Overboard on Watermelon?!

DKG28
DKG28 Posts: 299 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
just discovered I eat several hundred calories of watermelon as a snack. For reference, my grandfather farmed watermelons - the real kind, that are 2 feet long with seeds, not the little round seedless ones. We grew up splitting one of those 4 ways. Considered it a healthy snack. Weighted out a portion today...talk about overdoing a "healthy" food. Now I know why it's usually served in pizza size slices. Sad discovery.

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  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    This is why counting all calories is important!

    Watermelon is so dang tasty.
  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
    A couple of weeks ago ate an entire big seedless watermelon over the course of a week. 2-400 grams at a time. I found it tasty and satisfying and it fit very well in my food/calorie budget.

    *my calorie goal is pretty big though.
  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    i literally can't live without watermelon. when I'm dehydrated i crave it like crazy. you can scale it back to make it fit, but i don't see anything wrong with it.
  • Zipp237
    Zipp237 Posts: 255 Member
    Josh_lol wrote: »
    At least several hundred calories of watermelon is as filling as a thousand calories worth of fries.
    Yes. You'd have to eat about three pounds of watermelon to get the calories in a large McDonald's fry. The watermelon will give you more nutrients. There are many worse things to eat to lose weight.
  • dewd2
    dewd2 Posts: 2,445 Member
    Mmmm.. Watermelon... I get at least one per week during the summer. And I happily eat it all (unless my wife eats it before me :# ). The biggest issue I have is not how much I eat.. It is finding the perfect melon. I have become very good at it. :)
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    DKG28 wrote: »
    just discovered I eat several hundred calories of watermelon as a snack. For reference, my grandfather farmed watermelons - the real kind, that are 2 feet long with seeds, not the little round seedless ones. We grew up splitting one of those 4 ways. Considered it a healthy snack. Weighted out a portion today...talk about overdoing a "healthy" food. Now I know why it's usually served in pizza size slices. Sad discovery.

    Did you weigh only the edible portion?
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    edited June 2016
    I'm confused. Watermelon is fairly low in calories. 100g is only 30 calories. I ate a pound of watermelon and it's 136 calories.


    http://www.livestrong.com/article/410471-watermelon-nutritional-facts/
    Eat all you want. It'll give you the poops though.
  • 12Sarah2015
    12Sarah2015 Posts: 1,117 Member
    This post made me laugh
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    crazyravr wrote: »
    Seriously water melon is what worries you? Its nothing but water and must be eaten cold and in LARGE quantities lol. Ditto cucumbers :) Now combine them chunks of watermelon and cucumber with some mint and feta in a huge bowl with a splash of aged balsamic and call it heaven :)

    Yummy!
  • robininfl
    robininfl Posts: 1,137 Member
    F that. If I am going to eat watermelon, I am going to eat a lot of it. One quarter of a big one? Yep, that sounds about right. It's never made me fat, it's so diuretic it doesn't even cause a temporary bounce, and is filling so you eat less after. Just stay aware and adjust other stuff, watermelon season is short. I love watermelon. Lots of it.
  • Hope228
    Hope228 Posts: 341 Member
    dewd2 wrote: »
    Mmmm.. Watermelon... I get at least one per week during the summer. And I happily eat it all (unless my wife eats it before me :# ). The biggest issue I have is not how much I eat.. It is finding the perfect melon. I have become very good at it. :)

    Please share!
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I love watermelon too. I ate 250 grams for 75 calories last night and will eat 200 something more at lunch today. That's not that many calories for a big bowl of melon.
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    It'll make you pee.

    I was a leader once at a camp in Romania. There was a watermelon growing in the camp garden. Amazingly, none of the kids swiped it, and one day between camp groups me and a couple of the other leaders decided its time was up. We ate it between the 3 of us.

    I peed. A lot. But it tasted so good!
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    You didn't weigh the rind did you?

    Mmmm....watermelon....
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  • fishshark
    fishshark Posts: 1,886 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    You didn't weigh the rind did you?

    Mmmm....watermelon....
    cat-vs-watermelon-o.gif
    one of my dogs... accurately named shark goes insane for watermelon and rinds. she actually goes insane for anything that would slightly resemble edible.
  • indigrrl
    indigrrl Posts: 92 Member
    My mom makes watermelon rind pickles. One of my hunny's favorite things.
  • CooCooPuff
    CooCooPuff Posts: 4,374 Member
    Elise4270 wrote: »
    I'm confused. Watermelon is fairly low in calories. 100g is only 30 calories. I ate a pound of watermelon and it's 136 calories.


    http://www.livestrong.com/article/410471-watermelon-nutritional-facts/
    Eat all you want. It'll give you the poops though.
    According to my siblings, before I was born, my parents bought a watermelon from some car trunk vendor on the way to the beach. Everyone ended up with a horrible diarrhea and vomit episode.

  • dewd2
    dewd2 Posts: 2,445 Member
    Hope228 wrote: »
    dewd2 wrote: »
    Mmmm.. Watermelon... I get at least one per week during the summer. And I happily eat it all (unless my wife eats it before me :# ). The biggest issue I have is not how much I eat.. It is finding the perfect melon. I have become very good at it. :)

    Please share!

    The main thing I look for is a flat and discolored (yellowish) spot. This means the melon was allowed to ripen in the field. No flat spot, it was picked early and will not be as good. The 2nd thing I look for are brownish looking streaks or spider like marks. I am not exactly sure what they are but i found that their presence usually means a sweet melon.

    I have always heard that tapping on the melon will give you a good idea how it will be. I have never had any luck with this method. Also there is something with the stem that indicates if it was picked too early. Again, no luck with this but YMMV.

    Now I think I will go eat the last piece of watermelon in the fridge. :)
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    Mmmmmmm. Watermelon. There was a few weeks there recovering from Bariatric surgery where I had to have my watermelon every day.

    I was in love with anything wet and cool for a while there because no liquids the day after surgery. And that small stomach afterwards can't guzzle water any more. It's sip all day or be parched.

    So. Watermelon. Yes.

    I would have it with a little Greek yogurt for my protein.
  • crzyone
    crzyone Posts: 872 Member
    There's not enough calories in watermelon to worry about. I'm eating a ton of it this summer but the last few have been bad so I've had to taper off. I lost enough water weight from eating the first couple that I came out on the good side! I'm waiting for the homegrown ones to start selling here now. I can't wait!!!
  • 85Cardinals
    85Cardinals Posts: 733 Member
    edited June 2016
    I love watermelon but it's so freaking messy I rarely buy one. And you never know for sure how good it'll be.
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