Do calories still exist if you don’t count them?
pancakerunner
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Asking for a friend.
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I prefer to call them food dollars.
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I wish they didn't ha ha3
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BuddhaBunnyFTW wrote: »I wish they didn't ha ha
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Depends on how much you enjoyed them.1
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Samples are free...lol!
Actually, when I really got honest and accurate and started counting every thing including " a taste" I could not believe how fast it adds up!2 -
Has a hipster even eaten a meal if they don’t instagram it? (Asking for a friend as well).9
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Do bears *kitten* in the woods (asking for a friend of a friend).
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You may as well ask if your mortgage or rent obligation exists if you don't pay it, see how that works out for you.4
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You mean the calories don't fall out of a cookie when you break it in half? Bummer.10
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I'm going to be honest and completely open here and will tell you exactly what the truth is. Trust me on this. NO. The calories don't exist. They go poof and magically disappear. THEN you're allowed to eat everything you want out of the 'if it didn't have calories' thread. And I've never told a lie or even a little fib in my entire life. Never. Not once. 6
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HeidiCooksSupper wrote: »You mean the calories don't fall out of a cookie when you break it in half? Bummer.
Broken cookies and crackers and chips have no calories.
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Nope. They are abstract calories, and as such they remain entirely theoretical.
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Nope. Uncounted calories, like imaginary numbers, are used only in theoretical recipes.
As soon as you start eating theoretical foods though, they catch up on you. So be careful.0 -
My Grandson calls calories "delicious points". The more calories something has, the more delicious it will be!2
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OHFlamingo wrote: »My Grandson calls calories "delicious points". The more calories something has, the more delicious it will be!
Disclaimer: I appreciate this thread is lighthearted but...
I couldn’t help feeling a little bit sad that the sentiment expressed here is paving the way for another generation to have issues with weight/food.
I fundamentally disagree (and I’m sure this post will garner its share of disagrees, but to hell with that!)....some of the foods that make me sigh with pleasure and satisfaction are those with minimal calories - watermelon, strawberries, cucumber, apples, and most of all tomatoes!5 -
BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »OHFlamingo wrote: »My Grandson calls calories "delicious points". The more calories something has, the more delicious it will be!
Disclaimer: I appreciate this thread is lighthearted but...
I couldn’t help feeling a little bit sad that the sentiment expressed here is paving the way for another generation to have issues with weight/food.
I fundamentally disagree (and I’m sure this post will garner its share of disagrees, but to hell with that!)....some of the foods that make me sigh with pleasure and satisfaction are those with minimal calories - watermelon, strawberries, cucumber, apples, and most of all tomatoes!
Minimal, few, low calories yes. Zero calories NO. They do exist and we can see them when we look at ourselves in the mirror
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The food I steal from my husband's plate has no calories...just sayin'.8
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Uncounted calories die and are reincarnated as fat.
The real answer is that if you didn't count calories for an entire day but counted every other day fairly precisely for a year the uncounted calories would likely disappear into the margin of error.6 -
Uncounted calories are noted as “Ate it all”, then quickly forgotten.0
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deputy_randolph wrote: »The food I steal from my husband's plate has no calories...just sayin'.
Just like the calories in that last bite that my wife can't finish!0 -
Addressing the bear scat question...not only do bears poo in the woods, but, on occasion, also poo in the center of my driveway!5
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I've always argued that (only) charity calories don't count, such as the cookies from the school bake sale to buy more books for the school library, or the dinner that benefits the homeless shelter.
It's a lie, but a convenient one.
In truth, every single calorie is either spent, or saved up for later (usually somewhere around my hips), or so many decades of sad experience suggest.
You like stirring the pot, don't you, OP? 1 -
BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »OHFlamingo wrote: »My Grandson calls calories "delicious points". The more calories something has, the more delicious it will be!
Disclaimer: I appreciate this thread is lighthearted but...
I couldn’t help feeling a little bit sad that the sentiment expressed here is paving the way for another generation to have issues with weight/food.
I fundamentally disagree (and I’m sure this post will garner its share of disagrees, but to hell with that!)....some of the foods that make me sigh with pleasure and satisfaction are those with minimal calories - watermelon, strawberries, cucumber, apples, and most of all tomatoes!
I think social media has been doing that for decades.
This thread is all in fun. I think?
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Sooooo... anyone else have those moments of glancing at your diary thinking “sweet! Calories to spare! Let’s have a snack!” Only to remember the Thing you had earlier and forgot to log AFTER eating said snack? 7
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moonangel12 wrote: »Sooooo... anyone else have those moments of glancing at your diary thinking “sweet! Calories to spare! Let’s have a snack!” Only to remember the Thing you had earlier and forgot to log AFTER eating said snack?
Yep 😄 But then I add it to the next day 😔3 -
Uncounted calories die and are reincarnated as fat.
The real answer is that if you didn't count calories for an entire day but counted every other day fairly precisely for a year the uncounted calories would likely disappear into the margin of error.
Yup, maintaining since 2015 and this is exactly what has happened to me.
I do a rough count of my 2-3 days a year where I go really high calorie (it's usually related to a holiday or special event that would make accurate logging more challenging), but it's just because I like to have some approximation of data. In reality, your body is responding to what you're doing with the majority of your days -- not the days that are unusual.
Our calories in are always going to be an estimate and we're always going to have a margin of error. A day that is much higher or lower than usual isn't going to be significant when it comes to long-term weight trends.2 -
I figure that the extra bites and nibbles I don't count are cancelled out by the morsels I give my dog. I cannot be dissuaded from this opinion.15
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I didn't realize that broken cookies have no calories, but will definitely make that addition to my food tracker.
However, many people also don't know that any broken cookies found in a bag or tray have to be eaten immediately. This is the law. I believe it is for public health purposes. Not necessarily for personal health purposes.5
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