Whoa- I had no idea there were that many calories in X. Foods to avoid.
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RelCanonical wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »bobsanders1 wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »
Good to know, thanks.bobsanders1 wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »bobsanders1 wrote: »bobsanders1 wrote: »kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »smallerthanyesterday95 wrote: »Peanut butter/nut butters 😭
Am I the only one who thinks that peanut butter isn't really all that high calorie?
Some peanut butters/nut butters are 170-180 calories & I'll usually have 1.5 servings & find that's more than enough for a rice cake or to eat on its own.
I have a weird relationship with peanut butter. When I weigh out a portion and stick to it I find it is plenty and as you say not really that bad calorie wise. But if I throw caution to the wind and just mindlessly scoop PB onto bread or into a smoothie or god forbid grab the jar and a spoon, I could easily eat 1,000 calories of it in no time.
For me PB and dry cereal were shockers. Not for the # of calories per serving, but for how much more than a serving I thought was a serving! Both are foods I don't go near without a food scale.
Just curious, are you a nutritionist?
Nope.
That's what I figured, thanks.
Do you have some insight that she may be missing? Curious.
nope
I also don't have 10,000 posts spewing nonsense like its fact.
When you get to 10,000 posts, you can spew nonsense too. Hurry.
It feels A M A Z I N G!
Imagine what you'll get to spew when you hit 20k!!!
I am imagining my gradual decline into snark, memes, and then eventual keyboard-slapping-as-reaction the closer I get to the magical 5-digits.
That's a fair assessment
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RelCanonical wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »bobsanders1 wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »
Good to know, thanks.bobsanders1 wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »bobsanders1 wrote: »
@pinuplovebobsanders1 wrote: »kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »smallerthanyesterday95 wrote: »Peanut butter/nut butters 😭
Am I the only one who thinks that peanut butter isn't really all that high calorie?
Some peanut butters/nut butters are 170-180 calories & I'll usually have 1.5 servings & find that's more than enough for a rice cake or to eat on its own.
I have a weird relationship with peanut butter. When I weigh out a portion and stick to it I find it is plenty and as you say not really that bad calorie wise. But if I throw caution to the wind and just mindlessly scoop PB onto bread or into a smoothie or god forbid grab the jar and a spoon, I could easily eat 1,000 calories of it in no time.
For me PB and dry cereal were shockers. Not for the # of calories per serving, but for how much more than a serving I thought was a serving! Both are foods I don't go near without a food scale.
Just curious, are you a nutritionist?
Nope.
That's what I figured, thanks.
Do you have some insight that she may be missing? Curious.
nope
I also don't have 10,000 posts spewing nonsense like its fact.
When you get to 10,000 posts, you can spew nonsense too. Hurry.
It feels A M A Z I N G!
Imagine what you'll get to spew when you hit 20k!!!
I am imagining my gradual decline into snark, memes, and then eventual keyboard-slapping-as-reaction the closer I get to the magical 5-digits.
That's a fair assessment
Oh, I'm sure you were snarky from day 1.4 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »RelCanonical wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »bobsanders1 wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »
Good to know, thanks.bobsanders1 wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »bobsanders1 wrote: »
@pinuplovebobsanders1 wrote: »kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »smallerthanyesterday95 wrote: »Peanut butter/nut butters 😭
Am I the only one who thinks that peanut butter isn't really all that high calorie?
Some peanut butters/nut butters are 170-180 calories & I'll usually have 1.5 servings & find that's more than enough for a rice cake or to eat on its own.
I have a weird relationship with peanut butter. When I weigh out a portion and stick to it I find it is plenty and as you say not really that bad calorie wise. But if I throw caution to the wind and just mindlessly scoop PB onto bread or into a smoothie or god forbid grab the jar and a spoon, I could easily eat 1,000 calories of it in no time.
For me PB and dry cereal were shockers. Not for the # of calories per serving, but for how much more than a serving I thought was a serving! Both are foods I don't go near without a food scale.
Just curious, are you a nutritionist?
Nope.
That's what I figured, thanks.
Do you have some insight that she may be missing? Curious.
nope
I also don't have 10,000 posts spewing nonsense like its fact.
When you get to 10,000 posts, you can spew nonsense too. Hurry.
It feels A M A Z I N G!
Imagine what you'll get to spew when you hit 20k!!!
I am imagining my gradual decline into snark, memes, and then eventual keyboard-slapping-as-reaction the closer I get to the magical 5-digits.
That's a fair assessment
Oh, I'm sure you were snarky from day 1.
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Tacklewasher wrote: »RelCanonical wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »bobsanders1 wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »
Good to know, thanks.bobsanders1 wrote: »L1zardQueen wrote: »bobsanders1 wrote: »
@pinuplovebobsanders1 wrote: »kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »smallerthanyesterday95 wrote: »Peanut butter/nut butters 😭
Am I the only one who thinks that peanut butter isn't really all that high calorie?
Some peanut butters/nut butters are 170-180 calories & I'll usually have 1.5 servings & find that's more than enough for a rice cake or to eat on its own.
I have a weird relationship with peanut butter. When I weigh out a portion and stick to it I find it is plenty and as you say not really that bad calorie wise. But if I throw caution to the wind and just mindlessly scoop PB onto bread or into a smoothie or god forbid grab the jar and a spoon, I could easily eat 1,000 calories of it in no time.
For me PB and dry cereal were shockers. Not for the # of calories per serving, but for how much more than a serving I thought was a serving! Both are foods I don't go near without a food scale.
Just curious, are you a nutritionist?
Nope.
That's what I figured, thanks.
Do you have some insight that she may be missing? Curious.
nope
I also don't have 10,000 posts spewing nonsense like its fact.
When you get to 10,000 posts, you can spew nonsense too. Hurry.
It feels A M A Z I N G!
Imagine what you'll get to spew when you hit 20k!!!
I am imagining my gradual decline into snark, memes, and then eventual keyboard-slapping-as-reaction the closer I get to the magical 5-digits.
That's a fair assessment
Oh, I'm sure you were snarky from day 1.
OK, that actually made me giggle :laugh:
@Tacklewasher I was still sweet and innocent back then!
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To (attempt) to get this thing back on track, I finally thought of something not worth the calories to me any more that I would be perfectly happy to never eat again. It will get me a lot of hate and woos. I just really don't like them enough to consider spending calories on them that could be put to better use elsewhere (like chocolate).Doughnuts.7
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There are no good or bad foods IMHO. If you would have asked me 2 years ago, I would have not agreed. Food, for me, are divided into things that either help me stay full and hit my targets, or don't. While I will not completely cut any food out of my diet, i do limit many. I tend not to have a stop button sometimes. After the amount of weight I lost and how rapidly I did it, not to mention how lean I am still, I tend to be hungry A LOT! By choosing lower energy dense, less palatable foods. I limit my chances of over eating. I cant quote the research right now, but there is some stating that over Hyperpalitable foods can stimulate appetite. Something I wish to avoid. That is all, soldier on.4
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Potato chips are my nemesis especially the jalapeño flavored ones. I cannot buy them, nope.6
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To (attempt) to get this thing back on track, I finally thought of something not worth the calories to me any more that I would be perfectly happy to never eat again. It will get me a lot of hate and woos. I just really don't like them enough to consider spending calories on them that could be put to better use elsewhere (like chocolate).Doughnuts.
I actually really agree with you here. They almost always taste stale to me. There are way more baked or fried sweets that I'd rather have.2 -
To (attempt) to get this thing back on track, I finally thought of something not worth the calories to me any more that I would be perfectly happy to never eat again. It will get me a lot of hate and woos. I just really don't like them enough to consider spending calories on them that could be put to better use elsewhere (like chocolate).Doughnuts.
I'm on the fence about this. I won't say no to one (I really wish I could tho) but they really aren't worth the calories. I've found a nice compromise with the Little Debbies donut sticks. 220 calories and they're the old fashioned buttermilk which is the one type of donut I will NEVER say no to.2 -
lalalacroix wrote: »To (attempt) to get this thing back on track, I finally thought of something not worth the calories to me any more that I would be perfectly happy to never eat again. It will get me a lot of hate and woos. I just really don't like them enough to consider spending calories on them that could be put to better use elsewhere (like chocolate).Doughnuts.
I actually really agree with you here. They almost always taste stale to me. There are way more baked or fried sweets that I'd rather have.
Hot, fresh from the oil British sea-side ring do-nuts though... I usually ask them to hold most of the added sugar though - that can get a bit much
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VanVanDiane wrote: »lalalacroix wrote: »To (attempt) to get this thing back on track, I finally thought of something not worth the calories to me any more that I would be perfectly happy to never eat again. It will get me a lot of hate and woos. I just really don't like them enough to consider spending calories on them that could be put to better use elsewhere (like chocolate).Doughnuts.
I actually really agree with you here. They almost always taste stale to me. There are way more baked or fried sweets that I'd rather have.
Hot, fresh from the oil British sea-side ring do-nuts though... I usually ask them to hold most of the added sugar though - that can get a bit much
Om nom nom :bigsmile:2 -
Has anyone else noticed this? We tend to be a food focused bunch. Huh...??3
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psychod787 wrote: »Has anyone else noticed this? We tend to be a food focused bunch. Huh...??
Haven’t noticed
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psychod787 wrote: »Has anyone else noticed this? We tend to be a food focused bunch. Huh...??
I mean, FOOD is right there in the sub-forum title
But food is an important component of my life above and beyond survival, anyway. It's a bit of a hobby. My husband and I enjoy shopping and cooking together. We watch TV shows and YouTube videos about cooking. We search out unique places to eat when we travel. Family social functions are very food-centric (quite common). Food is much more than fuel to me.6 -
psychod787 wrote: »Has anyone else noticed this? We tend to be a food focused bunch. Huh...??
I mean, FOOD is right there in the sub-forum title
But food is an important component of my life above and beyond survival, anyway. It's a bit of a hobby. My husband and I enjoy shopping and cook together. We watch TV shows and YouTube videos about cooking. We search out unique places to eat when we travel. Family social functions are very food-centric (quite common). Food is much more than fuel to me.
Food ie 90% fuel and 10% enjoy for me. There ate certain things I would have turned my nose up at some years ago, now I just love. Oh, and my pick for not worth it. Hot Pockets. Taste horrid l, full of calories for no satiety, and give me awful heart burn!2 -
To (attempt) to get this thing back on track, I finally thought of something not worth the calories to me any more that I would be perfectly happy to never eat again. It will get me a lot of hate and woos. I just really don't like them enough to consider spending calories on them that could be put to better use elsewhere (like chocolate).Doughnuts.
I'm on the fence about this. I won't say no to one (I really wish I could tho) but they really aren't worth the calories. I've found a nice compromise with the Little Debbies donut sticks. 220 calories and they're the old fashioned buttermilk which is the one type of donut I will NEVER say no to.
I think anything prepackaged would hold even higher disappointment for me. If I were to eat a doughnut, it would be a blueberry cake doughnut. But at that point, might as well have cake or a muffin!4 -
I’m really interested in my initial query. What foods surprised you. X0
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My heaping 1/3 cup of oatmeal before I cooked it. I got a food scale and weighed that whomping 1/3 cup and I was really surprised by how many calories I was actually eating.0
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Hot, fresh from the oil British sea-side ring do-nuts though... I usually ask them to hold most of the added sugar though - that can get a bit much
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These look fantastic but they do look high calorie wise. Were they even higher than you thought?
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I’m really interested in my initial query. What foods surprised you. X
For me, it would be restaurant foods more than anything. Trying to find a reasonably sized meal in a restaurant with a calorie amount that doesn't send me over is so difficult. It takes some serious planning, and eating very little for the rest of the day.2 -
Pizza shocked me the first time I heard about it years back. About 2500 kcals for a pepperoni pizza. I wouldn't necessarily have that topping, but I'd consume a whole large pizza. Still over 2k. Then you have the garlic bread, the breaded chicken strips, cookie dough with ice-cream and coke. Doesn't matter this was a now and then thing, that's A LOT of calories. (Didn't stop me from ordering it though
. Didn't care as much back then) 2 -
I would say nuts. I used to eat them all the time when I started to eat "clean and healthy" and wondered why I wasn't losing weight. Now unless I am trying to gain I rarely eat them, and it is so much easier to lose weight.5
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I’m really interested in my initial query. What foods surprised you. X
I can't think of any that were really surprising.
Muffins have way more than they should, but the place I used to buy muffins in the morning before work gives a calorie count. I used to sometimes get a Potbelly's turkey sandwich that was about 300 cal and pair it with a cookie that was around 450 cal, but the calories were there (I avoided looking) and it was a cookie.
Donuts -- which I agree are typically not worth the calories -- surprised me at how low they were (the boring Dunkin donuts ones, anyway). Ones from more high-end donut places here are often huge, so I would be sure they were tons of calories even if I didn't or couldn't check (the one donut I think is worth it is a fresh apple cider donut).
Granola is way higher than it should be, but I became aware of that ages ago. Tiny amounts of high fat things can be high in calories, but that seems logical to me (and would include many dips, salad dressings, nuts, cheese, cream sauce, heavy whipping cream, coconut milk in the can, anything fried).
The hard thing is not knowing the ingredients in some cases.
I guess maybe I was surprised at the huge difference between many leaner steaks (or lean ground beef) and something like prime rib, but it's not like I've quit prime rib or eat it much more often than Christmas.
Definitely restaurant foods (not main dishes, which I always assumed you had to add many more calories than you would for a similar dish at home, but more so the appetizers and some salads -- most restaurants I go to don't have calorie counts, but by analogy and thinking about ingredients).
Naan definitely disappointed me, and may well have surprised me in just HOW high it was. I still eat it, though -- as I may have said above, my Indian restaurant compromise is to go less often, combine with a heavy workout weekend (I used to go the evening before a half marathon regularly), and forget about trying to pick the lower cal things, but eat what I want. I like naan more than rice so will eat pretty small amounts of rice, however.2 -
Larkspur94 wrote: »Pizza shocked me the first time I heard about it years back. About 2500 kcals for a pepperoni pizza. I wouldn't necessarily have that topping, but I'd consume a whole large pizza. Still over 2k. Then you have the garlic bread, the breaded chicken strips, cookie dough with ice-cream and coke. Doesn't matter this was a now and then thing, that's A LOT of calories. (Didn't stop me from ordering it though . Didn't care as much back then)
I usually get thin crust at an Italian restaurant and doubt it's more than any other meal I'd get.
I was surprised at how LOW Lou Malnati's (Chicago style) was vs. what I would have assumed.
I mostly save Chicago style (higher because of all the cheese) for a couple times a year and Pequod's, however, and will be stuffed with 2 pieces (although I suspect there are a lot of calories in those pieces).
I don't like pepperoni and mainly like pizzas with lots of vegetables. There's a 'nduja one at a local place I like, however (it's one of those places where they give you scissors to cut the pizza). I usually prefer their black ink pasta, made fresh, to pizza, however.
I'm probably weird but I never have garlic bread with pizza and find it annoying when it's served with pasta since bread is IN pizza and basically the same as pasta, so it seems redundant. This is an attitude I've had since I was a kid, so not a weight loss related thing (I similarly always thought it was kind of weird to have rolls AND potatoes, although I'd have both at Thanksgiving and would get fries with a burger at a restaurant).
I suppose this is now morphing into unpopular opinions about food! ;-)4 -
You can buy the holes! It's a scam I tell ya! Like selling a puzzle with a piece missing!😏2 -
Donut holes are better than donuts (I actually doubt this is unpopular).2
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psychod787 wrote: »
You can buy the holes! It's a scam I tell ya! Like selling a puzzle with a piece missing!😏
Sure, but then offering to sell you that missing piece.2 -
nutmegoreo wrote: »psychod787 wrote: »
You can buy the holes! It's a scam I tell ya! Like selling a puzzle with a piece missing!😏
Sure, but then offering to sell you that missing piece.
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Ooh naan. I’m going to have to look that up.....1
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