Do calories still exist if you don’t count them?

pancakerunner
pancakerunner Posts: 6,137 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Asking for a friend.
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  • LJRS2019
    LJRS2019 Posts: 66 Member
    Obviously
  • BuddhaBunnyFTW
    BuddhaBunnyFTW Posts: 157 Member
    I wish they didn't ha ha
  • LJRS2019
    LJRS2019 Posts: 66 Member
    BuddhaBunnyFTW wrote: »
    I wish they didn't ha ha

    🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
  • SuzySunshine99
    SuzySunshine99 Posts: 2,989 Member
    Depends on how much you enjoyed them.
  • VegjoyP
    VegjoyP Posts: 2,773 Member
    Samples are free...lol!

    Actually, when I really got honest and accurate and started counting every thing including " a taste" I could not believe how fast it adds up!
  • dewd2
    dewd2 Posts: 2,445 Member
    Do bears *kitten* in the woods (asking for a friend of a friend). :D
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    You may as well ask if your mortgage or rent obligation exists if you don't pay it, see how that works out for you.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,755 Member
    HeidiCooksSupper wrote: »
    You mean the calories don't fall out of a cookie when you break it in half? Bummer.

    Broken cookies and crackers and chips have no calories.

    Period.
  • Hooliekom
    Hooliekom Posts: 94 Member
    Nope. They are abstract calories, and as such they remain entirely theoretical.
  • Terytha
    Terytha Posts: 2,097 Member
    Nope. Uncounted calories, like imaginary numbers, are used only in theoretical recipes.

    As soon as you start eating theoretical foods though, they catch up on you. So be careful.
  • OHFlamingo
    OHFlamingo Posts: 239 Member
    My Grandson calls calories "delicious points". The more calories something has, the more delicious it will be!
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,189 Member
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    OHFlamingo wrote: »
    My Grandson calls calories "delicious points". The more calories something has, the more delicious it will be!

    Disclaimer: I appreciate this thread is lighthearted but...

    I couldn’t help feeling a little bit sad that the sentiment expressed here is paving the way for another generation to have issues with weight/food.

    I fundamentally disagree (and I’m sure this post will garner its share of disagrees, but to hell with that!)....some of the foods that make me sigh with pleasure and satisfaction are those with minimal calories - watermelon, strawberries, cucumber, apples, and most of all tomatoes!

    Minimal, few, low calories yes. Zero calories NO. They do exist and we can see them when we look at ourselves in the mirror :#
  • corinasue1143
    corinasue1143 Posts: 7,460 Member
    Uncounted calories are noted as “Ate it all”, then quickly forgotten.
  • james_keegan63
    james_keegan63 Posts: 5 Member
    deputy_randolph wrote: »
    The food I steal from my husband's plate has no calories...just sayin'.

    Just like the calories in that last bite that my wife can't finish!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,540 Member
    I've always argued that (only) charity calories don't count, such as the cookies from the school bake sale to buy more books for the school library, or the dinner that benefits the homeless shelter.

    It's a lie, but a convenient one.

    In truth, every single calorie is either spent, or saved up for later (usually somewhere around my hips), or so many decades of sad experience suggest.

    You like stirring the pot, don't you, OP? :lol:
  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
    BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »
    OHFlamingo wrote: »
    My Grandson calls calories "delicious points". The more calories something has, the more delicious it will be!

    Disclaimer: I appreciate this thread is lighthearted but...

    I couldn’t help feeling a little bit sad that the sentiment expressed here is paving the way for another generation to have issues with weight/food.

    I fundamentally disagree (and I’m sure this post will garner its share of disagrees, but to hell with that!)....some of the foods that make me sigh with pleasure and satisfaction are those with minimal calories - watermelon, strawberries, cucumber, apples, and most of all tomatoes!

    I think social media has been doing that for decades. :(
    This thread is all in fun. I think? ;)
  • slimgirljo15
    slimgirljo15 Posts: 269,456 Member
    moonangel12 wrote: »
    Sooooo... anyone else have those moments of glancing at your diary thinking “sweet! Calories to spare! Let’s have a snack!” Only to remember the Thing you had earlier and forgot to log AFTER eating said snack? :lol:

    Yep 😄 But then I add it to the next day 😔
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    NovusDies wrote: »
    Uncounted calories die and are reincarnated as fat.

    The real answer is that if you didn't count calories for an entire day but counted every other day fairly precisely for a year the uncounted calories would likely disappear into the margin of error.

    Yup, maintaining since 2015 and this is exactly what has happened to me.

    I do a rough count of my 2-3 days a year where I go really high calorie (it's usually related to a holiday or special event that would make accurate logging more challenging), but it's just because I like to have some approximation of data. In reality, your body is responding to what you're doing with the majority of your days -- not the days that are unusual.

    Our calories in are always going to be an estimate and we're always going to have a margin of error. A day that is much higher or lower than usual isn't going to be significant when it comes to long-term weight trends.
  • dsc84
    dsc84 Posts: 208 Member
    Jruzer wrote: »
    I figure that the extra bites and nibbles I don't count are cancelled out by the morsels I give my dog. I cannot be dissuaded from this opinion.

    I like the way you think!

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