Calorie shocker!

Eggs are awesome....

If 70 calories scare you....
Then boil the egg, toss the yolk and enjoy ~20 calories of pure protein goodness (~6 gr)

Actually it would be 3g of protein, the yoke carries half.

You sure about that?

I always thought the egg had ~9 gr of protein. 3 in the yolk, 6 in the white.


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Ok, went and looked it up....you are right.
I guess things have changed over the years....I could have sworn when I looked it up a while back that is how they broke it down.

Eggs are awesome....

^ this

shockers for me were
-fruit juice drinks
-milk
-sweet tea
-anything with bread on/in it

The reason they were that way for is that they were easy for me to over-do the consumption of these things. Finding healthy variants and practicing moderation really helped.

Well I love Pepsi Max and that is low calorie but i then got a huge lecture from my carer about sugars etc in drinks, foods, favourings that make it bad.

Looking at it's label it has 1% trace sugar. I did see a site linked from here that said you can eat what you like and to worry more about carbs but there are High & Low carbs and you need to balance those. Get the balance right and you can have things you like.

Trim Down Club

It linked and ran a video when i very first used MFP online, I usually just used it on iphone until I destroyed it :-(

So if that carb advice is right i'm using that and balancing what i like and the things everyone else says I should have .. out the other ear ;-)

uuggh water, my brother can chug that stuff easy, admitadly he knocks back 3 pints of it to counter the drinks that night (works for him too) I have trouble drinking 250ml of it.

I think of water as being in my coffee, i get alot of water.

Houmus scared me, for three weeks I've been starving eating celery and houmus at work before going home and having my usual meal and a half bottle of wine and I couldn't understand why I was gaining weight only, a friend out me onto this sight for me to realize the houmus has as much calories as 3 mars bars - whilst I'm well aware the mars bar is a lot less healthy I think I'd have been much happier eating those for three weeks!!!
I'm now attempting 1 poached egg on dry brown toast for breakfast and a yoghurt for lunch allowing me to still eat the evening meal and wine, dieting at home and trying to cook three meals (1 for me, 1 for boyfriend and 1 for kids) just isn't happening!

Hummus is actually low in calorie. I have seen some as little as 35 calories a serving before. The highest calorie hummus I have seen was a packaged one and that was still only about 70 calories a serving. Sounds to me like you were eating 8 servings in one go (which would be about 270 calories). The average -SERVING- of hummus is only 2 tablespoons. This is like complaining that an entire pizza has 1200 calories when an actual serving is only 200.

Also, you can cook healthy things so you don't have to cook "three" meals. There are plenty of recipes for healthier kid friendly things, like Lightened Up Lasagna or Healthier Mac and Cheese, you just have to research and find things you think your family would like.

don't know about you but i wouldn't be able to stick to just 2 tablespoons of hommus! overall its healthy so it doesnt matter if its got lots of calories, its just chickpeas which is full of nutrients

I don't do Humus, but you have to look at them like nuts and anything else for that matter.

I love nuts, but they are caloricaly dense....so if you are not careful you have eaten 600+ calories.

So be careful with anything you eat....and starving yourself is not the way to go.

Well legumes are calorie dense anyway, simply because of how much nutrients they pack in just one bean or nut. People forget though, to look at the whole picture and immediately will toss something simply because of the calories. Eggs are a big one I see on this thread. Yes, it is 70 calories for a whole egg, but there is also 6g of protein, Omega-3, Omega-6, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Calcium, Zinc, Magnesium. They are basically just calorie dense vitamin packs to me!

I was eating an entire pot of Tesco houmus each day with celery, celery without a huge dollop of houmus just doesn't taste nice... oh and the wine does add a good 300 calories but I like my wine a bit too much to give up. I was just gutted that the humous I thought was so good for me was putting me massively over calorie intake per portion

I find it most beneficial to log reastaurant food and junk food most. when i see the calorie counts ..that is what stops me from ever eating it again. LIke a Jimmy John's sandwich from the right side of the menu is almost 1000 calories...and the #1 Pepe is 600. I go for the Pepe now with no mayo..and know I'm under that 600. It helps

I am amazed at how much sugar is in my morning coffee! And my afternoon tea! I thought I was doing great giving up sodas, but I see there is still room for improvement!

The only sugar in coffee or tea is the sugar you add. Ground or instant coffee and tea leaves or tea bags have no calories and neither does the water you make it with. The calories come from the milk and sugar.

I bought a big bag (2 lbs) of green grapes yesterday and ate them all in an evening munch-a-thon...and it was 640 calories.

I remember onions really shocked me when I first started. Most recently I was shocked by the fresh dates I ate and then counted afterwards ooops

But a whole cup of onions is only 64 calories!

I love Progresso's tomato basil soup. My comfort food. Wasn't so much shocked at the calories but more the sodium. UGH! I want to lost weight, but I want more to get off the four blood pressure medicines I take every morning.

Re. Re Quinoa ...yes but it taste like cr*p! I have tried with it and never succeeded, even tho I am a good cook!

I LOVE quinoa. I cook it in a little broth. I could eat it all day.

For me it's Costa's .. So now I have my Tassimo and a load of pod's for that.

Oh and my Pepsi Max but I scanned that in MFP and it read ok :-) But I drink it slow anyway, a couple of bottles lasts me weeks.

That's what MFP does for me, makes me think before I eat it! Back when I used to do Weight Watchers, my shocker moment was when I calculated how many points was in a big Café Mocha from Starbucks. Used nearly half my daily points drinking that thing!

Had two 4 oz salmon filets last night for dinner.

It was awesome.

Gonna do some sushi/sashimi for lunch today....hoping it will be a lot of Tuna and Salmon.....

Double Awesome!!!

I was shocked to find out how many calories were in a little bread roll. Ugh.