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That candy pretty much always has the same amount of calories as any other candy...
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Cereal, rice, nuts and nut butter, pasta, cheese, ice cream, pretty much any convenience food or snack.0
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Pasta! 57g says the package? What? That's all?
Anything bread! One measly tiny whole wheat bread roll is still 100+ cals. I love baking but between croissants; brioches; pains au lait; baguettes; honey oatmeal breads and all the specialty breads I was gaining quite a bit of weight testing my recipes. Now I BEG people to bake for them
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Corn chips!!! I would sometimes eat a bag on my own...900 calories.... Now I don't even bother, one serve just makes we want to eat more. 0
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crazyjerseygirl wrote: »knelson095 wrote: »GillianSmith2 wrote: »Ive got a smaller plate so my dinners don't look as small as they are. It works for me
You know, I was thinking I needed some little prep bowls for snacks.
Get toddler bowls. Seriously, I got little plates/bowls for my son at IKEA and dang if they aren't perfect for making a single serving look decadent!
Plus I get to eat out of a bright pink bowl. Win/win!
i got mine from ikea as well. they are the perfect size for making your dinner look like a decent portion.0 -
That's why I buy the fun sized packs of candy. I can grab one packet and eat it. I hate weighing it out because it always seems sad.0
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I do love that my favorite candy mix is sold in an 80g bag as well as the big one. Even though it's about 350 calories, I still feel SO much better eating only 80g at one time!0
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there are cookies out there that the serving is half a cookie. who eats half a cookie and save the rest for later?0
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knelson095 wrote: »So, I just weighed out a serving of Reese's Pieces...and checked the numbers three times because the serving is SO SMALL.
Like, so small you guys. 200 calories and it's basically a handful.
What's the most surprising/sad portion size you have discovered while trying to lose weight?
Also, I ate that portion anyway...I regret nothing.
Peanut butter =( one big spoon is like 400 cals.0 -
nuts and cereal are always disappointing (like, I can eat three portions of cereal). I was actually pleasantly surprised about pistachios though0
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Definitely cereal as well. I was surprised with cheese, in the opposite way. I was expecting 1oz to be about the size of a little h'orderve cube
or at most, an average slice of cheese from the deli, but I get 2 slices for an ounce! 0 -
The calorie count of plain saltine crackers was surprising. I used to eat a lot of crackers.
Chips, bread, bananas0 -
GillianSmith2 wrote: »Ive got a smaller plate so my dinners don't look as small as they are. It works for me
I restored a dollhouse for my niece; maybe if I eat my meals there I'll feel like a have serious portions,,,
OMG. I'm dying!!!!!! xDDD0 -
Add me to Team Cereal I used to love mixing my Cheerios with a little granola, thinking I was eating healthy. Little did I know that that harmless bowl of cereal probably had 500-600 calories in it 0
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The one that is getting me right now is soup. Who the heck eats half a can of soup at a time?? Considering figuring out how to make my own soup, not what what I buy is super high in calories but it irritates me to have to put that I ate two servings of it just to feel like I ate something!0
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I'll agree with the cereal as well. started measuring out a portion at home to take to work, when I put it in the bowl I realised I had been eating 3 or 4 times as much.0
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I always knew that candy was a high-calorie food, but butter surprised me. I knew butter wasn't a health food, but didn't know how high in calories it really was.0
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Peanut butter had the opposite effect for me... after hearing so many horror stories about it, I expected I was eating way more than a serving. However after spreading my "normal" amount on an english muffin and weighing it, it was less than half a serving! Yay for me 0
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Frozen custard from culvers. I always wanted two scoops when I was younger, then I saw the calories were by scoop ... and scoops tend to actually be hefty and over the count of what's just one scoop ...0
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Just remembered - Nutella. I was shocked and appalled by both the serving size and the number of calories in Nutella, and a little heart broken lol.0
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Queenmunchy wrote: »
Ooo McDougall's! Weirdly, that brand also makes a cup that is one serving for the lowered sodium split pea soup, which is pretty tasty for a quick and easy type thing.0 -
Try Special K Cracker Chips. A serving of 25 chips is 120 calories. They're pretty darn good, too, especially the Salt and Vinegar. I am usually fine on a 1/2 serving for 60 calories.spilledmilk wrote: »Chips are the worst. I weighed out 1 serving for my lunch the other day and it was like 8 chips for 140 calories. I had carrot sticks instead0 -
Rice!0
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Syrup. I thought I'd have one toaster waffle with a little syrup for breakfast. The syrup was 210 calories! I had the waffle plain. Not worth it.0
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Peanut butter, pasta, rice.0
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everything....0
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Lol...yescwolfman13 wrote: »everything....
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