What food's calorie content shocked you the most....?!?!?!
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the veggie sub from Jimmy John's over 500 calories
one cup of Plain Oatmeal 300
Plain oatmeal shouldn't be 300 calories unless your talking a whole cup dry. I use Quaker old fashioned oats, 1/4 cup dry which looks like at least a cup finished (made with water) and thats only 75 calories.0 -
Pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks. I had to jump rope for 16 mins to get rid of that one coffee!! So not worth it.0
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Orange juice...I just don't want to drink 110 calories for 8 ounces, not to mention I would probably drink 10-12 ounces a day and all of that sugar...eek! I have cut out OJ in favor of an orange or nothing at all and save it for rare occasions.
Pasta was a HUGE eye opener. I was eating 4 ounces (dry) per serving. Yikes!!!
Also, my favorite homemade beef enchiladas. I used the MFP recipe tool and worked it out that two tiny enchiladas are a whopping 700+ calories. Good gravy.0 -
Steamed Brown Rice is 200 calories per cup! This shocked me the first time! It's more than eating 5 cups of steamed veggies!!!!!0
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A few years back I decided to check the calorie content of a fried chicken finger Zalad from Zaxbys. I knew that since it tasted SO good and was SO big there was no way it was low cal but holy cow when I totaled it up it was over 100 grams of fat and close to 2000 calories. I dont remember exactly. Now I wasn't one of those people who thought since its a "salad" it must be healthy - but geez. I never thought it would be quite THAT bad! I've never had one since then and will never have one again- unless I have about 3 other people to share it with lol.0
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Deluxe mixed nuts.0
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My husband last week told me he ate light for dinner. He just had a ham and cheese melt from IHOP. Just a sandwich he said. I looked it up....1100 cal! Are you kidding me? How do you even get that many calories in 1 sandwich?0
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Lord!!! my nachos i love em....:sad:0
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Deluxe mixed nuts. A 30 gram serving (which doesn't even line the bottom of a small zip lock bag) packs 170 calories. All these years I thought a few handfuls of nuts was a healthy snack! But the food scale (a must have, what a huge aid in the battle!) doesn't lie!
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Red Delicious apples.
80 calories for one medium apple! Don't know why, but that made me do this face ----> :noway:0 -
My husband last week told me he ate light for dinner. He just had a ham and cheese melt from IHOP. Just a sandwich he said. I looked it up....1100 cal! Are you kidding me? How do you even get that many calories in 1 sandwich?
2 sausage and egg biscuits from hardees, 1100 calories! I loved those things. Have no idea what the sodium content is but I can tell you a pilsbury grand biscuit is atrocious in sodium and calories.0 -
Pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks. I had to jump rope for 16 mins to get rid of that one coffee!! So not worth it.
im sorry, but that is SO worth it to me! fall wouldn't be the same without starbucks pumpkin spice
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Mine was almonds & cashews.. I was bringing a little ziplock baggy to work with handfuls of them in there, and I'd have grapes along with them.. I didn't realize I was eating around 400-500 cals every single day in just ALMONDS ...0
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Baby spinach- 2 cups = 13 calories.0
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Panera Bread Egg Souffle! I cried when I found out how much calories were in one! over 5000
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What frustrates me is I almost always customize my order and then eat about half, so even if it says on the menu I'm not certain what I'm eating.
Chili's quesidilla explosion salad for example. I use just a tiny portion of the dressing on the side and skip the quesidillas all together. So I know the original 1,400 calorie meal is way less than stated, but have to assume around 500 as a guesstimate. Same for Olive Garden's Shrimp Carpese - skip the butter sauce and sub marinara at a half portion has to drastically reduce the 900 calorie dish.
We can always improve the splurges when going out to eat, but impossible then to really know what we ended up with.0 -
not calories but fat! I am a teacher and one of my students had one of the individual packs of sunflower seeds. 17 GRAMS of FAT!!0
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Peanut butter
Beans
Nuts so small and so high in calories!!0 -
O I have one more: Chai Tea Latte with skim milk - 200 calories and 42G OF SUGAR!!!!! Might as well drink pop!!!!0
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not calories but fat! I am a teacher and one of my students had one of the individual packs of sunflower seeds. 17 GRAMS of FAT!!
sun flower seeds are great for you and thats good fat that the body needs0 -
My favorite Peanut Butter cookies....It almost makes me cry to say it but they are 350 calories and I cannot have just one...R.I.P Peanut Butter Cookie You are truly missed0
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I have always known that ranch dressing is high in calories and fat, but until I started tracking what I ate and how much ranch dressing I put on everything, I didn't realize just HOW MANY calories I was eating JUST from the ranch dressing alone! I'm slowly trying to overcome my "ranch addiction," but it isn't easy....0
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My favorite Peanut Butter cookies....It almost makes me cry to say it but they are 350 calories and I cannot have just one...R.I.P Peanut Butter Cookie You are truly missed
LMAO ((hug)) im sorry for your loss :flowerforyou:0 -
Chick Fil A cole slaw-300 calories! I actually thouight I was eating something that was around 100 cals:(
French Onion Soup @ Applebees-348 cals. It's broth for goodness sakes.
A banana-105 cals. I still can't get over this one:)
Chick Fil A cole slaw-300 calories! I actually thouight I was eating something that was around 100 cals:(
- Because it is made with mayonnaise, low fatmayo or miracle whip makes it better.
French Onion Soup @ Applebees-348 cals. It's broth for goodness sakes.
- A broth covered in layers of cheese (which is where the calories come from) the sodium is killer in the broth too though.
A banana-105 cals. I still can't get over this one:)
- Might seem high, but it is some of the best calories you can consume. Great for the potassium content. Good for recovery smoothies too.
My latest shocker was hamburgers. 20% fat patty is 380 calories, a 5% patty is 190 calories. Such a huge difference, sadly nearly all places use the 20% fat because it 'tastes better'. :grumble:0 -
not calories but fat! I am a teacher and one of my students had one of the individual packs of sunflower seeds. 17 GRAMS of FAT!!
sun flower seeds are great for you and thats good fat that the body needs
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I went to a Thai restaurant to have my favorite "light" salad. Turns out that the cellophane noodles tossed in the salad have 491 calories per serving! It's a good thing I checked my MFP app before eating it. I ended picking out half the noodles.0
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I'm still shocked at how much sugar is in an onion.
The sugars in fruits and veggies are not like refined sugars though. The fiber in the fruit or veggie keeps most of that sugar from being absorbed by the body.0 -
I expected pizza to be a kinda high, but only 3 slices of pizza hut pizza was ~1100 calories! And that was a cheese pizza; no meat or anything else on it! And a Friendly's bacon burger (withOUT the fries) is ~1400!! Holy cow!0
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Low: egg whites, jam, donuts (I thought donuts would be like 500 calories), grated parmesan.
High: olive oil, almonds, bread and japanese rice (nishiki rice = ~300/cup vs. jasmine rice = ~200/cup).
Sodium shocker: smoked salmon. YIKES.0 -
Anything from Hardee's is just horrendous to me.0
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