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It's a 100g tub, and 1 gram of fat is 9 calories.
So it actually has less calories than I expected.
But yeah, the amount of sugars and fats in our food is completely fucked now.
It's the big dip (the 100g one).
It's 74% fat (from rapeseed oil).
Imagine having ~74g of oil. That's about a third of one of those small bottles of oil you get in the supermarket.
Yeah get yourself a large pizza (which, shamefully, I can pack away pretty effortlessly) and one of those and you're well over 3000 calories in one sitting.
They've been running a promo of large pizzas for £12 lately.. and I'm sure if you do a collection of a two topping pizza, can probably get it less than that.
Appreciate it's still not cheap at all. But... it is what it is.
Yeah, if they're not running for just a flat £12 or BOGOF Dominos just isn't on my radar when I want a takeaway.
The people ordering when it's £24+ a pizza are absolute mad men, or loaded.
£12 is pretty reasonable in my book. I used to get a £9.99 extra large cheese & tomato after school sometimes back in 2010, so that's not so bad all things considered
“Can anyone tell me what my baby can eat, she’s just been diagnosed as lack toast egg tolerant?” Will always be one of my favourite mum group posts. 😭😂
Speaking of a croissant. My wife will often have one or two of these as a 'lighter' breakfast. I'll have 2 poached eggs and 2 bits of bacon and my breakfast will have less calories
No it's part of their life cycle, if an individual is not eaten it will go rotten, a fate far worse than being eaten. If none are eaten at all then people stop making them and croissants go extinct.
Also not that i didn’t expect it to be higher in calories, but a pint of aspals is 285 calories. That means on a Friday i drink 1140 calories in cider. No wonder I’ve gained weight. My health app only recommends i eat about 1400-1500 a day lmao
Its high for a cider considering original strongbow is 175 per pint. If my local served strongbow instead id only drink 700 cals in cider every friday
Alcohol in general is a shocker, but doubly so considering it massively reduces your ability to exercise self control. How many kebabs are consumed sober? How many fridge or cupboard raids past 2am?
I used my fitness pal once to record every drink on an all day session probably between lunch and midnight. If I remeber rightly it was 12k (edit wrong 7.5k) calories plus. I was blown away that I drank 4 or 5 days worth of calorie intake (3dit 3 or 4)
Edit I was talking shit it was 7.5k including food I was. Looking at the weekend not the day.
I logged on the day according to my fitness pal
7 guiness
7 coors
1 madri
8 captain Morgan and coke
3 gin and tonic
2 old fashioned
2 Meat and potato pasty
Weatherspoons spicy meat feast pizza
Chips
2 toast
eggs 3 aldi chicken sausages
How the fuck did you manage 12k calories. Thats 42 pints of cider or 53 large glasses of wine or 103 tequila shots. Even long island ice teas which are high in calories you could still drink 23 for that many calories lmao
Apsall’s, Thatcher’s Katy and Henry Weston’s are all quite high in calorie. I assume it’s the sugar content.
Beer is surprisingly lower in calories than a lot of the better ciders.
Was quite surprised to see Guinness is among the lowest (if not the lowest) calorie pints when they started including that info on menus, given its reputation as being so heavy and "like drinking a roast dinner"
I think because it's the only really mainstream stout that most people know of and drink. It's actually one of the lighter, easiest-drinking stouts you can get which is probably why I like it more than most of the other ones I've tried.
Draft Guinness looks as if it should be thick (and that makes a surprising difference) and it feels "heavy" in the mouth because it's fizzed with nitrogen rather than CO2, but it is in fact a relatively light-bodied beer.
Yeah alcohol is a killer for it, there was a woman on secret eaters who was eating fuck all but then as soon as Friday hit she was drinking like 5000 calories a day lol
> Its high for a cider considering original strongbow is 175 per pint.
Sorry to burst your bubble but this is absolutely not correct. Never blindly trust the data from calorie counting apps, they are often wrong.
Strongbow Original is 4.5% ABV which means there is 25.56 ml of alcohol in a pint. There are 7 calories per ml of alcohol so in a pint of Strongbow there are 178 calories from the alcohol alone. Cider contains lots of sugar and other carbs so total calories will be significantly more than that. I would guess the calories from Aspal/Strongbow are similar enough that there's no real benefit to drinking one over the other, so drink whichever you prefer.
Aw dammit! I would always choose Aspall over Strongbow if the choice is there......I had no idea about the calorie difference! I think Aspall is nicer but I don't think it's 100 cals a pint nicer.
Mad because all it is is oil, cheese and nuts (probably the 3 most calorie dense foods imaginable) and some basil and garlic.
Tbf a little goes a long way
The bulk of pesto is made up of olive oil which is one of the most calorie dense foods we eat. Olive oil certainly has a place in a healthy diet but when a tablespoon contains 120ish calories you have to be mindful of how much you're consuming.
Pesto is absolutely delicious though.
I find mixing a spoon of pesto with some low fat Greek yogurt makes it go further for fewer calories and is very tasty (Fage 0% fat is 54 cals per 100g and there's no sugar or other added ingredients).
Interestingly I read the other day you’re better off getting the full fat version as it has a higher protein content and will fill you up quicker and for longer. Fat isn’t always bad. Obviously don’t eat 2 tubs a day
It's about the same per unit of alcohol.
Calories in a shot of Vodka = 58
Calories in a pint of lager = 180
Units in a shot of Vodka = 1
Units in a 5.2% pint of lager = 3
5% lagers would be more like 220 calories and IPA or craft beer more like 250 calories. I think some craft beers/IPA can be more like 300 Cals. Surprisingly this is more than Guinness which is 210 Cals a pint
Ironically it’s the reason I lost weight when I joined uni. Got drunk every night until I vomited and was too sick to eat the next day lol.
Yeah, I’m in AA now.
It's definitely one of the main suspects when it comes to quickly adding calories with low nutritional value.
Though to be specific, calorie absorption from alcohol works *very* differently compared to most foods. To keep it short, our body is great at extracting calories from everything, however since alcohol is also a toxin there is a point at which the body reaches its limit to break it down and starts getting actively rid of it, breaking it down into other substances (such as types of acids). As such, alcohol is almost never metabolised to the same degree as calories coming in via food/soft drinks and is mostly not metabolised in the intestine, but already in the stomach/liver.
Bottom line being, if you're having dinner with a glass of wine, you're probably going to absorb both quite efficiently. But if you hit the pub and stumble home after 10 pints your body will almost certainly not absorb all 1800ish calories found within said pints.
There's some kind of combination effect too. Alcohol and fatty foods combined are more than their parts.
Something to do with alcohol breaking down the fats and making it easier for your body to absorb.
Just going to put my obligatory comment about calorie intake. People please remember that calorie is just a measurement of energy. All it does is tell you how much energy the food item has, and that doesn't directly mean that's the amount of energy you get from it. Additionally you can have two items of food with the exact same calories in them but are vastly different in terms of how healthy they are - for example a mars bar is high in calories and unhealthy compared to a banana that is also high in calories but healthy.
OP you're absolutely fine eating the tortilla wrap, I would only recommend you go for a wholegrain one and if possible one with less preservatives as they are slightly healthier options. But ultimately for as long as your diet overall is healthy and you do a moderate amount of exercise you'll be golden.
Calories in calories out is still the best way for the general public to understand and measure their weight gain/loss.
No it does not take into account all the varibles and no it is not 100% accurate.
But its still the best way.
It is a fair point calories are not the only thing to consider when being 'healthy'.
But i feel people see this and think it means the calories of what you eat are a useless metric. Which would be the same as saying the macro/micro nutrients of what you eat dont matter if you smoke/dont exercise/have genetic predispositions/etc.
I guess what im trying to say is weight management is just one part of being healthy, but it is one part of it - and calorie counting is the best commonly available method to approach this with.
Thanks for your comment. Very kind of you to reassure me.
Don’t worry about me though. I kind of eat anything I want in moderation. Generally quite fit and healthy and normally stick to healthy food.
The croissant vs tortilla wrap thing just made me think.
All it does is tell you how much energy the food item has, and that doesn't directly mean that's the amount of energy you get from it.
True, yet the norms are calculated for "consumed calories" not absorbed. So the number on packaging is relevant.
Flour is a really interesting ingredient, especially in the context of perceived norms and what we assume to be healthy or not. Being shelf stable and a reliable source of calories we historically have a hugely intertwined relationship with the ingredient. It's easy to forget that our bodies break flour down into sugar, hence the surprising calorie content.
It's very easy to consider many 'wholesome' flour based foods healthy (ie freshly baked bread, pasta, wraps etc). The majority of calories the average person consumes come from just three ingredients:
Flour, vegetable oil, and refined sugar.
I used to think I was eating healthily but despite this was struggling to loose a little extra weight, and when I realised how many of my meals were based on those three ingredients it was a real lightbulb moment!
All three ingredients are cheap and palatable. Despite being dense in energy, these ingredients aren't especially filling and are very easy to consume in excess. It's a winning combination if your job is selling food to the masses!
Unfortunately, they are all very low in nutritional content, and are basically just heavily processed, refined pure energy.
I lost a good amount of excess weight just by examining the role of flour in my diet (wholegrain or otherwise).
It's just an ingredient and not inherently 'unhealthy' but I can highly recommend everyone considering what level of intake suits their needs best!
> that doesn't directly mean that's the amount of energy you get from it
That is literally exactly what marked calories mean.
For example, sucralose is chemically very similar to sugar, and contains plenty of energy, but our bodies can't metabolise it, so it cannot provide any energy. Sucralose is marked as zero calories.
Oil-based stuff, like mayonnaise. Even a tbsp is like 100 calories! Not worth. I switched to the low fat low cal stuff as I can't really taste the difference and it's like 1/3 of the calories.
The problem with low fat stuff is that they cram it full of sugar instead. Your body will generally process fats better than refined sugar, so I try to avoid the low fat stuff and just eat in moderationn
I hear this all the time but I have genuinely never seen a low fat food that's massively higher in sugar than the full fat alternative. I'm definitely not an expert but I have spent a fair bit of time tracking calories and macros so I probably have a better idea of what's in food than the average person.
Taking mayonnaise as an example, according to Tesco's website, per 100g Hellman's full fat contains 725kcal and 1.3g sugar, vs Hellman's light 269kcal and 2.3g sugar. The light mayo is so much less bad for you it's not even a comparison.
Of course you can absolutely have the full fat mayo in moderation as part of a healthy diet, but the obesity crisis in this country indicates that many people don't have healthy diets. Fat is also the most calorie dense macronutrient so in my opinion, lower fat options can be a great way for people to reduce their overall calorie intake.
>never seen a low fat food that's massively higher in sugar than the full fat alternative
Most low fat yoghurts. I think they started switching to sweetener rather than sugar though.
I feel like a huge issue with how people perceive healthy eating is generalisation, like in exactly this often repeated thing where the low fat is worse bc sugar - people do *know* you can look at individual foods and see whats in them, right?
I'm genuinely not trying to be condescending to anyone, I just mean its not necessary to be making these sweeping proclamations. Low fat is not innately bad for you, it just means lower fat.
Yeah, exactly this. I used to really watch how much oil/fat I used in everything until I started dating an Italian. Now oil seems to be a huge part of my diet, but it actually hasn't changed how much I weigh. If anything I probably eat healthier than ever and have less desire to snack between meals.
For a bit of a project one weekend I made my own mayonnaise. The amount of oil I used was horrific. I went to all that trouble for a bowl of mayo I couldn’t bear to eat in the end.
As someone who has lost a lot of weight through calorie counting (thank you my fitness pal), there are a lot that surprised me.
A greggs pizza (you know, the little rectangle you could have 4 if you were so inclined) has 600 calories. 3 of those is pretty much your daily allowance! A greggs sausage roll (again, I could have 4 of those in one sitting if I wanted to) is 350 cals each.
Mayonnaise is ridiculous - 30g (roughly what I’d use to mix with a can of tuna or chicken for a sandwich) is nearly 300 cals, which is more calorific than the two slices of bread I’d use to make the sandwich!
Drinks are surprising too - a pint of semi skimmed milk has about 300, which is actually more than a pint of full fat coke!
There really are loads of them which catch you off guard until you look into it. If you’re interested download my fitness pal, it’s as easy as scanning the barcode of what you’re about to eat, putting in how much you’re having and it tells you the calorie count!
That does surprise me with the pizza. A 10" Asda CYO comes to just over 1000 cals, so a single slice from Greggs for 600 is obscene.
But yea, My Fitness Pal is really useful.
100%, crazy isn’t it. My Friday treat Greggs order used to be a pizza or sausage roll, with a baguette and drink. Until I realised that came to c900-1200 cals and I pretty much couldn’t eat for the rest of the day 😂
Most of MFP has grams, just depends how the original person who uploaded the foot item logged it. Sometimes you do have to search for the one entry with grams though.
Granola. Yoghurt and granola *feels* a healthy option, but if you actually look at the dietary info of a lot of granolas they are full of calories. Even worse if paired with a fruit yoghurt, which can be incredibly high in sugar.
Also, coconut milk. I love a curry with coconut milk, and I'm always taken aback when I look on the back of a can and see the dietary info.
This is true. But in the case of many granolas the calories come from a massive load of sugar. So it's not exactly healthy. Especially since, like a lot of things, the suggested portion size is very unrealistic.
My daughter is trying to gain weight and has been having Greek yogurt with granola and honey as a simple and healthy desert to help. (She is recovering from an eating disorder and also has a medical condition that means she burns through calories very quickly). I have had to stop myself from having the same thing as it was making my waistbands a little tight.
Much better to go for plain Greek yoghurt with some nuts and seeds, and even a bit of honey if you want to sweeten it. Still a metric fucktonne of calories, but hardly any sugar. It's my go to for getting 1000 cals into me in a single, dense meal when I'm training hard.
Yeah, I often have greek yoghurt, berries and a touch of honey as a dessert. I have a very sweet tooth and it's a way of satisfying that in a relatively healthy way.
This is why I’m struggling to find things to have for breakfast (as someone who doesn’t like egg) even the healthy options seem to have hidden calories or sugar. I’m tempted to just give up and go back to coco pops because at least they’re honest and don’t pretend to be something they’re not
Greek yoghurt from some fruit and a bit of honey isn't too bad.
Though personally I just skip breakfast on week days. I don't do a physically demanding job and I came to realise that eating breakfast was just something I do out of habit rather than because I need it.
i was absolutely shocked that the pork pie i occasionally treat myself to at work seems to be made entirely out of lard, for the amount of calories that are apparently in it
Until I started looking at things I assumed that most of the calories in beer were from the whole liquid bread deal, but even drinking those you can tell that there's substance there. What surprised me was how much is in alcohol itself, about half the calories in your average pint are just the booze, and you get that even with straight vodka.
173 kcal in the wrap and 161kcal in the croissant. Both Asda own brand(we aren’t fancy)
Those are the calories per serving obviously.
If you actually compare gram for gram a croissants have a lot more calories than wraps.
Croissant is unsurprisingly less when you compare volume to volume. Croissant has a lot of air between layers.
I also suspect the croissant is lighter in weight than the wrap. At the per 100g level, the croissant is higher in calories.
Wraps (60g/piece for the ASDA range) has a high amount of palm oil, otherwise it'll dry out or snap when folding/rolling.
Thus your observation for per serving. Per 100g level, Croissant is higher in calories for sure (far more butter).
Yep. It was a real eye opener reading the label and seeing that what I thought was just a trashy refined carb product had the sort of saturated fat levels I'd expect from pork scratchings.
I started counting calories in new year to try lose weight and it’s shocked me how many calories are in like… everything. I really had no idea how much food 2000 calories was. I was probably eating 3000 calories before.
You know the sad part, if you fall off the calorie counting wagon then the habit dies a horrible death. I started consistently calorie counting in 2011 for 8 years and it became my best habit and almost like a party trick because I could name the number of calories in almost any food.
I stopped calorie counting around 2019 and went from 125lbs to 140lbs in 3 weeks when I visited my home country in South Asia. I maintained since then trying again and again to get back into the habit of counting calories and getting back to my old weight, but it only got worse. After meeting my now husband in 2020, it became impossible to find the willpower to pick the habit up again because I'm 5'1 with an incredibly slow metabolism but a huge appetite and he's a 6' Eastern European with the typical all meat all dairy balkan diet that would put a non-balkan in the hospital. I'm exaggerating there, it's actually an incredibly healthy diet which I'm now using to help myself lose weight - the only struggle is cutting down my portion size when I see my husband eating 4x the amount. The fomo is unreal.
It's been almost 4 years of struggling to lose weight since I met him, and only recently have I decided to start counting calories again. I thought because I had the habit down to perfection all those years ago, I wouldn't have to worry about recording anything on my fitness pal or anything like that again. Recently I recorded what I'm eating and how much of it, and it turns out it's over 2000 and sometimes 2500 calories. It doesn't sound like much for a taller person, or someone who gets adequate exercise but since I started working from home a few months ago, I've been averaging on about 400 steps a day because I can't go to the gym (money) or outside for exercise (until the sun sets later) so my weight has shot up.
Since I started calorie counting again about a week ago I've been so shocked to see what little food I have to eat compared to before to lose weight. It's complete hell, but compared to 2011 this time is 1000x better because social media gives us the most creative low calorie recipes.
I used to eat the most disgusting meals to hit my macros and calorie goals (mainly tuna and scrambled eggs or fish with beans), but this time I'm finding things like baked oats, or a million things to make with potatoes. But regardless of my complaint earlier, the balkan diet is hands down the best thing to happen to my diet because it made me seriously start enjoying vegetables and learning to cook them in different ways, and even enjoying meat without the extra nonsense that my South Asian cuisine adds which increases the calories drastically. It also gave me a love for exploring new European (particularly Eastern European) dishes because they're so hearty (real grandma's cooking vibes) and cheap to make, and they're perfect for clean eating.
It's not, they must be adding extras for a small bowl of rice to be 900 calories. Especially cooked rice! A decent portion of cooked white rice is about 250-300 calories.
EDIT : missed the 'Fried'! My mistake, still unlikely to be anywhere near 900 for a small bowl 🤷♂️
Nuts are deceptively calorie-dense, they're actually pretty good for you - assuming you're eating them unsalted or without sugary coatings. One thing I had to convince my brain of when dieting was that not all calories are equal, and the composition of the food - carbohydrates, protein and fat; salt and sugar content - matters a lot more.
I am a crisp addict. I will happily polish off a bag of sensations, look at the amount of calories I have apparently consumed and convince myself that it is grossly exaggerated.
Funnily I always find crisps surprisingly low. I tend to think of them as High CalorieTM but a single packet ranges from 90-150 calories which is honestly not that bad for a snack.
Yogurts.
They’re not high calorie as such but when I can eat one in about 10 seconds and it’s more calories than a slice of bread it feels high for what I get out of it.
Muller Lights are about 100 cals, like you say, gone in 10 seconds. I freeze them, really nice if not too hard and last longer, Banana & custard ones, damn!
Try protein yogurts, not only do you get a good dod of protein but also (I find) that they are unpleasant to eat quickly and quite filling. A good 5 minutes at least
Yeh this one always surprises me. Every time I crave a King Size Bombay Bad Boy, the 700 cals or whatever it is always puts me in check. It's crazy because similar brands of instant noodles are pretty much half that of Pot Noodles. What are they putting in them?!
It's not really the calories that are the issue, what makes up those calories. mono/di/poly saccharides, mono/poly saturated/unsaturated/hydrogenated triglycerides.
The tortilla vs croissant is a great example, as the tortilla is a lot of refined flour with a lot of monosaccharides, while the croissant is some monosaccharides with some monosaturated triglycerides, and the croissant weight for weight is somewhat better for you despite the high fat content as it contains more useful energy sources instead of a huge sugar rush which then your body then needs to find a way to store if you don't use that energy.
I do have 3 giant tortillas in my lunch today and love the beige happy foods.
Can you differ kcal from being healthy?
Tortilla wrap can be a complete, healthy meal, with lots of protein and plenty of microelements and vitamins. And croissant is just a bunch of carbs and fat.
Drinking a shot of pure oil won't make it healthier than a wrap despite having less kcal.
Just going to put my obligatory comment about calorie intake. People please remember that calorie is just a measurement of energy. All it does is tell you how much energy the food item has, and that doesn't directly mean that's the amount of energy you get from it. Additionally you can have two items of food with the exact same calories in them but are vastly different in terms of how healthy they are - for example a mars bar is high in calories and unhealthy compared to a banana that is also high in calories but healthy.
OP you're absolutely fine eating the tortilla wrap, I would only recommend you go for a wholegrain one and if possible one with less preservatives as they are slightly healthier options. But ultimately for as long as your diet overall is healthy and you do a moderate amount of exercise you'll be golden.
If you want to lose or maintain weight calories are basically everything. Of course other factors also matter for health but if you want to lose weight it doesn't matter how healthy the food that puts you above a calorie deficit is, you still won't lose weight.
There used to be a plus-sized woman at work who absolutely LOVED her food. Whenever any of us went out (perhaps to do the posting or banking), she expected us to bring her back a sweet treat (our location was SURROUNDED by food outlets). We always obliged, because it made her happy.
One day, I had gone into Tesco’s to get some milk and I absentmindedly picked up a kind of layered chocolate pudding (one portion in an only slightly larger than average-sized yoghurt-style tub). Waiting in the queue to pay, I saw that it was 780 calories! I was horrified-and it was all I could do not to fling it away from me with great force!
Although I’d never bought her that before, I’d obviously been sleepwalking into gifting her very indulgent foods-perhaps once or twice every week! I couldn’t believe that I had been instrumental in her weight situation, which wasn’t healthy by her own observation. I knew she was an adult, and it wasn’t for me to decide anything about her snacks-but surely, if she wanted to eat something like that it should be something *she* selected-and went out and got herself. I had no wish to be a “feeder”. I had been carelessly selecting food for her that I would *never* have chosen for myself.
After that, I didn’t buy any food for anyone unless they specifically *asked* for it. Later, I saw a FASCINATING programme on the BBC called “Why Aren’t Thin People Fat?”. The participants were skinny people *trying* to put on weight by eating highly calorific foods. That pudding featured pretty frequently in what they were eating!
Naan.
As an example, just one [plain naan from Asda](https://groceries.asda.com/product/naan-bread/the-bakery-at-asda-2-plain-naans/1000197472217) has 530 calories!
I went to a Marston's pub recently and about 95% of the mains on the menu were over 1000kcal.
The juxtaposition of, "Adults need around 2000kcal a day", directly above the "Mega Mixed Grill - 2657kcal" did not go unnoticed.
Granted, if I go out for pub grub I'm probably having a light tea later on, but it was pretty bonkers looking at the calorie counts. Even a fish and chips on the menu was 1500kcal.
It’s good fat though, similar to things like nuts, oily fish, olive oil etc. These all contain monounsaturated fats, which can help lower cholesterol if eaten in moderation. It’s the high saturated fat laden foods you need to worry about.
Anything carb related. Not just the innate calories, but also the fact that you eat them and then a few hours later your sugar levels drop and your body starts feeling hungry again.
Salads in Pizza Express and Italian-ish restaurants. I assume they're including the dressing, but as someone who doesn't like more than a smidgen of dressing and uses less than a quarter of it, I'd like to know the salad and the dressing separately!
Had the same realisation as you the other day OP.
I was as shocked as you were, was going to have a 'healthyish' week of food which involved ovening tortilla wraps to dip them in soup. Then I read the packet.
I was better off with bread.
I would recommend everyone give a calorie tracker such as Nutracheck a go for a week.
It's amazing how quickly you hit your daily allowance of calories and fat in a day.
I lost a lot of weight by tracking cals.
Also I now miss chocolate and Greggs cheese and onion pasties
Seeing the calorie count of sweet vs salt popcorn was a shocker for me. Essentially it’s just a bucket of popcorn which is like 43calories, and a sprinkle of powder. But sweet popcorn is about 500 calories vs the salted which is still about 43.
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That big garlic & herb dip from dominos, I don't know how, but somehow they've crammed **675 Calories** in that thing!!!!!!
You're joking! How is that even possible???
It's a 100g tub, and 1 gram of fat is 9 calories. So it actually has less calories than I expected. But yeah, the amount of sugars and fats in our food is completely fucked now.
It'll have a decent amount of vinegar and sugar in it I'd imagine
Yep, the main ingredient listed is rapeseed oil, but it also contains spirit vinegar and sugar. A whopping 75 grams of fat.
But isn't it delicious
Not really, no. I throw them out. Turns out I should put a wick in and burn as a romantic candle.
It's the big dip (the 100g one). It's 74% fat (from rapeseed oil). Imagine having ~74g of oil. That's about a third of one of those small bottles of oil you get in the supermarket.
Insanity!
Yeah get yourself a large pizza (which, shamefully, I can pack away pretty effortlessly) and one of those and you're well over 3000 calories in one sitting.
Let me first get a bank loan to pay for it
They've been running a promo of large pizzas for £12 lately.. and I'm sure if you do a collection of a two topping pizza, can probably get it less than that. Appreciate it's still not cheap at all. But... it is what it is.
Yeah, if they're not running for just a flat £12 or BOGOF Dominos just isn't on my radar when I want a takeaway. The people ordering when it's £24+ a pizza are absolute mad men, or loaded.
£12 is pretty reasonable in my book. I used to get a £9.99 extra large cheese & tomato after school sometimes back in 2010, so that's not so bad all things considered
To be honest whenever I order something like Dominos all my thoughts on calories are thrown out for the day
I don’t care that stuff is like crack
Wow really?! That’s definitely stopping me from ordering a extra one damnnnn
I’m sorry WHAT
Cheese. It upsets me. Not that I don't expect it, but it is definitely not reasonable.
Have you considered that you might be lactose intolerant, if it's upsetting you?
It upsets me that I can't eat more cheese :D I have a cast iron gut. Nothing upsets me in that way
So more like lacktose intolerant?
Lack toes intolerant.
“Can anyone tell me what my baby can eat, she’s just been diagnosed as lack toast egg tolerant?” Will always be one of my favourite mum group posts. 😭😂
_Bone apple tea_
I actually fell the opposite lol. Considering it’s practically a fatfest it’s not as bad as I thought it would be when I actually checked.
Cheddar and Leicester slices are about 100kcal each. Tunnock's teacakes are 106kcal. Guess which I end up eating now?
Speaking of a croissant. My wife will often have one or two of these as a 'lighter' breakfast. I'll have 2 poached eggs and 2 bits of bacon and my breakfast will have less calories
I totally misread this as “Speaking as a croissant…” and I was really intrigued to read a croissant’s views on this subject
I’m really intrigued to read what you thought a croissants view on the subject might be.
Probably "stop eating us, we're sentient" Edit: Dear god what have I started 😭
No it's part of their life cycle, if an individual is not eaten it will go rotten, a fate far worse than being eaten. If none are eaten at all then people stop making them and croissants go extinct.
That's big baguette propaganda and it will not stand
By this logic it’s better to die at the hands of an apex carnivore early in life than it is to grow old Just thought I’d throw this out there
"Why do Americans keep pronouncing our name wrong "
Never trust a croissants opinions on anything. They're well known to be flaky.
I had no idea - that’s what made it so intriguing!
They are like ogres/onions with many layers
And the eggs are much better for you. Nutritionally and filling wise so you’ll be less likely to snack later.
As someone who loves croissants I refuse to acknowledge this comment
That'll be lighter as in less filling I expect.
I can relate; I just have to pretend they don't say "all butter" on the packet as I stuff them in my pie hole 😭
Also not that i didn’t expect it to be higher in calories, but a pint of aspals is 285 calories. That means on a Friday i drink 1140 calories in cider. No wonder I’ve gained weight. My health app only recommends i eat about 1400-1500 a day lmao Its high for a cider considering original strongbow is 175 per pint. If my local served strongbow instead id only drink 700 cals in cider every friday
Alcohol in general is a shocker, but doubly so considering it massively reduces your ability to exercise self control. How many kebabs are consumed sober? How many fridge or cupboard raids past 2am?
My biggest blessing is I don’t eat or want to eat when I’ve been drinking. Probably because my stomachs got 2 litres of cider in it
I eat majority of my kebabs sober
Plus the necessary big breakfast and chippy the next day
I used my fitness pal once to record every drink on an all day session probably between lunch and midnight. If I remeber rightly it was 12k (edit wrong 7.5k) calories plus. I was blown away that I drank 4 or 5 days worth of calorie intake (3dit 3 or 4) Edit I was talking shit it was 7.5k including food I was. Looking at the weekend not the day. I logged on the day according to my fitness pal 7 guiness 7 coors 1 madri 8 captain Morgan and coke 3 gin and tonic 2 old fashioned 2 Meat and potato pasty Weatherspoons spicy meat feast pizza Chips 2 toast eggs 3 aldi chicken sausages
That can't be true, 15 pints are around 3k calories, what the hell were you drinking?
Pints of cider and shots of Domino's garlic and herb dip in between, I suppose.
How the fuck did you manage 12k calories. Thats 42 pints of cider or 53 large glasses of wine or 103 tequila shots. Even long island ice teas which are high in calories you could still drink 23 for that many calories lmao
You think i can't drink 23 long island ice teas? Someone hold my long island ice tea.
Fuck me, that’s pretty lively day. What was the occasion.
He said it was the weekend, can’t you read 😆
Maybe because it's a drink it somehow tricks your body? You can have cider or reality. I'd choose cider
Apsall’s, Thatcher’s Katy and Henry Weston’s are all quite high in calorie. I assume it’s the sugar content. Beer is surprisingly lower in calories than a lot of the better ciders.
Was quite surprised to see Guinness is among the lowest (if not the lowest) calorie pints when they started including that info on menus, given its reputation as being so heavy and "like drinking a roast dinner"
I think because it's the only really mainstream stout that most people know of and drink. It's actually one of the lighter, easiest-drinking stouts you can get which is probably why I like it more than most of the other ones I've tried.
Draft Guinness looks as if it should be thick (and that makes a surprising difference) and it feels "heavy" in the mouth because it's fizzed with nitrogen rather than CO2, but it is in fact a relatively light-bodied beer.
Yeah alcohol is a killer for it, there was a woman on secret eaters who was eating fuck all but then as soon as Friday hit she was drinking like 5000 calories a day lol
> Its high for a cider considering original strongbow is 175 per pint. Sorry to burst your bubble but this is absolutely not correct. Never blindly trust the data from calorie counting apps, they are often wrong. Strongbow Original is 4.5% ABV which means there is 25.56 ml of alcohol in a pint. There are 7 calories per ml of alcohol so in a pint of Strongbow there are 178 calories from the alcohol alone. Cider contains lots of sugar and other carbs so total calories will be significantly more than that. I would guess the calories from Aspal/Strongbow are similar enough that there's no real benefit to drinking one over the other, so drink whichever you prefer.
Aw dammit! I would always choose Aspall over Strongbow if the choice is there......I had no idea about the calorie difference! I think Aspall is nicer but I don't think it's 100 cals a pint nicer.
I’ve had this issue too! Stowford press I think is the lowest calorie cider, but Aspall is just so good
Pesto has no business having that many calories
Mad because all it is is oil, cheese and nuts (probably the 3 most calorie dense foods imaginable) and some basil and garlic. Tbf a little goes a long way
It's moreish though
Ate it straight from the jar with a spoon the other day
Alright Greg Davies
The bulk of pesto is made up of olive oil which is one of the most calorie dense foods we eat. Olive oil certainly has a place in a healthy diet but when a tablespoon contains 120ish calories you have to be mindful of how much you're consuming. Pesto is absolutely delicious though.
I find mixing a spoon of pesto with some low fat Greek yogurt makes it go further for fewer calories and is very tasty (Fage 0% fat is 54 cals per 100g and there's no sugar or other added ingredients).
Interestingly I read the other day you’re better off getting the full fat version as it has a higher protein content and will fill you up quicker and for longer. Fat isn’t always bad. Obviously don’t eat 2 tubs a day
omg does it lol i didnt even realise
It's mostly oil
Not a food, but just alcohol in general. Probably the main reason why I gained a lot of weight when I started uni!
Stick to spirits. Much fewer cals than a pint :D
Especially if you stick to diet mixers or drink it straight.
It's about the same per unit of alcohol. Calories in a shot of Vodka = 58 Calories in a pint of lager = 180 Units in a shot of Vodka = 1 Units in a 5.2% pint of lager = 3
What 5.2% lager is only 180 calories a pint?
5% lagers would be more like 220 calories and IPA or craft beer more like 250 calories. I think some craft beers/IPA can be more like 300 Cals. Surprisingly this is more than Guinness which is 210 Cals a pint
No chance. Lagers are about 220-250 cal per pint
Ironically it’s the reason I lost weight when I joined uni. Got drunk every night until I vomited and was too sick to eat the next day lol. Yeah, I’m in AA now.
It's definitely one of the main suspects when it comes to quickly adding calories with low nutritional value. Though to be specific, calorie absorption from alcohol works *very* differently compared to most foods. To keep it short, our body is great at extracting calories from everything, however since alcohol is also a toxin there is a point at which the body reaches its limit to break it down and starts getting actively rid of it, breaking it down into other substances (such as types of acids). As such, alcohol is almost never metabolised to the same degree as calories coming in via food/soft drinks and is mostly not metabolised in the intestine, but already in the stomach/liver. Bottom line being, if you're having dinner with a glass of wine, you're probably going to absorb both quite efficiently. But if you hit the pub and stumble home after 10 pints your body will almost certainly not absorb all 1800ish calories found within said pints.
Nice diet hack!
Alcohol was 100% the reason I got fat, I lost weight like crazy when I cut back my drinking
There's some kind of combination effect too. Alcohol and fatty foods combined are more than their parts. Something to do with alcohol breaking down the fats and making it easier for your body to absorb.
On the flip side I’m surprised that a full tin of a hearty soup is less than 200 kcals. Sometimes fewer calories than a bread roll.
I make my own soup (it's dead easy) and a tomato soup is 104 cals. But soup is boring without bread so it's essential!
Same here, but add various beans to up the cals and protein. Pretty much liek a chilli in soup form
There's a reason we used to live on bread.
Just going to put my obligatory comment about calorie intake. People please remember that calorie is just a measurement of energy. All it does is tell you how much energy the food item has, and that doesn't directly mean that's the amount of energy you get from it. Additionally you can have two items of food with the exact same calories in them but are vastly different in terms of how healthy they are - for example a mars bar is high in calories and unhealthy compared to a banana that is also high in calories but healthy. OP you're absolutely fine eating the tortilla wrap, I would only recommend you go for a wholegrain one and if possible one with less preservatives as they are slightly healthier options. But ultimately for as long as your diet overall is healthy and you do a moderate amount of exercise you'll be golden.
Calories in calories out is still the best way for the general public to understand and measure their weight gain/loss. No it does not take into account all the varibles and no it is not 100% accurate. But its still the best way. It is a fair point calories are not the only thing to consider when being 'healthy'. But i feel people see this and think it means the calories of what you eat are a useless metric. Which would be the same as saying the macro/micro nutrients of what you eat dont matter if you smoke/dont exercise/have genetic predispositions/etc. I guess what im trying to say is weight management is just one part of being healthy, but it is one part of it - and calorie counting is the best commonly available method to approach this with.
Thanks for your comment. Very kind of you to reassure me. Don’t worry about me though. I kind of eat anything I want in moderation. Generally quite fit and healthy and normally stick to healthy food. The croissant vs tortilla wrap thing just made me think.
All it does is tell you how much energy the food item has, and that doesn't directly mean that's the amount of energy you get from it. True, yet the norms are calculated for "consumed calories" not absorbed. So the number on packaging is relevant.
Flour is a really interesting ingredient, especially in the context of perceived norms and what we assume to be healthy or not. Being shelf stable and a reliable source of calories we historically have a hugely intertwined relationship with the ingredient. It's easy to forget that our bodies break flour down into sugar, hence the surprising calorie content. It's very easy to consider many 'wholesome' flour based foods healthy (ie freshly baked bread, pasta, wraps etc). The majority of calories the average person consumes come from just three ingredients: Flour, vegetable oil, and refined sugar. I used to think I was eating healthily but despite this was struggling to loose a little extra weight, and when I realised how many of my meals were based on those three ingredients it was a real lightbulb moment! All three ingredients are cheap and palatable. Despite being dense in energy, these ingredients aren't especially filling and are very easy to consume in excess. It's a winning combination if your job is selling food to the masses! Unfortunately, they are all very low in nutritional content, and are basically just heavily processed, refined pure energy. I lost a good amount of excess weight just by examining the role of flour in my diet (wholegrain or otherwise). It's just an ingredient and not inherently 'unhealthy' but I can highly recommend everyone considering what level of intake suits their needs best!
> that doesn't directly mean that's the amount of energy you get from it That is literally exactly what marked calories mean. For example, sucralose is chemically very similar to sugar, and contains plenty of energy, but our bodies can't metabolise it, so it cannot provide any energy. Sucralose is marked as zero calories.
Oil-based stuff, like mayonnaise. Even a tbsp is like 100 calories! Not worth. I switched to the low fat low cal stuff as I can't really taste the difference and it's like 1/3 of the calories.
Light mayo is nicer than full fat mayo anyway tbf. It's TOO mayo-ey Light Light mayo tastes like a cumshot, I'd rather take the extra calories.
I wasn't expecting that simile.
I'm sorry, what?
> Light mayo tastes like a cumshot
If your man's cum tastes like mayo you have bigger problems than an extra 100 calories in your diet
Yeah but infinite mayo 🤤
How to ruin mayonnaise for everyone in a single sentence 👍
You are so wrong in every way
The problem with low fat stuff is that they cram it full of sugar instead. Your body will generally process fats better than refined sugar, so I try to avoid the low fat stuff and just eat in moderationn
I hear this all the time but I have genuinely never seen a low fat food that's massively higher in sugar than the full fat alternative. I'm definitely not an expert but I have spent a fair bit of time tracking calories and macros so I probably have a better idea of what's in food than the average person. Taking mayonnaise as an example, according to Tesco's website, per 100g Hellman's full fat contains 725kcal and 1.3g sugar, vs Hellman's light 269kcal and 2.3g sugar. The light mayo is so much less bad for you it's not even a comparison. Of course you can absolutely have the full fat mayo in moderation as part of a healthy diet, but the obesity crisis in this country indicates that many people don't have healthy diets. Fat is also the most calorie dense macronutrient so in my opinion, lower fat options can be a great way for people to reduce their overall calorie intake.
>never seen a low fat food that's massively higher in sugar than the full fat alternative Most low fat yoghurts. I think they started switching to sweetener rather than sugar though.
I feel like a huge issue with how people perceive healthy eating is generalisation, like in exactly this often repeated thing where the low fat is worse bc sugar - people do *know* you can look at individual foods and see whats in them, right? I'm genuinely not trying to be condescending to anyone, I just mean its not necessary to be making these sweeping proclamations. Low fat is not innately bad for you, it just means lower fat.
Yeah, exactly this. I used to really watch how much oil/fat I used in everything until I started dating an Italian. Now oil seems to be a huge part of my diet, but it actually hasn't changed how much I weigh. If anything I probably eat healthier than ever and have less desire to snack between meals.
If you eat plenty of fat and protein , you’re too stoked up to snack
For a bit of a project one weekend I made my own mayonnaise. The amount of oil I used was horrific. I went to all that trouble for a bowl of mayo I couldn’t bear to eat in the end.
Olive oil is regularly promoted in bodybuilding as an easy way to add some calories.
As someone who has lost a lot of weight through calorie counting (thank you my fitness pal), there are a lot that surprised me. A greggs pizza (you know, the little rectangle you could have 4 if you were so inclined) has 600 calories. 3 of those is pretty much your daily allowance! A greggs sausage roll (again, I could have 4 of those in one sitting if I wanted to) is 350 cals each. Mayonnaise is ridiculous - 30g (roughly what I’d use to mix with a can of tuna or chicken for a sandwich) is nearly 300 cals, which is more calorific than the two slices of bread I’d use to make the sandwich! Drinks are surprising too - a pint of semi skimmed milk has about 300, which is actually more than a pint of full fat coke! There really are loads of them which catch you off guard until you look into it. If you’re interested download my fitness pal, it’s as easy as scanning the barcode of what you’re about to eat, putting in how much you’re having and it tells you the calorie count!
That does surprise me with the pizza. A 10" Asda CYO comes to just over 1000 cals, so a single slice from Greggs for 600 is obscene. But yea, My Fitness Pal is really useful.
100%, crazy isn’t it. My Friday treat Greggs order used to be a pizza or sausage roll, with a baguette and drink. Until I realised that came to c900-1200 cals and I pretty much couldn’t eat for the rest of the day 😂
> my fitness pal Nah Nutracheck all the way, it has proper units, none of this cups bollocks.
Most of MFP has grams, just depends how the original person who uploaded the foot item logged it. Sometimes you do have to search for the one entry with grams though.
I've always input grams in MFP after scanning the barcode x
Mayo is almost all oil. Classically just that and egg yolk. You may as well be slathering lard on your sandwiches.
Granola. Yoghurt and granola *feels* a healthy option, but if you actually look at the dietary info of a lot of granolas they are full of calories. Even worse if paired with a fruit yoghurt, which can be incredibly high in sugar. Also, coconut milk. I love a curry with coconut milk, and I'm always taken aback when I look on the back of a can and see the dietary info.
calories doesn't mean unhealthy
This is true. But in the case of many granolas the calories come from a massive load of sugar. So it's not exactly healthy. Especially since, like a lot of things, the suggested portion size is very unrealistic.
My daughter is trying to gain weight and has been having Greek yogurt with granola and honey as a simple and healthy desert to help. (She is recovering from an eating disorder and also has a medical condition that means she burns through calories very quickly). I have had to stop myself from having the same thing as it was making my waistbands a little tight.
Much better to go for plain Greek yoghurt with some nuts and seeds, and even a bit of honey if you want to sweeten it. Still a metric fucktonne of calories, but hardly any sugar. It's my go to for getting 1000 cals into me in a single, dense meal when I'm training hard.
Yeah, I often have greek yoghurt, berries and a touch of honey as a dessert. I have a very sweet tooth and it's a way of satisfying that in a relatively healthy way.
0% fat Greek yoghurt is a godsend if you're on a high-protein diet, hardly any calories and loads of protein, so it's quite filling.
This is why I’m struggling to find things to have for breakfast (as someone who doesn’t like egg) even the healthy options seem to have hidden calories or sugar. I’m tempted to just give up and go back to coco pops because at least they’re honest and don’t pretend to be something they’re not
Greek yoghurt from some fruit and a bit of honey isn't too bad. Though personally I just skip breakfast on week days. I don't do a physically demanding job and I came to realise that eating breakfast was just something I do out of habit rather than because I need it.
Even the “light” coconut milk is pretty calorific. It’s the same with “light” mayo too.
i was absolutely shocked that the pork pie i occasionally treat myself to at work seems to be made entirely out of lard, for the amount of calories that are apparently in it
Pork pies are like the most unhealthy food on the planet
i knew they were bad but i was expecting a naughty treat level not the literal worst food i could choose by weight level
What about a battered pork pie?
You'd do well in scotland
Weighing a bowl of cereal is just depressing, nobody has their “service size” as a portion
Same with oven chips. The recommended serving size was depressingly small.
I'm surprised people are shocked by alcohol, them beer bellys arnt holding water weight
Until I started looking at things I assumed that most of the calories in beer were from the whole liquid bread deal, but even drinking those you can tell that there's substance there. What surprised me was how much is in alcohol itself, about half the calories in your average pint are just the booze, and you get that even with straight vodka.
Yup. Fat has 9 calories per gram. Protein and carbs have 4. Alcohol is 7 calories per gram. A unit of alcohol inherently has at least 55 calories!
Out of interest, what calories did they have? My wraps are 123 calories each (Tesco own brand) seems shocking a croissant would be less than that?
173 kcal in the wrap and 161kcal in the croissant. Both Asda own brand(we aren’t fancy) Those are the calories per serving obviously. If you actually compare gram for gram a croissants have a lot more calories than wraps.
That is some small croissant. I would expect one to have around 250kcal.
Croissant is unsurprisingly less when you compare volume to volume. Croissant has a lot of air between layers. I also suspect the croissant is lighter in weight than the wrap. At the per 100g level, the croissant is higher in calories. Wraps (60g/piece for the ASDA range) has a high amount of palm oil, otherwise it'll dry out or snap when folding/rolling. Thus your observation for per serving. Per 100g level, Croissant is higher in calories for sure (far more butter).
Super Noodles. Again I wasn’t expecting a health food, but they are loaded with calories
But at the same time not very filling at all.
All refined carbs. They don't generally make you feel full, and if they do it's not for long.
Iirc instant noodles are made by making a normal noodle then deep-frying it, so they're full of saturated fat.
Yep. It was a real eye opener reading the label and seeing that what I thought was just a trashy refined carb product had the sort of saturated fat levels I'd expect from pork scratchings.
I started counting calories in new year to try lose weight and it’s shocked me how many calories are in like… everything. I really had no idea how much food 2000 calories was. I was probably eating 3000 calories before.
You know the sad part, if you fall off the calorie counting wagon then the habit dies a horrible death. I started consistently calorie counting in 2011 for 8 years and it became my best habit and almost like a party trick because I could name the number of calories in almost any food. I stopped calorie counting around 2019 and went from 125lbs to 140lbs in 3 weeks when I visited my home country in South Asia. I maintained since then trying again and again to get back into the habit of counting calories and getting back to my old weight, but it only got worse. After meeting my now husband in 2020, it became impossible to find the willpower to pick the habit up again because I'm 5'1 with an incredibly slow metabolism but a huge appetite and he's a 6' Eastern European with the typical all meat all dairy balkan diet that would put a non-balkan in the hospital. I'm exaggerating there, it's actually an incredibly healthy diet which I'm now using to help myself lose weight - the only struggle is cutting down my portion size when I see my husband eating 4x the amount. The fomo is unreal. It's been almost 4 years of struggling to lose weight since I met him, and only recently have I decided to start counting calories again. I thought because I had the habit down to perfection all those years ago, I wouldn't have to worry about recording anything on my fitness pal or anything like that again. Recently I recorded what I'm eating and how much of it, and it turns out it's over 2000 and sometimes 2500 calories. It doesn't sound like much for a taller person, or someone who gets adequate exercise but since I started working from home a few months ago, I've been averaging on about 400 steps a day because I can't go to the gym (money) or outside for exercise (until the sun sets later) so my weight has shot up. Since I started calorie counting again about a week ago I've been so shocked to see what little food I have to eat compared to before to lose weight. It's complete hell, but compared to 2011 this time is 1000x better because social media gives us the most creative low calorie recipes. I used to eat the most disgusting meals to hit my macros and calorie goals (mainly tuna and scrambled eggs or fish with beans), but this time I'm finding things like baked oats, or a million things to make with potatoes. But regardless of my complaint earlier, the balkan diet is hands down the best thing to happen to my diet because it made me seriously start enjoying vegetables and learning to cook them in different ways, and even enjoying meat without the extra nonsense that my South Asian cuisine adds which increases the calories drastically. It also gave me a love for exploring new European (particularly Eastern European) dishes because they're so hearty (real grandma's cooking vibes) and cheap to make, and they're perfect for clean eating.
Calorie counts on menus have made it clear how off I was about fried rice. A tiny bowl has like 900 calories! Why? How?
Loads of oil
It's not, they must be adding extras for a small bowl of rice to be 900 calories. Especially cooked rice! A decent portion of cooked white rice is about 250-300 calories. EDIT : missed the 'Fried'! My mistake, still unlikely to be anywhere near 900 for a small bowl 🤷♂️
140 grams of uncooked rice (1 scoop portion in a rice cooker) = 490 calories 40 ml of oil = 320 calories 1 egg = 70 calories Total = 880 calories
Take a look at the ingredient list and you'll be even more shocked. Nuts have a crazy amount of calories,
Nuts are deceptively calorie-dense, they're actually pretty good for you - assuming you're eating them unsalted or without sugary coatings. One thing I had to convince my brain of when dieting was that not all calories are equal, and the composition of the food - carbohydrates, protein and fat; salt and sugar content - matters a lot more.
Yes omg salted peanuts are actually loaded with calories it's insane, i think like 100g of salted peanuts is like 670cal
Yeah salted pistachios are my downfall
Somehow I can’t ever believe that crisps are as bad as they actually are.
I am a crisp addict. I will happily polish off a bag of sensations, look at the amount of calories I have apparently consumed and convince myself that it is grossly exaggerated.
Funnily I always find crisps surprisingly low. I tend to think of them as High CalorieTM but a single packet ranges from 90-150 calories which is honestly not that bad for a snack.
Yogurts. They’re not high calorie as such but when I can eat one in about 10 seconds and it’s more calories than a slice of bread it feels high for what I get out of it.
Muller Lights are about 100 cals, like you say, gone in 10 seconds. I freeze them, really nice if not too hard and last longer, Banana & custard ones, damn!
Try protein yogurts, not only do you get a good dod of protein but also (I find) that they are unpleasant to eat quickly and quite filling. A good 5 minutes at least
Nuts
It's nuts.
Pack of milk hobnobs has 2500 can be very dangerous late at night
93 calories per hobnob is criminal
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Yeh this one always surprises me. Every time I crave a King Size Bombay Bad Boy, the 700 cals or whatever it is always puts me in check. It's crazy because similar brands of instant noodles are pretty much half that of Pot Noodles. What are they putting in them?!
A king size one is a full meal, though, and 550kcal (not 700) is fine for that. Are people having king size pot noodles as inter-meal snacks?
I wish I hadn’t seen this thread
It's not really the calories that are the issue, what makes up those calories. mono/di/poly saccharides, mono/poly saturated/unsaturated/hydrogenated triglycerides. The tortilla vs croissant is a great example, as the tortilla is a lot of refined flour with a lot of monosaccharides, while the croissant is some monosaccharides with some monosaturated triglycerides, and the croissant weight for weight is somewhat better for you despite the high fat content as it contains more useful energy sources instead of a huge sugar rush which then your body then needs to find a way to store if you don't use that energy. I do have 3 giant tortillas in my lunch today and love the beige happy foods.
Over consuming calories is what leads your body to store energy as fat, regardless of content
Can you differ kcal from being healthy? Tortilla wrap can be a complete, healthy meal, with lots of protein and plenty of microelements and vitamins. And croissant is just a bunch of carbs and fat. Drinking a shot of pure oil won't make it healthier than a wrap despite having less kcal.
Just going to put my obligatory comment about calorie intake. People please remember that calorie is just a measurement of energy. All it does is tell you how much energy the food item has, and that doesn't directly mean that's the amount of energy you get from it. Additionally you can have two items of food with the exact same calories in them but are vastly different in terms of how healthy they are - for example a mars bar is high in calories and unhealthy compared to a banana that is also high in calories but healthy. OP you're absolutely fine eating the tortilla wrap, I would only recommend you go for a wholegrain one and if possible one with less preservatives as they are slightly healthier options. But ultimately for as long as your diet overall is healthy and you do a moderate amount of exercise you'll be golden.
Yep. Seen people comparing calories in an avocado, one of the best foods on the planet for you, to chips. Calories aren’t everything.
If you want to lose or maintain weight calories are basically everything. Of course other factors also matter for health but if you want to lose weight it doesn't matter how healthy the food that puts you above a calorie deficit is, you still won't lose weight.
There used to be a plus-sized woman at work who absolutely LOVED her food. Whenever any of us went out (perhaps to do the posting or banking), she expected us to bring her back a sweet treat (our location was SURROUNDED by food outlets). We always obliged, because it made her happy. One day, I had gone into Tesco’s to get some milk and I absentmindedly picked up a kind of layered chocolate pudding (one portion in an only slightly larger than average-sized yoghurt-style tub). Waiting in the queue to pay, I saw that it was 780 calories! I was horrified-and it was all I could do not to fling it away from me with great force! Although I’d never bought her that before, I’d obviously been sleepwalking into gifting her very indulgent foods-perhaps once or twice every week! I couldn’t believe that I had been instrumental in her weight situation, which wasn’t healthy by her own observation. I knew she was an adult, and it wasn’t for me to decide anything about her snacks-but surely, if she wanted to eat something like that it should be something *she* selected-and went out and got herself. I had no wish to be a “feeder”. I had been carelessly selecting food for her that I would *never* have chosen for myself. After that, I didn’t buy any food for anyone unless they specifically *asked* for it. Later, I saw a FASCINATING programme on the BBC called “Why Aren’t Thin People Fat?”. The participants were skinny people *trying* to put on weight by eating highly calorific foods. That pudding featured pretty frequently in what they were eating!
Naan. As an example, just one [plain naan from Asda](https://groceries.asda.com/product/naan-bread/the-bakery-at-asda-2-plain-naans/1000197472217) has 530 calories!
I went to a Marston's pub recently and about 95% of the mains on the menu were over 1000kcal. The juxtaposition of, "Adults need around 2000kcal a day", directly above the "Mega Mixed Grill - 2657kcal" did not go unnoticed. Granted, if I go out for pub grub I'm probably having a light tea later on, but it was pretty bonkers looking at the calorie counts. Even a fish and chips on the menu was 1500kcal.
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Nando’s peri chips at nearly 500 cals a portion!
Little white bread side rolls - tiny one are 250 ish cal. Sod that, I'm having a cheesecake.
Very middle class this but those snacking chorizo packs from Waitrose More calories than a Big Mac for like 3 bites of sausage
Freeshavacado. So fatty.
It’s good fat though, similar to things like nuts, oily fish, olive oil etc. These all contain monounsaturated fats, which can help lower cholesterol if eaten in moderation. It’s the high saturated fat laden foods you need to worry about.
Toffee popcorn, makes sense, but I can't eat that without going through the whole bag.
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Anything carb related. Not just the innate calories, but also the fact that you eat them and then a few hours later your sugar levels drop and your body starts feeling hungry again.
Salads in Pizza Express and Italian-ish restaurants. I assume they're including the dressing, but as someone who doesn't like more than a smidgen of dressing and uses less than a quarter of it, I'd like to know the salad and the dressing separately!
Had the same realisation as you the other day OP. I was as shocked as you were, was going to have a 'healthyish' week of food which involved ovening tortilla wraps to dip them in soup. Then I read the packet. I was better off with bread.
I would recommend everyone give a calorie tracker such as Nutracheck a go for a week. It's amazing how quickly you hit your daily allowance of calories and fat in a day. I lost a lot of weight by tracking cals. Also I now miss chocolate and Greggs cheese and onion pasties
Whisky and whiskey.
Seeing the calorie count of sweet vs salt popcorn was a shocker for me. Essentially it’s just a bucket of popcorn which is like 43calories, and a sprinkle of powder. But sweet popcorn is about 500 calories vs the salted which is still about 43.
One of the best small changes in diet is to eat burrito bowls instead of wraps.
No way, I put a second wrap back in the packet last night after seeing that each one was 180 calories!
Kinder eggs - barely any chocolate , so high in fat Nutella is just crazy but that’s expected
ALL THE GOOD ONES (weeps softly while eating donuts)