Fast Food Greater Than 1000 Calories
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Gallowmere1984 wrote: »
Yup.1 -
I guess your state fair is different then mine.
Krispy Kreme Hamburgers
Fried Pepsi
Fried Butter
Fat people aren't the only ones who order this.0 -
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Not having been to the state fair, I couldn't say. I will say this: I call certain foods "fair foods" (You know the ones, deep fried pickles, deep fried oreos, deep fried twinkies, fried dough). I know those aren't healthy. I don't expect them to be healthy. I know that they are full of fat and sugar and calories. No one orders fried pepsi thinking - "Health food."2
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I guess your state fair is different then mine.
Krispy Kreme Hamburgers
Fried Pepsi
Fried Butter
And? What is the point? This has become a trend in the last few years at State Fairs, to create indulgent foods and deep fry them. If an individual consumes any one of those (which I've had the Krispy Kreme Cheeseburger- with bacon and it was delightful), it would be a once/year thing at the State Fair, not an every day occurrence. Even if you are seeking out the best cuisine at all 50 State Fairs, you've eaten some crazy fried monstrosity for about 15% of the 365 days in a year...3 -
I'm saying that they probably knew what they were getting into with the first bite... heck, with the first glance.1
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I guess your state fair is different then mine.
Krispy Kreme Hamburgers
Fried Pepsi
Fried Butter
Fat people aren't the only ones who order this.
What I eat at a fair and what I eat on a regular basis are two drastically different things. I'll get a bag of garlic butter popcorn every year at the Garlic Festival. Normally... something like that is far too heavy for me to eat.
The last fair I went to, I got a Blooming Onion to share with my sister - but it was our biggest meal of the day. We had a light breakfast and a salad for dinner. I've also had bacon wrapped deep fried chicken at fairs and fried dough. These aren't foods that are for every day. These are foods for, "I'm at a fair. Ok, how do you even fry a drink? I'll try some fried Pepsi."
You can't judge what people eat at a fair and say, "People don't realize how bad this stuff is!" Some people are perfectly aware the Fried Butter is bad (how could they not be?). They're at a fair and eating fair food. Sometimes it's fun to try something insane that you wouldn't normally eat.0 -
Ok... what are you proposing then?
That these foods are taken off of restaurant menus and state fair offerings?
That calorie counts are published (they usually are for chain restaurants)?
Something else?1 -
This was my moment in McDonalds when I started on MFP. I was looking at the menu board and was contemplating a chicken sandwich at about 380 calories not bad. I was thinking about maybe getting some fries too when I noticed the "as a meal" up to 1330 calories. I stopped eating french fries and drinking sweet tea that day. I rarely eat there anymore either. I went on to lose over fifty pounds and eat so much differently now than I used to eat.1
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I'm proposing that people are misjudging their calories, MFP people have a better idea because they actually track their calories. But it is still very very easy to misjudge calories.
Which, by the way was not the reason I started this thread. I started it because any one thing being more then 1000 kcal is ridiculous.1 -
This was my moment in McDonalds when I started on MFP. I was looking at the menu board and was contemplating a chicken sandwich at about 380 calories not bad. I was thinking about maybe getting some fries too when I noticed the "as a meal" up to 1330 calories. I stopped eating french fries and drinking sweet tea that day. I rarely eat there anymore either. I went on to lose over fifty pounds and eat so much differently now than I used to eat.
That must have included regular soda as the regular fries aren't 900+ calories2 -
singingflutelady wrote: »This was my moment in McDonalds when I started on MFP. I was looking at the menu board and was contemplating a chicken sandwich at about 380 calories not bad. I was thinking about maybe getting some fries too when I noticed the "as a meal" up to 1330 calories. I stopped eating french fries and drinking sweet tea that day. I rarely eat there anymore either. I went on to lose over fifty pounds and eat so much differently now than I used to eat.
That must have included regular soda as the regular fries aren't 900+ calories
The regular (medium) fries are 340 calories. I'm trying to figure out what the drink would have been.1 -
I'm proposing that people are misjudging their calories, MFP people have a better idea because they actually track their calories. But it is still very very easy to misjudge calories.
Which, by the way was not the reason I started this thread. I started it because any one thing being more then 1000 kcal is ridiculous.
Most people don't track calories to begin with. If you aren't tracking calories, then you don't have a benchmark by which to say whether or not the calories in a large sonic shake are reasonable for you or not. That's one of the things that I think is interesting about all these restaurants posting calorie counts on their menus. If a person doesn't know their TDEE, doesn't have a calorie target to shoot for (whether trying to lose, gain or maintain), and doesn't know the calorie count of the foods they eat on a daily basis that they prepare themselves - then how is knowing that a Panera Bacon Turkey Bravo has 399 cals for a half sandwich - helpful for them?
I still don't understand why it is ridiculous that the biggest, most extravagant items on these menus are >1000 cals? If they were 500 cals, then imagine what the calories would be for the small portions?2 -
singingflutelady wrote: »This was my moment in McDonalds when I started on MFP. I was looking at the menu board and was contemplating a chicken sandwich at about 380 calories not bad. I was thinking about maybe getting some fries too when I noticed the "as a meal" up to 1330 calories. I stopped eating french fries and drinking sweet tea that day. I rarely eat there anymore either. I went on to lose over fifty pounds and eat so much differently now than I used to eat.
That must have included regular soda as the regular fries aren't 900+ calories
The regular (medium) fries are 340 calories. I'm trying to figure out what the drink would have been.
Exactly. Maybe it included a dessert? That never was crazy inflated0 -
No... this was not suppose to be surprising other then companies are making smaller meals with more calories. If I ate a hamburger and milkshake I would of expected it to be less then 1000 kcal. Now it can be over 2000.
This confuses me. None of what you posted would be a "smaller" meal. They all look (and sound) calorie laden. My problem before MFP is that I just didn't think about it. It's easy to put away a lot of calories when you aren't really thinking about it.0 -
singingflutelady wrote: »This was my moment in McDonalds when I started on MFP. I was looking at the menu board and was contemplating a chicken sandwich at about 380 calories not bad. I was thinking about maybe getting some fries too when I noticed the "as a meal" up to 1330 calories. I stopped eating french fries and drinking sweet tea that day. I rarely eat there anymore either. I went on to lose over fifty pounds and eat so much differently now than I used to eat.
That must have included regular soda as the regular fries aren't 900+ calories
The regular (medium) fries are 340 calories. I'm trying to figure out what the drink would have been.
I think the poster said sweet tea. Sure, if you get the super size sweet tea, and the large fries, then it is possible to envision that a value meal could be "up to" 1330 calories. But if you get just the sandwich, small fries, and a diet soda, then it is possible to have a meal with a reasonable calorie count. I eat a McDouble, one of the happy meal fry orders that my kids don't eat, and a diet coke and it is less than 500 cals.0 -
WinoGelato wrote: »I'm proposing that people are misjudging their calories, MFP people have a better idea because they actually track their calories. But it is still very very easy to misjudge calories.
Which, by the way was not the reason I started this thread. I started it because any one thing being more then 1000 kcal is ridiculous.
Most people don't track calories to begin with. If you aren't tracking calories, then you don't have a benchmark by which to say whether or not the calories in a large sonic shake are reasonable for you or not. That's one of the things that I think is interesting about all these restaurants posting calorie counts on their menus. If a person doesn't know their TDEE, doesn't have a calorie target to shoot for (whether trying to lose, gain or maintain), and doesn't know the calorie count of the foods they eat on a daily basis that they prepare themselves - then how is knowing that a Panera Bacon Turkey Bravo has 399 cals for a half sandwich - helpful for them?
I still don't understand why it is ridiculous that the biggest, most extravagant items on these menus are >1000 cals? If they were 500 cals, then imagine what the calories would be for the small portions?
Even before I started counting calories, I was hearing that the guideline was 600 calories per meal. It's not perfect, but it gives you something to shoot for when you go out to a place that has the nutrition information published.0 -
WinoGelato wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »This was my moment in McDonalds when I started on MFP. I was looking at the menu board and was contemplating a chicken sandwich at about 380 calories not bad. I was thinking about maybe getting some fries too when I noticed the "as a meal" up to 1330 calories. I stopped eating french fries and drinking sweet tea that day. I rarely eat there anymore either. I went on to lose over fifty pounds and eat so much differently now than I used to eat.
That must have included regular soda as the regular fries aren't 900+ calories
The regular (medium) fries are 340 calories. I'm trying to figure out what the drink would have been.
I think the poster said sweet tea. Sure, if you get the super size sweet tea, and the large fries, then it is possible to envision that a value meal could be "up to" 1330 calories. But if you get just the sandwich, small fries, and a diet soda, then it is possible to have a meal with a reasonable calorie count. I eat a McDouble, one of the happy meal fry orders that my kids don't eat, and a diet coke and it is less than 500 cals.
Possibly forgetting the Apple Pie? What meal from McDonald's is complete without one of those things? Do they even make them anymore?0 -
I'm proposing that people are misjudging their calories, MFP people have a better idea because they actually track their calories. But it is still very very easy to misjudge calories.
Which, by the way was not the reason I started this thread. I started it because any one thing being more then 1000 kcal is ridiculous.
That's not what you said in the OP, though. You said that there are "way more calories in foods than what we think" and proceeded to post pics of foods that one would have to be blind to not realize contained buttloads of calories.
And some posts are basically saying "No **kitten** Sherlock!"
1000 or more calories for a restaurant meal is par for the course. I actually think I would be lucky to get away with only 1000 calories (not counting the labeled healthier options on the menu, of course).2
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