hungry and being bored.
Oh, and how to ignore hunger!
I also learned that Pop Tarts simply don't fit into my life anymore.(It's the 2 per package thing! I normally don't compulsively eat but they package twice the amount I should have at one time in a way that only eating one makes the other go stale. So I just don't buy them anymore!)
I also learned how much of my hunger is psychological. For instance, typing about pop tarts just made me hungry. Time to drink some water.
Yes Pop Tarts is a real heart breaker!!! How can one of those damn things be nearly 200 calories??!0 -
shrinkingletters wrote: »Oh. Then I learned that the amount of calories in a bottle of wine are a cruel joke.
This was probably my saddest moment.
Also, that I actually can eat less than 2000 calories and still feel satisfied.0
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