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Dumb moments with food

fat_harrie
fat_harrie Posts: 59 Member
edited January 23 in Food and Nutrition
Ok, bit of a confession... I never realised that chewing gum had calories until the other day when I took the time to read the label and being 100% I was gobsmacked! It wasn't that I didn't know, I just didn't think there could be any in there!

So I started wondering if anyone else has had moments like this? if so, spill the beans and make me fell less silly
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  • micheleb15
    micheleb15 Posts: 1,418 Member
    I never realized how many calories mints had. I would grab a candy mint from the reception desk about 5-6 times a day before a meeting never really thinking about it. I looked it up one day and the 6 mints were around 100 calories. It never occured to me to count those. I just figured they were low in calories, but why would they be. It's candy. That was my "duh" moment.
  • fat_harrie
    fat_harrie Posts: 59 Member
    I knew it couldn't be just me! I think anything mint we just assume that it is relatively calorie free...
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  • melindasuefritz
    melindasuefritz Posts: 3,509 Member
    cough drops have 15 caleries
  • redhead1910
    redhead1910 Posts: 304 Member
    Long ago before MFP I used to eat 3-4 of those "100 calorie" snack packs. I figured, oh they're only 100 calories, what's the harm? Didn't really get the idea that you're only supposed to have one of them... haha.
  • jen_zz
    jen_zz Posts: 1,011 Member
    freshman year i would drink CUPS of fat free milk after my workout thinking it's zero calories... imagine my shock hen i learn a cup has like 90 calories lol
  • fat_harrie
    fat_harrie Posts: 59 Member
    freshman year i would drink CUPS of fat free milk after my workout thinking it's zero calories... imagine my shock hen i learn a cup has like 90 calories lol

    I had t explain to my husband that just because something is fat free does not mean it is free of calories! lol
  • danamariers
    danamariers Posts: 155 Member
    For me it was fruit/sugar.

    Like when cherries come in to season, my family/friends each buy a bag or basket and course demolish to them- couldn't be so bad, because it's fruit, right? Nature's candy! Wrong! Too much sugar is still too much sugar.

    (no wonder you get the runs from eating so many cherries- sugar-laden fibre overload!!)
  • fat_harrie
    fat_harrie Posts: 59 Member
    For me it was fruit/sugar.

    Like when cherries come in to season, my family/friends each buy a bag or basket and course demolish to them- couldn't be so bad, because it's fruit, right? Nature's candy! Wrong! Too much sugar is still too much sugar.

    (no wonder you get the runs from eating so many cherries- sugar-laden fibre overload!!)

    hahahahahahah! I love it! I think that there should be more research into a calorie free and sugar free substitute... I bet it woud taste awful!
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