Calorie count for pizza?

Look on the box or look up the restuarant online and see if they have the cals per slice listed if not go to a similar place.

ie pizza express is similar to zizzis but I wouldn't compare either to Dominos

Well most pizzas are 14 inches and about 300 calorie a slice for a plain cheese pizza.

WW won't make any difference, you still won't know how many points a slice is unless you find the nutrition info. MFP has their own entries for basic stuff, and those are correct, otherwise it's entered by users and you have to find an average.

This made me doubt my calorie log. How do I know if mpf is correct. The box of purchased goods is the only way to compare. Maybe this incorrect calorie issue is to blame for my current weight loss plateau? Does this mean weight watchers is better?

One of the great things about MFP is that anyone can contribute foods/calorie counts to the database! And...one of the crappy things is that anyone can contribute foods/calorie counts to the database. Unfortunately there are some bad, inaccurate foods in the database that can't be trusted. Your best bet is to try to find out the correct calorie amount and add it to the database yourself!

This made me doubt my calorie log. How do I know if mpf is correct. The box of purchased goods is the only way to compare. Maybe this incorrect calorie issue is to blame for my current weight loss plateau? Does this mean weight watchers is better?

I don't know if it's to blame for your plateau or not - i don't know if this is just a pizza related issue. And MFP probably is correct for the person who entered in the information to begin with. There are slices that are 200 cals and ones that are 600.

But you should probably take a little more responsibility for knowing how much is in the specific slice from your preferred pizzeria as far as the "incorrect calorie" issue.

I don't understand how weight watchers is better in this situation either... Whether you're logging here or with them, you still need to have some sort of idea of the nutritonal info for a food in order to figure out calories or points.

You could be underestimating but I don't think you're off by much assuming it's nothing too fancy. But you're right, depending on how much you're off, it could be cancelling out your deficit. Try logging with more like 230 cal per slice and see if that helps.

I say this based on what I get for my Domino's pizza. It's a medium (12") with green pepper and mushroom on hand tossed crust with 8 slices, about 190 cal per slice. Assuming yours is similar, that'd be just over 200 cal per slice, I think (assuming as a 10" it has 6 slices rather than 8).

If you want to know for sure, you're going to have to go with a few different options. Make you're own so you can control ingredients, etc. Buy frozen pizza so you can go by calories, etc on the label. Get pizza from a company that provides nutrtional information. Otherwise, the best you can do is keep guesstimating and hope for the best.

Yeah yesterday we went to help some family (well, hubby helped and I had to entertain the kids), and the only food they had for lunch was pizza. I like pizza, but it's twice in a month that it's the only option and it just makes me incredibly grumpy to have to waste calories on something like that when I don't even want it (I made homemade pizza on Saturday too...) - but I was starving, so I ended up eating too much of it. Bleh.

Typically I compare the pizza to the chain pizza I'm used to eating and use those calories, but it's always a total guess pretty much.

When in doubt I always use the highest number, BUT most chains have nutritional information on their site so you can manually enter.