unknown calories
BurningCalories98
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Hi guys , So I've been counting calories for a while now and have lost and successfully maintained for over a year. However ,my only issue is that I get really anxious when I do not know how many calories something has. For example , today my grandma baked a home made apple pie and while everyone was eating and enjoying , I refused to take some because I did not know how much calories it had. However , I ended up eating 2 slices ( about 250g ) later because I couldn't help it , and now I feel really guilty. How do you guys deal with such a situation ?
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You can't stop enjoying life just because you can't be 100% with your calorie counting. That's a sad sad life when you skip Grandma's pie. Find the closest thing in the database, log it and move on. If you're logging accurately the majority of the time you'll be fine on the times you're not able to be so accurate. I'd feel more guilty if I refused to eat Grandma's delicious pie. Stop being so hard on yourself.21
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Own it, and remember one day doesn't ruin your entire effort. Life happens, and it's meant to be enjoyed and so long as you don't let it get out of control, enjoy the pie4
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Find the closest entry you can on the database, if you can't find anything close, take your best guess (and try to guess high) and quick add.
I went to a Chinese buffet the other day with my BFF. I have no idea how many calories I ate. I have no idea what entries in the database are closest to what I did eat. I logged it as 2000 calories, which is about what I normally eat when I eat a lot at a restaurant, skipped dinner (I'm never hungry after Chinese anyway), and called it a day. I don't figure I ate much more than that, I'd be surprised if I ate 3000 calories, for instance.
It's one meal. You're in this for the rest of your life. One meal out of, let's say 40 years because I don't know how old you are, is nothing. Enjoy your pie and your grandmother.4 -
Enjoy Grandma's home baked goodies while you can. Log something that looks reasonable and move on. Life's too short!11
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If my Grandmas were still alive I would be delighted to enjoy a happy family occasion and eat the pie without guilt.
It's one part of one meal in the rest of your lifetime - a sense of perspective is required. One or two pieces of pie doesn't need dealing with. Just make an estimate and enjoy it.2 -
I'd say that I've estimated calories for almost every dinner since I started losing weight in January. My husband cooks three or four times a week, and I'm not going to ask him to weigh stuff for me, and we eat out a couple times a week too. You make your best call and move on. If the scale is dropping, you're in a deficit. If not, you're underestimating and need to adjust. It really is doable.2
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For random baked goods, I guess about 100 calories/oz and move on. If you get the calories right for 90% of what you eat in a week, you're still going to be well on target.1
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I log as accurately as I can the majority of the time so I don't have to worry about the times when I'm estimating.3
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Life is meant to be lived! If you enjoy grandma's pie then by all means enjoy a slice and then log it and move on. It isn't about the 1 thing we eat it's about the bigger picture and life it's just to short!1
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On an item such as apple pie, I treat it as rationally as possible. What is apple pie made of? Carbs, mostly, fat, some, and protein, barely.. If it has a traditional pastry crust, half the weight of that is fat, half is carbs. If it has a typical out-of-a-can applie pie filling, almost all of that is carbs and very little if fat.
From here, you guess at the weight of the crust as a fraction of the whole. For a piece of pie 4.5" long and 3" at the base, I'm going to guess the crust to be 3 oz, or 84 grams. That's 42 grams of fat and 42 grams of carbs.
250-84 is 166, all carbs.
42* 9 (calories per gram fat) = 378
166 * 4 (calories per gram carb) = 664
Clearly, I've guessed that a big piece of pie has over 1000 calories. Am I wrong? Am I right? I'm close enough to know that I've got some cardio work to do.2 -
Thank you all for your kind help guys0
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This sounds so stressful, props for maintaining this long with this type of issue. As others have mentioned just enjoy life, round up if you don't know exactly what the calorie count is and don't feel bad for indulging from time to time. Plus it's grandmas homemade pie!0
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