How many calories did I eat?

ConnieT1030
ConnieT1030 Posts: 894 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
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Anyone want to help me guesstimate how many calories this was? (yikes I thought I reduced the size of the picture, but it's still huge!) My husband wanted Chinese after church, so this is what I got. To help, roughly counter clockwise, the plate includes snow peas, tempura battered chicken, bean sprouts, string beans (in margarine, I'd guess) beef from a beef & mushroom dish, honey chicken, sesame chicken, raw broccoli, Japanese chicken, fresh cucumber slices I sampled :blush: and an orange section. As a dessert I ate a (not pictured) piece of their "house special", yeast bread rolled in sugar, which is about the size of a large plum. (Or a tangerine, but I like plums better) :wink: It does look suspiciously like a small donut, but the bread itself isnt really sweet.

I am so at a loss for these things. Its not a chain so they dont post calories.
Obviously Im not going to know exactly, but wondered if I could get some estimates from people who have done this awhile. Usually I just make really large guesses in my log, but then I end up going hungry the rest of the day because Im afraid Im over. My current target is 1290 for 1 lb/week. (F, 5'3", 187 lb, 53 years, sedentary) Our lifestyle and my husband's preference currently include buffets periodically, so I really need to learn to estimate them. This particular place doesnt have a very well stocked "salad" section, so unlike some places where I stick to the salad bar, I have to make other choices here. Hopefully I did ok, I didnt have breakfast today, but I hope to eat a small meal later today.

thanks :smile:

eta: oops just realized I see something behind that piece of honey chicken, I had to think about it, almost forgot, :open_mouth: it was a buttered baked potato section.

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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    600?
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  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    602 >:)
  • ConnieT1030
    ConnieT1030 Posts: 894 Member
    wow you guys are fast :) Did I accidentally place this in the Price Is Right, with the bidding wars there? :smiley:
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    602.5
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  • ConnieT1030
    ConnieT1030 Posts: 894 Member
    Thats amazing, I expected guesses to vary quite a bit, but everyone seems to agree. You make it seem seem so easy, how do you do it?!
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    While not a chain, do use database entries for a chain for the items you got. Panda Express perhaps.

    Usually not too much variance within same type of dish (well within what the error of weight would cause as an effect) - so should give a rough figure. It's that weight estimate, unless you are good at it. Some people are or can get good. Others of us are doomed to needing stats.

    And this is why certain times of year are just about worthless for attempting to diet, expectations to be with family, eating out frequently, surprises at work, ect. Good time to go to maintenance mode and take break from diet actually.

    Just hold to some good patterns, don't keep throwing yourself into failure mode (might as well eat the whole box/tub/batch since I don't know), and hope to get through as unscathed as you can.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,117 Member
    ConnieT1030 wrote: »
    wow you guys are fast :) Did I accidentally place this in the Price Is Right, with the bidding wars there? :smiley:

    If it's Price is Right rules, and I'm going last, I'm going with 1 calorie, because I think everybody else may have overbid slightly.

    It's hard to tell without something for scale in the photo (next time you might want to lay a dollar bill on the table right next to the plate, and get it completely in the photo), but assuming the cucumber and orange weren't freak-of-nature county-fair prize winners, I'd think more in the 400-500 range.
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    ConnieT1030 wrote: »
    wow you guys are fast :) Did I accidentally place this in the Price Is Right, with the bidding wars there? :smiley:

    If it's Price is Right rules, and I'm going last, I'm going with 1 calorie, because I think everybody else may have overbid slightly.

    It's hard to tell without something for scale in the photo (next time you might want to lay a dollar bill on the table right next to the plate, and get it completely in the photo), but assuming the cucumber and orange weren't freak-of-nature county-fair prize winners, I'd think more in the 400-500 range.

    She had dessert though which is not in the photo.
  • ConnieT1030
    ConnieT1030 Posts: 894 Member
    Thats a good idea, heybales, checking a similar chain. It isn't really the time of year issue for me, though, this is a after-church and coming from periodic specialist appointments which are an hour's drive away. I try to go to subway when I can, but it's not my husband's preference.

    I considered the size scale, (but not at the restaurant!) but I figured the orange and cucumber should work, they are quite normal. You can also see the edge of the soup spoon. Its a normal dinner plate sized plate, not a small one, or extra large one. Im betting the 600 guesses are correct, considering all the chicken has sauce of some sort. Im assuming the guesses are without the house special dessert? Which is probably 100-150 by itself.
  • ConnieT1030
    ConnieT1030 Posts: 894 Member
    LOL and I hear ya with the 1 for Price is Right lolol :D
  • ConnieT1030
    ConnieT1030 Posts: 894 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    She had dessert though which is not in the photo.

    Ooh ok, so you guys were counting the bready thing? Imma go update my log then because I added a separate entry for that. :) I probably overestimated that, too. =P

  • LegacyLion
    LegacyLion Posts: 25 Member
    Six Hundred and three calories!
  • red99ryder
    red99ryder Posts: 399 Member
    Well if your like me it's always more than I think

    Good luck
  • ConnieT1030
    ConnieT1030 Posts: 894 Member
    red99ryder wrote: »
    Well if your like me it's always more than I think

    Good luck

    that's me too, I would estimate something, assume I was wrong and tack on a bunch more! lol This time I was really lost though. Now I have much better idea!

  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    The honey glaze and the tempura batter add calories to the chicken. I guess that each little 2 oz piece of chicken has 50 calories of chicken and 150 calories of sauce or batter. Maybe that's a high guess. I counted 6 of those pieces. With the potato, I counted the same thing, 200 calories after the potato and the butter are accounted for.
    I guess that the plate has 1600 calories.
  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    The honey glaze and the tempura batter add calories to the chicken. I guess that each little 2 oz piece of chicken has 50 calories of chicken and 150 calories of sauce or batter. Maybe that's a high guess. I counted 6 of those pieces. With the potato, I counted the same thing, 200 calories after the potato and the butter are accounted for.
    I guess that the plate has 1600 calories.

    No way.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    edited December 2016
    I'm going with 725. Please do let us know what you come up with! I want to spin the big wheel and hopefully win the showcase showdown.

    ETA: That looks delicious!
  • deluxmary2000
    deluxmary2000 Posts: 981 Member
    I would probably estimate 750 (600 for plate shown, plus 150 for dessert described).
  • ConnieT1030
    ConnieT1030 Posts: 894 Member
    edited December 2016
    1600 .. yikes! Im pretty sure I would be in big trouble that way, as I only get 1290 (1300 a couple days of the week, whats up with that?) I hope you usually go by what the package or database says, otherwise you might be starving yourself O.o
    Since there were like 6 votes for 600, (ok 5, I went back and counted) I went with that. I still ended up with cals left over today, plus I did some cardio, so no worries if it was a little off. It was tasty, but it wasn't nearly so filling I couldn't have eaten a lot more. :D
  • eIIekay
    eIIekay Posts: 166 Member
    i was going to say 3-400, not including the dessert....150 more for dessert
  • Susieq_1994
    Susieq_1994 Posts: 5,361 Member
    Another vote for around 600 :)
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,117 Member
    queenliz99 wrote: »
    lynn_glenmont wrote: »
    ConnieT1030 wrote: »
    wow you guys are fast :) Did I accidentally place this in the Price Is Right, with the bidding wars there? :smiley:

    If it's Price is Right rules, and I'm going last, I'm going with 1 calorie, because I think everybody else may have overbid slightly.

    It's hard to tell without something for scale in the photo (next time you might want to lay a dollar bill on the table right next to the plate, and get it completely in the photo), but assuming the cucumber and orange weren't freak-of-nature county-fair prize winners, I'd think more in the 400-500 range.

    She had dessert though which is not in the photo.

    Oh, that's right. I forgot all about the dessert. Probably another 200 to 300 calories there, depending on how large a plum or tangerine she's thinking of.
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