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Posts: 402 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I was just having this discussion with my friends. what do you think isn't worth the calories.

we came up with. non diet soda, nutella, cadburys cream eggs, wine, energy drinks, anything with full fat milk, McDonalds milkshakes...

edited: coke because some people cant get their head around the English 'full fat coke' thing

also this is what people have decided its not worth spending their calorie allowance on. none of it is wrong. each to their own. its just a conversation.

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  • Posts: 5,561 Member
    If it brings you pleasure, eat it.
    If it doesn't being you pleasure, don't eat it.

    Mmmmm coke.

    #moderation
  • Posts: 2,925 Member
    mummma wrote: »
    I was just having this discussion with my friends. what do you think isn't worth the calories.

    we came up with. full fat coke, nutella, cadburys cream eggs, wine, energy drinks, anything with full fat milk, McDonalds milkshakes...

    wut?
  • Posts: 1,713 Member
    In general its kinda silly to drink your calories when you are trying to lose weight. You don't get as many as you are used to so you already feel deprived, and you just won't get that full feeling from a coke. The same goes for candy, plus these items have high sugar counts and sugar just makes you want more food. Controlling cravings by not deliberately making yourself hungry is just the smart way to go. If you avoid your own trigger foods for a while you will find your taste changes and you like the healthier options.
  • Posts: 438 Member
    I love full fat versions of everything so they are worth the cals to me.

    For me peas are not worth the cals, I don't like their texture!
  • Posts: 281 Member
    1 cup of cashews for about 700 calories. sigh.
  • Posts: 875 Member
    edited March 2015
    Soda, full fat dairy products, fruit juice, cocktails with a whole bunch of different sugary mixers in them, regular yogurt, regular peanut butter
  • Posts: 818 Member
    Avocados. -- Just tasteless and dull
  • Posts: 8,029 Member
    edited March 2015
    To me, rice isn't worth the calories. I'd rather have a potato. With butter.

    Bad chocolate.

    Bad ice cream.

    Bad (cheap grocery store brand) butter.

    I'm starting to sense a theme.

    Oh, I forgot! Gluten free replacements of gluten-containing items. I've had celiac disease a long time, and have had a lot of GF items over the years. GF bread won't sop up the egg yolk just so, nor will the toast from it soak in butter correctly. GF pizza crust is just sad and there's no crispy crust with cheese clinging to it waiting for you at the end of the piece. There's no such thing as a nice, crunchy GF baguette. Just not worth the calories.
  • Posts: 875 Member
    edited March 2015
    jazmin220 wrote: »
    Soda, full fat dairy products, fruit juice, cocktails with a whole bunch of different sugary mixers in them, regular yogurt, regular peanut butter
    , regular bread/bagels

    also oils
  • Posts: 3,322 Member
    soda
  • Posts: 340 Member
    mushrooms. cause they make me puke. but this conversation is very odd. eat what you enjoy in moderation. I get cranky if I say anything is off limits
  • Posts: 2,188 Member
    Cake & Pie. I have not had any since I began on MFP 3 years ago.
    Anything else is fair game...................in moderation of course :)
  • Posts: 936 Member
    Wine and full fat dairy are totally worth the calories. Typical breads, rice, pastas, etc are not. I cut the portions to 1/2 or 1/3 and just pile on veggies and protein. Hot fresh baked bread is an exception... and perfectly prepared gnocchi
  • Posts: 3,473 Member
    isulo_kura wrote: »
    Avocados. -- Just tasteless and dull

    #doingitwrong
  • Posts: 402 Member
    s_pekz wrote: »
    mushrooms. cause they make me puke. but this conversation is very odd. eat what you enjoy in moderation. I get cranky if I say anything is off limits

    it was just something that came up with my friend saying she had just eaten some candy and it was worth the calories.
  • Posts: 640 Member
    I'd have to agree with full calorie soda. The calorie free versions usually taste just as good.
  • Posts: 6,212 Member
    Kale

    I don't care how few calories it has...it's not worth it
  • Posts: 1,119 Member
    Regular sodas, full-fat ice cream, cakes/cheesecakes (except on special occasions), brownies, cookies (I used to bake every day...), most fast food items, peanut butter, non-alcoholic milkshakes.

    It isn't that I don't like these things, I just don't feel like they are worth the calories the vast majority of the time any more. I mean, I could blow 1/4-1/3 of the day's cals on a single slice of cheesecake easy. Doesn't mean it is never worth it, but as an everyday thing? No, not anymore.
  • Posts: 3,836 Member
    Haagen Daz - As much as I love it I can't just eat 1/2 cup.

    Krispy Creme - Can't eat just one.
  • Posts: 1,094 Member
    Wine is SO worth the calories. So is Peanut Butter.

    Sorry, soda doesn't have FAT. Sugar yes, fat no.

    Here's my list - because I get ya on some of them.
    - Grocery Store made cake and icing - yuck.
    - Bagels
    - Fast food (I just don't like it)
    - Candy bars they sell in the grocery store check out. If I'm eating chocolate it better be high class stuff!

  • Posts: 8,029 Member
    s_pekz wrote: »
    mushrooms. cause they make me puke. but this conversation is very odd. eat what you enjoy in moderation. I get cranky if I say anything is off limits

    I don't think this thread is so much about putting things off limits as it's about choices you've made about where you choose to spend your calories.

    How about foods you've decided are worth the calories? For me:

    Full fat cottage cheese and 2% yogurt (can't find the full fat)
    Kerry Gold butter
    Talenti
    Good Parmesan (though it's really not calorific for a small portion)

  • Posts: 13,575 Member
    Sugary drinks, cheesecake, juice, store bought baked goods, full fat ice cream, most full fat dairy, bar margaritas, fast food, marbled steaks, breaded deep fried fish

    Those are the ones that sprang quickly to mind.
  • Posts: 936 Member
    CrabNebula wrote: »
    Regular sodas, full-fat ice cream, cakes/cheesecakes (except on special occasions), brownies, cookies (I used to bake every day...), most fast food items, peanut butter, non-alcoholic milkshakes.

    It isn't that I don't like these things, I just don't feel like they are worth the calories the vast majority of the time any more. I mean, I could blow 1/4-1/3 of the day's cals on a single slice of cheesecake easy. Doesn't mean it is never worth it, but as an everyday thing? No, not anymore.

    Milk shakes, fast food, cookies, brownies and cheese cake? There was a time when these were "everyday things" ?!?!?

  • Posts: 1,482 Member
    Any thing noted as fat or sugar free. Too many additives and fake stuff.
    And fast food, that stuff is not worth it to me.
  • Posts: 672 Member
    "Fat Coke" is a British thing, just meaning not-diet. Just good old fashioned Coca Cola is a "Fat Coke" in England.
  • Posts: 5,797 Member
    mummma wrote: »
    I was just having this discussion with my friends. what do you think isn't worth the calories.

    we came up with. full fat coke, nutella, cadburys cream eggs, wine, energy drinks, anything with full fat milk, McDonalds milkshakes...

    ??? Opposite for me: just about anything labelled as low-fat is not worth the calories. The real thing is so much better! Quality over quantity.
  • Posts: 402 Member
    mamapeach910 wrote: »
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    I don't think this thread is so much about putting things off limits as it's about choices you've made about where you choose to spend your calories.

    yeh that's what i meant. maybe i didn't explain it quite right. :)

  • Posts: 936 Member
    ShellyBell999 wrote: »
    Any thing noted as fat or sugar free. Too many additives and fake stuff.
    And fast food, that stuff is not worth it to me.

    For fast food, I generally agree with you. But there is 1 sandwich I will splurge on at Wendy's or Chic fil A. And I will make 5 guysor Shake Shack fit if I feel like it.
  • Posts: 402 Member
    BZAH10 wrote: »
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    ??? Opposite for me: just about anything labelled as low-fat is not worth the calories. The real thing is so much better! Quality over quantity.

    my friend that came up with that one was referring to coffee at starbucks i think lol
  • Posts: 168 Member
    Mac and cheese... because I'll eat the entire box, and there's 1,200 calories gone for nothing :P
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