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Help with giant panda nutrition
Stellamom2018
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Okay, I can not for the life of me figure out what giant pandas nutrition is. I had a small honey walnut shrimp, no sides, just a small container of the shrimp. Every single place (pandas website, mfp, google sites) all day 3.7oz is 360 cals, but I didn't bring my dang food scale with me to the restaurant! How can they not have it labeled based on sizes? Someone with better search skills, please help me.
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This is when you have to guess and hope that you are close to being right and move on. The thing is 3.7oz of food is not much of a meal it is more like a snack. If I were going to guess from the picture I would log it as 2 servings but those are ad and menu pictures which can be staged to look like more.0
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This is when you have to guess and hope that you are close to being right and move on. The thing is 3.7oz of food is not much of a meal it is more like a snack. If I were going to guess from the picture I would log it as 2 servings but those are ad and menu pictures which can be staged to look like more.
It was a snack haha! It's like the best shrimp ever so I was trying to have it in moderation and am just worried about correctly logging it. I usually fail at this because my "one cheat" turns into a cheat month and I'm back at square one. That's the only reason I'm being a little crazy about it.0 -
Next time, count how many shrimp you have. I'd estimate each shrimp (coated and sauced) is about 80 calories.2
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I opened this expecting someone eating a panda! Lol8
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buffalogal42 wrote: »I opened this expecting someone eating a panda! Lol
I thought it was going to be about the proper macro balance to put your panda to help it conserve muscle mass while losing weight.8 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »
I thought it was going to be about the proper macro balance to put your panda to help it conserve muscle mass while losing weight.
I thought it was a new plant based diet where you eat like a giant panda.12 -
I thought it was a new plant based diet where you eat like a giant panda.
That's what I was expecting too
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Stellamom2018 wrote: »
It was a snack haha! It's like the best shrimp ever so I was trying to have it in moderation and am just worried about correctly logging it. I usually fail at this because my "one cheat" turns into a cheat month and I'm back at square one. That's the only reason I'm being a little crazy about it.
Shrimp is a cheat?2 -
I thought it was a new plant based diet where you eat like a giant panda.
Yet I was thinking a diet that consisted of bamboo.....3 -
I went back and forth between wondering if the OP wanted to eat like a giant panda, or was trying to figure out how to feed a giant panda.
Curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to read the post.3 -
Stellamom2018 wrote: »It was a snack haha! It's like the best shrimp ever so I was trying to have it in moderation and am just worried about correctly logging it. I usually fail at this because my "one cheat" turns into a cheat month and I'm back at square one. That's the only reason I'm being a little crazy about it.
Then you shouldn't consider it cheating anymore. Food guilt is counter-productive to a diet. A calorie is a calorie so just make whatever you want to eat fit inside your calorie budget. There are a number of ways this can be done creatively but one of the easiest is to view your calories by the week instead of strictly by the day and banking unused calories from previous days.
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TavistockToad wrote: »
Shrimp is a cheat?
Shrimp that is coated and fried and is 1000 calories would be considered a cheat for me yes. I was eating in moderation and trying to fit it in my calories, which would not make it a cheat, but not finding actual calories for it is what was bothering me. I went there with the intention of making it not a cheat and have to guess at the number of calories which can be hugely inaccurate.0 -
Stellamom2018 wrote: »
Shrimp that is coated and fried and is 1000 calories would be considered a cheat for me yes. I was eating in moderation and trying to fit it in my calories, which would not make it a cheat, but not finding actual calories for it is what was bothering me. I went there with the intention of making it not a cheat and have to guess at the number of calories which can be hugely inaccurate.
so it wasn't 360 cals then?0 -
What makes you think 360cals is wrong?1
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Stellamom2018 wrote: »Shrimp that is coated and fried and is 1000 calories would be considered a cheat for me yes. I was eating in moderation and trying to fit it in my calories, which would not make it a cheat, but not finding actual calories for it is what was bothering me. I went there with the intention of making it not a cheat and have to guess at the number of calories which can be hugely inaccurate.
I hardly think it was 1000 calories and I think you are being too uptight over this. Consistent accuracy in logging is extremely important but knowing when to let it go is also important. You could have just accepted the 360 and moved forward because nothing bad is going to happen if you are wrong. Life is messy. You will have gatherings and possibly work functions with food for which you will not know the actual calories. It happens to most everyone. There are plenty of people here who have lost a lot of weight (myself included) with numerous guessed entries in their diary. There are plenty of people here who have lost a lot of weight (again including myself) that have eaten over their daily calorie goal on several occasions sometimes by a little and sometimes by quite a bit.
Weight loss is cumulative. It is not determined in a meal or a day. Losing a touch less one week is just what happens when you diet for long enough. There will also be weeks when you will lose a little more because you decided to tackle a landscaping project or help a friend move.
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1. I also love this thread title. Open to so many interpretations!
2. You've gotten a lot of good advice, OP. I hope you can take it to heart. Sometimes logging is as much art as science. At the end of the day, even if it WAS 1000 calories, that alone would be hardly a blip on the radar.2 -
You rang?
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Redordeadhead wrote: »What makes you think 360cals is wrong?
This. If it's a small serving size, 360 calories doesn't seem that far off base.1 -
Awwww... it looks so delicious!
what are the macros like?2 -
TavistockToad wrote: »
what are the macros like?
I'm betting low carb -- probably mostly protein and fat. Not counting the fur, of course.0 -
Lillymoo01 wrote: »
Yet I was thinking a diet that consisted of bamboo.....
my understanding is that bamboo is an appalling diet from a nutritional point of view, so Pandas pretty much have to spend all day eating to get any benefit. Basically pandas shouldn't exist, because unlike the rest of the animal kingdom which evolves to be able to eat to survive, pandas are eating to die out.3 -
TavistockToad wrote: »
what are the macros like?
Keto-approved1 -
TavistockToad wrote: »
what are the macros like?
I'd say pretty lean. The tender cuts will be fine with a good sauce but I would definitely make panda sausages out of the tough cuts.
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Why can't you bring your scale???0
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Awwww... it looks so delicious!
Mmmmmmmm..... Nothing taste like endangered species.....0 -
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kshama2001 wrote: »
Awww!0 -
This thread needs more panda gifs....
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