Food you thought weren't too bad until you logged them?

This!!! Who knew it was 400 calories a serving! Also Poptarts (my husband loves them) again 400 calories!

There's marketing for you. Poptarts are advertized as a convenient, happy-making breakfast for kids. They dance, they sing, they lvoe their mommy. No wonder, she served them dessert for breakfast. Why not just give them some chocolate cake?

I had no idea they still sold those...who gives that stuff to children?

LOL! I admit I actually gave each of my kids a pop-tart today as a treat packed for school. I hardly ever buy them, but I did recently and my girls love them. It's just an occasional thing, though. When they are gone, I won't be running out and buying more. And my girls eat a wide variety of healthy food as well as their 'junk'. I guess that's how I rationalize it.

One tablespoon of Peanut Butter on a PB&J sandwich is not realistic!!

The Java Chiller from Sonic!
530 calories for a 14oz with mocha and whipped cream..
I stupidly thought - = the ice cream is cut with espresso, so that would make it a little better than a shake... right?

WRONG! I used to get one of those every other day... Now I get the mini size, no whip (350 cals) about once a month..

Not that I ever thought Pop Tarts were "good" for you, but I didn't realize that one tart is one serving.

One tablespoon of Peanut Butter on a PB&J sandwich is not realistic!!

you can buy healthier peanut butter. still high in fat content but its healthier fat. (with flax seeds in it and other healthy sounding ingredients lmao) i buy naturally more but i know there are peanut butters out there that are healthier than that. just costly.

I used to think I was making a "healthier" choice with Wendy's Baja Salad...even without the Chili it's frightening!

Anything from Baja Fresh mexican restaurants. They advertise fresh ingredients, grilled meats and zero trans-fats. I mistook that for "healthy". How do you get 30 gms of fat into a chicken breast when it's grilled with no trans-fats?

Peanuts in general. LOVED to crack open a bottle and just eat them. I know they are a good alternative to some meats...but 160 Cal for a 1/4 a cup! I would eat half a jar if i was really snacking...then the Mt. Dew to wash down all the salt....ugh... Now that i look at the labels i am shocked about some of the portion sizes.

Tuscan wings from Bertuccis... I knew they were 500+ calories for 8 wings, but I didn't realize just how much fat they had in them. (I was going to have them for lunch today, actually, but nope...) They're also pretty salty, so that's another reason to let them go.

One tablespoon of Peanut Butter on a PB&J sandwich is not realistic!!

you can buy healthier peanut butter. still high in fat content but its healthier fat. (with flax seeds in it and other healthy sounding ingredients lmao) i buy naturally more but i know there are peanut butters out there that are healthier than that. just costly.

Try almond butter... yes, high in fat, but overall better for you than peanut butter.

Almost everything I used to eat.

A burger from Applebee's that was wrapped in tortilla instead of a bun. It had more calories than a regular burger! :noway: :sad:

One tablespoon of Peanut Butter on a PB&J sandwich is not realistic!!

you can buy healthier peanut butter. still high in fat content but its healthier fat. (with flax seeds in it and other healthy sounding ingredients lmao) i buy naturally more but i know there are peanut butters out there that are healthier than that. just costly.

Try almond butter... yes, high in fat, but overall better for you than peanut butter.

i didnt like the almond butter i tried. i drink almond milk but the almond butter wasnt as tasty as peanut butter is. lol!

bubble tea. I realized there would be the sugar aspect to it but I didn't realize that those little tapioca pearls were so high in calories. (400 for a cup of pearls alone) SO I was blindly having these for treats thinking it was better then my other "dessert drinks" I like to have and it rung up at like 450 calories for a small. YIKES.

I don't think there was any particular food that shocked me, but once I started logging, it was the serving sizes and how much I grossly under-estimated what I'd been eating. I mean, a bowl of cereal with skim milk should be somewhere between 150-200 calories, UNTIL you realize that 1/2 cup or 3/4 cup doesn't actually fill a bowl...so it ends up being closer to 400 or 500 for a stinking bowl of cereal.
And then you have some sort of get-together and you "limit" yourself to a couple crackers with meat and cheese. But you think about it and it was more like 12 crackers with meat and cheese and you could have eaten half a pizza instead.
So I guess what I'm saying is: the biggest shocker is how MUCH I was actually eating, not how many calories the foods have.