How do you count calories at a chinese buffet?

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  • 50sFit
    50sFit Posts: 712 Member
    LeonCX wrote: »
    Wow....2500+ calories for me - OUCH!
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    btw on the cheat sheet, I was told at WW, each "helping" is about the size of a fist. nevertheless, a Chinese buffet is very calorific...
    A fist? What fist...Godzilla's fist?
    B)
  • AsaThorsWoman
    AsaThorsWoman Posts: 2,303 Member
    2 Ways.

    Either

    1) When I get it to go it's weighed, so I can get a very educated guess at calories based off MFP entries..

    2) When I eat it there and do all you can eat style, just add in 2-3 plates of Chinese buffet entry and be okay with the fact that you just ate 2,000 kcal or more.
  • shifterbrainz
    shifterbrainz Posts: 245 Member
    To me the stress from worrying about it is worse than gaining less than 3/4ths of a pound. Eat it and forget. Don't make a habit of it.
  • girlviernes
    girlviernes Posts: 2,402 Member
    edited October 2014
    For me any stress from worrying about it is from a perfectionistic drive to log everything right, and obviously that is not happening at a buffet. But I much prefer to get it in inexactly than skip entirely because I'm the type of person who is often in denial about my behavior, so I need to log it, face it, and keep on moving. Every logging is a step forward.
  • LeonCX
    LeonCX Posts: 862 Member
    edited October 2014
    shifterbrainz wrote: »
    To me the stress from worrying about it is worse than gaining less than 3/4ths of a pound. Eat it and forget. Don't make a habit of it.
    amen. even if you count, the salt will punish you on the scale anyway. Better to use the buffet as a free day, like Thanksgiving.

  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Quick add 2000- sodiums gonna wack the scale anyway.
  • williams969
    williams969 Posts: 2,528 Member
    You count by thousands (for calories and sodium) ;)
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    a4phantom wrote: »
    If you're counting calories you don't go to a Chinese Buffet. Or any buffet.

    whatever...I ate chinese buffet tonight for dinner...

    but because I weigh everything at home I have a good idea of what weighs what

    Noodles about 50gram, bbq port about 100g, two crab rangoons, half a spring roll, chicken ball about 15grams and about 75grams of chicken wings (no bone)

    as for those who say save it for a cheat day...what is this cheat day you speak of?
  • allyphoe
    allyphoe Posts: 618 Member
    I'm pretty good at counting by eyeball, so I eyeball and log. I've got a twice-monthly lunch meeting at a Chinese buffet, and when everyone else gets one plate and then is done, it's easier to eat a reasonable amount.
  • brenn24179
    brenn24179 Posts: 2,144 Member
    I only like a few things so it is pretty easy for me, 1 cup honey sesame chicken 500 cal, sometimes 2 cups, veggies and meat stick 100 cal, 2 puff things 200 cal. around 800 calories or 1300 if I have 2 cups of that chicken I love. Someone once told me to have a cup of main item and then pick at the rest. I also don't eat noodles and rice, I like my calories to be what I really like. You will figure out something.
  • avskk
    avskk Posts: 1,787 Member
    Chinese buffet just might be the only situation in which I let go and let God. Which is why I only go to them maybe once a year... but enjoy the everloving *kitten* out of every bite.
  • Lucybell9
    Lucybell9 Posts: 3 Member
    I'm going to a Chinese Buffet tonight with my family. We go to this place approx. once every 5-6 weeks. I appreciate all the responses here - much "food for thought" (which is zero calorie food, right? :D ).
  • chaos416
    chaos416 Posts: 89 Member
    Don't forget the Mongolian grill if they have one. You can get a plate full of protein and veggies to start off with, wait a little bit and then go for your favorite things from the buffet for your treat.
  • annette_15
    annette_15 Posts: 1,657 Member
    Its always gonna b an estimate... maybe take a picture before u eat so u can look back and easier make a guess when u come home
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