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Chinese takeaway...

mayweather13
mayweather13 Posts: 21 Member
edited February 17 in Food and Nutrition
Right,

After losing a good 12lb lately, now down 37lb. I just wondered in reality are the chinese takeaway figures for calories accurate?

I will have one container of chicken curry, dish of egg fried rice and a handful of chips.

One container chicken curry: 455 cals
Egg fried rice 300g - 580cals
Chips - 300cals

If so, not ate much today, so should be fine, or will I see a crazy sodium spike on the scale tomorrow?

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  • TylerAvenger
    TylerAvenger Posts: 83
    Chinese food (at least the stuff you get in the United States) has a crap ton of sodium. I ate panda express the other day and yeah... learned it the hard way lol
  • mayweather13
    mayweather13 Posts: 21 Member
    LOL, how hard was the after effects the next day?
  • SPeffer1
    SPeffer1 Posts: 74 Member
    Most (American) Chinese dishes have a lot of sodium so you would likely see a temporary gain from it. But unless you are watching sodium for another reason, I'm not sure it really matters if you have a gain one day, especially when you know what it's from. Obviously that's just my opinion though.
  • Miamiuu
    Miamiuu Posts: 262 Member
    Just curious here, but what are chips from a chinese restaurant never heard of that. Also seems high calories for just a handful of them.
  • dodochoga
    dodochoga Posts: 33
    by chips, do you mean those awful crackers they give with the soups? they are loaded with salt, at least at the chinese takeaways around these parts, try to avoid those at least.
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