USA foods: determining equivalence in Canadian calories

danasings

What happens if the bread I buy south of the border is actually made up of wheat grown north of the border, processed north of the border, baked south of the border, only to be brought back north of the border and consumed?

Is this going to be life or death?

your jet set lifestyle is too complicated. our caveman ancestors never had such worries. you should simplify your life to be more like them.

Wait...I thought we were going Medieval. I even got the weapons. Durn it. *kicks rocks*

nightengale7

I've never eaten a Canadian... any volunteers?

This creepy post brought to you by: Boredom!

I do NOT go well with a nice chianti!

*flees*

How about some fava beans?

TylerJ76

This is why I hate Canadians..

iulia_maddie

This is why I hate Canadians..

Lies.

WinnerVictorious

This is why I hate Canadians..

hate? wrong thread.

you want that other thread.

Ben_Diesel

This thread is Loonie

metaphoria

I've never eaten a Canadian... any volunteers?

This creepy post brought to you by: Boredom!

I do NOT go well with a nice chianti!

*flees*

How about some fava beans?

*sharpens shovel edges...*

foxro

i see this mistake made often by beginning Canadian calorie counters. keep in mind that MFP is an American website, so we use the american kilocalorie as our base unit of measure. however, Canada still uses the royal standard. if you're going to eat food produced in the USA while in Canada, you need to convert those American calories into Canadian (royal) calories, otherwise your food logging will be off.

it's really simple.

- look up the daily exchange rate between the USA and Canada
- apply that conversion factor to the numbers on the label of any food produced in the USA, but eaten in Canada.

for example, if the day's calorie exchange rate is 1.03 Canadian (royal) calories for every 1.00 American calorie, you'd take that number and multiply it by the calorie amounts listed on the package for the American food.

e.g., a 270 calorie American bagel is equivalent to 270 x 1.03 = 278.1 Canadian calories.

this also applies to your macro settings for protein, fat, and carbohydrates.

i hope this was useful for those of you in Canada struggling to understand why you have stalled or hit a plateau. you are simply not logging the correct amount of calories. you can either eat only Canadian food, remember to apply this exchange rate conversion to your logging efforts, or eat as many meals as possible in the USA.

good luck, eh?

But Canadian calories are cleaner so now what do we do ?????:sad: