Wow, my "good" lunch at Red Robin was 900

Achrya

I don't see the problem.

I'm going out to eat tomorrow and I plan to throw down at least 1500 calories. What's the point of going out if you don't eat all the tasty things?

MFP confuses me.

peleroja

Red Robin will lettuce wrap any burger for you! I always do that when I end up there. I skip the cheese and mayo too. More boring but way safer. I usually get the gardenburger, lettuce wrapped, no cheese. Even with the bun, the garden burger is less than 600 calories though.

jess6742

I don't see the problem.

I'm going out to eat tomorrow and I plan to throw down at least 1500 calories. What's the point of going out if you don't eat all the tasty things?

MFP confuses me.

Agreed I love IHOP. The chocolate chip pancake meal with eggs, bacon, and hashbrowns is around 1600+ calories. I get it every time.

magerum

If I happen to be worried about calories at RR I go with 4 chicken breast, lettuce wrapped w/ double broccoli. ~100 g protein <500 cal.

SoDamnHungry

I don't see the problem.

I'm going out to eat tomorrow and I plan to throw down at least 1500 calories. What's the point of going out if you don't eat all the tasty things?

MFP confuses me.

While I agree with you (if I'm paying to eat out, I eat the good stuff), some people go out a lot for various and don't want to throw down 1500 calories at one meal quite so often.

blah2989

That honestly doesnt surprise me. I had a burger at applebees and just the burger was 1360 calories! I mean it is a crazy amount of calories. But restaurants add calories to make their food taste exceptionally good. I guess thats why if you want a good low cal burger, its easier to make one at home. Not always conveinent, but easier to cut out calories.

ereck44

Yeah, tonight I ate an angus burger that I cooked myself, and it was 700+, not counting the bun and the condiments. I haven't eaten one in almost 2 years, but was craving one for some reason.

Sharon_C

This makes me glad that I don't like Red Robin :sick:

BostonStrong617

That is actually totally believable to me especially if your burger contained bacon, cheese or any kind of mayo type spread and your salad was ordered with ranch dressing, cheese etc. Things can very easily add up, I'm all about IIFYM so I think a 900 calorie "Splurge" is 100 percent doable but it's obviously a lot easier to spread those calories out unless you want to run 10 miles or half starve the rest of the day. Although your body can't tell time from day to day, so if you were to eat lighter on another day or exercise longer to make up for it you'd actually still be able to be within your weekly goals and lose weight...just saying totally possible if you don't wanna have to give stuff up. However if you do want to keep things lower cal, skip the bun on the burger, I doubt you'll miss it, or only eat half the bun. Skip the mayo and the bacon and the cheese OR pick ONE of these, not all 3. As for Salad, get the lowest cal option of dressing, or switch to veggies which have more flavorfor and less calories even if you get them with the butter or whatever they cook them with than in a side salad with certain dressing and toppings (especially cheese/crutons/ fatty dressings)

Achrya

I don't see the problem.

I'm going out to eat tomorrow and I plan to throw down at least 1500 calories. What's the point of going out if you don't eat all the tasty things?

MFP confuses me.

While I agree with you (if I'm paying to eat out, I eat the good stuff), some people go out a lot for various and don't want to throw down 1500 calories at one meal quite so often.

I suppose, though I would expect people who eat out a lot to be up on the calorie counts at the places they frequent and not blindsided (what with the internet and the phone app.) I was looking at it from the point of view of someone who doesn't go out often and, with that point of view in mind, I don't get being hung up on the calories for a rare night out.

Sunitagt

What's with all the 2011 threads getting bumped up today?

My plan for eating out is always looking at the menu beforehand, so I go in with a plan of what might fit into my goals for the day. Usually don't go out more than once a week, so if I'm over one day, I'm not too worried as its my weekly deficit that I really care about.

onwarddownward

I checked it out online when a friend mentioned it. I found that it was too caloric for me, based upon the online nutritional info. I've never bothered to go in.

BusyRaeNOTBusty

Old thread is old. But then I realized it was mine under my old name. LOL. How cute was I when I actually cared?

Achrya

Old thread is old. But then I realized it was mine under my old name. LOL. How cute was I when I actually cared?

No! I don't believe it.

My mind. Shattered. I don't know what to believe anymore.

Seriously. I'm not being sarcastic or joking at all. I'm actually really surprised.

MuseofSong

Red Robin is my hubby and son's favorite restaurant. Its really hard to eat there though because everything is such high calories. There a lot of places we eat that I have found a way to eat there with a healthier option but I still struggle at Red Robin. So instead of trying that is someplace we rarely go anymore and when I do I have what I want and work it in somehow.

^This

OP (2013) - I think you made a good choice to eat carefully when you did not know the calorie amount of what you were having.

But, overall, what we're looking for is an overall weekly deficit. Like the poster above said, you can find a way to work it out. I think it's a good idea to have what you want so you don't feel deprived.

If you have to eat out at restaurants all the time, that's rough, and do whatever you can to save calories (bun-less or lettuce wrap, no sauces, whatever), but for people who only go to eat or get take out sometimes, you can treat a heavy calorie meal like a 'zig' and 'zag' on other days of your week, netting a bit under your daily calorie goal until you balanced out.

I want to be clear, that I do not mean a 'oh no, I ate 1000 calories over my daily goal, so tomorrow I'll only eat 600 calories'. I mean for the next 3-6 days, you can cut back a couple hundred calories or net under with extra exercise until you balance out your weekly deficit.

What kills me about restaurant food is the sodium. Sodium is in everything that I like. >_< You can find 2k sodium lurking in a restaurant hamburger or an 8 oz burrito.

BusyRaeNOTBusty

I know. I'm ashamed. I think I had just started lifting again too on Oct 2.

janupshaw

A friend of mine told me restaurants were supposed to have nutritional info on hand...I've asked for it several places now. I ate at PF Chang's today and they had a menu with all the info on it. I had soup, salad, part of an appetizer and my whole entree for about 700 calories.

guessrs

I find that it's the high sodium number that worries me with restaurant meals. On a different note, considering we all go to a restaurant sometimes, you made a good choice.

smantha32

Whenever I get a burger from a nice restaurant it's always over 1,000 calories. I take it off the bun though and eat it with a knife and fork. No bread usually saves at least 300 calories sometimes more.

Yanicka1

Old thread is old. But then I realized it was mine under my old name. LOL. How cute was I when I actually cared?

Lol blast from the past