Need help on calculating calories on restaurants' food

EuniceTHQ
EuniceTHQ Posts: 48 Member
edited November 23 in Food and Nutrition
i always struggle in searching and inputting calories of foods in restaurants. It's always difficult for me, especially as a Malaysian, most of the foods are not in the database... This always makes me wasting hours to find the recipes of that food to calculate the calories here.. Need help!!

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  • IsaackGMOON
    IsaackGMOON Posts: 3,358 Member
    You just have to guesstimate.
  • Soopatt
    Soopatt Posts: 563 Member
    I have the same problem as very few restaurants in my country advertise their calories on their websites, which seems to be a common thing in the states. How I approach it is by eating a smaller than usual breakfast and lunch on the day I am going out for dinner (or whichever meal it is), leaving two thirds of my calories for dinner.
    Sometimes I skip lunch all together.

    I then go to the restaurant, order what I like - a delicious full portion main meal of my choice - and log it by guessing as best I can comparing it to other things on the data base. I will normally just use quick calories to enter the amount once I know a ballpark. I know I am guessing and I feel comfortable knowing I did my best to manage the situation.

    If you do that, most restaurant meals are in range and I eat at 1200. I find that I still don't have space for extras like starters, desserts or alcohol. If I had those things at the restaurant in addition to my meal of choice, I would be over, although you might choose to do that sometimes.
  • EuniceTHQ
    EuniceTHQ Posts: 48 Member
    Soopatt wrote: »
    I have the same problem as very few restaurants in my country advertise their calories on their websites, which seems to be a common thing in the states. How I approach it is by eating a smaller than usual breakfast and lunch on the day I am going out for dinner (or whichever meal it is), leaving two thirds of my calories for dinner.
    Sometimes I skip lunch all together.

    I then go to the restaurant, order what I like - a delicious full portion main meal of my choice - and log it by guessing as best I can comparing it to other things on the data base. I will normally just use quick calories to enter the amount once I know a ballpark. I know I am guessing and I feel comfortable knowing I did my best to manage the situation.

    If you do that, most restaurant meals are in range and I eat at 1200. I find that I still don't have space for extras like starters, desserts or alcohol. If I had those things at the restaurant in addition to my meal of choice, I would be over, although you might choose to do that sometimes.
    Thanks for your sharing. :)
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