Food tracking revelations - Share your ZOMG moments

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  • AprilMae1975
    AprilMae1975 Posts: 726
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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-pancakes
  • UrbanLotus
    UrbanLotus Posts: 1,163 Member
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    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?
  • Raevyns
    Raevyns Posts: 91 Member
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    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.
  • Raevyns
    Raevyns Posts: 91 Member
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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-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.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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    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.
  • appifanie
    appifanie Posts: 95 Member
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    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.
  • Raevyns
    Raevyns Posts: 91 Member
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    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.

    Also:

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  • hzliiz
    hzliiz Posts: 166 Member
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    How tragically little a level tablespoon of peanut butter is and the calories in a fast food milkshake...egads!
  • Raevyns
    Raevyns Posts: 91 Member
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    Today's ZOMG moment: My favorite sushi, Unagi, is PACKED WITH CALORIES. 6 unagi nigiri was nearly 500 cals. POUT.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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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?
  • canadiangirl014
    canadiangirl014 Posts: 57 Member
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    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.
  • Raevyns
    Raevyns Posts: 91 Member
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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.
  • Raevyns
    Raevyns Posts: 91 Member
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    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.
  • clairedrose
    clairedrose Posts: 121 Member
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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.
  • treasured_one
    treasured_one Posts: 13 Member
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    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.
  • Raevyns
    Raevyns Posts: 91 Member
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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.

    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!
  • Raevyns
    Raevyns Posts: 91 Member
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    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.
  • RilantheFirebug
    RilantheFirebug Posts: 207 Member
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    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.
  • Vicki8524
    Vicki8524 Posts: 33
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    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.
  • KAS0917
    KAS0917 Posts: 172 Member
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    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.

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