do good all day and blow it at dinner...

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lin7604
lin7604 Posts: 3,019 Member
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I find i do good all day all week but dinners really blow it for me :( for example, tonight i made home made lemon chicken. I had no idea what the nutritional facts were so i went on a web site and put all my ingredients in and BAM! 1100 calories! wow... i was floored! 675 was just from the 1 cup of rice, man is it hard when you have 2 super picky eaters in the house ( as i refuse to make 2 separate meals).... we have done better putting fish on the menu weekly, grilled or lightly breaded chicken breasts, no more fries, only home made oven potato wedges.... more salads but then again that one can be very tricky too with dressings, etc... we roast our chickens now and i only will eat home made soup! but i am still struggling in eating healthy dinners and losing weight :( why does it have to be so hard.....
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  • carrie_eggo
    carrie_eggo Posts: 1,396 Member
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    Try planning your personal menu for the day and logging everything in the morning. That way you know what you're going to eat, and you can adjust the portion sizes/snacks/etc to fit into your calorie goal.
  • lin7604
    lin7604 Posts: 3,019 Member
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    believe it or not i do.. i have all my daily snacks and meals made the night before.. So when at work i don't "over eat"..... it's supper time ! even if i portion control it, some of the home made things i make seem to be very high in calories :(
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,269 Member
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    What kind of rice are you using? If your family doesn't like brown rice (I don't because the texture is... odd to me), just use plain white rice. A cup of that is only 205ish calories. What is in the rest of the recipe? That does sound awful high =( Maybe you can look online for a slimmed down recipe?
  • moniquelessard
    moniquelessard Posts: 418
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    story of my life, but I could starve all day then binge at night...so I figure I'm doing better now than before. *sigh*
  • virgoGloria
    virgoGloria Posts: 2 Member
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    Wow. So its not just me....
  • PBmaria
    PBmaria Posts: 854 Member
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    What kind of rice are you using? If your family doesn't like brown rice (I don't because the texture is... odd to me), just use plain white rice. A cup of that is only 205ish calories. What is in the rest of the recipe? That does sound awful high =( Maybe you can look online for a slimmed down recipe?

    I wanna know too! I eat white rice all the time but I limit it to 1/2 cup, which is 100 or so calories.
  • chevy88grl
    chevy88grl Posts: 3,937 Member
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    Whoa. What kind of rice are you eating that 1 cup is 675 calories?! I have a cup of brown rice (regular, with wild, different flavored, etc) and the average calories for 1 cup is around 200 calories. I'm trying to figure out why on earth it was 675 calories for 1 cup?
  • furrina
    furrina Posts: 148 Member
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    Just don't eat the rice. Its nutritional value is negligible anyway. If anyone else wants it, fine, but just have a smallish piece of the chicken and a ton of veggies. Or if no veggies are involved, just make a huge salad with no dressing. Do the same with dressings, sauces, bread, pasta, etc: Cook, serve but do not eat, or eat just a tiny bit. Concetrate on the main dish/protein, and watch the portions.
  • juliapurpletoes
    juliapurpletoes Posts: 951 Member
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    gotta ask like the others....rice, 1 cup cooked can't be more than 200....did you measure/log it wrong or add alot of fat....or does that account for the chicken.....?

    take heart - alot of us make mistakes! we are here to learn and help others!
  • agthorn
    agthorn Posts: 1,844 Member
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    One cup of UNCOOKED rice has 680 calories - but that would be like four cups (4 servings) of COOKED rice.
  • crzyone
    crzyone Posts: 872 Member
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    Man, I'm the same way, kind of, and was just thinking about whining here. I do great all day, even dinner and try to save a few calories for evening snacking, but I STILL end up eating too many in the evening or even getting up in the middle of the night to snack. Then, I"m over and it's doing no good. Well, it's better than I was, but not enough to be losing apparently. :(

    I love rice though......I don't feel satisfied till I've had that carb and I didn't have any tonight so can't seem to get satisfied.

    Good luck!!
  • lin7604
    lin7604 Posts: 3,019 Member
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    i used this site: http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php, that is where i got the amounts... I only had 1 cup of cooked white rice ( i don't like brown either).... but it said 675 calories for that 1 cup of rice....but now that you mentioned the lower amount, i should of looked on the flippen box 1st! UGGG it showed 320 for 1 cup! huge difference! now where did this site get it's info from? now it makes me wonder if the rest of the home made recipes i have used have been completely correct with the nutritional facts it gives?
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
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    Wow. So its not just me....
    Of course not, my dear. I am here, too.
  • directorj
    directorj Posts: 537 Member
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    Think about it this way you would be worst off doing bad all day and also at dinner. So you still did good !
  • HMonsterX
    HMonsterX Posts: 3,000 Member
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    Description
    Long grain rice

    some broken, still fluffy when cooked
    Nutrition
    Per 100g per serving % based on GDA for adult
    Energy 494kJ 618kJ -
    116kcal 146kcal 7.3%
    Protein 2.7g 3.4g 7.6%
    Carbohydrate 25.5g 31.9g 13.9%
    Total Sugars 0.1g 0.1g 0.1%
    Starch 25.4g 31.8g
    Fat 0.4g 0.5g 0.7%
    Saturates 0.1g 0.1g 0.5%
    Mono unsaturates 0.2g 0.2g
    Polyunsaturates 0.1g 0.2g
    Fibre 0.6g 0.8g 3.3%
    Salt trace trace -
    Sodium trace trace -

    This is for my basic white rice i have. Where the hell does 600+ cals come from?!?!
  • ladyprofaz
    ladyprofaz Posts: 66
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    Think about it this way you would be worst off doing bad all day and also at dinner. So you still did good !

    What an absolutely great thing to say!
  • lin7604
    lin7604 Posts: 3,019 Member
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    Think about it this way you would be worst off doing bad all day and also at dinner. So you still did good !

    thank you!
  • lin7604
    lin7604 Posts: 3,019 Member
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    ok so i RE DID the ingredient list and it is less...phew b/c of that error... NOW how do you log when something is deep fried that is home made? I deep fry the chicken for only 2-3 min but it is still fried... so how do i know how much more that is adding onto this otherwise healthy meal?
  • thecrossfitter
    thecrossfitter Posts: 424 Member
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    Log before you make. Itll take some planning. Haha- and growing up my mom refused to make separate meals as well, but she also made whatever she wanted and was healthy. I didn't like it? Too bad. I'm sure it was a total pain in the butt at first but I got used to it- I didn't die :)
  • skywa
    skywa Posts: 901 Member
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    you think about trying smashed potatoes instead of rice?

    they arent that high in cals.
    use a lil olive oil, a tablespoon of garlic and a bit of parmesean instead of butter and cream. and keep the skin on.

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