Biggest logging shock?

suerlewis2

Morning All

I'm new here and am logging over the holidays before I start my lifestyle changes, to have a record of just how awful I treat my body at the moment, and of course identify the real "hot-spots." I promised to be brutally honest. Oh boy.

After just one day - my very first day - there is no longer any mystery of why I am over-weight!

I knew it would be bad, but it was almost comical HOW bad.

So I'm curious - what was your biggest logging shocker? No need to be specific if you don't feel comfortable - and of course please post the positive ones too !

I'll start.

Yesterday, I consumed more than 2000 calories OVER my goal. The only number not in the red was protein. WOW. Very motivational.

Machka9

Pears, nuts, and breakfast cereal were all higher than I expected.

JaydedMiss

peanut butter.

SmeagolsBane

My first day I made my 500 calorie deficit with ease, and the second day wasn’t very hard and I started wondering why I wasn’t losing weight. Then the third day of logging happened and there was a bacon ranch pasta salad that I loved to eat. In the past I’d have several plates of the stuff. Well before eating it I tracked it and learned that 1/2 a cup was 350 calories. When you multiply that by 15 more servings it was pretty clear how I was putting the weight on.

rheddmobile

Nuts and cheese were my big surprises. I used to snack on "healthy" nuts all the time, about 1000 calories a day worth. And finding out how many calories worth of olive oil I used was saddening.

I'm a diabetic and learning how many carbs were in pasta was pretty sorrowful too! And karo pecan pie.

rmitchel05

How many calories your not logging unintentionally. I used to manually enter ingredients instead of scanning barcodes. You miss a lot. Was wondering why I wasn't losing weight even though I was accounting for everything. I started doing meal prep and cooking once a week for the whole week. Now I'm down 50lbs. Logging works.

88olds

A casual chain restaurant salad came it at 1000 cals. My big shock was realizing how many 3000-4000+ calorie day’s I had probably put in.

gogetemrogue

When I started weighing my peanut butter I realized that my preferred style of PBJ comes to over 1000 calories. I really love peanut butter...

suerlewis2

I don't normally have a sweet tooth, never really eat sweets, chocolate is an occasional treat, no cakes, biscuits etc. And thank goodness! Yesterday I ate a cookie. It was a nice cookie, quite a big cookie, but I fell into the "lets just use it up and get rid of it, last one in the packet" trap.

Fortunately, the particular brand / type of cookie was right there in the food list - so bang - in it goes to my log.

My friends I am shamed to say, that one cookie had 334 calories in it. THAT'S A WHOLE MEAL!

lucerorojo

Lots of shockers. The latest was olives.

Pocket__Cthulhu

I love macaroni and cheese. I went to either Margaritaville or Hard Rock Cafe (Can't remember which, they're the same restaurant for the most part) and ordered a SIDE of Mac and Cheese. When I logged it, just the side was well over half my daily intake. We're talking over 1000 calories for a SIDE.

wizzybeth

For me the biggest shocker was what an actual, accurately weighed portion actually looks like.

JeromeBarry1

I've been logging quite well for 2 years and just this week had an 'aha' moment about logging.

Here's how it happened. I found an old recipe from my long dead mother, and cooked it for Christmas. As I cooked, I did not weigh anything. When I logged, I used a generic database entry which seemed to be about right for calories and macros.

Afterward, I used the recipe calculator to create a recipe of the dish which I could use later to get my calories really accurate. Even so, my recipe calculator results tell me that my recipe was half the calories I logged. Half? I was being as precise as I could image being when I created the recipe using exactly as much as the ingredients weigh. I can weigh a cup of sugar. I can weigh an egg. I know how much I put in. Still something's wrong about my memory logging, and I've been bumfuzzled about it.

That I can be so experienced and so careful, and still so wrong, is a shock. This reinforces that I must weigh everything at the time of using it, as something about my memory and my assumptions is off, and I don't yet know what it is.

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LEdmonds2016

My biggest shocker were salads. I thought that because it's a salad, it must be healthy.. and then I started weighing and logging what actually went into the salad. I could easily eat my allotted calories for the day in one salad. That still just blows my mind.

AuthorNinja

Heckin sonic java chiller, the mini 10 oz size. 580 calories, I think. The day I had it was just a treat, but my god, I was better off with an ice cream cone

azironasun

After a while, I find myself dissecting everything I eat. How many calories? Does it fit my macros?

Even going out to eat, I was at a popular chain restaurant and ordered the wings. Their website said 900 calories. But when they arrived, there was 8 grilled wings with half a cup of ranch dressing on the side. More than half of the item's calories was the ranch dressing, which I skipped.

The more you learn, the easier it gets.

Aplant77

Going out to eat - it's amazing the amount of calories restaurants feed you. I think I lost most of my weight just by cutting back my eating out. And desserts! I find they aren't as appetizing now that I know how many calories are in a slice of cake or pie.

DebLaBounty

Nuts. A single serving of cashews is a mere 10 nuts for 150 calories. I used to eat them by the handful because they are a healthy food.

Iwantahealthierme30

Mangos - 210 cals, they are so good but not worth the calories for me

katytreadwell

Fruit! I used to eat a metric ton of it on a daily basis - ya know, being healthy and all that. We’re talking 2-3 large bananas, a whole punnet of grapes, 3/4 oranges, a large avocado and lots of little cherry Tomatos to snack on. Amazing how many calories that all is in one day!!!! It was a lesson that’s for sure

newheavensearth

That I can go to the movies, eat the small popcorn, candy, and have half a soda and still be in my goal at the end of the day.

It was possible because I planned a light breakfast and dinner afterwards. Totally doable.

JacklynSullivan

Alcohol - you don't really realize how much is in each drink and it's very easy to have several in one evening!

arnoldchristopher

As always, the truth between what I thought I was eating (both in size of meals and caloric content). Once I honestly tracked a few weeks, it was plainly (and painfully) obvious where my efforts at changing my lifestyle needed to be.

yaddakadu

Everything is so loaded with salt and sugar. It was so off putting to see the crazy amounts of salt and sugar I was ingesting.

dutchandkiwi

Bread. I love the stuff but it is calorie dense. I cut back on it but never gave it up, but eating half a fresh bread is not happening unless planned

crazykatlady820

At Thanksgiving my family always wants me to make Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake. I put the recipe into the recipe builder and nearly died when I saw the calories per serving. I mean... I should have figured because there are a billion sticks of butter in it, but I've been making it for so long that I just didn't think about it.

On the opposite end, I was also shocked by how few calories are in my homemade chili. Chili is my favorite and I'm glad I can easily fit my two bowls into my calories when I make it.

nowine4me

One stupid pop-tart is a serving, not 2 like they are packaged.

RacheLoko

The biggest shock was seeing how out of whack my macros were before logging properly

erbear117

Alcohol. A glass and a half of wine = a meal.
After a 10 hour work day, it seems I have to choose between dinner or a glass of wine. Thankfully I don't drink that much.

jesspen91

Alcohol was definitely one for me especially my beloved craft beers