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  • Posts: 2,917 Member
    buying groceries can take upwards of 3 hours from excessive nutritional content reading!
  • Posts: 780 Member
    You allow yourself some toast as a treat. It puts you just over your calories for the day, but it's ok this once. You've had a hard week, after all. :|

    Haha. I totally do this.
  • Posts: 1,012 Member
    You start dreaming about eating voluminous quantities of chocolate cake and mince pies...
  • Posts: 1,012 Member

    Your Pinterest 'Food and Drink' board is the stuff of dreams and fantasies.

    And this, haha :laugh:
  • Posts: 376 Member
    Just today:

    counted out my peanuts for a snack
    pulled up MFP at the restaurant for lunch. more than once.
    used measuring cups at the table to fix my plate
  • Posts: 228 Member
    - you count the chips in the chocolate chip cookies and take the one with the least amount in it.
  • Posts: 205
    You quit going out to eat, after you realize there is nothing low cal.
  • Posts: 1,657 Member
    ....instead of being at the gym for x amount of time, u stay till u reach a certain calorie burn

    ....u buy a pack of snack for the movies and count every piece u eat while watching cause u only allowed urself 200 cals and cant eat the whole bag

    .....u examine the plate for 10 minutes before eating the food when ur at a restaurant to estimate how many calories it has, then leave out small pieces that 'arent worth the calories'

    ....u have to pull out the calculator to figure out what 235 cals per 100g of x actually is (this is how labels are in Norway sigh)
  • Posts: 621 Member
    buying groceries can take upwards of 3 hours from excessive nutritional content reading!

    This is me... I have to schedule it now so that I have enough time. :D
  • Posts: 351
    When you cry and walk away when someone orders buffalo wings at the bar.
  • Posts: 2,159 Member
    You eyeball a snack but know you'd have to post it on MFP where your friends can see and change your mind.
  • Posts: 2,159 Member
    When you cry and walk away when someone orders buffalo wings at the bar.

    I did that the other day when a pizza delivery guy went by.. LOL
  • Posts: 187 Member
    You can't eat until you log it into MFP!!!!!!!
  • Posts: 1,302 Member
    I've made it so my wife hates shopping with me now :) I look at every label, and we've put plenty of stuff back because I won't eat it. 300 cal's a slice of texas toast is just not worth it :D
  • Posts: 269 Member
    This has to be my absolute favorite topic and all I have to say is this....

    ALL OF THE ABOVE!
  • Posts: 331 Member
    HA! So true. Only my chocolate is in the cupboard. COLD chocolate tends to separate from its milkfat and it gets powdery and not quite as tasty. It becomes sad, sad chocolate.

    Here is another:
    When you open a bag of Cheetos and know exactly how many calories is in each one.
    You count each M&M as a separate "snack".
    All of your "snacks" are zipped up in weighed and measured baggies around the cupboard.
    MGD 64 has started to actually taste good.
  • Posts: 1,314 Member
    You go home, your parents start cooking for you and to avoid annoying them, you go searching in the bins for food wrappers and packagings to find calorie/macro values :tongue:
  • Posts: 257 Member
    You don't see snickers (or beer or any other indulgence anymore) all you see is a number! That HUGE calorie number.

    If i was as picky with my money budget as I was with my calorie budget I'd be debt free and richer by the day!
  • Posts: 3,550 Member
    You decide to have a soda for your 2 week smoke free reward, then log onto MFP before you drink it and decide otherwise because it would put you over your calorie limit.
  • Posts: 331 Member
    You don't see snickers (or beer or any other indulgence anymore) all you see is a number! That HUGE calorie number.

    If i was as picky with my money budget as I was with my calorie budget I'd be debt free and richer by the day!

    YES! Soda, too! I love Fanta, but they started putting the GIANT calorie number on the front of the can. Fanta 0 all the way if I want to cure my Fanta need.
  • Posts: 1,739 Member
    The husband is taking his turn cooking, and presents your plate of food along with a sticky note with all ingredient amounts written down.
    :love:
    Now, that's romance.

    thats awesome!!
  • Posts: 1,173 Member
    When you keep a set of measuring spoons and cups in your purse :noway: Yes this is me. I know, I know :blushing: I don't care who sees it either. I just whip'em out anywhere! You should see the looks I get :laugh:
  • Posts: 58 Member
    When you keep a set of measuring spoons and cups in your purse :noway: Yes this is me. I know, I know :blushing: I don't care who sees it either. I just whip'em out anywhere! You should see the looks I get :laugh:

    ... and I thought that keeping sweeteners in mine looked bad! ;)
  • Posts: 73 Member
    Even worse that then sharpie on the wine glass...

    I've "borrowed" a wine glass from my local Wetherspoons as it has 125ml, 175ml and 250ml on the glass! I have a few now actually...
  • Posts: 45 Member
    When you research on several different sites how many calories you burn during exercise to ensure your gaining calories correctly.
    When coworkers find it entertaining how they can name a food and you name the serving size and calories in it.
    When know the individual calorie of 1 m&m..1 tootsie roll...or 1 of anything. :wink: :tongue:
  • Posts: 8,927 Member
    When you see a new product the first thing you do is look at calories and gram of protein before buying it

    ^^This one for me too. I was never the type to even think about the calories before mfp.

    Oh and also this next one as well:
    Counting every nut instead of counting the handfuls.
  • Posts: 89 Member
    Your freezer is almost empty (I was a big frozen foods eater) and your fruit and vegetable drawers in the fridge are overflowing.

    Soda burns when you drink it because it has been so long. (Does anyone else experience this or am I just broken? lol )
  • Posts: 570 Member
    LMAO. I am so guilty of the fitbit one.
  • Posts: 332 Member
    Wow. Reading these makes me feel so much better about the habits I've picked up recently. I totally stand in the grocery reading/comparing labels. I counted out 17 cheez its today, and then realized I didn't really like them very much, so only ate 15. I also divide whole containers of food into individual servings.

    The other day I got chips and salsa out for my hubby to snack on, and I measured out portions to put in a bowl. He laughed and wondered if I was 'portion controlling' him. Oops!!
  • Posts: 1,227 Member
    Love it! I'm guilty of working out to make it under my calorie goal. Got to start somewhere though.

    You can tell when you're counting calories when you take out your phone while cooking or before ordering to log the food you plan on eating.
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