Shockingly bad foods

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  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
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    Ha ha, musta been deep dish! Yum.

    I'm always surprised by the calorie content of burgers at sit down restaurants. They go from 700 to like 1600 depending on where you eat.
  • upscalelifedownscalebutt
    upscalelifedownscalebutt Posts: 90 Member
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    Iced caps. I make them at home all the time, then I had one from Tim Hortons, came home, checked it...it was 600 calories! I didn't expect it to be low cal (it's covered in whipped cream) but I wasn't expecting it to be 6 times my at home total either =p
  • mortuseon
    mortuseon Posts: 579 Member
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    I could cry at the calories in my favourite garlic and corriander nann bread. I still have it, but probably just a couple of times a month and not 2-3 times a week. I can get so much other food for the same amount of calories, but I won't cut it out all together.

    Might be worth trying to make your own lower-calorie version...?
  • Phoenix_Warrior
    Phoenix_Warrior Posts: 1,633 Member
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    Virtually everything yummy at starbucks has a wack of sugar and hundreds and hundreds of liquid calories.

    But the proteins!! Venti skinny mocha latte is like 180 calories for 18g of proteins. .. yes plz!! :D
  • mortuseon
    mortuseon Posts: 579 Member
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    Virtually everything yummy at starbucks has a wack of sugar and hundreds and hundreds of liquid calories.

    But the proteins!! Venti skinny mocha latte is like 180 calories for 18g of proteins. .. yes plz!! :D

    Really?! You've made me feel a hell of a lot better about the occasional Starbucks.
  • JakiDee
    JakiDee Posts: 43 Member
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    theres no such thing as bad food, just people who eat badly.
    This!!!!!
  • Phoenix_Warrior
    Phoenix_Warrior Posts: 1,633 Member
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    Virtually everything yummy at starbucks has a wack of sugar and hundreds and hundreds of liquid calories.

    But the proteins!! Venti skinny mocha latte is like 180 calories for 18g of proteins. .. yes plz!! :D

    Really?! You've made me feel a hell of a lot better about the occasional Starbucks.

    Yep! And to me, the skinny versions taste pretty awesome!
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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    Pineapple. I grabbed about 6 rings in the chow hall at breakfast, figuring it would be healthy enough. When I entered it in my diary I found those six rings put me over my sugar max for the entire day - over 45 g of sugar in one shot.

    Discovered strawberries are way better and actually have some fiber as well.

    pineapple has fibre in....

    Pineapple has 1 g fiber to 15g sugar. Strawberries have 3g fiber to 7g sugar. It was just a suprise to me.

    I would not worry about the sugar content of fruit...as long as you are in calorie deficit you will be fine..
  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
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    I had 12 hours of projectile unmentionable discomfort once from some shockingly bad chicken.
  • qtgonewild
    qtgonewild Posts: 1,930 Member
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    uno pizza is the bomb. YUM.
  • salladeve
    salladeve Posts: 1,053 Member
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    Granola is shockingly high in calories if you want to eat enough for breakfast to fill you up! One cup is usually over 200 calories, and I can eat 2 cups easily for breakfast.
  • mfoulkebrown
    mfoulkebrown Posts: 94 Member
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    This wasn't about calories, just portion size. When I first started losing weight, I was shocked that the recommended portion size for pasta was 2 ozs.!

    Another one that gets me is yogurt. That stuff can be really calorie heavy if you're not careful.
  • fitpam90x
    fitpam90x Posts: 197 Member
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    I was shocked at the calorie content of nut mixes. I knew nuts were high in calories but as someone who loved to have a handful of nuts on the go, it came as a shock to me how quickly it added up! (it's addicting as well!)

    Also bubble tea came as a shock to me, haha!
  • PescetarianPrincess
    PescetarianPrincess Posts: 37 Member
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    people that get salads at fast food restaurants with chicken or something on them.. just cause its a salad doesn't mean all the crap that is in it isn't the same as a burger.

    I'm sure I sound stupid, but I really don't understand. Is it the chicken in the salad that's bad? What is it that makes a fast food salad so terrible?
  • 3shirts
    3shirts Posts: 294 Member
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    That "no such thing as bad food" is a terrible cliché. Honestly I understand the sentiment but look at something like Pot Noodle. It's devoid of anything like nutrition and what about the OP's 600 calorie pizza slice. I fail to see a single situation where that would be anything but 'bad food'. It's crazy high calories and even someone that needed a lot of calories like an athlete or competition weight lifter wouldn't want the mass of saturated fat.
  • 3shirts
    3shirts Posts: 294 Member
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    people that get salads at fast food restaurants with chicken or something on them.. just cause its a salad doesn't mean all the crap that is in it isn't the same as a burger.

    I'm sure I sound stupid, but I really don't understand. Is it the chicken in the salad that's bad? What is it that makes a fast food salad so terrible?

    Generally, it's the dressing.
    The chicken is not usually cooked in a healthy way either but it's the dressing that's high in sugar and fat.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,708 Member
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    theres no such thing as bad food, just people who eat badly.
    This. Should be retitled "shockingly high calorie foods" instead.

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  • lithezebra
    lithezebra Posts: 3,670 Member
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    That "no such thing as bad food" is a terrible cliché. Honestly I understand the sentiment but look at something like Pot Noodle. It's devoid of anything like nutrition and what about the OP's 600 calorie pizza slice. I fail to see a single situation where that would be anything but 'bad food'. It's crazy high calories and even someone that needed a lot of calories like an athlete or competition weight lifter wouldn't want the mass of saturated fat.

    It isn't clear at all that saturated fat is a problem for health, beyond being high in calories. I think that the reason for the cliche is that there is a lot of conflicting information, and very few foods that are a direct cause of health problems, if they're eaten in moderation.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,741 Member
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    My mom baked some "Red Lobster" cheddar biscuits from a mix. They were rather small and didn't seem that awful. I haven't actually eaten at Red Lobster in years so I don't know if they really do taste like the ones in the restaurant. Anyway...I ate 1 1/2 and assumed them to be around 200 cal each, probably a bit closer to 160 was my estimate. Came home and logged it...over 300 calories in one little biscuit. And it was not even that good. I could have had something much more indulgent and yummy :-/
  • puffypants2013
    puffypants2013 Posts: 2 Member
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    Cashews. 320 calories in 1/4 cup. :cry:

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