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JaydedMiss
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what are some interesting/funny/sad things you realized you were eating WAY wrong before weighing? Like peanut butter -i cry daily-
Or prepackaged food thats WAY heavier thn the nutrition facts say xD Happens alot to its sad
not sure why i like threads like this lol just so interesting to see
Or prepackaged food thats WAY heavier thn the nutrition facts say xD Happens alot to its sad
not sure why i like threads like this lol just so interesting to see
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Popcorn. I air pop, and was happy eating large bowls, thinking it was only a couple hundred calories. I was off by 100%7
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Some packages tell you the Nutrition Facts for 100g, then you look again and see a serving size is 30g or 200g, so the first impression was misleading.1
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Oh, the peanut butter.
Much sad, very regret9 -
Spaghetti. I had a big time sad the first time I weighed out a serving ages ago.
Now, though, I've gotten so used to eating a true portion of spaghetti that it sometimes seems like too much! Funny how that happens.
Potato chips, too...I love those things..sigh..4 -
That packaging doesnt always contain the grans it says. Ie weighs more than it says,therefore the increase i calories.0
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Bread and granola bars. Sometimes I miss the ignorance is bliss aspect to dieting without a food scale.5
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Using liquid measurements for semi-solids/solids like ice cream and canned veggies/fruits.I'm looking at you, Canada.14
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vespiquenn wrote: »Bread and granola bars. Sometimes I miss the ignorance is bliss aspect to dieting without a food scale.
Granola bars got me to. I would eat two or three at a time thinking it's ok they're healthy and didn't know it was 300 calories. Sad day I looked at the calories .0 -
Regular fruity candy. I never thought it was nutritional or low calories but I was shocked by how many calories it can be for a really small amount of candy that doesn't even have fat calories to add to the total. Twizzlers
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I don't eat it often.... But, cereal. Who would ever eat the actual serving size of cereal. The weighed serve is nothing like the measured volume.10
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I'll just leave this here:
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livingleanlivingclean wrote: »I don't eat it often.... But, cereal. Who would ever eat the actual serving size of cereal. The weighed serve is nothing like the measured volume.
Yes, cereal! Not the healthiest of options to begin with, but it is seriously said to weigh out a serving of cereal. My normal bowl (without weighing) is about 2-3 servings of cereal. Accountability really helps you to see how easy it is to misjudge caloric content!1 -
My little frooties tootsie rolls are 12 cals...I repeat 12 freaking cals!0
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Peanut butter x1000!!
Also when I discovered one serving of tater tots was approximately 9 tots6 -
Some time before I joined MFP, I weighed a 'normal' serving of cereal and realised it was a little over twice the suggested serving size. I had my teenage nieces staying with me at the time, so did the same for them too - one was also having just over 2x servings and the other was happily eating almost three times the suggested amount. Now that I'm on MFP, I weigh out 30g of cornflakes or 40g muesli every day that I eat cereal - and think that amount is just fine.3
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Oh, this looks fine! Until you realise it says, in TINY font, each pack is 16 servings so each serving is one mouthful.
30g of cereal?!?! I was eating substantially more than 30g
Some things are much higher than I thought, some are much lower. I am utterly unable to guess accuratly it seems.
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I've ranted about this before but protein bars are one of the most inconsistently weighted food products I've encountered. The whey isolate type I usually buy (think One, Quest and Kirkland) usually quote a 60g serving size. Never since starting to track have I found a bar weighing less than 65g.
Also, since there are other Canucks in here, Pillers meat products are very poorly weighted. I bought a European sausage product from them and the total package weight was half the actual weight! When I emailed them to let them know that they needed to fix their damn labeling the response was basically, "Stuff happens." ...Over and over apparently -_-0
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