Guys!Did I ate too much today?

gcdn
gcdn Posts: 42
in Goal: Maintaining Weight
I'm just really paranoid rn.I had 1/2 cooked (20g raw) quick oats this morning with chia & a teaspoon of raw honey.I don't use milk in my oatmeals,just water.Then for lunch I bought a 280g baked japanese sweet potato (purple skin,yellow flesh) and ate half of it plus some salad without dressing.For dinner,I had cinnamon & strawberry rolled oats 1/2 cup cooked (25g raw).And after dinner,I ate the other half of the sweet potato.In total,I ate the whole potato.Now I'm stuffed.App. How many calories have I consumed from the potato alone??Different websites give me different calorie counts! P/S I'm only worried about my japanese sweet potato/japanese yam whatever you call itAs I'm very aware of how much calories my bowl of oatmeal contains.

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  • Laurenloveswaffles
    Laurenloveswaffles Posts: 535 Member
    1. Go to google
    2. Search for the calories in that specific sweet potato

    1. Search it in the MFP database
    2. Log how much you ate

    Both of these methods will give you a good estimate of the calories that you ate

    The people of MFP can not see how much you eat. You need to do this yourself.
  • bagge72
    bagge72 Posts: 1,377 Member
    How come you never like to figure this out on your own? MFP data base is filled with the information you are looking for, and since you are the one who ate it, you are the only one who can do this accurately.
  • drewofva
    drewofva Posts: 1
    Half a sweet potato one time doesn't seem like something to worry *that* much about anyways...
  • Quasita
    Quasita Posts: 1,530 Member
    If you have a daily goal, the question becomes, did you eat over said goal? If not, then chill. The average Japanese sweet potato has 115-135 calories in it. How that's going to break a diet, I have no idea.

    There is actually a diet constructed around the satsumaimo explicitly intended to lower calorie intake without being nutritionally vacant. It sure sounds like you could be undereating, if anything.
  • gcdn
    gcdn Posts: 42
    How come you never like to figure this out on your own? MFP data base is filled with the information you are looking for, and since you are the one who ate it, you are the only one who can do this accurately.

    Because there's so many different information for the same type of potato.Like this japanese yam I had,some is like 120cal for 100g,80cal for 100g etc.So I'm just wondering maybe some of you might have eaten it before so you could tell me how much you logged it as.Also,is 280g too much for one day?I only have it like once every few months.
  • Laurenloveswaffles
    Laurenloveswaffles Posts: 535 Member
    How come you never like to figure this out on your own? MFP data base is filled with the information you are looking for, and since you are the one who ate it, you are the only one who can do this accurately.

    Because there's so many different information for the same type of potato.Like this japanese yam I had,some is like 120cal for 100g,80cal for 100g etc.So I'm just wondering maybe some of you might have eaten it before so you could tell me how much you logged it as.Also,is 280g too much for one day?I only have it like once every few months.

    Just pick one and log it.
  • hj1119
    hj1119 Posts: 173 Member
    nvm
  • sloth3toes
    sloth3toes Posts: 2,212 Member
    How come you never like to figure this out on your own? MFP data base is filled with the information you are looking for, and since you are the one who ate it, you are the only one who can do this accurately.

    Because there's so many different information for the same type of potato.Like this japanese yam I had,some is like 120cal for 100g,80cal for 100g etc.So I'm just wondering maybe some of you might have eaten it before so you could tell me how much you logged it as.Also,is 280g too much for one day?I only have it like once every few months.

    Rounding up, that's 360 calories max. So, if you're in doubt, log the max. Secondly, if you don't have an eating disorder, you are dangerously close to having one. Your relationship with food is a bit whacko. And third.... if you only have this 360 calorie 'binge' once every few months.... why are we even talking about it? You are asking if it's OK to eat 360 calories worth of sweet potato once every few months?
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    This level of anxiety really doesn't sound like a sustainable way to maintain your weight and your relationship with food for the rest of your life.

    To me that's a bigger issue than trying to worry over a few calories in a vegetable which will naturally vary anyway.
  • fushigi1988
    fushigi1988 Posts: 519 Member
    This level of anxiety really doesn't sound like a sustainable way to maintain your weight and your relationship with food for the rest of your life.

    To me that's a bigger issue than trying to worry over a few calories in a vegetable which will naturally vary anyway.

    this
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    How come you never like to figure this out on your own? MFP data base is filled with the information you are looking for, and since you are the one who ate it, you are the only one who can do this accurately.

    Because there's so many different information for the same type of potato.Like this japanese yam I had,some is like 120cal for 100g,80cal for 100g etc.So I'm just wondering maybe some of you might have eaten it before so you could tell me how much you logged it as.Also,is 280g too much for one day?I only have it like once every few months.

    This is why you weigh and long your food BEFORE you eat it. That way it removes all guesswork.
  • Siigh_duck
    Siigh_duck Posts: 161 Member
    Yeah just putting this out there. Seen a few posts from OP and they all indicate that they barely eat anything ... to MAINTAIN... jus' saying.
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    Yeah just putting this out there. Seen a few posts from OP and they all indicate that they barely eat anything ... to MAINTAIN... jus' saying.

    This.
    I remember your former posts.
    I would suggest you seek some help from a professional if you are stressing to such a degree over what is actually sounding to be a very small amount of food to maintain on.
    Also, if I recall rightly, you are 109-110 Ibs at 5'6 ?
  • PennyVonDread
    PennyVonDread Posts: 432 Member
    I ate too much today, too. Weekly net balances out, it's all Gucci. Don't flip out. Food is food- necessary and delicious. Log it and carry on.
  • littleburgy
    littleburgy Posts: 570 Member
    Sometimes you have to just guess. You certainly aren't going to gain weight overnight because you were off a few calories with a sweet potato.

    Really, everything we log and the calories we burn are just estimates anyway. They give a pretty good idea, but we're never going to have absolute precision to the calorie.

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