OMG Watermelon Calories!

So maybe i'm lost. I've been eating wedges. And recording them as wedges. One wedge comes up as about 86 calories. You guys eating cups and grams, how much watermelon is that? You guys just eating one or two chunks and calling it a day? I'm curious as to how you guys cut up your watermelon, and how you measure it out to be cups or grams. THanks.

cals burned were such a waste on watermelon!!

i've searched this forum and some people say a calorie is a calorie... fair enough..., some people say to disregard the sugar content...again, fair enough... but when you have a budget of XX amount of calories i simply cannot justify 350-or so calories on watermelon.

I can justify that. Its watermelon and its delicious! I could eat a ton of it.

That watermelong is delicious.

320 calories for 1/4 a watermelon is a good deal to me, but maybe you should put it in to weight terms 1 oz of watermelon is 8 to 9 calories or 144 calories per pound that is pretty calorie light to me, especially when you compare it to other food lets say chicken breast the same ounce is 35 calories. Instead of one ounce of chicken you can have just over 4 oz of watermelon.

Also we men might not want to throw the rind away, since that is where the highest concentration of citrulline is located. Reference "Watermelon may have Viagra effects" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080630165707.htm

That sounds like a good thing, but watermelon is still pure sugar and chicken is pure protien. The protein gets digested slower, makes you feel full longer so you eat less, and doesn't turn to fat like the sugar would, so your argument that the watermelon is better than the chicken is not true.

I eat entire watermelons. It's one of the most cleansing foods there is.

Such a shame people are afraid of fruit calories when they are consuming thousands of calories a day. Whatever else you're eating is not going to be healthier than the fruit.

I don't think some people understand that you'll end up peering a million times and watermelon helps burn belly fat. Its funny seeing people complain about fruit calories /sugars.

Can you explain the science behind this statement? Because excess sugar, no matter the source, is actually stored as fat, and increases your insulin level, which blocks fat-burning.

Can you please explain the science behind this statement?

Because excess calories, no matter the source, are stored as fat.

I had a quarter watermelon yesterday. No idea of the calories. After reading this, I decided to eat half of the remaining matching quarter. This time I weighed what I ate and checked the calories: 96. That was for 320g of watermelon. The roughly 640g I ate yesterday was a ton of watermelon (so good, I couldn't stop). The calorie count for that was 192. I seriously doubt you ate 350 calories worth of watermelon. That would be 1166g, or 2.5 pounds, of watermelon, excluding the rind.

As others have noted, get a food scale. You won't feel like you have to skimp on food you like because of inaccurate ideas about the calorie content.

And enjoy the good watermelon while it lasts.

A friend of mine is a manager at a grocery store, and she had someone wanting to return a watermelon because he ate too much and it gave him the ****s. So that's something to look forward to!

So maybe i'm lost. I've been eating wedges. And recording them as wedges. One wedge comes up as about 86 calories. You guys eating cups and grams, how much watermelon is that? You guys just eating one or two chunks and calling it a day? I'm curious as to how you guys cut up your watermelon, and how you measure it out to be cups or grams. THanks.

I cut mine up into little squares and eat them with a toothpick. Usually about 50-60 cals at a time. I don't just do watermelon that way. we chopped up a cantaloupe a week or so ago and did the same; this week it's honeydew melon. Yum I love the summer-juiciness of melons. Get as much as I can while I can, since the rest of the year they are pretty tasteless.

Hi all,

it was a 12" watermelon... although the massive one on a posters photos!!

I started with Watermelon as i also did the GM Diet a few weeks back (very effective and wanted a weightloss boost from stagnating.) this GM Diet encouraged a fruit day, of mainly melon... so i thought it'd be pretty good to have the odd "fruit day" here n there.

i eat between 1200 - 1400 net calories a day as standard, but hadn't eaten watermelon in a long time, so never logged it before.

i did have it for lunch, so calorie consumption for lunch was ok... but i felt that it was really very high for what i thought was a super healthy food.

It seems like you're suggesting that "super healthy foods" must be very very low or almost zero calories. I have not found that to even be remotely the case. Also, as others have pointed out, the amount of calories in a watermelon (per volume) is almost nothing. AND....most of the time, when these different fad diets say that this food or that food is "free," I doubt they mean to eat a truck load, I'm sure they mean a serving or two...which for watermelon is commonly 1-2 cups which is less than 100 cals.

I cut my watermelon right down the center and eat half of it at a time! LOL I don't care what the calories are, I'm full and it's great for me!

A friend of mine is a manager at a grocery store, and she had someone wanting to return a watermelon because he ate too much and it gave him the ****s. So that's something to look forward to!

This is hilarious on so many levels!