That was how many calories??? Guess I should check BEFORE I eat. :)
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Naan Bread which is listed as half a bread is a full serving. So for a little pita looking thing is 190 cals for HALF! I was having 2 of those, with butter! Over 800 cals!0
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The amount of calories doesn't surprise me anymore...I just try to fit it in my diary...but.... the amazing high numbers of salt kills it for me.
I just cant have that much salt. My BP sky rocket and my body literally blows up for 2 days. Even with a lot of water. Besides that my doc. goes bananas when he sees my excel sheet with food lol
Really a shame because i follow "as long as it fits in my calorie allowance" life style.
But eat no added salt or added sugars ( for medical reasons)
So when i eat out, on rare occasions, i pay big time for it. Not even worried about the fluctuations or weight when i do, because i know i stay on track all the way. But health wise it is just crazy that restaurants, fast food centers, and ready to go meals use so much salt....well for me that is lol
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When I first started tracking my calories, casually thrown-together salads put me over my limit more than once. How many calories can a few little tidbits have? Quite a few, I found out. Pre-logging has served me well since then.0
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My weakness....milkshakes. Most small 12oz milkshakes are upwards of 750-800 calories0
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Dry roasted almonds - 1 serve is 8 individual almonds (not even a handful - unless your a toddler! ) 1 serve = 182 calories.
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I read in an article a while back that even if you eat fast food (or in our case, go over your calories) once per week, you can gain a couple of pounds a year. After 30 years, that can be a lot of weight! It doesn't seem fair at all, does it?qwikstreet wrote: »I guess once a week it is ok to splurge.
That's totally wrong. Going over your calories once a week is not a big deal at all if your weekly calories are still at or under maintenance.
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I went to Freshii, which looked like a clean-eating, whole foods restaurant for lunch one day and ordered the Metaboost Wrap. I thought I made a great decision because it had spinach, kale, edamame, almonds,field greens, goat cheese (yum!) with a balsamic vinaigrette... Plus the name 'Metaboost' convinced me it was going to recharge my body with super nutrients! Well, it was delicious but it was also 888 calories!!! On a 1200 calorie a day limit, I was devastated when I realized I used my calories for the day!0
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cadbury cream egg mcflurry. My husband thought we deserved a treat and i thought it's soo small, maybe 400-500 calories. I knew it wasn't healthy or low cal. NOPE 800 calories of delicious guiltiness haha. Lesson learned. I generally prelog everything when i can..0
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Basically anything from Starbucks. It's my guilty pleasure when we go on roadtrips, we'll always stop and have 'road coffee'.
I've now become that person who orders a 'skinny cappuccino with sugar free hazelnut syrup'.
I never thought I'd order skinny ANYTHING, but I'm not wasting ~300 calories on a drink!0 -
I read in an article a while back that even if you eat fast food (or in our case, go over your calories) once per week, you can gain a couple of pounds a year. After 30 years, that can be a lot of weight! It doesn't seem fair at all, does it?qwikstreet wrote: »I guess once a week it is ok to splurge.
That's so wrong it's not even funny...especially when you consider that your calorie goals with MFP are a huge deficit from your maintenance calories.
I maintained for over a year and a half before my bulk and I had plenty of days where I was over...the human body is actually extremely adaptable where energy balance is concerned. To gain weight you have to consistently over-eat just as to lose weight you have to consistently under-eat.0 -
I love Wawa BLTsI 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?
I eat at least one a week
I haven't had one there in a long while and it was delicious! I tried Rutters once and arghh. Their food is terrible.
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I mentioned this yesterday in a similar thread... My husband brought home a medium banana split milk shake. Nom Nom Nom..
Went to log it after dinner and it was 950 calories and it was called a MILKQUAKE and not a milk shake...
It should have come with the words MILKQUAKE on the cup (it did not) along with bells and horns, whistles and alarms after you inserted the straw.. LOL0 -
I hate the WAWA BLT's cause cheese has no business on a BLT or a club. They put it on both. I do love WAWA in general though.
I ordered fish tacos from Joe's crab shack. Usually fish tacos are a pretty safe bet. These were even grilled, but when I looked them up they were still like 1,000 calories. Not sure how they managed that.0 -
A Starbucks white chocolate (Canada) that was 1100 calories, almost a days worth of calories when I'm cutting weight, without the nutritional benefits.0
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You can order the BLT w/o cheese but I did leave it on yesterday. At home I would never think of putting it on my BLT's either. They also told me that I could switch the lettuce for spinach leaves but just need to tell them after I put my order in.0
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Fish tacos at a Mexican restaurant. I thought "that sounds pretty good for you" until I looked it up- 2200 calories and the highest thing on the menu. I was so sad. :-(0
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alcohol. I just want to sit down and enjoy a beer or a glass of wine, but I also try and prelog everything so that I know what I am getting into for the day. For example today I have logged everything except dinner, and i have approximately 400 calories for dinner but I need to get some more protein in.
As far as eating out is concerned, I look ahead and pick something that sounds yummy. If it is 1200 calories, I'll ask for a box and put 2/3 in the box right away, and then I have dinner for 2 more nights. I'm not worried about it being exact because over the course of the week it's the total number of calories that maters.0 -
BLT with cheese.... Shouldn't that be called something else?
Maybe BLTC..0 -
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!
Looks like Aunt Millie's is a brand marketed in the Midwest... never see it out West here! That said, we have "Natures Harvest". At 40 calories and 6 grams of protein a slice it offers a great nutritional bread option. Not to mention, it tastes great too!
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I'm not that organized yet, lol
It comes with time and repetition. Just off hand, since I make them quite often, I know mine roughly come out to this.
4 slice bacon 160c
2 slice mancini bread roughly 210 depending on weight
mayo 70c
Lettuce / Tomato... well somewhere near 20-30c. I'm never so close with my cal's that I'm super accurate with veggies as a sammich topping.
So what's that 470 with no cheese.
Yeah I was mind blown at first but coming up on 3 years of doing this, it's pretty easy to add stuff up in your head.0 -
Hot chocolate always surprises me-especially when it's one that tasted really weak and watery yet mfp says it has 300 or 400 cals regardless0
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I use rice cakes in placelindsayh87 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!
I use rice cakes in place of bread all the time. The buttered popcorn flavor just adds salt/butter taste and crunch to anything for just 35 calories. I put PBJ with whipped cream on it, hot ham and cheese with bbq sauce, pizza sauce and pepperoni, etc.
ANd bonus for me since I am terrible at grocery shopping - bread molds before I ever get halfway through it (sometimes before I even open it...), but those rice cakes are like styrofoam and last forever so I can just stock up. Luckily I have low standards for food
If you plan to toast your bread... try storing it in your freezer and thawing it before use... I can't tell any difference in frozen verses fresh when I toast it!
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Pretty much anything from wawa is going to run you over 4/500 calories- I'm not really sure what the 'surprise' is here.
Their Tuna Wraps are like 450- and they are TINY. Ridiculous- but not surprising.
I tend to grab hard boiled eggs and a cheese- or a yogurt- just safer.
Yeppers- just pre-log all the things- you'll be fine- and it's not really about organization- almost everyone has a smart phone- use the app- it's easy- I log everything I pack for the day and what I plan to eat at night that AM- either over my morning coffee or once I get to work.
I takes less time than checking facebook.0 -
Went to Zaxby's and looked on my phone at their menu/calories - the chicken platter (which I normal ordered in the past) was 1249 calories... choke choke.. I ended up with the Blue Salad, blackened chicken w/ no dressing (I'm weird like that, don't really like dressing on salads) was 649 calories. BIG EYE opener for me!!!!
Also, something funny as I was eating it the salad I stirred it around a bit and told my husband "wow, it has blue cheese crumbles on the salad!" He politely, trying not to be a smarty pants and said "It is a BLUE salad" using his fingers to quote blue... looked at him and had my blonde moment.. oh yeah... DUH. Anyways it was yummy!!
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everything I don;t make myself and even some of the things I do
same with sodium, 2 tbsp of ketchup has how many mg of sodium? 40 cals 280 mg sodium0 -
Yesterday, ice cream. I was all like, just this one thing won't matter (til I logged it)! Yikes!!!0
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I've learned this too much... I usually make the mistake of eating it again... lol. But I've decided to never eat at DQ or Perkins EVER again, and my beloved Angry Orchard... why do you have to be 210 calories a pop?! Because you can never have only 1 Angry Orchard.
I'm so bad.. I need to clean my ish up because it kills having to workout an hour or two just to indulge in my bad habits. I mean, I'll still workout but I'd rather it go towards getting rid of the fat instead of just zeroing out something bad I chose to put in my body. This means no eating out... unless it's Jason's Deli salad bar... lol. 0 -
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