Foods with shocking high cals
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WayTooHonest wrote: »Burger buns. 300-400 calories on average. Also a super easy way to cut 3-400 calories from your day.
Where do you buy buns that high? A Kaiser Roll is like 180.
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Catsinsocks wrote: »Mostly fruits. I expect high fat items like peanut butter mayo etc to be really high, but fruit really adds up for me in the summer. I kind of think of it as having very little but then I'm at 350c in fruit for the day and it'll put me over
What fruit in particular? Apple, pineapple, strawberries, etc, are all very low calorie. They're mostly water and fiber. The only fruit's I stay away from are bananas and to an extent grapes.2 -
SusanMFindlay wrote: »LadyLilion wrote: »Anything sold in a restaurant, especially fast food. Yes, I know that I should expect it. But how the heck do you make a chicken sandwich or a salad have 1,000 calories?
Biggest one lately though, has been money mustard salad dressing. At home I always buy the light versions. I love it. It's the only one I ever order if I'm out and I never, EVER would have thought it was so fattening. It's higher than Ranch! I blew an entire dinner I thought I'd done very well on one night when I got home and entered the darn dressing.
Interesting. I find fast food much easier to do on a calorie budget than sit down restaurant food. The key is to get the "small" of everything (and get diet soda or water to drink). I can get a fast food burger for about 400 calories, but a sit down restaurant burger is going to be 800 calories minimum because of the huge fancy bun and all of the high-cal extras they put on to make it "fancy".
If I do that, I'm only having two meals that day - easy for me because I find those big burgers ridiculously filling - or I just finished a long run (in which case I'll be jonesing for onion rings and whatnot as well).
I was really pleased to discover that the best burger places in my area often have options like seared Ahi burgers. Love those, and they're much more doable calorie-wise. More in the 500-600 cal range.
Personally, I find many of the chain restaurants' reported dessert calories to be ridiculous. I know if I made the equivalent using my own recipes (that are not at all calorie conscious) and super premium ice cream if needed, mine would come out to 50-75% of theirs. And still be astronomical.
I can only assume that at some stage there's a nonsensical butter bath, or the portion size varies so widely that they have to report more than what a typical single serving would be.
I'm not so surprised by the desserts--I just assume there are ridiculous amounts of butter or some such involved. I make my grandma's rhubarb crisp recipe, and it is nearly 500 calories for just a very modest 3x3 inch piece...now double or triple that to a restaurant portion size, add a scoop of vanilla icing, top with some whipped heavy cream, and then heavily drizzle the whole thing with strawberry-rhubarb sauce....now we're talking some real g---d--- calories, as one poster put it above.
[excuse me while I wipe the drool off my shirt now...]4 -
A half-chicken plate from Stripes. I used to eat that plate (which comes with a half-chicken, rice, beans, and 1 tortilla) at least 3 times a week because that was one of the only meals that could fill me up. 1600 CALORIES without the tortilla.1
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Shortbread cookies. FML.6
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LadyLilion wrote: »To be honest...the thing that shocks me the most is how much I used to eat - both in calories and volume - just a few months ago. And it was my second go-round - so I KNEW. What the heck was that?
Dairy Queen dinner
double cheeseburgers - 580 calories
1 large onion rings - 360
1 medium Blizzard - 1050
1,666 calories in ONE MEAL. (and I admit...sometimes I ate two burgers.
WTH was wrong with me?)
Same here! I was truly oblivious and ignorant as to what I was eating and how many calories I was consuming.2 -
never had it or been there but cheesecake factories Fettucini Alfredo With Chicken has 3,209 calories and 87 g of fat it kinda shocked me cuz the pic makes the amount of food not look big enough to = that4
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TavistockToad wrote: »i'm not shocked by it, but peanut butter calories make me a little sad :laugh:
Me too which is why the day I tried PB2 I heard angels singing!!3 -
@princess0lexi -Cheesecake Factory has a SKINNYLICIOUS Menu that has some great stuff for under 600 calories!
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@princess0lexi -Cheesecake Factory has a SKINNYLICIOUS Menu that has some great stuff for under 600 calories!
ETA: Not sure why it posted twice??? Sorry!
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LadyLilion wrote: »To be honest...the thing that shocks me the most is how much I used to eat - both in calories and volume - just a few months ago. And it was my second go-round - so I KNEW. What the heck was that?
Dairy Queen dinner
double cheeseburgers - 580 calories
1 large onion rings - 360
1 medium Blizzard - 1050
1,666 calories in ONE MEAL. (and I admit...sometimes I ate two burgers. WTH was wrong with me?)
580+360+1050 is actually 1990 calories plus the obligatory ketchup for the onion rings, of course.4 -
ChrisRendon1128 wrote: »LadyLilion wrote: »To be honest...the thing that shocks me the most is how much I used to eat - both in calories and volume - just a few months ago. And it was my second go-round - so I KNEW. What the heck was that?
Dairy Queen dinner
double cheeseburgers - 580 calories
1 large onion rings - 360
1 medium Blizzard - 1050
1,666 calories in ONE MEAL. (and I admit...sometimes I ate two burgers. WTH was wrong with me?)
Same here! I was truly oblivious and ignorant as to what I was eating and how many calories I was consuming.
Which is why merely tracking calories carefully can help with weight loss. Without accurate awareness, you can't even begin.6 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »If you want a excellent tortilla that is low calorie, carb and high fiber I would recommend Ole Xtreme Wellness Tortilla. They are I think 10 inch and 50 calories, 11 dietary fiber, soft and taste excellent.
Sigh.
Not in Canada from what I see.
Tortilla's I'm having are 180 cals and I'd love to try a lower cal version that tastes good.
Flour tortillas are backed by conquistadors. Corn is what you should try (a corn tortilla is 62 calories). I'm Mexican and flour tortillas are not forgiving. Glycemic index and the calorie count speaks for itself.
And try it being warmed up....cold tortillas are bad. A wrap is sacrilege. There are trying to make it lavash bread --- and they usually flour tortillas. Lavash bread is thinner and not as caloriffic as flour tortillas.5 -
LadyLilion wrote: »To be honest...the thing that shocks me the most is how much I used to eat - both in calories and volume - just a few months ago. And it was my second go-round - so I KNEW. What the heck was that?
Dairy Queen dinner
double cheeseburgers - 580 calories
1 large onion rings - 360
1 medium Blizzard - 1050
1,666 calories in ONE MEAL. (and I admit...sometimes I ate two burgers. WTH was wrong with me?)
580+360+1050 is actually 1990 calories plus the obligatory ketchup for the onion rings, of course.
Pardon my math - I even used a calculator.
With that, the obligatory Diet Coke. (I like the taste better!
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Those delicious poppyseed muffins from Costco. Almost 700 calories in one muffin. I knew they weren't healthy, but I was shocked at the number of calories. I used to have one as a snack now and then.1
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Butter.1
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Baked potatoes. I always thought they were 100 calories. Not according to MFP.1
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LadyLilion wrote: »WayTooHonest wrote: »Burger buns. 300-400 calories on average. Also a super easy way to cut 3-400 calories from your day.
Where do you buy buns that high? A Kaiser Roll is like 180.
Not it you put butter or mayo on it and grill it to a delicious, delicious crisp.2 -
janejellyroll wrote: »Gummy candies like Swedish Fish, Sour Patch Kids, Twizzlers, etc. I want them sometimes now, but every time I check the calorie count it's just not worth it to me given how small a reasonable serving would be.
But...but...the package says they are a FAT FREE snack! That makes them healthy, right? 7 -
WayTooHonest wrote: »Burger buns. 300-400 calories on average. Also a super easy way to cut 3-400 calories from your day.
What buns are you getting? I just get whatever whole wheat buns at Sprouts Market (Nature's Own) and they're 130 calories.0 -
nuts and avocados
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MoreSteakLessSpice wrote: »
Well typically you're not just using one packet. When I get fries I'm using 3 or 4 packets. That's a lot of calories for something that's made out of tomatoes.1 -
Pretty much any sit down restaurant meal or dessert. I can't fathom how they can possibly be so calorific. I've tried to figure it out a few times and the only conclusion I can come to is that they just soak literally everything in concentrated sugar + lard. Even the "light" options on the menu will be like 650 calories for a piece of chicken and a side of veggies. Like how the hell? That should be 300 MAX.4
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Pretty much any sit down restaurant meal or dessert. I can't fathom how they can possibly be so calorific. I've tried to figure it out a few times and the only conclusion I can come to is that they just soak literally everything in concentrated sugar + lard. Even the "light" options on the menu will be like 650 calories for a piece of chicken and a side of veggies. Like how the hell? That should be 300 MAX.
Fats -- butter and oils. It's why restaurant food tastes so much different than homemade. Fat=flavor.1 -
Another I'll add.. CEREAL. Even the healthy ones, once you weigh an actual serving size on the scale and realize how meager it is compared to what you're used to pouring in the bowl. Shocking.8
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cherilee0831 wrote: »Chick-Fil-A sauces are very high in calories for such a little packet! I used to have food fantasies of all of the things I could do with Chick-Fil-A sauce. It was hard letting it go. I've given up CFA altogether. 2
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Olive oil. Kills me every time but it makes my salad worth living.1
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Wings.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I get like 3 bites and it's around 100 calories. I take off the skin so I guess that helps, but I gotta have a big dip of blue cheese dressing to go with it. Hard to fit in and feel like it's worth it.
I've started making homemade buffalo chicken with a lightly breaded breast and yogurt blue cheese. It's good, but not quite the same as the original.1
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