How to count calories for sauce?

Seffell

collectingblues wrote: »

Live_life_well wrote: »

collectingblues wrote: »

Looking at your diary, you're eating 2000+ calories a day. You can't spare some sauce in there?

Not enough to want to trade something else for it. This isn't a big deal for me - was willing to do it if it was a freebie but if anything I need to make more space for my two loves - cookies and ice cream (haven't had much of them lately).

Well, then don't go on about how you don't have room in your deficit for it. You are making different choices in your deficit, but you could make it work if you wanted to. But you don't want to.

Dude, does the OP really need a strong argument why he doesn't want to eat the sauce? C'mon leave the man alone...
He asked for advise on how to log what he eats. /eyeroll

ladyhusker39

Live_life_well wrote: »

MegaMooseEsq wrote: »

Live_life_well wrote: »

I like to add a lot of sauce when slow cooking chicken breast (butter chicken sauce) but when it is cooked I make sure to wipe the sauce off of each chicken breast before eating.

Do I count 100% of the sauce, 50%, none? Worried if I count none that some of the calories in the suave are absorbed into the chicken breast.

I’d count 100%, but I wouldn’t wipe off the sauce either. Count it and enjoy it, and if you overestimate a little, it’ll come out in the wash.

That's not an option. I am on a deficit and don't want to go back to old ways.

Here's the flaw in your thought process. You've never left your old ways of thinking about food.

Your old ways as you call them are in reality that you have an unhealthy relationship with food, but you think the problem is that you eat too much. In fact, eating too much is a symptom of the problem that you have an unhealthy relationship with food.

In an admirable attempt to solve the problem you're only addressing the current symptom- eating too much. You're doing nothing to solve the actual problem - an unhealthy relationship with food. In fact, I would argue that you're re-enforcing the actual problem by replacing one symptom - eating too many calories - with it's opposite - obsessing over calories to the extent of wiping excess calories off food before you eat it.

Work the problem and not the symptoms and you'll be able to not only find sensible answers to your questions, but develop the skills to ask the questions that will really help you be successful in your goal especially over the long run when these symptoms can weight on us and cause discouragement and burnout resulting in giving up.

I hope that makes sense and maybe gives you something to consider in your quest to create a new and improved you.

(And I truly hope the rambling and confusing way I'm explaining it doesn't come across as unkind of disrespectful. Tone is hard to convey in writing, but I really do mean to just give you something to consider that might be helpful.)

Live_life_well

Boggles my mind how difficult some folks on these forums find it to stay on topic. My question was strictly about logging - for those going WAY off topic please know that not everyone cares to hear your answer on topics totally unrelated to the question at hand. This is a public forum though so feel free to proceed if you're more focused on hearing yourself speak than to answer the question at hand.

Thanks to those of you that focused on my question. I have my answer - I will just use this heavy calorie sauce on special occasions and will eat it all to make it easier in those off occasions. I made the slow cooker chicken breast recipe with just chicken broth and lime juice and it was surprisingly good!

Poisonedpawn78

Live_life_well wrote: »

Boggles my mind how difficult some folks on these forums find it to stay on topic.

Lets be fair here and admit that the second part of the first sentence of your OP shouldn't boggle anyone's mind that it would garner attention.