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

avocado,,,,,god,,i almost fell off my chair,,haha loggon like a coffee, a bagel and an avocado,,well,,, that shocked me big time,,lol

Avacados are "good" fats though... definitely a keeper in my diet

^^^THIS^^^ A keeper for sure!!! Total fat can be scary in a lot of foods , but if you take time to learn about healthy vs unhealthy instead of just looking at total, you can enjoy a lot more wonderful foods like avacodos, olives, nuts, nut butters....

Grilled chicken salads at restaurants. Just because it's a salad - doesn't mean it's healthy! So disappointing.

Chocolate sprinkles. They're like, 50 calories a tablespoon. I about fell off my chair. They were worse than the frozen yogurt I had ate!

A hamburger patty from Costco. One patty is 6 oz...yet the serving size is 3 oz. That was not a fun revelation.

Ok - things like that just piss me off. Who is eating only a 1/2 burger as a general rule when making it themselves? I've gone out to a restaurant and gotten a ridiculously fattening burger with crazy toppings, etc, and split it with someone and had that be great, but I have never just made burgers at home and had 1/2 of one.

I make half sandwiches and burgers all the time at home because I have major issues with portion control. It seems to be working for me, but the whole juicy delicious blue cheese stuffed burgers are very hard to resist! : )

Anything from a chain or SOW (*kitten* on the wall) restaurant. >_<

I was very uninformed about how bad all that can be. I eat out tons less now, and if I do, never eat all of what I've ordered.

Mine biggest surprise were Buffalo Wings. I mean I knew they weren't healthy but had no idea how high calorie they are esp. when you add the blue cheese dressing. What foods surprised you?

Girl you're making hungry for some wings!! Why you want to do that to a sister!!! LOL

Greek yogurt - too much sugar!
Deli meats - so much sodium
Peanut Butter - so many calories in such a small serving
Nutella - same as above

Anything in a fast food place - I had a sandwich the other day at Arby's for lunch - 648 calories with a lot of fat!!!

Great topic!!!

this is why i pre-log as much as possible

Right!!

It's really serving sizes that have tripped me up. As I learn more about what a typical serving size of something looks like, I stumble on all kinds of astonishing little calorie facts.

Like milk. Milk may or may not be better for you than soda (okay, probably it is) but calorie wise, you're better off with the soda!

Cheese. A serving of cheese is tiny. TINY!

Grape juice. Delicious. Antioxidants. Yay. Again, for calories, you're better off with the soda.

Trail mix. I love trailmix, started making it for myself since giving up bread, trying to stay full and cut the cravings. I eat it throughout the day, but I have to throw out an entire meal to do it and I put the stuff in a baggy separate from the containers so I know how small a serving of each ingredient is (M&Ms .5 serving, raisins, 1 serving, peanuts 1.5 or 1 serving, depending on how many calories I have left).

Even so, I'm running out of ingredients two days sooner than I should be, which means guess what, I measured the servings wrong. So now I need a food scale really bad even for my trailmix. Maybe especially for my trailmix! That or I'm going to have to measure it out in 13 bags (the total servings per each container). I cannot trust my eyes in these matters.

Subways cookies!!!
400 cals in 2 little cookies, atleast.. :brokenheart: :huh: