OMG Watermelon Calories!

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  • RobP1192
    RobP1192 Posts: 310 Member
    So maybe i'm lost. I've been eating wedges. And recording them as wedges. One wedge comes up as about 86 calories. You guys eating cups and grams, how much watermelon is that? You guys just eating one or two chunks and calling it a day? I'm curious as to how you guys cut up your watermelon, and how you measure it out to be cups or grams. THanks.
  • dennik15
    dennik15 Posts: 97 Member
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    I can justify that. Its watermelon and its delicious! I could eat a ton of it.

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    Why do you have a water bottle sticking out of your watermelon?
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    I can't tell if this is sarcastic but...pretty sure that's vodka, not water, in that there bottle. By far the best way to have watermelon imho. :drinker:

    edited to add: sorry for the crappy quoting :-(
  • AlsDonkBoxSquat
    AlsDonkBoxSquat Posts: 6,128 Member
    cals burned were such a waste on watermelon!!

    i've searched this forum and some people say a calorie is a calorie... fair enough..., some people say to disregard the sugar content...again, fair enough... but when you have a budget of XX amount of calories i simply cannot justify 350-or so calories on watermelon.

    I can justify that. Its watermelon and its delicious! I could eat a ton of it.

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    That watermelong is delicious.
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
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    I can't tell if this is sarcastic but...pretty sure that's vodka, not water, in that there bottle. By far the best way to have watermelon imho. :drinker:

    Works really well as a cask /pseudo-randall for a witbier or hefeweizen too.
  • tj1376
    tj1376 Posts: 1,402 Member
    320 calories for 1/4 a watermelon is a good deal to me, but maybe you should put it in to weight terms 1 oz of watermelon is 8 to 9 calories or 144 calories per pound that is pretty calorie light to me, especially when you compare it to other food lets say chicken breast the same ounce is 35 calories. Instead of one ounce of chicken you can have just over 4 oz of watermelon.

    Also we men might not want to throw the rind away, since that is where the highest concentration of citrulline is located. Reference "Watermelon may have Viagra effects" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080630165707.htm

    That sounds like a good thing, but watermelon is still pure sugar and chicken is pure protien. The protein gets digested slower, makes you feel full longer so you eat less, and doesn't turn to fat like the sugar would, so your argument that the watermelon is better than the chicken is not true.
  • Lindsey1985x
    Lindsey1985x Posts: 106 Member

    If you only have so many calories, then maybe you shouldn't eat so much watermelon.

    yes... i realise that now....lesson learned.

    I'm usually such a good girl with weighing, measuring and checking first but i was sure this was a low cal food that woulnd't make too much of an impact.

    Silly me for logging after eating and not the other way around.

    I know i need to eat more than watermelon to function - especially working out daily and starting to lift- i was just hoping that "fruit days" might have helped me achieve a decent calorie deficit in a fairly easy, healthy, summery and yummy way.
  • LoraF83
    LoraF83 Posts: 15,694 Member
    I eat entire watermelons. It's one of the most cleansing foods there is.

    Such a shame people are afraid of fruit calories when they are consuming thousands of calories a day. Whatever else you're eating is not going to be healthier than the fruit.

    I don't think some people understand that you'll end up peering a million times and watermelon helps burn belly fat. Its funny seeing people complain about fruit calories /sugars.

    Can you explain the science behind this statement? Because excess sugar, no matter the source, is actually stored as fat, and increases your insulin level, which blocks fat-burning.

    Can you please explain the science behind this statement?

    Because excess calories, no matter the source, are stored as fat.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    That sounds like a good thing, but watermelon is still pure sugar

    No.
    The protein gets digested slower, makes you feel full longer so you eat less, and doesn't turn to fat like the sugar would.

    Also, no.
  • jsd_135
    jsd_135 Posts: 291 Member
    I had a quarter watermelon yesterday. No idea of the calories. After reading this, I decided to eat half of the remaining matching quarter. This time I weighed what I ate and checked the calories: 96. That was for 320g of watermelon. The roughly 640g I ate yesterday was a ton of watermelon (so good, I couldn't stop). The calorie count for that was 192. I seriously doubt you ate 350 calories worth of watermelon. That would be 1166g, or 2.5 pounds, of watermelon, excluding the rind.

    As others have noted, get a food scale. You won't feel like you have to skimp on food you like because of inaccurate ideas about the calorie content.

    And enjoy the good watermelon while it lasts.
  • oddyogi
    oddyogi Posts: 1,816 Member
    Mmmm.. now I'm gonna have to cut up some watermelon for lunch.
  • chubby_checkers
    chubby_checkers Posts: 2,352 Member
    A friend of mine is a manager at a grocery store, and she had someone wanting to return a watermelon because he ate too much and it gave him the ****s. So that's something to look forward to!
  • sandy_gee
    sandy_gee Posts: 372 Member
    I know I say this about 300 times a day, but



    Kitchen scale.

    otherwise, it's just guessing. I second this.

    Kitchen scale.
  • chandanista
    chandanista Posts: 986 Member
    So maybe i'm lost. I've been eating wedges. And recording them as wedges. One wedge comes up as about 86 calories. You guys eating cups and grams, how much watermelon is that? You guys just eating one or two chunks and calling it a day? I'm curious as to how you guys cut up your watermelon, and how you measure it out to be cups or grams. THanks.
    I cut mine up into little squares and eat them with a toothpick. Usually about 50-60 cals at a time. I don't just do watermelon that way. we chopped up a cantaloupe a week or so ago and did the same; this week it's honeydew melon. Yum I love the summer-juiciness of melons. Get as much as I can while I can, since the rest of the year they are pretty tasteless.
  • SailorKnightWing
    SailorKnightWing Posts: 875 Member
    So maybe i'm lost. I've been eating wedges. And recording them as wedges. One wedge comes up as about 86 calories. You guys eating cups and grams, how much watermelon is that? You guys just eating one or two chunks and calling it a day? I'm curious as to how you guys cut up your watermelon, and how you measure it out to be cups or grams. THanks.

    Cubes or balls. Cut it into quarters then just dice the flesh into squares and put it in a container in the fridge, or cut it in half and use a melon baller.
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    Hi all,

    it was a 12" watermelon... although the massive one on a posters photos!! :D

    I started with Watermelon as i also did the GM Diet a few weeks back (very effective and wanted a weightloss boost from stagnating.) this GM Diet encouraged a fruit day, of mainly melon... so i thought it'd be pretty good to have the odd "fruit day" here n there.

    i eat between 1200 - 1400 net calories a day as standard, but hadn't eaten watermelon in a long time, so never logged it before.

    i did have it for lunch, so calorie consumption for lunch was ok... but i felt that it was really very high for what i thought was a super healthy food.


    It seems like you're suggesting that "super healthy foods" must be very very low or almost zero calories. I have not found that to even be remotely the case. Also, as others have pointed out, the amount of calories in a watermelon (per volume) is almost nothing. AND....most of the time, when these different fad diets say that this food or that food is "free," I doubt they mean to eat a truck load, I'm sure they mean a serving or two...which for watermelon is commonly 1-2 cups which is less than 100 cals.
  • hopefaithlove24
    hopefaithlove24 Posts: 454 Member
    I want some too now :S
  • roughneckswife
    roughneckswife Posts: 341 Member
    I cut my watermelon right down the center and eat half of it at a time! LOL I don't care what the calories are, I'm full and it's great for me!
  • lesliefb
    lesliefb Posts: 88 Member
    Yeah, you can't track watermelon by size. They range from a few pounds to massive. Take a look at a measuring cup and try to estimate how many cups you ate. Next time use a scale. :)

    For reference, I ate a large cereal bowl full of watermelon chunks the other day and it was less than 100 calories.
  • chelsifina
    chelsifina Posts: 346 Member
    A friend of mine is a manager at a grocery store, and she had someone wanting to return a watermelon because he ate too much and it gave him the ****s. So that's something to look forward to!

    This is hilarious on so many levels!
  • jadermary
    jadermary Posts: 105 Member
    So maybe i'm lost. I've been eating wedges. And recording them as wedges. One wedge comes up as about 86 calories. You guys eating cups and grams, how much watermelon is that? You guys just eating one or two chunks and calling it a day? I'm curious as to how you guys cut up your watermelon, and how you measure it out to be cups or grams. THanks.

    I weigh it...today I have a sandwich bag full of watermelon to eat after lunch, it weighs 200g and that came out to like 60cals
  • rachie590
    rachie590 Posts: 107 Member
    I know I say this about 300 times a day, but



    Kitchen scale.


    This
  • MagicalLeopleurodon
    MagicalLeopleurodon Posts: 623 Member
    The type of watermelon makes a difference too. Yellow meated have more sugar.

    But still, i love watrrmelon and i couldnt eat 1/4 of one if i tried. Also-350 calories? Thats a snack for me.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    I know I say this about 300 times a day, but



    Kitchen scale.

    ^I concur with the aforementioned recommendation.
  • g33kmommy
    g33kmommy Posts: 104 Member
    I eat entire watermelons. It's one of the most cleansing foods there is.

    Such a shame people are afraid of fruit calories when they are consuming thousands of calories a day. Whatever else you're eating is not going to be healthier than the fruit.

    I don't think some people understand that you'll end up peering a million times and watermelon helps burn belly fat. Its funny seeing people complain about fruit calories /sugars.

    Exactly this. I made a watermelon cake for my birthday this year, instead of a chocolate one. It used a full watermelon and a tub of fat free cool whip, covered in random berries.

    I ate SO much of it, and I still lost weight for the week. But I went to the bathroom a lot :)
  • Lindsey1985x
    Lindsey1985x Posts: 106 Member
    i have watermelon left in the fridge at home so i'm going to cut it as i did for today (biiig ol' wedge) and then slice out the melon (i dont eat the rind) and see exactly what im dealing with.

    and i will NEVER take "healthy" foods for granted again!!

    i'm going to start logging daily like i used to. i've lost a LOT of weight and this was a rookie mistake all round!! lol xxx
  • staceypunk
    staceypunk Posts: 924 Member
    Well I must of had a super juicy watermelon because I do use a scale and I couldn't believe how many calories were in one cup (weighed out in grams) of diced watermelon. So many that I haven't purchased it again this summer because it's not worth the calories IMO. I always thought that it was a lower calorie fruit because it's mostly water. But when I eat it I eat a lot of it.
  • Lindsey1985x
    Lindsey1985x Posts: 106 Member
    Well I must of had a super juicy watermelon because I do use a scale and I couldn't believe how many calories were in one cup (weighed out in grams) of diced watermelon. So many that I haven't purchased it again this summer because it's not worth the calories IMO. I always thought that it was a lower calorie fruit because it's mostly water. But when I eat it I eat a lot of it.

    Thank you. Now i dont feel like so much of a retard.. :)
    i'll weigh it out tonight but i still think i'll avoid it in future!!
  • lorettasnewbeginning
    lorettasnewbeginning Posts: 136
    Going to get my watermelon out of the fridge now....
  • tincanonastring
    tincanonastring Posts: 3,944 Member
    I know I say this about 300 times a day, but



    Kitchen scale.

    Agreed. Changed my whole perspective.
  • justal313
    justal313 Posts: 1,375 Member
    Health Benefits of Watermelon
    Watermelon is not only delicious, but extremely healthy, as well.

    In fact, most melons are rich in potassium, a nutrient that may help control blood pressure, regulate heart beat, and possibly prevent strokes. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines state that a potassium-rich diet helps keep salt from raising blood pressure and may also reduce the risk of developing kidney stones and possibly age-related bone loss. The guidelines encourage adults to consume 4,700 milligrams per day (while keeping sodium to less than 2,300 milligrams per day, which is one teaspoon of salt).
    WATERMELON
    Watermelon has lycopene, which can
    help reduce the risk of several cancers.
    Melons are also abundant in vitamin C, one arm of the now-famous disease-fighting antioxidant trio. Another arm that's well represented is beta-carotene.

    Researchers believe that beta-carotene and vitamin C are capable of preventing heart disease, cancer, and other chronic conditions. No matter which way you cut them, when it comes to nutrition, melons are number one.

    Watermelon is a valuable source of lycopene, one of the carotenoids that have actually been studied in humans. Research indicates that lycopene is helpful in reducing the risk of prostate, breast, and endometrial cancers, as well as lung and colon cancer.

    Whether you choose watermelons for their health benefits or simply for their good flavor, they can be an excellent snack, summer dish -- or gardening project.

    Nutritional Values of Watermelon
    Serving Size: 1 cup
    Calories 46
    Fat 0 g
    Cholesterol 0 g
    Carbohydrate 11 g
    Protein 1 g
    Dietary Fiber 1 g
    Sodium 2 mg
    Vitamin A 865 IU
    Niacin <1 mg
    Pantothenic Acid <1 mg
    Thiamin
    <1 mg
    Vitamin B6 <1 mg
    Vitamin C 12 mg
    Calcium 11 mg
    Magnesium 15 mg
    Potassium 170 mg
    Carotenoids 7,481 micrograms

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