Food tracking revelations - Share your ZOMG moments
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I've tried the turkey jerky it's really tasty- lots of protein for the calories. UNfortunately, didn't realize the wheat in the flavoring, and I'm celiac. Still searching for a GF alternative0
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Tonight's zomg moment: Spices and herbs have calories. Craaaaaaaap.
No way? Surely it can't be much?
Oh fruit calories got me too. I love peaches, but one peach is like 70 calories. Ouch. And I go over my carb intake pretty much every day because of them.
Honestly the biggest shock for me when I started tracking food is that my highest weight was 213 lbs, and not 300.0 -
Dates. I've never been a huge date person as they are to sweet for me usually, but I'd use them if I wanted to bake something and never realized just how high in calories they are.
Also peanut butter.
Anytime you want a sweet date you just let me know!
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Moment number four: how many calories there are in cheese, and how much I was actually eating it. I thought I was eating healthy breakfasts when I started logging, eating wholegrain bread with cheese and the juice already mentioned. But it turned out, I would put a slice of cheese on a slice of bread, and then snack at least two slices of cheese while waiting for my next slice of bread to come out of the toaster. If I remember correctly, my "original" breakfast was more than 600kcals, and I've cut it down to 400 now. Then I'd repeat the two slices of bread with cheese - meal, complete with snacking, again after school in the afternoon (I was a senior in high school), and then at night before going to bed.
Oh jeez I had this moment with cheese yesterday, I had been in denial. I'm so sad about it.0 -
No way? Surely it can't be much?
Oh fruit calories got me too. I love peaches, but one peach is like 70 calories. Ouch. And I go over my carb intake pretty much every day because of them.
Spice calories aren't all that much, but they aren't negligible, especially when you use them in the quantities that I do. 30-16 calories per recipe. Poo. Poo, I say.0 -
Most sadly is the pasta portions. I have to have less than half of what I used to eat if I want to stay within my calories. Now I eat pasta as a side with a lean protein like a piece of breast chicken, making the meal less calories as a whole.
After reading everyone posting about pasta portion sizes being so wee, I decided to break out the measuring yesterday when I made pasta and shrimp with garlic scape pesto for dindins.
...Let's just say I really had shrimp with garlic scape pesto and the pasta was kind of a vague hallucination that was gone before I sat down.0 -
Sodium got me too. I still have some salami in the fridge... love salami, but it's going to eat up most of my sodium limit for the day!
I will eat veg and water all day just to have my salami. I ADORE SALAMI.0 -
1.The first time I measured out 30g of my favourite muesli. I stared at it, thinking it couldn't be true. Barely enough for a mouse!
2. Recording my tipples of wine. Turns out, more than just tipples. Must have been bathing in the stuff.
3. Okay, on a smaller note, but 90 calories in a pear? Who knew!
I've measured out my wine and calorie-wise the half bottle I have when I split one with my boyfriend usually isn't that bad. I tend to be very specific about the varietal though. Some wines are more dense or sweet and therefore more calorie rich.0 -
My ZOMG moments;
PORTIONS - I was eating 3x that with almost everything I put in mouth, truly unbelievable. :noway: No wonder why I'm overweight and not losing. DUH!!
SUGAR - It's in everything....IMO, it is impossible to control (Although, I am making small changes) I am always over. :sad:
SODIUM - Same as sugar, it's in everything. :grumble:
WATER - I don't drink enough of it. (Well, I do now) :bigsmile:
Crazy stuff! Thanks for posting, I have learned a great deal today. :flowerforyou:
All of these revelations, I have had them! I'm still mid portion-size revelation though. I don't want to accept how tiny an actual portion is. I get hungry just thinking about it.
You're welcome! I'm loving this thread a lot, glad everyone else is too! :bigsmile:0 -
Dates. I've never been a huge date person as they are to sweet for me usually, but I'd use them if I wanted to bake something and never realized just how high in calories they are.
Also peanut butter.
Anytime you want a sweet date you just let me know!
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Harvest Grain and nut pancakes from IHOP.....don't let the name trick you!! To think I used to eat a stack plus eggs, bacon and hashbrowns!!!!!
http://www.ihop.com/menus/main-menu/pancakes/harvest-grain-and-nut-pancakes0 -
Most sadly is the pasta portions. I have to have less than half of what I used to eat if I want to stay within my calories. Now I eat pasta as a side with a lean protein like a piece of breast chicken, making the meal less calories as a whole.
After reading everyone posting about pasta portion sizes being so wee, I decided to break out the measuring yesterday when I made pasta and shrimp with garlic scape pesto for dindins.
...Let's just say I really had shrimp with garlic scape pesto and the pasta was kind of a vague hallucination that was gone before I sat down.
How have you been tracking things without measuring/weighing?0 -
How have you been tracking things without measuring/weighing?
Eyeballing it.
I've been cooking and baking my whole life and very nearly went down the path of becoming a professional chef. I can easily figure a tbsp, tsp, and the varied cup measures. What flummoxes me is dry weight. I can grok liquid oz, and oz in regards to a serving of meat but dry things like pasta? It just doesn't parse. So I guesstimated pasta/rice/grains if measuring by weight.
Thankfully I'm not a huge pasta person, but still, revelation.0 -
Harvest Grain and nut pancakes from IHOP.....don't let the name trick you!! To think I used to eat a stack plus eggs, bacon and hashbrowns!!!!!
http://www.ihop.com/menus/main-menu/pancakes/harvest-grain-and-nut-pancakes
You know what I forget when logging stuff from restaurants? Extras. Like my sammich toppings for Subway stuff. And the extra pancakes you get with your meal at IHOP. Oops.
Sneaky calorieses.0 -
Meh those pancakes could be worse. It's 681 calories for 3 (yeah, I was curious, had to look it up). I was expecting 1000 or something, lol!
Really just check restaurant menus if you want a heart attack. That Godiva cheesecake I got at the Cheesecake Factory 8 months ago... 900 calories a piece. Those cute little dessert shooters from Applebee's... 370 to 470 calories. It's just crazy.0 -
Raevyns - You use pinkie pie pics! I like you.
ZOMG moments. I make these healthy smoothies that were low points on WW but are pretty high calorically. I'm not super bummed, b/c it's mostly fruit, but it's still kind of shocking. Soy milk, bananas, some other kind of fruit, vanilla rice protein, psyllium powder - 400 calories or a lil more! Darn you bananas.
Banana chips. I love Trader Joe's banana chips but a tiny serving is 160 cals. Geez.0 -
Raevyns - You use pinkie pie pics! I like you.
ZOMG moments. I make these healthy smoothies that were low points on WW but are pretty high calorically. I'm not super bummed, b/c it's mostly fruit, but it's still kind of shocking. Soy milk, bananas, some other kind of fruit, vanilla rice protein, psyllium powder - 400 calories or a lil more! Darn you bananas.
Banana chips. I love Trader Joe's banana chips but a tiny serving is 160 cals. Geez.
Bananas, man.
I make smoothies too. I tend not to be hard on myself if I go over my caloric limits but I've done so because of fruit/veggies. Because health. I figure that if I've gone over calories with fruit or veg it's a good thing.
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How tragically little a level tablespoon of peanut butter is and the calories in a fast food milkshake...egads!0
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Today's ZOMG moment: My favorite sushi, Unagi, is PACKED WITH CALORIES. 6 unagi nigiri was nearly 500 cals. POUT.0
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Today's ZOMG moment: My favorite sushi, Unagi, is PACKED WITH CALORIES. 6 unagi nigiri was nearly 500 cals. POUT.
That seems like a lot! Might be the sauce they put on them?0 -
I'm relatively new to MFP, just joined this week and I've had several ZOMG moments this week by logging in food and checking the stats on other items I think I might have. Latest though was my Chinese food dinner - had company over, ordered Chinese and ZOMG!! I was over everything for the day - calories, sodium etc. And I didn't even eat as much as I would have if I wasn't logging in my foods and trying to control my portion sizes.0
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That seems like a lot! Might be the sauce they put on them?
It HAS to be! Such delicious eels. I will miss them.0 -
I'm relatively new to MFP, just joined this week and I've had several ZOMG moments this week by logging in food and checking the stats on other items I think I might have. Latest though was my Chinese food dinner - had company over, ordered Chinese and ZOMG!! I was over everything for the day - calories, sodium etc. And I didn't even eat as much as I would have if I wasn't logging in my foods and trying to control my portion sizes.
Isn't it madness? Tracking really clarifies things. For better or for worse.0 -
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thought that grazing on what I believed to be healthy food was supposed to be good for my metabolism. WRONG. I was just hoovering calories, salt and starch. Constantly. Hooooovering them u
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Lol.."hoovering" cracked me up! Lots of revelations for me. Way too much cheese, bread, carbs. Too much added sugar. from surprising places. Too little protein.0 -
Quick... that chocolate powdered stuff! I don't like plain milk at all, so I would always throw 3 or 4 good spoonfuls of the stuff into it...
First day I logged that was also the last day!
Now I drink chocolate almond milk. Still too much sugar, but the calories are easier to handle.0 -
Lol.."hoovering" cracked me up! Lots of revelations for me. Way too much cheese, bread, carbs. Too much added sugar. from surprising places. Too little protein.
Hoooooooovering!
You know what's funny? Until I started tracking my noms, I thought I had a sweet tooth. Then I saw all of the salt and fat and protein and not all that much sugar.
Tricked myself, I did!0 -
Pleasant ZOMG moment: The strawberry-mint margarita I just made is relatively low calorie even though I muddled the strawberries and mint in sugar.
I'm beginning to suspect that processed food and restaurant food are the true calorie culprits.0 -
SALADS.
Mostly eating out. I'd be like 'oh, well clearly this is an ok choice'. NOPE. Ugh. A lot of times you'd get less calories with a burger and fries than a salad! Something is wrong with that.0 -
Twizzlers! Fast food shakes (insane!). Cereal portion sizes. Panera mac n cheese. Wendy's.
And most of all my grazing habits. I would make a grilled cheese and while it was cooking, eat at least 2 pieces of cheese. I would eat while I was making meals. And then snack in between meals.
MFP has been so eye opening and counting calories changed my life.0 -
Like most others, portion size, when I started measuring, was my biggest eye opener.
Especially: peanut butter, cereal and pasta. I could easily eat at least 3/4 a box of Velveeta Shells & Cheese. Granted, I have them about 2x a year, but still!
Ironically I found that I also underestimated sometimes. I would say I had a 1/2 cup of mashed potatoes, but when you actually measure them out, a 1/2 cup is a lot! I was probably only having 1/4 cup.
As far as straight calories, margaritas! Wow! I mean, I knew they had no nutritional value, and didn't think they were a health food, but WOW are they high in calories. I tend to just stick to wine these days.0
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