1500 calories for a PIECE of cake?

nxd10
nxd10 Posts: 4,570 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I know the whole supersize nation thing but I'm still in shock.

I drummed and danced for 90 minutes in the cold at an Alzheimer's walk and then went out for lunch with some buddies. All fine until we ordered dessert. The carrot cake was obviously fattening but I split one piece with two other people, figuring the exercise made up for it.

Looked it up to log it later and 1510 calories/serving!!!!!

Thank goodness I split it with friends!

Exercising, watching everything else, and that drumming all let me sneak under my net but OH MY WORD! No wonder its so easy to gain weight.
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  • kls13la
    kls13la Posts: 378 Member
    It's crazy, isn't it? But I constantly see around here people talking about "oh, it takes 3500 calories to put on a pound" as if that's hard. I could easily put on a pound a day if I set my mind to it -- i.e. eating a piece of carrot cake like yours, getting some crepes at IHOP, eating half a pizza, and a burger and fries. BAM! The calories in foods at restaurants are really absurd.
  • tendumom
    tendumom Posts: 17 Member
    Isn't it crazy??

    I regained weight this summer. My husband had started buying muffins at the supermarket bakery. I often had half a muffin for breakfast this summer, sometimes a whole muffin. Found out this week that they are 600 calories per muffin!!! No more muffins for me unless I make them myself.
  • TonyStark30
    TonyStark30 Posts: 497 Member
    People love muffins because they are so moist and light but what makes them so also makes them 700 Calories each!
  • Zalli
    Zalli Posts: 132 Member
    It's even worse when you find out your SALAD had umpteen million calories. At least you got cake. :)
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Carrot cake always seems to be the highest. I don't know what the hell they put in to make it so calorific. Maybe they just mold it out of the lard and spray paint it orangey.
  • meeka472
    meeka472 Posts: 283 Member
    It's even worse when you find out your SALAD had umpteen million calories. At least you got cake. :)

    Exactly! This is the biggest food tragedy. I now stay away from the salads when I good out and eat. Heck, if I'm going to eat 1000+ calories in a meal, I want something good to show for it!
  • auntiebabs
    auntiebabs Posts: 1,754 Member
    It's even worse when you find out your SALAD had umpteen million calories. At least you got cake. :)

    true... I actually eat fewer salads now because I go for the satisfaction to calorie ratio.
  • jojorocksforeva
    jojorocksforeva Posts: 303 Member
    Wow for a slice that is crazy eww.. Lol not literally eww. im sure it was good but that much calories in it eww. and Yes thats exactly the kind of stuff people gain weight on thats why its so easy lol . but before you slip that down Just remember how hard it is to get the weight off once you get it on lol.
  • TheRealParisLove
    TheRealParisLove Posts: 1,907 Member
    Restaurant desserts are the worst. One of my favorites is a cookie that rings up at about 900 calories. For a cookie. Granted, it's a big, oooooey, gooooooey cookie that is more like a chocolate chip brownie than a cookie. But still! A cookie the size of the palm of my hand should not be that high in calories.
  • cara4fit
    cara4fit Posts: 111 Member
    This is precisely why it's really not a good idea to eat out very much if one cares about both one's health and calories. What people say above illustrates why it is SO-O easy to have 1500 calories before one even knows it. Restaurants now are notorious for packing in the sugar, salt and fat in everything and don't even get me started on portion sizes. At some places, even splitting something between 2 people, one is still getting too much. Unfortunately, a number of people have gotten into eating the same way at home.
    An interesting case in point. note the difference in the sizes of plates, bowls and cups from the 1950s and 60's vs. what one can buy now. Almost all the new ones one can buy now are much larger. And one will tend to fill up that big plate, bowl or cup, thereby serving oneself at least 2-3 times a correct serving of something.
    As far as what my husband and I do personally when we eat out, is usually just order appetizers that are reasonably simple, and split other things. With the salad issue, always ordering the dressing on the side, if at all, or just having the waiter bring some lemon slices and avocado - MUCH better than some chemically-laced dressing that has a bunch of sugar and fillers in it. And being careful of any denser foods that are in the salad too. Too much cheese or meat isn't good or mayonnaise, etc. But we're pretty selective of where we eat too, where those options are available, like inexpensive ethnic restaurants of the type in internationally-oriented cities. Usually there's something on the menu that fits for that meal out. But the usual chain restaurants in particular are a REAL disaster. Just some thoughts here!
  • kristineevans
    kristineevans Posts: 56 Member
    Wow bet it was nice though! :-)
  • HSingMomto7Kids
    HSingMomto7Kids Posts: 345 Member
    I know it certainly is crazy??
  • DawnieB1977
    DawnieB1977 Posts: 4,248 Member
    That must've been a huge slice of cake!

    Costa (a UK coffee shop) has all the calories on display by the counter, and they have carrot cake, It says it has about 615 calories per slice, and I thought that was a lot. Muffins there are about 450 calories. I guess in the UK we have smaller portion sizes than in the US.

    I'm sure if you make cakes yourself they have less calories.

    I prefer not to get cakes/dessert out.
  • windycitycupcake
    windycitycupcake Posts: 516 Member
    Isn't it crazy??

    I regained weight this summer. My husband had started buying muffins at the supermarket bakery. I often had half a muffin for breakfast this summer, sometimes a whole muffin. Found out this week that they are 600 calories per muffin!!! No more muffins for me unless I make them myself.

    crazy right?
  • windycitycupcake
    windycitycupcake Posts: 516 Member
    Carrot cake always seems to be the highest. I don't know what the hell they put in to make it so calorific. Maybe they just mold it out of the lard and spray paint it orangey.

    nuts, oil, sweetened shredded coconut, sour cream
    frosting: cream cheese, butter
    all high calorie, i use all those things in my carrot cake
  • hazelovesfood
    hazelovesfood Posts: 454 Member
    It's even worse when you find out your SALAD had umpteen million calories. At least you got cake. :)

    Exactly! This is the biggest food tragedy. I now stay away from the salads when I good out and eat. Heck, if I'm going to eat 1000+ calories in a meal, I want something good to show for it!
    Its not the salad itself,its all the dressing and croutons they put on,. plain olf salad leaves are nothing much at all.
  • hazelovesfood
    hazelovesfood Posts: 454 Member
    Isn't it crazy??

    I regained weight this summer. My husband had started buying muffins at the supermarket bakery. I often had half a muffin for breakfast this summer, sometimes a whole muffin. Found out this week that they are 600 calories per muffin!!! No more muffins for me unless I make them myself.

    crazy right?
    hhehe people dont realise how many hidden cals are in cakes. I make my own sometimes and there quite low until i add the buttercream on top , then that doubles them usually to around 400 cals each or more. Home made brownies are about the same or worse ,depending on how much chocolate I put in. I know know that in the uk, most peices of cake are around 500 cals, carrot cake is higher ofcourse, its all the oil they out in it. I try and go for cheesecake and leave the base alone, at least the cheesecake is protein mostly and not just sugar and fat.
  • Natashaa1991
    Natashaa1991 Posts: 866 Member
    i remember a friend of mine saying she wanted to order a piece of carrot cake because "it's so healthy". dafuq.
  • hazelovesfood
    hazelovesfood Posts: 454 Member
    This is precisely why it's really not a good idea to eat out very much if one cares about both one's health and calories. What people say above illustrates why it is SO-O easy to have 1500 calories before one even knows it. Restaurants now are notorious for packing in the sugar, salt and fat in everything and don't even get me started on portion sizes. At some places, even splitting something between 2 people, one is still getting too much. Unfortunately, a number of people have gotten into eating the same way at home.
    An interesting case in point. note the difference in the sizes of plates, bowls and cups from the 1950s and 60's vs. what one can buy now. Almost all the new ones one can buy now are much larger. And one will tend to fill up that big plate, bowl or cup, thereby serving oneself at least 2-3 times a correct serving of something.
    As far as what my husband and I do personally when we eat out, is usually just order appetizers that are reasonably simple, and split other things. With the salad issue, always ordering the dressing on the side, if at all, or just having the waiter bring some lemon slices and avocado - MUCH better than some chemically-laced dressing that has a bunch of sugar and fillers in it. And being careful of any denser foods that are in the salad too. Too much cheese or meat isn't good or mayonnaise, etc. But we're pretty selective of where we eat too, where those options are available, like inexpensive ethnic restaurants of the type in internationally-oriented cities. Usually there's something on the menu that fits for that meal out. But the usual chain restaurants in particular are a REAL disaster. Just some thoughts here!
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    lol your right, eating out is my downfall and i love it. But its very hard here in the uk to know what your eating, very few places have any info about there foods at all, and the some that do shock me alot.We love to go to florida and we eat out all the time there, and im assuming i will take in about 5000 cals per day there, and thats very easy to do.
  • hazelovesfood
    hazelovesfood Posts: 454 Member
    i remember a friend of mine saying she wanted to order a piece of carrot cake because "it's so healthy". dafuq.
    lol actually one of the worst to have .
  • beckssmith70
    beckssmith70 Posts: 45
    My sister is a cake baker and makes a carrot cake TO DIE FOR!
    I said to her about making a skinny licious range which she won't do, personally I think she is missing a trick there, but get this she says to me her carrot cake is low fat because of all the carrots and pineapple she uses! She fails to mention all the butter, oil, cream cheese and castor sugar! It is absolutely loaded!

    I think that all foods in restaurants should have a calorie content next to it, some do but not enough, I am sure it will make some think twice about what they put in their mouths, and also bar drinks, these young binge drinking girls that get plastered and into trouble on a weekend will think twice if they realise just how much calories they are drinking on their nights out.
  • witchy_wife
    witchy_wife Posts: 792 Member
    Wow, in one slice??? That is crazy!
  • farahsaleem
    farahsaleem Posts: 47 Member
    This is precisely why it's really not a good idea to eat out very much if one cares about both one's health and calories. What people say above illustrates why it is SO-O easy to have 1500 calories before one even knows it. Restaurants now are notorious for packing in the sugar, salt and fat in everything and don't even get me started on portion sizes. At some places, even splitting something between 2 people, one is still getting too much. Unfortunately, a number of people have gotten into eating the same way at home.
    An interesting case in point. note the difference in the sizes of plates, bowls and cups from the 1950s and 60's vs. what one can buy now. Almost all the new ones one can buy now are much larger. And one will tend to fill up that big plate, bowl or cup, thereby serving oneself at least 2-3 times a correct serving of something.
    As far as what my husband and I do personally when we eat out, is usually just order appetizers that are reasonably simple, and split other things. With the salad issue, always ordering the dressing on the side, if at all, or just having the waiter bring some lemon slices and avocado - MUCH better than some chemically-laced dressing that has a bunch of sugar and fillers in it. And being careful of any denser foods that are in the salad too. Too much cheese or meat isn't good or mayonnaise, etc. But we're pretty selective of where we eat too, where those options are available, like inexpensive ethnic restaurants of the type in internationally-oriented cities. Usually there's something on the menu that fits for that meal out. But the usual chain restaurants in particular are a REAL disaster. Just some thoughts here!

    i agree
  • queensturg
    queensturg Posts: 60
    It is crazy just how much the calories can add up, even from things you know are going to be high-cal, but you never guess just how much till you start paying attention. One night a few weeks ago, my husband ordered Dominos pizza, and just the half of one that I had was over 1000 calories. Once I realized that I was glad that I didn't have a whole pizza to myself. I guess I should've realized though, pizza isn't exactly skinny food of course.
  • KateParker01
    KateParker01 Posts: 33 Member
    I'm an avid homebaker and have run a lot of my recipes through the recipe function. It's a tragedy! Top tips at home - minimum halve the portion size, cut into portions straight away and freeze individually. Most cakes can be frozen successfully. Swap vegetable oil for butter - same calories but massive difference in saturated fat. Or half oil and half fat free greek yoghurt, big calorie difference. If you're not averse to sweetners bake with Spenda or half splenda/sugar, but not truvia - leaves a distinct bitter aftertaste. If out - don't ever eat a pastry or biscuit base, and scrape off all icings where possible. Additionally halve the portion and save the rest for another day, give it to the kids/partner/friend, or even just leave it.
  • kissedbytheocean
    kissedbytheocean Posts: 131 Member
    I bought some (what looked like) single serving chocolate cakes yesterday at the store. Turns out the label says there are two servings, each being about 300 calories. Most people would eat the whole thing since it looks like it's made for just one person. Quite a nasty shock when they realize they just ate 600 calories!
  • hazelovesfood
    hazelovesfood Posts: 454 Member
    I'm an avid homebaker and have run a lot of my recipes through the recipe function. It's a tragedy! Top tips at home - minimum halve the portion size, cut into portions straight away and freeze individually. Most cakes can be frozen successfully. Swap vegetable oil for butter - same calories but massive difference in saturated fat. Or half oil and half fat free greek yoghurt, big calorie difference. If you're not averse to sweetners bake with Spenda or half splenda/sugar, but not truvia - leaves a distinct bitter aftertaste. If out - don't ever eat a pastry or biscuit base, and scrape off all icings where possible. Additionally halve the portion and save the rest for another day, give it to the kids/partner/friend, or even just leave it.

    Funny but I do this, i never eat the pastry on anything, unless its a actual danish, But say it it was a strawberry tart, apple pie etc, I leave the pastry off all the time, and if i go to a buffet and there is cake, i eat the middle and the top and thats it, i leave the actual cake lol, probs not the best part to eat but it cuts down on the cals going in lol.I havent tried baking with the spenda types etc yet, as not sure how much you would actually need to add instead of normal sugar. I eat atkins bars and i can sometimes taste that aftertaste of the sweetener they use.
  • aletagob
    aletagob Posts: 3
    I'm glad I read your post--it really got my attention! I absolutely adore carrot cake, and there is a restaurant in town that makes it from scratch instead of buying it off a truck. Heaven! But after reading your message, I must no longer consider it angel's food but rather devil's food!
  • laurensgettingfit
    laurensgettingfit Posts: 41 Member
    here in NSW Australia they made a law that larger chains ("standard food outlets") had to display the kj content of food as well as a statement of what the average daily intake is for an adult.. It's silly that its not Australia wide as I live on the border and literally am in the next state in 10 minutes. Bu it really helps me to choose what I'm going to eat sometimes what appears healthy say a fruit smoothie, is higher in calories than if I ate an actual meal. The link to the study they did of consumers when evaluating the law change said that 79% of people still underestimated how many calories they were eating ...but it also said in the study that most people didn't understand how to read kilojoules and what it meant and how many kilojoules they were supposed to eat even though the average adult intake is on the menu board.... no wonder us Aussies are getting so huge!!
  • laurensgettingfit
    laurensgettingfit Posts: 41 Member
    I bought some (what looked like) single serving chocolate cakes yesterday at the store. Turns out the label says there are two servings, each being about 300 calories. Most people would eat the whole thing since it looks like it's made for just one person. Quite a nasty shock when they realize they just ate 600 calories!

    that happens to me all the time and I realise AFTER I eat the whole thing that it was 2 serves... stupid labelling. Then I have to spend an hour on the exercise bike to make up for it.

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