I swallowed a bug...
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If you didn't chew it, is it possible that the exoskeleton prevented total digestion. Kinda like a fibre thing? Does it count at all? Negative calories from the effort of swallowing... and freaking out a bit?
Next time that you are in the mood for bugs, go for insect flour. Easier to figure out how to log...
http://www.thailandunique.com/insect-bug-flour-powder
Cricket Powder Capsules
You could probably even break these open and add them to Gatorade or oatmeal or a protein shake.. seems they would be versatile same with the locust powder.
A locust flew into the side of my head last night but he didn't fly in my mouth, or I'd have shared that. Pretty positive I'd have noticed if he did ...because they make a certain sound that one couldn't miss. Wait, was it a locust that flew in your mouth? They are out in droves... they fly.... maybe it was a locust?! They're pretty meaty...that'd be pretty good when you're out riding to finish out the ride with a snack.
Locust Powder Capsules
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BinaryPulsar wrote: »cerise_noir wrote: »Oh, goodness! I was afraid I was going to have to ask this question myself. I'm glad someone else did! It rained last night, and it rarely rains that hard here. The flying bugs were out in droves during my run this morning and I didn't know what kind they were. I not only ate one but I spit out two. Do I need to count the partial calories from the two? I didn't chew them so I don't think I got any of the calories in my mouth....
You have to log all bites, tastes and licks, imo.
I inhaled a soap bubble once...
So, that's what, .25g of fat? OH NO!!!!!
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Well, that's all well and good ...but did you log it, that's what we really wanna know!BinaryPulsar wrote: »cerise_noir wrote: »Oh, goodness! I was afraid I was going to have to ask this question myself. I'm glad someone else did! It rained last night, and it rarely rains that hard here. The flying bugs were out in droves during my run this morning and I didn't know what kind they were. I not only ate one but I spit out two. Do I need to count the partial calories from the two? I didn't chew them so I don't think I got any of the calories in my mouth....
You have to log all bites, tastes and licks, imo.
I inhaled a soap bubble once...
and.. um, yea I looked it up in the MFP database and Googled and it appears to have no calorie content...whew! :laugh:
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Hearts_2015 wrote: »
Well, that's all well and good ...but did you log it, that's what we really wanna know!BinaryPulsar wrote: »cerise_noir wrote: »Oh, goodness! I was afraid I was going to have to ask this question myself. I'm glad someone else did! It rained last night, and it rarely rains that hard here. The flying bugs were out in droves during my run this morning and I didn't know what kind they were. I not only ate one but I spit out two. Do I need to count the partial calories from the two? I didn't chew them so I don't think I got any of the calories in my mouth....
You have to log all bites, tastes and licks, imo.
I inhaled a soap bubble once...
and.. um, yea I looked it up in the MFP database and Googled and it appears to have no calorie content...whew! :laugh:
Oh, I can see it now... The soap bubble diet.
Well, I guess it would keep you regular.
And farting bubbles will be mainstream.3 -
Just in case, and because I was so worried about my macro's, and I was afraid to cycle until I got this figured out...I ran 4.35 miles tonight to make calorie room for the bug. I was still scared because I am a mouth breather and it's not pretty, but I think I will be OK.
Thanks for all of your assistance.
We'll see what the scale says in the morning. I hope bugs don't cause a lot of water retention because that would totally *kitten*5 -
There may be a little water weight since it was surprise calories, but it'll come off in a few days.Tweaking_Time wrote: »Just in case, and because I was so worried about my macro's, and I was afraid to cycle until I got this figured out...I ran 4.35 miles tonight to make calorie room for the bug. I was still scared because I am a mouth breather and it's not pretty, but I think I will be OK.
Thanks for all of your assistance.
We'll see what the scale says in the morning. I hope bugs don't cause a lot of water retention because that would totally *kitten*
Next time, make room for bugs, okay?
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What about spider webs? Sometimes I walk into spider webs. I might eat a little.3
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BinaryPulsar wrote: »What about spider webs? Sometimes I walk into spider webs. I might eat a little.
yea, spider webs usually have trapped bugs in them... you definitely want count those and how do you count them when you've already eaten them. But what about the ones caught in your hair that you almost eat but they end up tangled and don't get eaten.
The life of a bug eater can be complicated.
This is why I'm not a runner or a bug eater.. tracking bugs and other leggy creatures is WAY too much work for me. Or is there an app for it? It's enough trying to deal with the database as it is. Spiders and bugs have no packaging to fall back on. Oh except the mealworms they do.
I don't bike currently but when I do again I'll have to deal with eating bugs I'll be on the lookout for a bug app to track them. By then there'll be some fitness gadget to pre-measure/weigh what flies or crawls in your mouth so you can keep more accurate track.
Dang..water weight @cerise_noir @Tweaking_Time that hadn't even occurred to me. Hopefully it won't take more than a couple days to drop that. Well, that's really gonna again depend on the type of bug and how much sodium it contains.
Again... you really can't remember if it was a mosquito? Because it's pretty important to know who it bit before you and before them so you can calculate the sugars, sodium etc. in the earlier bites. Sheesh... maybe it's time to give up biking. Or give up logging.. one mess up? Yea definitely just throw the towel in!
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Tweaking_Time wrote: »Just in case, and because I was so worried about my macro's, and I was afraid to cycle until I got this figured out...I ran 4.35 miles tonight to make calorie room for the bug. I was still scared because I am a mouth breather and it's not pretty, but I think I will be OK.
Thanks for all of your assistance.
We'll see what the scale says in the morning. I hope bugs don't cause a lot of water retention because that would totally *kitten*
Good idea!! That could of been a huge gain!
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Aren't bugs like corn, if you don't chew them, they come out the same.3
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A dragonfly once flew in my mouth during a bicycle race ... I chose not to eat it.3
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A dragonfly once flew in my mouth during a bicycle race ... I chose not to eat it.
Wait - I had a choice?!?
The good news is - no weight gain - but no loss either.
So relieved!
I am thinking bugs must be dense calories. But don't take my word for it. Look on the internet and find the truth - because you can't put it on the internet if it's not true.
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Tweaking_Time wrote: »
I made it a choice!!
I climbed a hill, during the race, and noticed that the photography group was at the top of the hill. Just then, the faster racers came back toward me and as they reached the top of the hill to go down, they all sat up and zipped up their jerseys and tried to look really cool and collected. I was chuckling to myself.
I continued on, reached the turn-around point, and headed back. Just as I was approaching the photography group again, the dragonfly flew in!! I didn't want to be on camera fishing this thing out of my mouth, so I closed my mouth and cycled calmly past the cameras ... with the dragonfly flapping and buzzing in my mouth!!!
And then I extracted it!!!
I'm not sure ... maybe it would have fuelled the rest of my race!
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I suggest pre-logging your insects so you won't go over your goals for the day.8
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Rabbi Ari Enkin wrote: "Although the Torah clearly prohibits the consumption of worms, or all other insects for that matter, there are, however, some interesting exceptions to the rule. The Torah’s prohibition on consuming insects applies only to those things that “live in the seas and in the streams”, “fly in the air” and “creep on the ground”.[1] So severe is the prohibition on eating any such creepy crawlers that often the consumption of a single insect is a concurrent violation of multiple prohibitions.[2]
Among the insects which are permitted to be eaten are grasshoppers, which the Torah explicitly permits.[3] Nevertheless, one will rarely see grasshoppers on the menus of kosher restaurants since it is unclear which of the many species of grasshoppers are the ones which the Torah actually" permits.
You're in trouble, man!
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Hearts_2015 wrote: »BinaryPulsar wrote: »What about spider webs? Sometimes I walk into spider webs. I might eat a little.
yea, spider webs usually have trapped bugs in them... you definitely want count those and how do you count them when you've already eaten them. But what about the ones caught in your hair that you almost eat but they end up tangled and don't get eaten.
The life of a bug eater can be complicated. This is why I'm not a runner or a bug eater.. tracking bugs and other leggy creatures is WAY too much work for me. Or is there an app for it? It's enough trying to deal with the database as it is. Spiders and bugs have no packaging to fall back on. Oh except the mealworms they do.
I don't bike currently but when I do again I'll have to deal with eating bugs I'll be on the lookout for a bug app to track them. By then there'll be some fitness gadget to pre-measure/weigh what flies or crawls in your mouth so you can keep more accurate track.
Dang..water weight @cerise_noir @Tweaking_Time that hadn't even occurred to me. Hopefully it won't take more than a couple days to drop that. Well, that's really gonna again depend on the type of bug and how much sodium it contains.
Again... you really can't remember if it was a mosquito? Because it's pretty important to know who it bit before you and before them so you can calculate the sugars, sodium etc. in the earlier bites. Sheesh... maybe it's time to give up biking. Or give up logging.. one mess up? Yea definitely just throw the towel in!
This is a good point. If's it's last meat was a cat, glucose will be low in the blood. If it was a niety year old diabetic who just ate a popsicle, carbs may be high and sodium low. Or it might not of eaten...
The run was a good idea.1 -
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Were the insects grass fed?3
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I hope it wasn't a momma bug who will now never return home to her babies. All these posts, and not one person has thought of the children?7
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Maybe the children hadn't left....nutmegoreo wrote: »I hope it wasn't a momma bug who will now never return home to her babies. All these posts, and not one person has thought of the children?
And I am not talking about their expensive ocean front home, either.Hearts_2015 wrote: »BinaryPulsar wrote: »What about spider webs? Sometimes I walk into spider webs. I might eat a little.
yea, spider webs usually have trapped bugs in them... you definitely want count those and how do you count them when you've already eaten them. But what about the ones caught in your hair that you almost eat but they end up tangled and don't get eaten.
The life of a bug eater can be complicated. This is why I'm not a runner or a bug eater.. tracking bugs and other leggy creatures is WAY too much work for me. Or is there an app for it? It's enough trying to deal with the database as it is. Spiders and bugs have no packaging to fall back on. Oh except the mealworms they do.
I don't bike currently but when I do again I'll have to deal with eating bugs I'll be on the lookout for a bug app to track them. By then there'll be some fitness gadget to pre-measure/weigh what flies or crawls in your mouth so you can keep more accurate track.
Dang..water weight @cerise_noir @Tweaking_Time that hadn't even occurred to me. Hopefully it won't take more than a couple days to drop that. Well, that's really gonna again depend on the type of bug and how much sodium it contains.
Again... you really can't remember if it was a mosquito? Because it's pretty important to know who it bit before you and before them so you can calculate the sugars, sodium etc. in the earlier bites. Sheesh... maybe it's time to give up biking. Or give up logging.. one mess up? Yea definitely just throw the towel in!
This is a good point. If's it's last meat was a cat, glucose will be low in the blood. If it was a niety year old diabetic who just ate a popsicle, carbs may be high and sodium low. Or it might not of eaten...
The run was a good idea.
Dem Popsicles, man.
But if it was a few shortbread cookies with tea....watch out.1 -
Oh my! You would not believe the calories in bugs!1
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So if that was your aperitif, have you now calculated the calories for the spider, the bird, the cat, the dog, the goat, the cow and the horse?
Let us know the long term outcome of that meal....5 -
cerise_noir wrote: »
Maybe the children hadn't left....nutmegoreo wrote: »I hope it wasn't a momma bug who will now never return home to her babies. All these posts, and not one person has thought of the children?
And I am not talking about their expensive ocean front home, either.Hearts_2015 wrote: »BinaryPulsar wrote: »What about spider webs? Sometimes I walk into spider webs. I might eat a little.
yea, spider webs usually have trapped bugs in them... you definitely want count those and how do you count them when you've already eaten them. But what about the ones caught in your hair that you almost eat but they end up tangled and don't get eaten.
The life of a bug eater can be complicated. This is why I'm not a runner or a bug eater.. tracking bugs and other leggy creatures is WAY too much work for me. Or is there an app for it? It's enough trying to deal with the database as it is. Spiders and bugs have no packaging to fall back on. Oh except the mealworms they do.
I don't bike currently but when I do again I'll have to deal with eating bugs I'll be on the lookout for a bug app to track them. By then there'll be some fitness gadget to pre-measure/weigh what flies or crawls in your mouth so you can keep more accurate track.
Dang..water weight @cerise_noir @Tweaking_Time that hadn't even occurred to me. Hopefully it won't take more than a couple days to drop that. Well, that's really gonna again depend on the type of bug and how much sodium it contains.
Again... you really can't remember if it was a mosquito? Because it's pretty important to know who it bit before you and before them so you can calculate the sugars, sodium etc. in the earlier bites. Sheesh... maybe it's time to give up biking. Or give up logging.. one mess up? Yea definitely just throw the towel in!
This is a good point. If's it's last meat was a cat, glucose will be low in the blood. If it was a niety year old diabetic who just ate a popsicle, carbs may be high and sodium low. Or it might not of eaten...
The run was a good idea.
Dem Popsicles, man.
But if it was a few shortbread cookies with tea....watch out.
Then we need an estimate of how many babies she was carrying to determine total calories consumed. This is getting complicated.
OP, maybe next time, keep your mouth closed. It would be much easier! :laugh:3 -
I read somewhere (not sure where so may not be accurate) that we eat about a pound of bugs a year unintentionally. Guess we need to leave a few calories on the table to account for unintentional bug swallowing (which sounds vaguely obscene for some reason).4
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I read somewhere (not sure where so may not be accurate) that we eat about a pound of bugs a year unintentionally. Guess we need to leave a few calories on the table to account for unintentional bug swallowing (which sounds vaguely obscene for some reason).
This explains a LOT.
*changes yearly deficit*
Someone needs to make an app. I keep hearing that 'there's an app for everything', but that bug cake is a lie.nutmegoreo wrote: »cerise_noir wrote: »
Maybe the children hadn't left....nutmegoreo wrote: »I hope it wasn't a momma bug who will now never return home to her babies. All these posts, and not one person has thought of the children?
And I am not talking about their expensive ocean front home, either.Hearts_2015 wrote: »BinaryPulsar wrote: »What about spider webs? Sometimes I walk into spider webs. I might eat a little.
yea, spider webs usually have trapped bugs in them... you definitely want count those and how do you count them when you've already eaten them. But what about the ones caught in your hair that you almost eat but they end up tangled and don't get eaten.
The life of a bug eater can be complicated. This is why I'm not a runner or a bug eater.. tracking bugs and other leggy creatures is WAY too much work for me. Or is there an app for it? It's enough trying to deal with the database as it is. Spiders and bugs have no packaging to fall back on. Oh except the mealworms they do.
I don't bike currently but when I do again I'll have to deal with eating bugs I'll be on the lookout for a bug app to track them. By then there'll be some fitness gadget to pre-measure/weigh what flies or crawls in your mouth so you can keep more accurate track.
Dang..water weight @cerise_noir @Tweaking_Time that hadn't even occurred to me. Hopefully it won't take more than a couple days to drop that. Well, that's really gonna again depend on the type of bug and how much sodium it contains.
Again... you really can't remember if it was a mosquito? Because it's pretty important to know who it bit before you and before them so you can calculate the sugars, sodium etc. in the earlier bites. Sheesh... maybe it's time to give up biking. Or give up logging.. one mess up? Yea definitely just throw the towel in!
This is a good point. If's it's last meat was a cat, glucose will be low in the blood. If it was a niety year old diabetic who just ate a popsicle, carbs may be high and sodium low. Or it might not of eaten...
The run was a good idea.
Dem Popsicles, man.
But if it was a few shortbread cookies with tea....watch out.
Then we need an estimate of how many babies she was carrying to determine total calories consumed. This is getting complicated.
OP, maybe next time, keep your mouth closed. It would be much easier! :laugh:
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Going cycling this evening. Wish me luck.
P.S. - I ate light today and left calorie room - you know - just in case. If I do not eat any bugs, I will use the spared calories on bourbon consumption. Cheers!
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Was it a gluten-free bug?2
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FINAL ENTRY (I think)
I experimented with different riding positions because tonight was pretty buggy. I have quite a collection of bugs splattered on my cool riding shades if someone would like to do an entomological analysis of the remains. But I digress...
To get to the point - To not swallow a bug when cycling, I found the following technique worked best:- Maintain minimum speed of 13 mph
- Chin tucked
- Nostrils flared
- Full duck lips with small breathing hole (remember I am a mouth breather)
Presto - I never swallowed a bug!
I thought about using a surgical mask or a bandanna like an old-west cowboy bank robber - but that would just look silly.
Time for bourbon! Cheers!5 -
Tweaking_Time wrote: »FINAL ENTRY (I think)
I experimented with different riding positions because tonight was pretty buggy. I have quite a collection of bugs splattered on my cool riding shades if someone would like to do an entomological analysis of the remains. But I digress...
To get to the point - To not swallow a bug when cycling, I found the following technique worked best:- Maintain minimum speed of 13 mph
- Chin tucked
- Nostrils flared
- Full duck lips with small breathing hole (remember I am a mouth breather)
Presto - I never swallowed a bug!
I thought about using a surgical mask or a bandanna like an old-west cowboy bank robber - but that would just look silly.
Time for bourbon! Cheers!
Bottoms up! FYI, the duck face is so yesterday. Flaring the nostrils could lead to inhaled bugs, but at least you won't be getting the extra calories.
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