You can tell you're counting calories when...

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  • Rays_Wife
    Rays_Wife Posts: 1,173 Member
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    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! ;)

    Oh I do that too!! I keep Splenda packets in mine lol
  • casi_ann
    casi_ann Posts: 423 Member
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    When you ask, how much is that going to cost me and your husband and family knows you mean calories.
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
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    And if my husband is cooking I ask a bunch of questions. What are you making? What's the name of that? Are you using butter or oil? What kind of oil? How much? Based on the amount you are cooking how much do you think I will be able to eat?
  • kluvit
    kluvit Posts: 435 Member
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    While in another building for a meeting, you see a fundraiser "chili dog special" that you really want :love: , so you walk a block back to your building, go up to the 21st floor to your office, log what you know you're having for dinner PLUS all of the "special" ingredients to determine that "YES, I can afford it," and walk all the way back to the other building to buy it. Then, you decide to leave off the cheese...you couldn't taste it with the chili anyway, so why include the calories. Then after eating the "dog" and chips, you don't even want the brownie, so you decide to save it for later. Then after looking at it all afternoon finally decide to give the brownie away, so you can remove it from your log and be "under" your calories for the day!
  • CGPrincessWarrior
    CGPrincessWarrior Posts: 76 Member
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    When you get home and go through your pockets for the wrapper of that protein bar/snackkie snack you bought that you need to log.

    This is me all the time! MFP is great for accountability that way :)
  • CGPrincessWarrior
    CGPrincessWarrior Posts: 76 Member
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    You eyeball a snack but know you'd have to post it on MFP where your friends can see and change your mind.

    This is me too...I ALWAYS do this!
  • clarkeje1
    clarkeje1 Posts: 1,636 Member
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    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 )

    this for the soda part. especially regular coke-a-cola, it makes me cough lol
  • desiv2
    desiv2 Posts: 651 Member
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    When someone asks you if you want *insert junk food* you say no. When they ask why you tell them, "because it has *insert exactly amount of calories*, and that isn't in my budget." and then you get a weird look.


    I also get those dreams of cake, pizza, cookies, etc. lmao ..
  • ChristinaR720
    ChristinaR720 Posts: 1,186
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    * You ask yourself, "What would my MFP friends do?" before eating anything.
    * You pretend your plate of veggies is actually _____ (i.e. a ginormous piece of cake, candy, chips, etc.).
    * Half of the bookmarks on your web browser are nutritional menus for various restaurants.
    * You hyperventilate and regret eating that cookie as you click on the "Complete This Entry" button, knowing your MFP friends are going to analyze every ounce of food you've eaten for the day!
  • Lacey_Cakes
    Lacey_Cakes Posts: 223 Member
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    I'm confused.

    You say you have "chocolate in your fridge for months that you can't quite bring yourself to 'spend' your calories on."

    What is this concept?

    hahaha i read that and was like "oh ****, am I supposed to do that?"
    cause this is me when chocolate is in my general directions
    http://www.alicia-logic.com/capsimages01/ch_006PhilipWiegratz.jpg
  • MrsJJUt
    MrsJJUt Posts: 36 Member
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    You have a dream you are eating a giant pancake and through the whole dream all you can think is "How am I going to calculate the calories in this?"
  • RobinvdM
    RobinvdM Posts: 634 Member
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    All of the above :)

    What a great laugh!
  • lovechicagobears
    lovechicagobears Posts: 289 Member
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    Soda burns when you drink it because it has been so long. (Does anyone else experience this or am I just broken? lol )

    Same here. Drinking soda (especially cola) feels like I'm drinking a glass full of Pop Rocks. I actually grimaced and said, "OW," the other day.
  • prwhicks
    prwhicks Posts: 32 Member
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    You're allowed 24 chips as a treat, but you seek out the largest ones in the bag.
  • panshee
    panshee Posts: 24 Member
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    When you have five sets of measuring spoons but there never seems to be a clean tablespoon! (Seriously, it's my most used measuring device!)

    haha THIS!!
  • meem548
    meem548 Posts: 82 Member
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    You weigh everything!!
  • lovechicagobears
    lovechicagobears Posts: 289 Member
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    - When your Pinterest recipe board is called "Food Porn".

    (No joke. Here's the link to mine: http://pinterest.com/shadowland/food-porn/)
  • lovechicagobears
    lovechicagobears Posts: 289 Member
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    You're allowed 24 chips as a treat, but you seek out the largest ones in the bag.

    That one made me laugh for real. :)
  • RevNS
    RevNS Posts: 27 Member
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    When you stand at stare at the pizza you just splurged on because you ate light all day to bank the calories and then are stumped because they cut it in squares instead of the usual pie shaped wedge slices and now you have no idea how much you can have due to the change in the size of the pieces!

    I hope Dominos reads this! LOL
  • lovechicagobears
    lovechicagobears Posts: 289 Member
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    When you stand at stare at the pizza you just splurged on because you ate light all day to bank the calories and then are stumped because they cut it in squares instead of the usual pie shaped wedge slices and now you have no idea how much you can have due to the change in the size of the pieces!

    I hope Dominos reads this! LOL

    I used to work there. If you order thin crust, ask them to mark the box with "no party cut" or "no Chicago cut" (depending on the store). They'll cut it into regular eighths.

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