Can someone tell me how many calories is in Great Value Olive Oil No stick Spray?
okohjacinda
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I am trying to narrow down why I am not losing weight on 1100-1200 cals/day with exercise and its now down to the olive oil spray...I am thinking I spray too much on my veggies...
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They can label it zero calories because it has less than 5 calories per serving and they make their servings small enough to get away with it. In reality it's about 7 calories per 1 second spray. Depending on how much you use, it can definitely add up.4
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Thanks. I will keep that in mind from now on and try to come up with an alternative because I am trying to let go of cooking oil in general.0
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You could weigh the pan (or the dish of veggies -- not clear if you're using it for cooking or just spraying it on veggies that are ready to eat) before and after you spray it, and log the weight as olive oil, since that's what it claims to be. If you're not spraying enough to register as a gram on the scale, I doubt that the cooking spray is the reason you're not losing weight (unless you're using the spray a hundred times a day).
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I put some EVOO in a spray bottle and weighed out 5 sprays as 1 gram. Not the same as what you are using but you get the drift. 1 gram is 9 calories
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thekitchn.com/food-science-the-science-behin-71468
7 calories in a one second spray1 -
Why are you trying to "let go" of cooking oil?
I use a couple or three full servings of fat per day. 200 calories or so, all told. You need fats.1 -
Do you weight all other solids you eat and measure the liquids?
If not you may be ingesting a lot more cals than the 1100-1200 you think you are.0 -
okohjacinda wrote: »I am not losing weight on 1100-1200 cals/day with exercise
If you're certain it's not a logging issue, it could be that your metabolism has slowed in response to too few calories. You could try upping your limit by a couple hundred and see what happens.
Assuming of course that this stall has been ongoing for more than a couple weeks. If it's been less than that, I'd say give it up to a month before deciding that you are actually not losing.
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I have wondered about those cans too. Why can't they just put the total volume calories on the can?! At least that way I can divide the total across the average number of meals I use it on. I mostly use it for airpopped popcorn, to get salt to stick.1
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fatal_degree wrote: »I have wondered about those cans too. Why can't they just put the total volume calories on the can?! At least that way I can divide the total across the average number of meals I use it on. I mostly use it for airpopped popcorn, to get salt to stick.
You can figure it out, actually. A can is 5 oz, so 5 oz of olive oil is about 1255 cal.0 -
Fat is fat, 9 calories per gram. Put your cool skillet on the scale, tare it, spray your oil. Record your weight of oil. Just do that once, as your spraying is going to be consistent.2
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Fat is fat, 9 calories per gram. Put your cool skillet on the scale, tare it, spray your oil. Record your weight of oil. Just do that once, as your spraying is going to be consistent.
It is??
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