This can't be right only 189 calories??
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h007say
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Could you break down how you got the total of 180 calories, bit hard to comment otherwise - looks to me like a thin sliver of chicken and some low calorie vegetables - spinach, onion, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, capsicum??
topped with a dark condiment of some sort??0 -
I thought salmon with spinach, asparagus, tomatoes onion and balsamic glaze?0
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paperpudding wrote: »Could you break down how you got the total of 180 calories, bit hard to comment otherwise - looks to me like a thin sliver of chicken and some low calorie vegetables - spinach, onion, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, capsicum??
topped with a dark condiment of some sort??
Probably aged balsamic vinegar.
Also... how did you prepare the chicken (fish?) and those cherry tomatoes/asparagus? It looks like there might be a smidgen of oil missing in those calculations...0 -
So, as you can see OP= we are only guessing what your meal contains - and some of us are picking different foods to others - Probably depending on our own food preferences.
Like I don't use balsamic vinegar so didnt think of identifying the dark topping as that.
You will need to tell us exactly what is in the meal - the foods and their weight - for us to make any meaningful comment about whether the calorie count is likely to be accurate.2 -
It's an appetizer! Looks too pretty to be "just" a snack!1
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Well, there is another point I hadnt thought of - is the plate a side plate or a full size dinner plate? - because quantity is going to be misleading in a photo if we dont know that.2
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I made a massive bowl of salad - enough for 4 large heaped dinner plate's worth at least and actually weighed every single thing.
Up until the sweetcorn, it was around 200 calories. Sweetcorn bumped it up to near 300.
A fairly small portion of lean meat shouldn't add too much.
However, if friend in oil; if I'm being strict I try to log all the oil that goes in the pan.1 -
Working on the 4 4 9 rule this meal is 194 cals (so, yep, about right). If that is a piece of salmon I'm guessing that we're looking at about 140g portion.0
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What is the 4 4 9 rule?0
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paperpudding wrote: »What is the 4 4 9 rule?
Carbohydrates= 4 calories per gram
Protein= 4 calories per gram
Fat= 9 calories per gram1 -
189 calories 26.8g protein 8.8g carb 5.7g fat boom
It is mostly very low calorie vegetables and a small amount of lean meat and probably low fat/no fat dressing so yes it could be. It is not a huge amount of food visually so why would you be surprised/excited by the calorie amount being low?0 -
Doesn't look like much.2
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based on that picture I'm surprised it's that many calories1
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Looks delicious. The sauce looks like a balsamic glaze.1
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Looks about right, but if that's true, where's the rest of your meal? That wouldn't even come close to being lunch or dinner for me.1
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Well thanks for all the replies. That was actually my breakfast.0
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Looks really good! Was it on a small plate or an average sized plate? Tried to figure it out by looking at the cut up onion, lol. Looks like a very small portion.1
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It's on a medium size plate would defo not call it a small plate tho. Its suprising how much food u can get in you on a 2000 calorie diet consisting of 200 g of protein 150 g of carbs and 67 g of fat. Only downside is usually on your last two meals out your six a day you cut out carbs at night depending on when your gym session was. But this leaves no leeway for sweets chocolate's bread or pasta.0
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