Going out to eat!

shorty458
shorty458 Posts: 163 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I am just wondering what everyone else does when it comes to counting your calories when you go out to eat at places that don't have nutritional information. Tonight, I went out w/ some friends at a local pizza place. They have really good thin crust Chicago style (yes it does exist!) pizza.

I put in what I had in the database, (ie: Chicago thin crust cheese pizza) and some came up. I googled the image and it looked similar to what I had so I input that.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

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  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    That's exactly what I do--find the closest thing in the database, log it, and move on.
  • AZKristi
    AZKristi Posts: 1,801 Member
    What you did sounds reasonable.
  • soni_me
    soni_me Posts: 95 Member
    Sometimes individual stores have websites that give the nutritional info, even though its not posted anywhere you can find it in the store. But you did well; I do that sometimes too.
  • petstorekitty
    petstorekitty Posts: 592 Member
    I guess. Find the closest thing and log it and I take it into consideration if my results vary.

    Meaning, if I eat stuff that I have to guess at a lot, I don't bother being surprised when I don't lose weight.

    BUT I'd rather go out and enjoy a bomb pizza and lose my .5 lbs later.

    Srlsy, this is why I lose weight so slow.

    I do a lot of Googling foods and restaurants and such. There's so many food databases.
    I've gotten pretty good at eyeballing how much of something there is. 3 oz or bread or whatever.

    I try to keep all the ingredients in mind and add them up. Google "nutrition data" for a pretty good site for foods.
  • 1PoisonIvy
    1PoisonIvy Posts: 933 Member
    I do the same thing, and enter that I ate more than I actually did, so that way at least I won't be over.

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