Should I eat this?

mary190136
mary190136 Posts: 44 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am trying to lose weight. There are free bagels in my conference room. Should I have one? Does anyone know any nutritional info about a bagel that could help me make this important decision?
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  • janeite1990
    janeite1990 Posts: 671 Member
    White bread = sugar

    Look overall at your diet and food for the day and week. If you want it and it fits, sure. Otherwise, it won't help you any.
  • twixlepennie
    twixlepennie Posts: 1,074 Member
    take a few seconds and look it up under your food tracker and see if it fits in with what else you have planned today calorie wise.
  • bumblebreezy91
    bumblebreezy91 Posts: 520 Member
    There could be about 230 calories in the bagel without adding any condiments. If you have the calories for it, you can eat it. Would it be your breakfast or are you just tempted? If you've already eaten, maybe forgo the bagel and bring a snack next time so you're not tempted. You can eat it if you can fit it into the rest of your day, though.

    ETA; remember it's still pretty early in the day, so eating the bagel might mean giving something else up later. Find a bagel in the database under your food diary, any brand like Bagels Forever, and look for one with a higher calorie count. You're estimating the calories so you don't want to log it as 200 when it may be 250-300. I'd personally log it as the highest just to be safe. Yeah, I might be missing out on 50 extra calories, but I could just as easily be eating 50 extra, so I'd take my chances going higher.
  • nomeejerome
    nomeejerome Posts: 2,616 Member
    Does it fit into your day? Yes? Eat the bagel.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    I am trying to lose weight. There are free bagels in my conference room. Should I have one? Does anyone know any nutritional info about a bagel that could help me make this important decision?

    I'll bet the MFP database has the info you seek.
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    The average bagel is about 300 calories, the rest of the nutritional value would depend on what kind of bagel it is. You can search the MFP food database or google for info on the specific kind you choose.

    Ultimately, as long as it fits your calorie/macro goal (and assuming you have no medical limitations), eat whatever you want.
  • mary190136
    mary190136 Posts: 44 Member
    Wow! Thanks for your help. I've decided not to eat it. I'm having a 45-calorie rice cake instead.
  • kennie2
    kennie2 Posts: 1,170 Member
    free food doesn't have calories
    eat it!
  • thekeelbystamps
    thekeelbystamps Posts: 27 Member
    If its not in your allowance don't have one - just ask yourself what you want more the bagel or your weight loss plan to work? Its not free it costs calories!!!! :noway:
  • bumblebreezy91
    bumblebreezy91 Posts: 520 Member
    free food doesn't have calories
    eat it!

    :drinker:
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    White bread is not sugar.

    A typical bagel has 300-350 calories. If I were losing weight, I'd probably eat one and adjust the rest of my day to compensate.
  • Mother_Superior
    Mother_Superior Posts: 1,624 Member
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  • dirty_dirty_eater
    dirty_dirty_eater Posts: 574 Member
    Wow! Thanks for your help. I've decided not to eat it. I'm having a 45-calorie rice cake instead.

    A review of Rice Cakes by "The Honest Toddler"

    Food Review: Rice Cakes
    I had the opportunity to do this review last week. I asked for breakfast and she said, "It's 5AM why are you doing this" and put Rice Cake in my hand.

    Rice cakes are neither rice nor cake so the marketing is a lie. I have had cake on several occasions and know what it tastes like and how it makes me feel (great). Rice is soft, warm and falls through your fingers like big sand. Rice cakes do neither making me think they just picked the name out of a hat.

    Rice cakes are gluten free but that's obvious. They're also excitement free.

    Rice cakes get 1 point for being crunchy. Crunchy foods are important to toddlers because while we eat them it's impossible to hear certain people ask you the same questions over and over. Crunchy foods are the noise cancelling headphones of the toddler community. Instead of Beats by Dre we have Silence by Snacks.

    Rice cakes get negative 800 points for taste. The flavor of rice cakes is that of stagnant air. It reminds me of when I take a deep breath in a closet. I felt like I was eating someone else's sigh.

    I would like to propose some alternate names for this product:

    Starvation Disks
    Sadness Patties
    Hatred Circles

    Rice Cakes need butter but they don't deserve it.


    Rice Cake engineers have managed to make something taste like nothing and I applaud them for that but slap them at the same time because I'm still hungry. You would probably get more nutrients from someone burping in your face than from eating a Rice Cake.

    I feel malnutrition

    The main difference between eating Rice Cakes and paper is that paper usually has words so when you eat it you're also learning.

    My recommendation is that if someone gives you a Rice Cake you should ask them why they dislike you and want you to fail in life.

    ----

    Rice Cakes did not pay for this review- this is not a sponsored post and is my opinion. No money was exchanged.
    - See more at: http://www.thehonesttoddler.com/2014/01/food-review-rice-cakes.html#sthash.KW8eneDh.dpuf
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Sadness patties. That's great.
  • da_bears10089
    da_bears10089 Posts: 1,791 Member
    I'm pretty sure free food is actually negative calories...
  • 3laine75
    3laine75 Posts: 3,069 Member
    My onion bagel is 226cals, 42g carbs, 2g fat, 10g protein and 4g fibre if that helps in the decision making? :)
  • skullshank
    skullshank Posts: 4,323 Member
    Sadness patties. That's great.

    this.

    bagel > *that*

    bagels are not the debil. the day is young!....if you want a bagel, have it, and just make sure it fits into your cals/macros for the rest of the day. is there cream cheese too?!

    yours truly,
    hungry&bagel-less
  • mandikaye
    mandikaye Posts: 72 Member

    Rice Cakes need butter but they don't deserve it.


    Rice Cake engineers have managed to make something taste like nothing and I applaud them for that but slap them at the same time because I'm still hungry. You would probably get more nutrients from someone burping in your face than from eating a Rice Cake.

    I feel malnutrition

    The main difference between eating Rice Cakes and paper is that paper usually has words so when you eat it you're also learning.

    My recommendation is that if someone gives you a Rice Cake you should ask them why they dislike you and want you to fail in life.

    Am I the only one who actually LIKES rice cakes? Assuming they're covered in that wonderful fake cheese dust? Because then it's like eating cheese flavored cardboard. But who cares... because cheese flavored anything is an instant win.
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    I eat a bagel almost everyday! Why not?
  • cookiealbright
    cookiealbright Posts: 605 Member
    you could probably look up nutrition info on any food on this thing they call the internet... I think :huh:
  • jess135177
    jess135177 Posts: 186 Member
    Throw away the rice cake and have half a bagel...compromise!
  • jackpotclown
    jackpotclown Posts: 3,275 Member
    its_a_trap.gif \m/
  • brandi712
    brandi712 Posts: 407 Member

    Rice Cakes need butter but they don't deserve it.


    Rice Cake engineers have managed to make something taste like nothing and I applaud them for that but slap them at the same time because I'm still hungry. You would probably get more nutrients from someone burping in your face than from eating a Rice Cake.

    I feel malnutrition

    The main difference between eating Rice Cakes and paper is that paper usually has words so when you eat it you're also learning.

    My recommendation is that if someone gives you a Rice Cake you should ask them why they dislike you and want you to fail in life.

    Am I the only one who actually LIKES rice cakes? Assuming they're covered in that wonderful fake cheese dust? Because then it's like eating cheese flavored cardboard. But who cares... because cheese flavored anything is an instant win.

    No you are not. I love rice cakes. For me, it's all about the crunch. I don't even need the cheese ones....:happy:
  • jkwolly
    jkwolly Posts: 3,049 Member
    Does it fit into your day? Yes? Eat the bagel.
    This.
  • qtgonewild
    qtgonewild Posts: 1,930 Member
    rice cake or bagel ...... hard decision.... eat something to fill you up or eat something that will not fill up a 3 year old.

    Like the above poster said i suggest you eat half the bagel. at least. if not the whole thing.
  • Zekela
    Zekela Posts: 634 Member
    :don't eat that bagel girl!!! Send it over my way for me to 'dispose' of it :-)
  • SarahJains
    SarahJains Posts: 35 Member
    If you can fit it into your daily calorie budget then yes. EAT IT lol
  • AmyP619
    AmyP619 Posts: 1,137 Member
    Eat the whole platter.
  • namelesshere
    namelesshere Posts: 334 Member
    Then again, who can eat a bagel plain. Many of the specialty shop bagels have 500 or more calories,then add the flavored cream cheese, Yup, not a regular at my local bagel shop anymore. As long as you can count the calories reliably,and really want it, and have the calories in your daily eating plan, only you can make the choice. Realizing that 500 cal plus 200 for the cc = a whole lot of exercise to negate the effects.
  • Levesque_7
    Levesque_7 Posts: 104
    take a few seconds and look it up under your food tracker and see if it fits in with what else you have planned today calorie wise.

    this, it takes a second to look it up. Prob less time than it took to start this post LOL

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