Measure EVERYTHING. Pam spray: 3 grams = 26 calories
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vespiquenn wrote: »vespiquenn wrote: »Right now? The amount of Nyquil/DayQuil I have been consuming adds up. It sucks.
Use the pills, lol.
DayQuil I typically do. The NyQuil pills don't work in the sleepy aspect, so I'm stuck gagging the syrup down.
I believe children's nyquil is the exact same dosage as adults but tastes like cherries.1 -
Clearly then I would log 12 servings of 72 calories if it went to that level DAILY. But 3 sprays of Pam is not even on my mind while logging. That stress is not worth itReady2Rock206 wrote: »lemonychild wrote: »No, these r irrelevant in my logging. Anything less than 73 calories (Ferrero rocher) doesn't get much play in my daily log and I lose weight just fine. I'd think Youd shoot up your stress level over 26 cals why too high which impacts cortisol n weight loss way more than these 26 cals
But if you eat a dozen things a day that are 72 calories that's 864 extra calories a day - and over 6,000 in a week. I can easily just take a few bites of this a nibble of that keeping it all under 73 calories and rack up hundreds of extra uncounted calories a day.
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vespiquenn wrote: »Right now? The amount of Nyquil/DayQuil I have been consuming adds up. It sucks.
Cough drops drive me crazy- if I've got a cough I need them to get through work, but they are just little candies1 -
I see no reason not to log everything to the best of my ability and to eat the maximum calories that are compatible with my goals!
If it raises your cortisol levels... go ahead and don't log it.
My cortisol if much happier knowing that I've logged my 9 Cal of cinnamon and 18 Cal of Pam and 4 Cal of pepper and 18 Cal of coffee.
And that no calorie will remain unaccounted for or for that matter un-eaten without good reason!6 -
I log all calories.
When I use the "0 calorie" cooking spray, I count one mississippi, two mississippi, and use 20 calories per second.
The package says 0 cals per serving and that a serving is 1/4 of a second. Since up to 5 cals can be rounded to 0 cals, I am assuming that one serving is 4.999 or something equally annoying. 5 × 4 = 20.
So, that is why I use 20 cals per second.
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Michelle2622017 wrote: »I log all calories.
When I use the "0 calorie" cooking spray, I count one mississippi, two mississippi, and use 20 calories per second.
The package says 0 cals per serving and that a serving is 1/4 of a second. Since up to 5 cals can be rounded to 0 cals, I am assuming that one serving is 4.999 or something equally annoying. 5 × 4 = 20.
So, that is why I use 20 cals per second.
Put a cold frying pan on the scale. Repeat your experiment. I've come up with approximately 1 gram per second which would make it about 9 calories for one of my seconds. Of course each person's subjective seconds could wvary2 -
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I see no reason not to log everything to the best of my ability and to eat the maximum calories that are compatible with my goals!
If it raises your cortisol levels... go ahead and don't log it.
My cortisol if much happier knowing that I've logged my 9 Cal of cinnamon and 18 Cal of Pam and 4 Cal of pepper and 18 Cal of coffee.
And that no calorie will remain unaccounted for or for that matter un-eaten without good reason!
Exactly this. I log everything, even my gum as it's 5 calories per piece. It doesn't stress me out one bit to do so and takes a second to do. The more accurate my data is, the happier I am.3 -
Personally, I wouldn't use Pam, I used this:
You can put in any oil you want, just have to pump it to create pressure in the canister.3 -
Diet pop has a few calories (some more, some less depending on the pop). I think most things that claim zero calories per serving you have to calculate how many calories per container. Vitamins and things like this have some too. When I make muffins, I use the cupcake liners, saves a few calories, and clean up is a breeze.
The mister above is a good piece of equipment to have. You know what you are actually spraying on your food or in your pan.0 -
I see no reason not to log everything to the best of my ability and to eat the maximum calories that are compatible with my goals!
If it raises your cortisol levels... go ahead and don't log it.
My cortisol if much happier knowing that I've logged my 9 Cal of cinnamon and 18 Cal of Pam and 4 Cal of pepper and 18 Cal of coffee.
And that no calorie will remain unaccounted for or for that matter un-eaten without good reason!
My cortisol is more easily triggered by the scale not moving for unknown reasons. I'd rather control all the variables I can. Logging as accurately as possible isn't stressful for me.6 -
Michelle2622017 wrote: »I log all calories.
When I use the "0 calorie" cooking spray, I count one mississippi, two mississippi, and use 20 calories per second.
The package says 0 cals per serving and that a serving is 1/4 of a second. Since up to 5 cals can be rounded to 0 cals, I am assuming that one serving is 4.999 or something equally annoying. 5 × 4 = 20.
So, that is why I use 20 cals per second.
Put a cold frying pan on the scale. Repeat your experiment. I've come up with approximately 1 gram per second which would make it about 9 calories for one of my seconds. Of course each person's subjective seconds could wvary
Our seconds are the same.1 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Michelle2622017 wrote: »I log all calories.
When I use the "0 calorie" cooking spray, I count one mississippi, two mississippi, and use 20 calories per second.
The package says 0 cals per serving and that a serving is 1/4 of a second. Since up to 5 cals can be rounded to 0 cals, I am assuming that one serving is 4.999 or something equally annoying. 5 × 4 = 20.
So, that is why I use 20 cals per second.
Put a cold frying pan on the scale. Repeat your experiment. I've come up with approximately 1 gram per second which would make it about 9 calories for one of my seconds. Of course each person's subjective seconds could wvary
Our seconds are the same.
Seconded (pardon the pun). Seconds are the SI unit of time so there is nothing subjective about it at all.
"The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom"0 -
I compensate for cooking oils, diet drinks etc with exercise calories. I aim for between 1200-1300 calories a day in food and log as accurately as possible with scales etc but I know I have my exercise calories to back myself up0
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SierraFatToSkinny wrote: »Personally, I wouldn't use Pam, I used this:
You can put in any oil you want, just have to pump it to create pressure in the canister.
I have one but it often ends up putting too much oil in the end compared to the PAM stuff...vespiquenn wrote: »vespiquenn wrote: »Right now? The amount of Nyquil/DayQuil I have been consuming adds up. It sucks.
Use the pills, lol.
DayQuil I typically do. The NyQuil pills don't work in the sleepy aspect, so I'm stuck gagging the syrup down.
They work wonders for me thankfully lol.0 -
MelanieCN77 wrote: »
the extra 78 calories can be overcome with an extra 1k steps.
I ran for 34 mins on my treadmill and my tracker gave me 512 calories burned, MMF gave me 425...I don't go by the treadmill burn...0 -
MelanieCN77 wrote: »
the extra 78 calories can be overcome with an extra 1k steps.
I ran for 34 mins on my treadmill and my tracker gave me 512 calories burned, MMF gave me 425...I don't go by the treadmill burn...
Just an FYI: Approximate calories burned walking = 0.3 x bodyweight (lbs) x distance (miles)0 -
trigden1991 wrote: »MelanieCN77 wrote: »
the extra 78 calories can be overcome with an extra 1k steps.
I ran for 34 mins on my treadmill and my tracker gave me 512 calories burned, MMF gave me 425...I don't go by the treadmill burn...
Just an FYI: Approximate calories burned walking = 0.3 x bodyweight (lbs) x distance (miles)
I used the formula to see how close it came to the estimate that I use to figure my calories burned while walking. It came out really close. I estimate 50 calories per mile...the formula gave me 59 calories per mile. When I used MFP exercise calculator it gave me 99 calories per mile.1 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »This is why I look fairly darkly at the FDA's guideline allowing anything with a 'serve' which is less than 5 calories to be rounded down to 0. When you combine that with the fact that USA labeling requirements only require the per serving information, it leads people to actually believe there are 0 calorie items - not to mention, they get entered into the database as 0 calories so no matter how many serves you add, it stays 0 in the food diary.
I know what you mean. I often look at a label thinking the calorie count is for 1 serving but the other day I bought corn tortillas and the serving size was 1&1/4 tortilla??? who eats 1&1/4 of a small corn tortilla? Alternatively I bought Naan thinking it was 190 calories until I checked and that was for 1/2 of a piece. Silly games in my opinion.
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trigden1991 wrote: »MelanieCN77 wrote: »
the extra 78 calories can be overcome with an extra 1k steps.
I ran for 34 mins on my treadmill and my tracker gave me 512 calories burned, MMF gave me 425...I don't go by the treadmill burn...
Just an FYI: Approximate calories burned walking = 0.3 x bodyweight (lbs) x distance (miles)
For flat terrain only though!5
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