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Calorie Counting
| Tue, 02-15-2005 - 11:49am |
If you do a quick guess of calories in food, do you usually underestimate, overestimate or are you pretty much right on?
| Tue, 02-15-2005 - 11:49am |
If you do a quick guess of calories in food, do you usually underestimate, overestimate or are you pretty much right on?
i don't really do it. i don't think i'm good at it.
when i calorie count, i weigh the food and use nutritional guides to figure it out (like fitday). or, of course, read the label if it's a packaged food.
I use fitday.com to track my calories. Now I do it probably about once a week, because I seem to eat just about the same things all week. I think it is pretty accurate, but I bet I underestimate what I eat by about 100-200 calories a day.
Like if I have a spoonful of peanut butter before I am running out of the house to the gym, I bet I have more than 2 tablespoons that I think I have.
I'm way off.
I am so used to looking at fat and carbs, that I never check the calories. I'm on the Zone Diet and that is about a 1200 calories/day diet. Since I've been on this diet, when I buy things I mainly look at the carbs and protein. I just figure if I'm keeping up with the diet, I know how many calories I'm eating each day.
Laura