Yes, I ate that many Pistachios. Don't judge. :) help me log it pls.

spicy618
spicy618 Posts: 2,114 Member
edited October 2014 in Food and Nutrition
I made the mistake of buying a big ole bag of Pistachios from Costco. I know I ate way too many the first time, to I decided to count how many I will eat before I'm satisfied. That way I can record the most accurate calories and know how bad I Effed up.

Anyhow, I ate 100 pistachios (shells removed). :blush:

The package states:

shelled, 28 grams = 160
unshelled, 1/2 cup = 160

Well, I placed them on the food scale until it read 1g. (about 5 pistachios) . Sooo, if 5 pistachios weigh 1 gram, then multiply that by 20 = 100 pistachios right, which is 20 grams. Am I right? I hope I am cause I logged it as 1 serving. :wink:

Math is hard. :lol:

Thanks

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  • spicy618
    spicy618 Posts: 2,114 Member
    Bump
  • shadowofender
    shadowofender Posts: 786 Member
    Ok so obviously it would be better to weigh them before you eat them because they can vary nut to nut in size. But you know that. So in estimating, I would say that math seems right to me, but I'm not a math person. And I feel like 100 pistacios is a huge serving size...
  • spicy618
    spicy618 Posts: 2,114 Member
    shadowofender wrote: »
    Ok so obviously it would be better to weigh them before you eat them because they can vary nut to nut in size. But you know that. So in estimating, I would say that math seems right to me, but I'm not a math person. And I feel like 100 pistacios is a huge serving size...

    Thanks shadow. You're right I should have. Although, it seems like a lot, It's actually one serving = 160, if the math is correct. :)

    I did weigh the plumpest ones. :lol:

  • 13bbird13
    13bbird13 Posts: 425 Member
    I'm thankful pistachios are so expensive... keeps me out of 'em! :p
  • spicy618
    spicy618 Posts: 2,114 Member
    13bbird13 wrote: »
    I'm thankful pistachios are so expensive... keeps me out of 'em! :p

    Good plan. It had been so long since I'd had some, I missed them. :lol: It's supposed to be one of the better nuts.

  • levitateme
    levitateme Posts: 999 Member
    I love pistachios. Especially the sweet chili ones from wonderful.
  • spicy618
    spicy618 Posts: 2,114 Member
    levitateme wrote: »
    I love pistachios. Especially the sweet chili ones from wonderful.

    Those sound really tasty.... Now, tell me I only ate 1 serving. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

  • Cortelli
    Cortelli Posts: 1,369 Member
    Math seems right, although my own scale is not nearly accurate enough to trust it at the one gram level. Maybe shell enough to weigh 14 grams?
  • spicy618
    spicy618 Posts: 2,114 Member
    Cortelli wrote: »
    Math seems right, although my own scale is not nearly accurate enough to trust it at the one gram level. Maybe shell enough to weigh 14 grams?

    Thanks.
    Good Idea. I'll try that tonight with the last serving left... :blush:
  • habit365
    habit365 Posts: 174
    That doesn't sound right to me at all. I think your scale is not accurate at that small level of grams. That amount was most likely 300-400 calories. Nut serving sizes are incredibly small and look so sad and lonely even in the tiniest bowl I have. :disappointed:
  • deluxmary2000
    deluxmary2000 Posts: 981 Member
    http://www.thekitchn.com/a-visual-guide-to-100-calories-of-nuts-snack-tips-from-the-kitchn-201778
    Ditto what the previous poster said. Your standard food scale is not going to be very accurate down to that low of a weight. Per the link above, it looks like you ate closer to 400 calories worth of pistachios.
  • rosebette
    rosebette Posts: 1,660 Member
    I have a weakness for the nuts myself. The issues is if they are measured shelled or unshelled. I think MFP has measurements for both. I actually measure by the cup because mine have shells on. Typically, a serving size is 1/2 cup w/ shells, and 1/4 cup shelled. I find it hard to believe you ate 100. I had a bag in a gift basket that I admit I was "working on" this week -- eating them and not logging consistently. (Fortunately, no weight gain, but I'm at another plateau -- wonder why? Those darn pistachios.) But because they had the shells on, I don't think I ate more that 20 at a sitting. It's just so time-consuming to take the shells off that I couldn't consume 100 that way.
  • Deannas69
    Deannas69 Posts: 18 Member
    I love pistachios and could eat that many without thinking about it. I make it a point when I get home with them to measure them out and put them in baggies so that doesn't happen to me.
  • Foamroller
    Foamroller Posts: 1,041 Member
    I'm sorry, hun. Either you need new batteries or new kitchen scales...or your pistachios were dwarf size ;)

    I weighed 50 without shells. They came to 35 g. So 100 pistachios would most likely be 70 g = 427 kcal according to MFP.
  • daydreams_of_pretty
    daydreams_of_pretty Posts: 506 Member
    Your scale registered 1 gram on 5 pistachios because it rounded up.

    5 pistachios do not weigh 1 gram, but they also do not weigh 0. Chances are, if you kept putting pistachios on the scale it would still say 1 gram for a bit.
  • bfergusonii
    bfergusonii Posts: 208 Member
    deluxmary2000 wrote: »
    http://www.thekitchn.com/a-visual-guide-to-100-calories-of-nuts-snack-tips-from-the-kitchn-201778
    Ditto what the previous poster said. Your standard food scale is not going to be very accurate down to that low of a weight. Per the link above, it looks like you ate closer to 400 calories worth of pistachios.

    Wow, that was really helpful to visualize. Thanks.
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    You probably ate 2 servings. Look here:
    http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3718
  • ereck44
    ereck44 Posts: 1,170 Member
    spicy618 wrote: »
    I made the mistake of buying a big ole bag of Pistachios from Costco. I know I ate way too many the first time, to I decided to count how many I will eat before I'm satisfied. That way I can record the most accurate calories and know how bad I Effed up.

    Anyhow, I ate 100 pistachios (shells removed). :blush:

    The package states:

    shelled, 28 grams = 160
    unshelled, 1/2 cup = 160

    Well, I placed them on the food scale until it read 1g. (about 5 pistachios) . Sooo, if 5 pistachios weigh 1 gram, then multiply that by 20 = 100 pistachios right, which is 20 grams. Am I right? I hope I am cause I logged it as 1 serving. :wink:

    Math is hard. :lol:

    Thanks

    yeah, I had the same problem with peanuts. So I unshelled the amount that I thought that I wanted to eat, and then weighed it 37 g of unshelled peanuts equals 28 g of shelled peanuts.. Not as much fun to eat the nuts after the shells were off.
    You might want to unshell the pistachios and then weigh to get an accurate weight, but so tedious for pistachios.

  • SomeGirlSomewhere
    SomeGirlSomewhere Posts: 937 Member
    According to the USDA, one pistachio has approximately 4 calories. So if you ate 100 pistachios then you ate about 400 calories.
  • spicy618
    spicy618 Posts: 2,114 Member
    Hi all and thank you for all the responses. I was partying at Carnival!!! :)

    Anyway, Yes, most of you are right. I did it wrong.

    I went back and shelled the nuts and didn't place them one at a time, as I did the first time. For 6 nuts, it showed 14 g. :o So I just kept shelling and adding on until I reached 28 grams.... appro. 20 nuts. :'( So I actually ate 2.5 servings = 400 calories :s

    I'm glad I know the right amount of calories to log now, but man, wouldn't that have been nice if it was true. :lol:

    Thanks again to all who took the time to clarify.

  • spicy618
    spicy618 Posts: 2,114 Member
    rosebette wrote: »
    I have a weakness for the nuts myself. The issues is if they are measured shelled or unshelled. I think MFP has measurements for both. I actually measure by the cup because mine have shells on. Typically, a serving size is 1/2 cup w/ shells, and 1/4 cup shelled. I find it hard to believe you ate 100. I had a bag in a gift basket that I admit I was "working on" this week -- eating them and not logging consistently. (Fortunately, no weight gain, but I'm at another plateau -- wonder why? Those darn pistachios.) But because they had the shells on, I don't think I ate more that 20 at a sitting. It's just so time-consuming to take the shells off that I couldn't consume 100 that way.

    I can go to town on anything that is crunchy or nuts. those are my major binge foods. :(
  • shartran
    shartran Posts: 304 Member
    just to make it easy...4 calories=1 nut...so even if you ate 100, it's not too bad (only 400 calories...)
  • shartran
    shartran Posts: 304 Member
    shartran wrote: »
    just to make it easy...4 calories=1 nut...so even if you ate 100, it's not too bad (only 400 calories...)

    Oops! Someone posted almost the exact same thing!

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