IT IS SO HARD TO COUNTER CALORIES...

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  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    How is it any different from those of us who cook our own meals from scratch but don't eat "clean?"

    All food you buy has a bar code on it, even fruit. Scan your foods, weigh against the serving size. It takes a matter of seconds.

    Not different at all! And what foods are you buying???? Mine don't come with bar codes. >.<
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    Mine don't come with barcodes either ]
  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,711 Member
    you actually don't need to count calories if you eat clean.


    You are joking.....right ?
  • kikilita
    kikilita Posts: 91 Member
    WHEN YOU'RE EATING CLEAN!

    You have to work so much harder. All the calorie numbers aren't neatly on a package. YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY ENTER YOUR RECIPES!

    *throws stuff around* RAWR RAWR RAWRRRRRRR

    *huff huff*

    But for serious. It's not easy.

    Couple of points of advice after struggling with clean eating for years.

    1) NEVER guess how much your food is. Always enter your recipe into the recipe maker provided by MFP.

    2) Remember how much better you feel when you aren't eating packaged food.

    3) Do not binge eat chocolate (unless you want to).

    That is all. I'm out. *wanders off to enter more recipes* RAWRIOWEILJSKLFJI


    You must have posted this for ME!! Thank YOU so much!! The mpf recipe maker totally never crossed my mind. I've been scratching my head at mfp a few times, trying to figure out how to enter the food I've made (all veggies and fruits with some snacks). But you have RESCUED me!! THANK YOU for your super informative post, you are a life saver!!

    And, yes, chocolate (chips or dark) with peanut butter is my weakness.
  • tilmoph
    tilmoph Posts: 72 Member
    What makes you think all "clean foods" are low calorie? Avocados, bananas, grass feed beef, quinoa, all considered "clean" by most of the 5 million definitions of "clean eating," and all pretty calorie dense.
    Until a farmer who eats his wife's homemade meals every day gets fat. 5000 calories of clean food is still 5000 calories. Just because it comes fresh from a meat market and is made with natural ingredients doesn't mean you'll automatically lose weight. :wink:
    Ok, I feel compelled to clarify my point. I wasn't trying to say she was totally right (see "eh,maybe"). What I was trying to do was try and figure out how she came to her conclusion. Like I said I see what her logic would have to be. I can see how that might work out. It's very suboptimal (in my post I actually listed a couple requirements for her to be right, with a qualifier that in people for whom her idea would apply, the odds of significant weight-gain to start with would be low). Trust me, I think I've thrown enough "a calorie is a calorie, clean and dirty don't matter, sugar isn't the devil, GMO aren't going to kill you and are a good idea, organic can't support the current human population and any effort to make it do so will frag the environment way more than current agribusiness techniques" type rants to show that I'm not, in any way shape or form convinced of the inherent magic of clean eating (I'm assuming plant based, organic, non-GMO however the hell that's suppose to work after however many millennia of genetic modifications as my clean eating definition). However, I've tossed enough of those rants I wanted to at least try and puzzle out someone else's logic, and low and behold I came up with a very narrow, highly conditional circumstance that would allow the occasional lucky soul to lose weight just by eating "clean" and not counting calories.

    Sorry if that seemed like I was saying she was right beyond those narrow confines.
  • AllonsYtotheTardis
    AllonsYtotheTardis Posts: 16,947 Member

    All food you buy has a bar code on it, even fruit.

    ?

    Not where I shop, they don't.

    Fortunately, I have a food scale.
  • magerum
    magerum Posts: 12,589 Member
    Is this real life?
  • _SABOTEUR_
    _SABOTEUR_ Posts: 6,833 Member
    you actually don't need to count calories if you eat clean.

    You really are high.
  • _SABOTEUR_
    _SABOTEUR_ Posts: 6,833 Member

    All food you buy has a bar code on it, even fruit.

    ?

    Not where I shop, they don't.

    Fortunately, I have a food scale.

    I have a bar code on my *kitten*. Wanna see?
  • TigerBite
    TigerBite Posts: 611 Member
    How is it any different from those of us who cook our own meals from scratch but don't eat "clean?"

    All food you buy has a bar code on it, even fruit. Scan your foods, weigh against the serving size. It takes a matter of seconds.

    What fruit do you buy (with the exception of berries in clam shell containers) that has a barcode on it? PLU#, yes, barcode, no ...
  • SteveHunt113
    SteveHunt113 Posts: 648 Member
    OH OH! I want to add my own rant!!!!

    When creating recipe's, why the heck am I not able to:

    A) Use my phone to create recipe's so I can scan bar codes to enter ingredients?
    B) Modify the quantity of an ingredient instead of having to delete and re-add it?
    C) Provide serving sizes in grams or ounces?

    Seriously, why is this so difficult????

    BTW, I want to purchase fruit with bar codes too! The fruit I get only has the PLU code sticker on it.

    Wow, I feel so much better now! :)
  • hddeuce1966
    hddeuce1966 Posts: 104
    You guys seriously don't have the bar codes on the stickers?

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    The barcode on this apple will NOT scan!!!!!
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    since apples are different sizes, don't you have to weigh them whether you grow them or buy them?

    Life is too short...

    The variation gets lest in the noise of slightly different activity levels each day anyway. The bus that I catch from the station to the office has two different options, one of which involves walking further than the other...
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    You guys seriously don't have the bar codes on the stickers?

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    The barcode on this apple will NOT scan!!!!!

    In for the apple PLU barcode thingie. Yup. These are newer. I was leaning over the scanner in Kroger to enter the PLU # and the fruit or veggie just scanned on me. Freaked me out something good :laugh: It appears they're upgrading their systems; even the credit card swipers are new! Grocery shopping FTW!
  • sami_83
    sami_83 Posts: 161
    No barcodes on fruit here either... but then again I don't live in the U.S. :glasses:
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    OH OH! I want to add my own rant!!!!

    When creating recipe's, why the heck am I not able to:

    A) Use my phone to create recipe's so I can scan bar codes to enter ingredients?
    B) Modify the quantity of an ingredient instead of having to delete and re-add it?
    C) Provide serving sizes in grams or ounces?

    Seriously, why is this so difficult????

    BTW, I want to purchase fruit with bar codes too! The fruit I get only has the PLU code sticker on it.

    Wow, I feel so much better now! :)
    You CAN use your phone to create recipes, and you can modify ingredients on the phone as well.
  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
    Is this real life?

    Or is this just fantasy?
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
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  • penrbrown
    penrbrown Posts: 2,685 Member
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  • smelius22
    smelius22 Posts: 334 Member
    LMAO I love all the reeeeally late posters who are just now getting onto that poor girl for saying you dont count calories if you eat clean haha. this argument took place a full day ago and has been solved over and over throughout the feed :) your snarky comments are no longer needed and aren't relevant, she got the point long ago.
  • hddeuce1966
    hddeuce1966 Posts: 104
    LMAO I love all the reeeeally late posters who are just now getting onto that poor girl for saying you dont count calories if you eat clean haha. this argument took place a full day ago and has been solved over and over throughout the feed :) your snarky comments are no longer needed and aren't relevant, she got the point long ago.
    But the apple still won't scan!!! Dang it!!!!!
  • smelius22
    smelius22 Posts: 334 Member
    LMAO I love all the reeeeally late posters who are just now getting onto that poor girl for saying you dont count calories if you eat clean haha. this argument took place a full day ago and has been solved over and over throughout the feed :) your snarky comments are no longer needed and aren't relevant, she got the point long ago.
    But the apple still won't scan!!! Dang it!!!!!

    hahahah :)
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    Type or paste your recipe (or what ingredients you recall using) into this:

    http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php

    Then enter the resulting calories/macros per serving as a custom food in MFP. Assuming you're getting many meals out of each 'recipe', it's probably less time and work than scanning bar codes or picking from a list for 8 unique meals (or however many your recipe outputs).

    I don't weigh produce. An apple gets logged as a large apple. I only weigh very calorie dense things like nuts and then only to see how much my spoonful weighs so I can log it as X grams each time I use a spoonful.
  • TheSlorax
    TheSlorax Posts: 2,401 Member
    LMAO I love all the reeeeally late posters who are just now getting onto that poor girl for saying you dont count calories if you eat clean haha. this argument took place a full day ago and has been solved over and over throughout the feed :) your snarky comments are no longer needed and aren't relevant, she got the point long ago.

    LOL. don't worry, I'm not offended in the slightest as I was absolutely and 100% joking. I am concerned at how few of the responders realized it was a sarcastic comment however.

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