That was how many calories??? Guess I should check BEFORE I eat. :)
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ccam99
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I had a BLT for breakfast today from Wawa thinking it may not be that many calories considering the lettuce and tomato but wow when I logged it in it came up to 450 calories. I did add cheese which I never do at home and I guess I should have left it off. Have you eaten anything and then shook your head when you realized how many calories it cost you?
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It blows me away how many calories nearly ANYTHING has when you go out to eat! A trip to Johnny Carinos or Olive garden is more calories than I am shooting for in an entire day! Unbelievable what the portion sizes and caloric intakes are for servings today. Its no wonder why obesity is such an epidemic. If you werent tracking your calories how would you have any concept of how much you are overeating!0
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I always pre log everything to escape that problem. For instance, my dinner, lunch and snacks have already been out in my diary and I haven't even eaten my breakfast yet. It frees up your mind for the day to concentrate on other things besides counting calories.0
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1 cup of cashews .. which was almost 700 calories ugh.0
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I always pre log everything to escape that problem. For instance, my dinner, lunch and snacks have already been out in my diary and I haven't even eaten my breakfast yet. It frees up your mind for the day to concentrate on other things besides counting calories.
I'm not that organized yet, lol
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Yeah, I've done this, too many times to count, really. I think one of the things that really surprised me, though, was the fact that two slices of bread or a hamburger roll are usually upwards of 200 calories. It's gotten to the point that I eat lunch meat without bread and a hamburger patty without a bun most of the time. I'd rather use those 200+ calories on something better.0
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Made that mistake the first week on MFP. Coaching at a swim meet and someone asked if I wanted a coffee from Caribou, not thinking I said sure Lg Turtle Mocha, POW! 710cal, ouch0
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This time last year when I first signed up for MFP we were celebrating a birthday with a family breakfast at Bob Evans. I ordered the french toast with no sides. I was thinking by skipping the potatoes and bacon I would be fine. Oh hell no...It was 1200 calories. I was on a daily intake of 1200 calories. Not only did I cry but I learned always prelog meals. When we go out to eat I always plan ahead of time.0
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I always pre log everything to escape that problem. For instance, my dinner, lunch and snacks have already been out in my diary and I haven't even eaten my breakfast yet. It frees up your mind for the day to concentrate on other things besides counting calories.
I'm not that organized yet, lol
After awhile, you can get to the point of figuring out what you'll have the next day and log it right before bed. When I have a get together at a restaurant, I'll ask the family or friends what restaurant they plan to go to the day before. Then I hop online and pick out what is reasonable calorie wise. You can then decide if you want to go higher calorie and exercise it off, or just deal with it, or swap it out for something more reasonable.0 -
I always pre log everything to escape that problem. For instance, my dinner, lunch and snacks have already been out in my diary and I haven't even eaten my breakfast yet. It frees up your mind for the day to concentrate on other things besides counting calories.
Me too! I have a better chance of success for the day if I pre-log. It helps that I plan the meals at home and take last night's leftovers for the next day's lunch. It also helped me to not fixate on my calories and relieved some stress worrying about having enough at night.
My biggest calorie surprise was olive oil (or any oil for that matter) I cook by the teaspoon with it now!0 -
Yeah, I've done this, too many times to count, really. I think one of the things that really surprised me, though, was the fact that two slices of bread or a hamburger roll are usually upwards of 200 calories. It's gotten to the point that I eat lunch meat without bread and a hamburger patty without a bun most of the time. I'd rather use those 200+ calories on something better.
Check out Aunt Millie's light breads! They have whole wheat and oatmeal breads with 35 calories per slice. They also make buns with about 110 calories each! The bread is pretty tasty too!0 -
I LOVE aunt Millie's, pretty much the only bread I eat.lindsayh87 wrote: »Yeah, I've done this, too many times to count, really. I think one of the things that really surprised me, though, was the fact that two slices of bread or a hamburger roll are usually upwards of 200 calories. It's gotten to the point that I eat lunch meat without bread and a hamburger patty without a bun most of the time. I'd rather use those 200+ calories on something better.
Check out Aunt Millie's light breads! They have whole wheat and oatmeal breads with 35 calories per slice. They also make buns with about 110 calories each! The bread is pretty tasty too!
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450 calories for a meal seems perfectly reasonable to me...and I'm assuming Wawa is a restaurant...which makes 450 calories even that much more impressive considering you can't get much in the way of an actual meal at a restaurant under 800-1000 calories unless it's off a special low calorie menu.0
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cwolfman13 wrote: »450 calories for a meal seems perfectly reasonable to me...and I'm assuming Wawa is a restaurant...which makes 450 calories even that much more impressive considering you can't get much in the way of an actual meal at a restaurant under 800-1000 calories unless it's off a special low calorie menu.
I guess it's not that bad but I didn't post that I also had an iced coffee with that at 150 calories so my breakfast was too high. I've finally finished the carton of coffee so I won't be buying that again. Wawa is actually a gas station in Maryland that has a pretty good food counter. It's always busy.
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cwolfman13 wrote: »450 calories for a meal seems perfectly reasonable to me...and I'm assuming Wawa is a restaurant...which makes 450 calories even that much more impressive considering you can't get much in the way of an actual meal at a restaurant under 800-1000 calories unless it's off a special low calorie menu.
I guess it's not that bad but I didn't post that I also had an iced coffee with that at 150 calories so my breakfast was too high. I've finally finished the carton of coffee so I won't be buying that again. Wawa is actually a gas station in Maryland that has a pretty good food counter. It's always busy.
This was the kind of stuff that shocked my wife...not me so much because I'm a plain old coffee drinker with a splash of milk...but my wife likes all the fancy coffee drinks and most of them are calorie bombs. She used to get the grande caramel macchiato from Starbucks a lot and it's like 250 calories...for me, if I'm going to blow 250 calories I'm going to have a good craft beer.0 -
450 calories is nothing.
I made myself a grilled cheese yesterday... Pretty fully aware of how many calories were in everything, but figured I had 535 calories left so I'd just make it the way I want and log it after... it came out 546. For a grilled cheese. And I went light on the butter!0 -
I hate to eat out for this very reason. I ordered a salad at McAlister's on Sunday. I thought I had made a good choice. I went to plug it into MFP before it arrived at the table and was shocked to find that it had 850 calories in that one salad. By eating a portion of it and not putting dressing on it, I got it down to a manageable number. The good news is that I have managed to make four meals off that one salad. We are going out to eat on Friday. I asked my husband to take me to Sake Sushi. I can eat the seven piece sashima meal for very few calories and get lots of protein.0
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Dinner at Texas Roadhouse last night over 1,000 calories. I thought I was ordering well until I added it all up.0
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I weighed and logged my ingredients as I made dinner tonight, so I knew I wasn't going over or anything. But, I didn't look at my total for just the one meal. I knew it would be a little higher...but as I sat down to eat, I was shocked to see it was 794 LOL. I never make meals with that many calories anymore.
It was 1 1/2 servings whole wheat pasta (I was hungry) with 132g ground turkey, lots of zucchini sauteed in 1 teaspoon of olive oil, and 1 weighed serving pre-made pesto. It was a whole plateful. It was delicious! I'm very stuffed. But wow lol
Today was good for that kind of thing since I hadn't been hungry since breakfast. I can't do this often.0 -
davidcliff wrote: »Made that mistake the first week on MFP. Coaching at a swim meet and someone asked if I wanted a coffee from Caribou, not thinking I said sure Lg Turtle Mocha, POW! 710cal, ouch
Ha! That happened to me when I got the white chocolate Mocha From Starbucks after an hour walk on my lunch break- 370 calories. Should have gotten the caramel macchiato. I make sure I look things up now.0 -
Biscuits! I don't even like biscuits (I know, I'm weird) but I was at a work function and decided to eat one so that there was food on my plate and then I logged, Wow! Too many calories for a food I don't even like0
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