HOLY TOLEDO!!! What's the biggest calorie shock you've had
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Mine was when I thought I was eating healthy. I would have a bowl of brown sugar oatmeal w/ a scoop of peanut butter, a handful of almonds, raisins, and dried cranberries. It was like 800 calories.........FOR BREAKFAST! If it wasnt for MFP I would have kept eating it blindly thinking I was doing good.0
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OIL! I always thought I was cooking lovely healthy meals at home, but never realised how much fat I was adding by using too much olive oil. Now I measure very, very carefully! I made chicken fried rice last night and it took forever because I was constantly comparing sunflower/vegetable/sesame oils and tweaking the recipe (and entering values into MFP) the entire time!0
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Pea Salad of all things, 661 calories per serving. The mayo and the bacon being the culprits. Oh, and the cheese!
Wonder how many calories in this?!0 -
In the UK we have a pub chain called Wetherspoons and I'm constantly surprised by the calories in their food. The Chicken Ceaser Salad is 759 calories! Thats more than three sausages, mash and peas which comes out at 720.
I always try to look at the menu before I go now but yesterday they'd run out of Superfood Chicken Salad I wanted (468) and so the asked if I wanted the chicken ceaser instead. I'm glad now I chose the sausage and mash. Even if it is only just lower in cals, it filled me up till tea time whereas the salad wouldn't have. Also, I didn't actually manage to finish the whole plate so two sauages was enough.0 -
A little ready made cheese and onion quiche. A quick look on the front of the box said 580 cals so i thought great go halves with my husband. While recycling the box later i saw that the 580 cals was for 1/4 of the pie. Gutted!!0
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DQ Blizzards... omigoodness... calorie shock city! Like 800 calories in that cup!
get the mini ones. they're about half the calories and fat. i mean sure you don't want to eat a 400 cal desert daily but for an occasional treat it's a lot better than 800 cals.0 -
2 slices....just 2 slices of Papa Johns Pizza 625 cals and that not mentioning all that sodium!!! That'll teach me to try having left overs for lunch :laugh:0
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Starbucks apple chai tea has over 300 calories in a grande. There's no way to make it light either. I'm better off having a light frappuccino! I still treat myself every once in a while!0
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My shock was def. my favorite salad from Chilis "Quesadilla Explosion" and oh yeah, the devilish deesert i'd crave "Chocolate Molten".. I entered it in and about died.. Haha.. Any restaurant food like that has shocked me. I'm MUCH more aware of what i'm putting into my body since i've joined MFP.
Me too! Both combined are over 2400 calories! Thats practically 2 days worth of calories. Thankfully we always split the dessert, but still!0 -
Starbucks apple chai tea has over 300 calories in a grande. There's no way to make it light either. I'm better off having a light frappuccino! I still treat myself every once in a while!
Those are so delicious! I was so sad when I found this out :sad: I'm a big fan of their passion fruit iced tea though when I'm going there looking for something that's not going to kill my calorie count for the day. Unsweetened is very few calories, but I usually like to add a splenda or two...0 -
A friend of mine ordered Jimmy Johns the other day and got an extra pickle (a whole big one) and asked if I wanted it. Just out of curiosity, I checked it in MFP and there were 3,500 mg of sodium! I almost died!0
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You can get Don Pancho's Whole Wheat Tortilla's that are 10 like calories each. The worst thing about flour tortilla's is the sodium. These also have so so so much less.0
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Also, GRANOLA. Serious calories in that stuff.
Actually, one of my favorite snacks is Nature Valley Honey and Oats Granola bars. You get two bars for only 190 calories! Plus they taste AMAZING. I picked up a big box of 12 packs for about 5 bucks at Walmart! Hope this helps!0 -
My favorite ice cream is from Coldstone Creamery. I always used to get the small size ("like it" size) of the Mint Mint Chocolate Chocolate Chip ice cream. I recently looked it up....it's 900+ calories
Now, that IS shocking! A small bowl, too.0 -
Pea Salad of all things, 661 calories per serving. The mayo and the bacon being the culprits. Oh, and the cheese!
Wonder how many calories in this?!
Oh no, I love that pea salad in the summertime. Will have to try to fine a low-cal version - maybe using fat free cheese, fat free mayo and turkey bacon.0 -
1400 calories in my favorite salad from Chilis - Quesidilla Explosion Salad. That's just wrong on so many levels!
This! I was going to "be healthy" and get a salad so I looked before we went. Thank goodness I did. That's just ridiculous.0 -
My biggest shock had to be when I ate dinner at olive garden. Before I ordered my favorite dinner spagetti and chicken Parmesan I looked up the calories. For one cutlet of chicken parmesan it was 1,000 calories!!!0
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Mine was actually on behalf of my boyfriend who was curious how much his standard Perkins breakfast rang in at - omelette, bacon, pancakes - 1800!!0
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Today I got a different calorie shock. After my friend and I went hiking for an hour and a half, we went to Panera's. She had soup, salad, and baguette. I had salad and sandwich...Her's was 100 calories more than mine! At least we had already worked off the calories!0
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when I inputted what I used to eat daily and it came to 12000 calories! 20000mg of sodium!0
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