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So I am really pissed because I now understand why I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks. A product implied that 2 slices contained 65 calories. I was quite impressed and loved that product and so I was eating quite a lot of it. Recently they changed their label and wrote that in fact , one slice contains 65 calories not 2. So basically I was eating double the calories . This is just to warn you guys to be aware of labels as they can be deceiving. As for me , I am back to being on a calorie deficit I guess! 
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This happens quite a bit and the parent company of the product generally does it for marketing purposes. This is why it is so important to check the accuracy of what you're eating, and the easiest way to do this is to go by the gram serving size instead of the "volume" one, if that makes sense. I.e., instead of 2 tablespoons of peanut butter, weigh out the 32 grams of peanut butter and go by that.
Don't stress over it, though - it is a learning process and it takes time to get into the groove of measuring and logging your foods, checking labels, etc. Just take what you've learned and keep on trucking.8 -
^Yup. Bread is prime example. Once I started using a food scale, I was surprised at the variance in weight from one slice to the next. Ditto bacon.5
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Yep, this happens quite a bit. Especially with bottled drinks or individually packaged foods. The label will say "80 cals/ serving!" But if you don't know what a serving is, you could be consuming much more.
There's a 20oz bottle of lemonade in the break room. The label notes 100cals/serving. But, there are "approximately" 2.5 servings in the bottle. If you're not reading the full label, you might not realize you're consuming 250cals instead of 100. And that doesn't even take into account that the label itself is allowed to be off by 20% and still meet guidelines (probably not that much for a liquid, but still possible.) So that bottle of lemonade could be nearly 300cals.
I've noticed a lot of bigger name brands are now starting to put on the front of the packaging how many total calories are in the package. Not sure if that's new guidelines being followed or consumer complaints though.2 -
So I am really pissed because I now understand why I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks. A product implied that 2 slices contained 65 calories. I was quite impressed and loved that product and so I was eating quite a lot of it. Recently they changed their label and wrote that in fact , one slice contains 65 calories not 2. So basically I was eating double the calories . This is just to warn you guys to be aware of labels as they can be deceiving. As for me , I am back to being on a calorie deficit I guess!
You ate 17,500 calories of this product? That's a lot of bread...17 -
what product? did you read what the label said, or infer based on what you perceive a normal serving size to be (i.e. most people consider 2 slices of bread normal, but most labels only give calories for 1)
there is a new law that requires food labeling to be not only a serving size, but what an average person would assume a serving size to be3 -
WinoGelato wrote: »So I am really pissed because I now understand why I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks. A product implied that 2 slices contained 65 calories. I was quite impressed and loved that product and so I was eating quite a lot of it. Recently they changed their label and wrote that in fact , one slice contains 65 calories not 2. So basically I was eating double the calories . This is just to warn you guys to be aware of labels as they can be deceiving. As for me , I am back to being on a calorie deficit I guess!
You ate 17,500 calories of this product? That's a lot of bread...
Doing the math that's 538 slices of bread in 2 weeks. (each slice was 32.5 calories more than you thought, gaining 5 lbs means eating 17,500 calories more than you thought, 17,500/32.5 = 538.46)
That is 38.5 slices of bread a day (roughly 2 full loafs), every day, for 2 weeks. I'm guessing you didn't really eat that much so the weight gain isn't JUST from the mislabeling. If you did eat that much of it you should probably try to eat a little more variety.
I agree that mislabeling is very annoying though.6 -
WinoGelato wrote: »So I am really pissed because I now understand why I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks. A product implied that 2 slices contained 65 calories. I was quite impressed and loved that product and so I was eating quite a lot of it. Recently they changed their label and wrote that in fact , one slice contains 65 calories not 2. So basically I was eating double the calories . This is just to warn you guys to be aware of labels as they can be deceiving. As for me , I am back to being on a calorie deficit I guess!
You ate 17,500 calories of this product? That's a lot of bread...
That's what I thought. I love bread but oh my2 -
you probably didn't read it closely. most breads do a serving size for 1. if you mut do bread try a lower calorie one. the one i have is 40 cals a slice and its just as good as any main bread0
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I would fully expect bread to quote per slice, myself. That is the lowest unit in the package.
Also, gross error check - 65 calories is already quite a low calorie count per slice, compared to the average bread.
But I would check before logging, not after.1 -
I can't edit my post to add picture but here's the bread I bought
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WinoGelato wrote: »So I am really pissed because I now understand why I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks. A product implied that 2 slices contained 65 calories. I was quite impressed and loved that product and so I was eating quite a lot of it. Recently they changed their label and wrote that in fact , one slice contains 65 calories not 2. So basically I was eating double the calories . This is just to warn you guys to be aware of labels as they can be deceiving. As for me , I am back to being on a calorie deficit I guess!
You ate 17,500 calories of this product? That's a lot of bread...
Haha thanks for making me realize that ! It is impossible ! So maybe its a little weight gain and some water retention
but still it made me quite angry! 2 -
humpbackgirl wrote: »you probably didn't read it closely. most breads do a serving size for 1. if you mut do bread try a lower calorie one. the one i have is 40 cals a slice and its just as good as any main bread
Trust me , I read it closely more than once ! I read it again because of the new package and they changed it from 1 to 2 !0 -
ShammersPink wrote: »I would fully expect bread to quote per slice, myself. That is the lowest unit in the package.
Also, gross error check - 65 calories is already quite a low calorie count per slice, compared to the average bread.
But I would check before logging, not after.
Thats why I ate a lot of it ! Cause I was like '' BREAD ? ONLY 65 CALORIES PER 2 SLICE ? '' and obviously I liked the idea !2 -
mburgess458 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »So I am really pissed because I now understand why I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks. A product implied that 2 slices contained 65 calories. I was quite impressed and loved that product and so I was eating quite a lot of it. Recently they changed their label and wrote that in fact , one slice contains 65 calories not 2. So basically I was eating double the calories . This is just to warn you guys to be aware of labels as they can be deceiving. As for me , I am back to being on a calorie deficit I guess!
You ate 17,500 calories of this product? That's a lot of bread...
Doing the math that's 538 slices of bread in 2 weeks. (each slice was 32.5 calories more than you thought, gaining 5 lbs means eating 17,500 calories more than you thought, 17,500/32.5 = 538.46)
That is 38.5 slices of bread a day (roughly 2 full loafs), every day, for 2 weeks. I'm guessing you didn't really eat that much so the weight gain isn't JUST from the mislabeling. If you did eat that much of it you should probably try to eat a little more variety.
I agree that mislabeling is very annoying though.
I've been eating the bread for more than 2 weeks but during these 2 weeks , i ate a lot more of it and also gained weight . But yeah , it does sound impossible , you are right ! But still , my point is thag mislabeling sucks !1 -
mburgess458 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »So I am really pissed because I now understand why I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks. A product implied that 2 slices contained 65 calories. I was quite impressed and loved that product and so I was eating quite a lot of it. Recently they changed their label and wrote that in fact , one slice contains 65 calories not 2. So basically I was eating double the calories . This is just to warn you guys to be aware of labels as they can be deceiving. As for me , I am back to being on a calorie deficit I guess!
You ate 17,500 calories of this product? That's a lot of bread...
Doing the math that's 538 slices of bread in 2 weeks. (each slice was 32.5 calories more than you thought, gaining 5 lbs means eating 17,500 calories more than you thought, 17,500/32.5 = 538.46)
That is 38.5 slices of bread a day (roughly 2 full loafs), every day, for 2 weeks. I'm guessing you didn't really eat that much so the weight gain isn't JUST from the mislabeling. If you did eat that much of it you should probably try to eat a little more variety.
I agree that mislabeling is very annoying though.
I've been eating the bread for more than 2 weeks but during these 2 weeks , i ate a lot more of it and also gained weight . But yeah , it does sound impossible , you are right ! But still , my point is thag mislabeling sucks !
I agree with what the posters above are saying; however, it's most likely that you have been making similar mistakes with other products as well, and realizing this issue with the bread will help you to avoid similar logging errors in the future. So no, you didn't eat 17,500 calories of the bread in those 2 weeks, but you may have been underestimating your intake of other foods as well, so it's good that you realized what was happening.
Most of that 5 lbs is likely to be water weight, though. Our weight fluctuates naturally on a daily basis, so I wouldn't stress too much.5 -
i'll ask again - what product were you eating? I want to see what the label says - both old and new if i can find0
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Yep...it sucks. This is why I weigh almost everything that I eat.So I am really pissed because I now understand why I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks. A product implied that 2 slices contained 65 calories. I was quite impressed and loved that product and so I was eating quite a lot of it. Recently they changed their label and wrote that in fact , one slice contains 65 calories not 2. So basically I was eating double the calories . This is just to warn you guys to be aware of labels as they can be deceiving. As for me , I am back to being on a calorie deficit I guess!
And I am pretty sure that we didn't gain 5lbs of fat in 2 weeks.
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deannalfisher wrote: »i'll ask again - what product were you eating? I want to see what the label says - both old and new if i can find
I dont feel comfortable naming the brand , especially since I do not have proof of what the old label said
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but that is where google-fu comes in handy - PM me the brand if you want - i'm curious2
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Alyssa_Is_LosingIt wrote: »mburgess458 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »So I am really pissed because I now understand why I gained 5 pounds in 2 weeks. A product implied that 2 slices contained 65 calories. I was quite impressed and loved that product and so I was eating quite a lot of it. Recently they changed their label and wrote that in fact , one slice contains 65 calories not 2. So basically I was eating double the calories . This is just to warn you guys to be aware of labels as they can be deceiving. As for me , I am back to being on a calorie deficit I guess!
You ate 17,500 calories of this product? That's a lot of bread...
Doing the math that's 538 slices of bread in 2 weeks. (each slice was 32.5 calories more than you thought, gaining 5 lbs means eating 17,500 calories more than you thought, 17,500/32.5 = 538.46)
That is 38.5 slices of bread a day (roughly 2 full loafs), every day, for 2 weeks. I'm guessing you didn't really eat that much so the weight gain isn't JUST from the mislabeling. If you did eat that much of it you should probably try to eat a little more variety.
I agree that mislabeling is very annoying though.
I've been eating the bread for more than 2 weeks but during these 2 weeks , i ate a lot more of it and also gained weight . But yeah , it does sound impossible , you are right ! But still , my point is thag mislabeling sucks !
I agree with what the posters above are saying; however, it's most likely that you have been making similar mistakes with other products as well, and realizing this issue with the bread will help you to avoid similar logging errors in the future. So no, you didn't eat 17,500 calories of the bread in those 2 weeks, but you may have been underestimating your intake of other foods as well, so it's good that you realized what was happening.
Most of that 5 lbs is likely to be water weight, though. Our weight fluctuates naturally on a daily basis, so I wouldn't stress too much.
I doubt it. Im very strict with my calories ! Its not my fault but theirs , because they mislabbeled it. But yes , you are right I wont stress to much either will probably eat in a slight deficit for a week or 2 and thats it 0
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