Calorie shocker!

Muffins. I love chocolate chip muffins...needless to say....I was not aware of the enormous amount of calories in ONE muffin (Dunkin Donuts, Tim Hortons, McDonalds)! I always thought, "Oh, I won't get this greasy breakfast sandwich, I'll be good a get a muffin!" How WRONG was I?!? Should of just gotten the sandwich...

I feel like "muffin" is just the healthy term for what really is a cupcake.

It IS cake. I bake cakes and I bake muffins.. pretty similar ingredients.. and the amount of sugar and butter I have to use to make a muffin still makes me cringe.

After my first day signing up, I'm embarrassed to say after I did a rally of what I ate in the day (-714 over), I still haven't added my dinner and snacks. This is a real eye opener. Tomorrow is a brand new day and I will have some motivation by meeting a friend at the gym. The last time I weighed this much, I had a baby inside me growing Got to be accountable for my actions.

I actually think it's beneficial to just track a few days without trying to change your choices, just so you can get an idea of what you were eating. Also if you were maintaining your weight it should help you figure out your real TDEE.

My first day here I tracked two egg and salad cream sandwiches and 2 litres of Coca-Cola, IIRC, and was under my calorie goal a fair bit. My calorie balance was all over the place at first and took me about 9 weeks to consistently get it to where I wanted it and tweaking what I was eating (under meals I have 3 variations of egg sandwich and those aren't the only way I have made them either). I'm not particularly embarrassed about what I was eating at the start. As long as I logged it, I could look back later and ask myself "what could I possibly do to modify that if I have X calories available?"

My first day of tracking was not a typical day, so not sure if today was a typical day for you or not, but it is generally considered OK to just track what you eat for a while (think a dietician I used to see had me do it for 1-2 weeks) so you can then figure out possible changes to make.

Bread was actually a surprise for me. It just seems so light and airy, it shouldn't have that many calories!

Try rye bread - 70 calories a slice and it produces less of an insulin spike than whole wheat. Delish!

Not that I ever thought milk shakes were low calorie, but the most shocking thing I've discovered so far is that for a MINI (not even a small) peanut butter fudge shake, at Sonic, is 760 calories. I guess I knew they'd be high, but that really shocked me.

yes !! a medium blizzard at DQ is about the same

not just the calories of foods shocked me but also the sugar content .. i mean a medium banana is like 14g of sugar and a large apple is like 25g !! sheesh, who knew ?!?

Bizarrely a ripe banana has a LOT more sugar than a green banana

It's never the calorie count that shocks me. It's the sodium.

This in spades and X1000!!

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I feel the exact same way about the sodium, I couldn't believe how much was in my shrimp I had for lunch, sad moment

Portions in restaurants are just too big and you have to dig to find the cals for most of them.

Am I the only one who carries her own take home containers? I hate the containers most places provide. So I have a nice bag almost looks like a purse that I carry containers in and the first thing I do is split what I am eating in half and put half a way. I get a treat later on in the week. I also often split entrees with hubby.

Otherwise the cals would freak me out and I'd never eat out.

This site has made me realise how much calories and sugar that I am really eating. I had a small pot of Muller rice yesterday and I thought that it wouldn't be that bad compared to other things. One little pot contained 25g of sugar! I don't know if it's just me who's amazed at that but it really opened my eyes and made me rethink my whole diet.

The thing that shocked me was the mango flavoring my favorite coffee shop puts in my tea for me. 90 calories for two pumps and the oowner was putting 6 pumps in my unsweetened tea. Ack!!! I have had them cut back to 4 and I don't get the mango in it every time now.
I was also shocked that full fat half and half has fewer calories than flavored non dairy screamers.

I have celiac disease so I don't eat a lot of processed foods, but GF bread has more sugar than I would like to eat. I have foundvone sweetened with agave instead of sugar but a slice still has 110 calories. (My kids white wheat has 90/slice and the slices are larger)