Oh my god! Chili's calories *faint*

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  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,281 Member
    Do you eat like this everyday? If no, breath and enjoy yourself, it's 1 meal
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    My highest weight gave me a bmi of 26, and I was probably eating about 2000 calories a day. So for me, chilis would definitely make me fat. I get what you're saying, but I think that the food they serve IS inherently fattening, especially in the amounts they give you. But you must exercise a lot, or save up calories for the meal, or have a high metabolism, so if it works for you, that's great! There are definitely a couple things that i eat that I wouldn't normally eat (like Panera).

    My guess is you completely underestimate your food intake. Nobody gets obese on 2000 calories, unless you're bed ridden and 50+ or something.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,993 Member
    Nope, but seriously: I can eat decent sized portions all day, or I eat a few crumbs and then eat at Chilis. I also noticed that what I are wasn't really nourishing: I was hungry again after a relatively short time and my husband felt the same. Note again: we don't live in the US or Europe and our menu is rather different than what you might be used to. Certainly less healthy and there's less (if at all) quality control.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,993 Member
    Anyway, we're making our own burgers tonight. We know there's only fresh ingredients in them, and they aren't filled with unnecessarily high amounts of salt, fat and sugar. They are seriously yummy!
  • LastCupOfSorrow
    LastCupOfSorrow Posts: 15 Member
    I would love to organize the next coming together in a Lebanese restaurant: lots of cold meze like tabouleh, fatoush salad, hummus, labne, etc.. on the table, and then everyone can dig in. Not sure though if I can convince the guys...

    Can I come?! Tabouleh is my favorite thing on the planet and I love me some hummus, too.
  • Sevendust912
    Sevendust912 Posts: 122 Member
    It's Chili's.

    Shouldn't be surprising that it is high in calories.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,993 Member
    I would love to organize the next coming together in a Lebanese restaurant: lots of cold meze like tabouleh, fatoush salad, hummus, labne, etc.. on the table, and then everyone can dig in. Not sure though if I can convince the guys...

    Can I come?! Tabouleh is my favorite thing on the planet and I love me some hummus, too.

    Yay! I love cold Lebaneze meze! Tabouleh with some hummus on the fork goes extremely well together! I see my Arab colleagues eat it that way. Not too fond of warm meze though. There's too much deepfried stuff in there usually
  • 970Mikaela1
    970Mikaela1 Posts: 2,013 Member
    What I love about these types of places are how their light section of the menu typically proudly proclaims how their options are all under 600 calories.. or some other embarrassingly high number to be considered "light."

    as someone who just had a 1700 calorie dinner , I would consider 600 light.

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