What Calorie Counting Idiosyncrasy Makes You LOL At Yourself?

springlering62
springlering62 Posts: 8,669 Member
in Food and Nutrition
For me, it’s that 5 grams of GrapeNuts on my frozen wild blueberries and cottage cheese makes a lovely snack, but 9 grams is slavering, wildly excessive luxury.

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  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,304 Member
    The times I've gone back to count candy bars against store receipts or added up weights logged vs nominal bag weights because I remembered hours or a day later that I may not have logged some.... and the fact that most of the times I've done this I was proven correct in that I had not logged a bar or two or part of a bag! 🤷‍♂️

    The times i eat above my target (almost always) when I am the same person who has set a lower target fully taking this into account!!!!🤔🤣 And it gets even better when I adjust both nominal target and eating action to compensate!!!!🤣🤣

    (For clarity sake my food budget since I completed rapid weight loss in 2015/2016 has consistently been over 2900+ Cal so there exists lots of room for way too many err "energy boosters". But the nature of hyper palatable high calorie foods means that when i play with fire i better have the fire department--and enough high volume low calorie options--on speed dial!)
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,669 Member
    I am LMAO. I could have written every single one of these.

    I always add a sneaky 8 extra grams of Cottage cheese any time I use it. 121 instead of 113, 231 instead of 226 if it’s a double-cottage cheese/honey/muesli breakfast.


    I love the Wyman’s Wild blueberries but they’re a pain to pour and seal. If a couple happen to roll out on the counter…they’re freebies.

    Four or five potato chips most afternoons. That’s an actually a rather naughty one, but I have to have the fast salt hit.

    Four extra grams of popcorn kernels “because they don’t all pop”. Well, with my new silicone microwave poppet, they generally do.

    It also works in reverse. If I get a lower cal buttermilk or cottage cheese, I don’t increase, figuring I’ll make up for it elsewhere.

    Otherwise, painfully accurate.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,669 Member
    edited December 5
    But you know, looking at the posters on this thread, I don’t feel like we’ve sabotaged ourselves with our private mind games!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,610 Member
    springlering62 wrote: »
    But you know, looking at the posters on this thread, I don’t feel like we’ve sabotaged ourselves with our private mind games!

    Well . . . I'll bet some people would tut-tut, shake their heads, and call it disordered eating.

    I call it funny things in the context of goal accomplishment, personally. Maybe I have a fully disordered brain, but I have silly stuff like this in other contexts, too. For example, I need to keep exertion low right now, but want to do the Concept 2 Holiday Challenge, and am sticking with the bike because it would annoy me to go that slow on the rowing machine, but it's fine to bike like a snail on tiny wheels. :D
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,610 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    If we include gym time as well, I shake my head at how often I scan the parking lot to find a "better" spot, just a touch closer to the door to save five seconds walk...then proceed to a treadmill where I spend the next hour walking...

    Oh, man, that: At the rowing club, everyone wants to park next to the boathouse, almost never at the parking lot just a bit away . . . next you know, they're (and I'm) group-marching downhill from boathouse to river carrying a heavy boat on shoulders, and will march it back up again post-vigorous-row, with rowing (outside adaptive rowing) being primarily a leg sport. :D

    P.S. I wrote something about rowers not using the parking lot on another thread here, and got chided because I couldn't possibly know if any members of my 40-ish person club, all of whom I know personally, had relevant mobility limitations . . . and it would be illegal to ask them, because of the US ADA. :D Yeah, no. We need to ask if they can carry those boats (legal!) and I've seen them do it. They - and I - could walk from the nearby parking lot. We don't. Neither do the kids in the university crew club next door. The varsity women's team do walk, but only because their current coach told them not to take up parking spaces us "old people" want. (Yes, I know that she told them that. She told me. She didn't call us "old people", though. ;):D )
  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 3,822 Member
    Annpt77, that's why my granddaughter rides her bike to the lake. She can park very, very close.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,759 Member
    I feel like I'm all of you :) I pretty much eat the same things every day in the same amounts but there are a couple things that aren't so static like the sliced turkey I have in the mornings or the half a banana (that I just can't quit) so even if it's 1gram difference, it gets logged.

    And runaway blueberries DEFINITELY get popped in the mouth which was a challenge when the last container I bought broke in the bag on the way home from the market and when I took it out and tried to pour the blueberries back into the container, a whole bunch ended on the floor. (I didn't eat those :))
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,899 Member
    I log sugar-free Werther's caramels, but not sugar-free cough drops :#
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,610 Member
    I also do the probably-popular classic: Buy certain snacks in one-serving packs - even though more expensive, and wasteful as to packaging - rather than buying a multi-serving package of the same snacks.

    Why? Because I can moderate the single-serve packs, but less so the multi-serve packs.

    Goofier yet, I seem to need this for some yummy snacks, but not all yummy snacks. Sometimes the snacks that require single-serve packs aren't that different from the ones that don't. :D
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,759 Member
    Ooooh I'm good about buying like a big bag of popcorn (I usually do just plain kernels in the microwave but I had that dead microwave problem for a while and Trader Joe's had a couple new holiday flavors thst sounded good) or I'm into Whisps right now and portioning them in baggies and only eating one a day!

    I also wrote the weight of storage containers I use frequently on little stickers and put them on the lids so when I weigh out a portion of food, I know to subtract that to get the weight of food I'm working with.
  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 3,822 Member
    I log the tiniest pieces of candy. But apparently raw broccoli eaten between meals doesn't have calories. At least I never log it.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,349 Member
    Corina1143 wrote: »
    I log the tiniest pieces of candy. But apparently raw broccoli eaten between meals doesn't have calories. At least I never log it.

    I weigh everything I eat... save for non-starchy veg and they get the "whatever comes up in the first result" treatment. Medium zucchini? Sure, sounds about right.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,073 Member
    Corina1143 wrote: »
    I log the tiniest pieces of candy. But apparently raw broccoli eaten between meals doesn't have calories. At least I never log it.

    I always log broccoli, but more because of the fiber and protein content.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,669 Member
    I ate my bacon and biscuits like open face sandwiches this morning.

    It made them last twice as long.

    Why haven’t I thought of this before?!
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,073 Member
    I will count out 16 individual Wheat Thins, since that qualifies as a single serving. But the rare few times I have Fritos, I just pour and eyeball how much I have. (That's why I prefer the individual-serving bags.)
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,349 Member
    I'm travelling for work, and I had bought a can of tuna salad with lentils, veg and olives, to put in my bag for breakfast/lunch at work when I wasn't going to have time to pop out and get something. I just opened it and it was... gross. Smelled like cat food, and oily AF. But I'd logged it, and paid for it, so I ate it anyway haha. My brain wouldn't let me throw it out and delete it from my diary, because I'd had a bite already and logged it and having one bite of it logged would have preyed on my mind all day.
  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,884 Member
    My regular brand of skyr has been discontinued and the best replacement I could find is 45 calories more for my regular portion. It really annoys me!
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 8,669 Member
    Lietchi wrote: »
    My regular brand of skyr has been discontinued and the best replacement I could find is 45 calories more for my regular portion. It really annoys me!

    I feels ya. I eat a container of cottage cheese every day and a half. I love the Lidl store bran because it’s cheap (half the price of other brands!), and it’s dryer in texture. They’ve been out of stock for months and only carry Daisy, which is pelletized, unappetizing, and nearly three times the cost, since it’s “premium”. Kroger brand is wet and gummy once the seal is broken. Too much xanthan? Publix is OK but it’s pricey and a further drive.
  • Corina1143
    Corina1143 Posts: 3,822 Member
    Rice cakes make me fat.
    And sad.
    Been craving crunchy anything lately. So I tried a rice cake. 35 calories for a plain one. Good crunch. Didn't taste great, but satisfied the need. A couple hours later I was back in the kitchen hunting nuts, seeds, crackers, cookies. ALL the crunchy things.
    Didn't put it together, so repeated the next day.
    Duh!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,349 Member
    I thought of this thread when making my salad for dinner. I logged 60g of roasted red pepper strips using the barcode, then when putting them into my salad I would have been happy with 45g, but because I logged 60, I added 60 lol.
  • Paindeme
    Paindeme Posts: 12 Member
    I intentionally set my goal lower and accurately track 3/4th of my food so I can have an extra few calories I don't have to track. Mentally I know my true intake is higher everyday and account for it but it feels nice to sneak a few grapes or a bite here and there without worrying (perfectionist in remission)

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