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Resturaunt Calories

leslienicole318
leslienicole318 Posts: 86 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
How accurate do you think Chili's calories are? I'm going out to eat at chili's and I've looked at their menu to decide what I want beforehand. I've decided on the fresh mex shrimp bowl and I think it was 850 calories according to the chili's website. How accurate do y'all think that is?

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  • fuzzylop72
    fuzzylop72 Posts: 651 Member
    edited January 2018
    Probably up to 20% or so off, since they're not weighing each component or anything like that. I don't worry about it too much.

    This 2011 paper attempted to provide some data on the subject
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4363942/
  • leslienicole318
    leslienicole318 Posts: 86 Member
    Thanks for your input! I figured it would be like packaged food accuracy. I should have about 170 calories left after dinner tonight so hopefully that will take care of any discrepancies
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    Agreed. I'd bet sometimes it's a bit more and sometimes less. After you've been logging for awhile you start to get a feel for estimating stuff like that. If a restaurant dish seems like too much food for the posted calories, or feels really heavy in my stomach after I eat, I'll log a TBL of butter or oil in addition jic. But over the course of my time here, I eat out once or twice a week, log the best I can, and it's all worked out :smile:
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