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Surprising Calorie Findings
mamabear1114
Posts: 140 Member
I am just curious what blew other people’s minds when they started counting calories.
Mine, for example, would be a slice of cheesecake my husband and I ordered last weekend. I mean, it was delicious, and a whopping 1500 calories for ONE SLICE.
Alternatively, my home made mashed potatoes are less than 200 calories per serving and I thought for sure they would be more. I guess some good things in life are not always so terrible! (except for the sodium content, good Lord, but we won’t talk about that. CICO right? LOL)
Mine, for example, would be a slice of cheesecake my husband and I ordered last weekend. I mean, it was delicious, and a whopping 1500 calories for ONE SLICE.
Alternatively, my home made mashed potatoes are less than 200 calories per serving and I thought for sure they would be more. I guess some good things in life are not always so terrible! (except for the sodium content, good Lord, but we won’t talk about that. CICO right? LOL)
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Peanut butter and avocados13
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The MFP database and I have very different ideas about how big a "medium" sweet potato is. My estimates were way off once I started logging them by weight.22
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mamabear1114 wrote: »I am just curious what blew other people’s minds when they started counting calories.
Mine, for example, would be a slice of cheesecake my husband and I ordered last weekend. I mean, it was delicious, and a whopping 1500 calories for ONE SLICE.
Alternatively, my home made mashed potatoes are less than 200 calories per serving and I thought for sure they would be more. I guess some good things in life are not always so terrible! (except for the sodium content, good Lord, but we won’t talk about that. CICO right? LOL)
There's a restaurant here in town called Claim Jumpers. I use to go there about 7 years ago and they had a Chicken Salad sandwhich that I really liked. One day I found their nutrition facts and the sandwhich was like 2100 calories or something. That was an oh-*kitten* moment. But it explained a few things. LOL16 -
Mangoes over 200 calories.
For the salt content - olives.8 -
I wasn't so much surprised by the calories in things...I pretty much instinctively knew what things were high calorie...I was more surprised by the serving sizes of certain things and the calorie count for that particular serving size.
Peanut butter comes to mind. I used to eat a lot of PB sandwiches and knowing what I know now I was easily putting 3 servings of PB on a sammich then adding sliced banana and drizzling honey over the top. I used to eat out for lunch a lot and my PB sammich was my "I'm being good today" brown bag lunch...that thing easily came in around 1,000 calories plus the soda and chips.15 -
Peanut butter and cereal, I actually have a hard time enjoying either of them currently because I always want more than one serving11
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laurenebargar wrote: »Peanut butter and cereal, I actually have a hard time enjoying either of them currently because I always want more than one serving
Oh yes. Discovering that my "serving" cereal was actually closer to 3 or 4 servings was a sad day.22 -
diannethegeek wrote: »laurenebargar wrote: »Peanut butter and cereal, I actually have a hard time enjoying either of them currently because I always want more than one serving
Oh yes. Discovering that my "serving" cereal was actually closer to 3 or 4 servings was a sad day.
I used to have two bowls for dinner because I was "being good."
Turns out I was definitely NOT being good.
How small a serving of nuts is.13 -
How quickly it all adds up ... a handful of extra ingredients as you cook throws a 500cal meal into a 750 cal meal6
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How small a serving of nuts is
Me. I love pecans. I eat them every day, and every time I’m like, “damn, *this* is 200 calories?!”
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laurenebargar wrote: »Peanut butter and cereal, I actually have a hard time enjoying either of them currently because I always want more than one serving
You can always eat the fiber one goat feed
Its only 60 calories per serving. 6 -
Wine
Four ounces just looks like sadness. 26 -
I mean logically everyone knows abundance of fruit and veg is the best way to lose weight but I was shocked at how few calories most veggies have and how I get to eat sooo many without denting my daily goal
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Mondo drinks are zero calories. You can buy them at Dollar Tree.1
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That I weigh 140 pounds and my dog weighs 30 pounds and she is allowed almost as much food/calories as me.26
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Cheese serving size2
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It's a bit of a surprise to have pre-logged my pizza for dinner and snacks of ice cream and fruitcake to find that I still have to find more calories to have my total, and that's before I do any exercise.6
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Freddy's Steakburger mini Brownie concrete. 880 calories. FOR. THE. MINI.
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On the opposite end: strawberries. I'm thrilled at how many I get to eat for under 100 calories.15
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I kind of knew a lot of it (from years ago having to do a food tracker as a class assignment), but to this day I still need regular "reminders" on what a serving size really looks like. And that that "healthy" lunch wrap can still pack 500+ calories.3
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melissarose4 wrote: »
Actually messes with a persons wine high!
Needless to say haven't had one in a while!!!
5 oz of red wine at 120 calories is a dent in my accounts......damnit! Hmmmmm......eat or drink?????4 -
Oh, actually...craft beer. I never really thought about the calories in beer...and craft beer is brutal on the calories...but I love it.4
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melissarose4 wrote: »
Have you seen wine shot glasses?0 -
I was thrilled when I input my mom's fudge recipe in the calculator and determined they're around 95 calories for a piece! I was expecting a higher #. I even went back through to double check that I got the right amounts. Hooray for mom's fudge!8
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Mead. I make my own and I love it and... learning the calories made the reason I need MFP very, very clear. And very, very sad.5
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Peanut butter, dried fruit, anything from Applebees...
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Nuts and dates did it for me.3
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On the high end: VH stirfry sauces. And realizing that even a 'thin' hand-sliced piece of bread was often around 1.5 oz.
On the low end: Shakshuka (basically poached eggs atop a chunky tomato-eggplant sauce). I was looking for an option for dining out with friends and saw it on the menu at a Middle Eastern restaurant. And then I realized that there's almost no way to make a super-caloric version (unless you do something obvious, like serve it swimming in oil. The restaurant actually brings it in a bread bowl, but I request it without). It can run from 150 to around 500 calories.3 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »Oh, actually...craft beer. I never really thought about the calories in beer...and craft beer is brutal on the calories...but I love it.
It is Imperial Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout d!k measuring season and there aren't enough calories in a week to keep up with the new stock at the Wine & Beer Boutique that I work at1
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