Calorie anxiety

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  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    edited July 2015
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    Nope, I make sure they know exactly what I want.
  • Kimegatron
    Kimegatron Posts: 772 Member
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    Yes I do if I go out. I just don't know what to do or how to log it. It seems like wherever we go, I can't find nutritional information. I ate an eggplant rollatini from Nino Salvagios, and I couldn't find the nutritional information, so I emailed them. They didn't email me back, so I emailed again a week later... then another week later. They probably think I'm crazy HAAAAAAAAA. I couldn't find the nutrition on a certain pizza from Buddy's Pizza either, and it was driving me crazy. Or when there is a family outting, and someone brings the pasta salad, I have NO idea how to calculate that. At least I try, and that's good enough for me, I guess.
  • buket1819
    buket1819 Posts: 73 Member
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    Kimegatron wrote: »
    Yes I do if I go out. I just don't know what to do or how to log it. It seems like wherever we go, I can't find nutritional information. I ate an eggplant rollatini from Nino Salvagios, and I couldn't find the nutritional information, so I emailed them. They didn't email me back, so I emailed again a week later... then another week later. They probably think I'm crazy HAAAAAAAAA. I couldn't find the nutrition on a certain pizza from Buddy's Pizza either, and it was driving me crazy. Or when there is a family outting, and someone brings the pasta salad, I have NO idea how to calculate that. At least I try, and that's good enough for me, I guess.

    That's exactly me ahahah

  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
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    I started out that way. MFP was working so well that I'd lose my s*** over being uncertain about a particular food or meal. 40 lbs in and I'm definitely more relaxed about the whole thing. No single screw-up can set me back that much.
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
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    Um, no. I'm just not going to mistrust everyone in the food industry that much. They probably know what they're doing enough to make my food and drink the way I ordered it. If one time, someone didn't, and I got an extra fifty calories, it was an extra fifty calories one time. It didn't make me gain any weight.
  • crys_todd
    crys_todd Posts: 41 Member
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    I got irrationally angry once at McDonalds. I was driving a long distance through the middle of nowhere for work and got very thirsty. I stopped at McDonalds and ordered a large Diet Coke. I drive away and took a phone call and distractedly started chugging the thing because I was so thirsty. It wasn't until I had finished the conversation and took another sip that I realized it wasn't diet and I had drank at least 200 calories of soda I didn't even want and therefore couldn't eat the gelato I had been planning for all week without going over.
    I sort of fumed the rest of the way back to my office.

    A drop in the bucket long term but in the short term all I could think about was how much I wanted 200 calories of gelato not crappy soda.
  • Mo0npie
    Mo0npie Posts: 15 Member
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    I get this ALL THE TIME, I hate hate hate not knowing how to log something, and not being quite sure of what they are putting in your food. I usually massively over-compensate if I know Im going to be going out later - by hardly eating anything the whole day - just to be sure that the restaurant food wont do too much damage to my calorie count haha. So now I try to just make everything myself!

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