So, how do you keep track of the calories and does it get easier to monitor the longer you do it?

note- I'm not planning on cutting my calories that drastically.  I'm simply curious.  

Post edited at 9:56 am on Oct. 7, 2008 by breakapart

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If you are on a low calorie diet, say around 700 cals, do you find it difficult to monitor your intake and stay within your selected range? It seems like it would be difficult to know just how many calories you are actually taking in, especially when eating "homemade" foods, such as a salad or a bowl of homemade soup.

So, how do you keep track of the calories and does it get easier to monitor the longer you do it?

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Things that are "homemade" have the same ingredients as those made in a factory. Some if not most homemade food is healthier than the store-bought imitation because your homemade food hasn't been genetically modified.

For example, if your mom makes cookies from scratch, that means all the ingredients she uses to make the cookies like flour, eggs and sugar - all have calories. They can easily be found online. (:

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Holy fuck.
Can you LIVE off of 700 calories a day...?

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I used to be able to live off of about 500 before the hypoglycemia.
Low-calorie diets aren't always the way to go.  The less you eat, the more your body will hang onto those calories.  It's not very good for your metabolism either.
It's not that hard to know if a food you're eating is high- or low-calorie, but monitoring never gets any easier.

That's why it's best to just develop healthy eating habits instead of "dieting."

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Holy fuck.
Can you LIVE off of 700 calories a day...?

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yes, but not for a long period of time

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Quote: from breakapart at 10:56 am on Oct. 7, 2008

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If you are on a low calorie diet, say around 700 cals, do you find it difficult to monitor your intake and stay within your selected range?  It seems like it would be difficult to know just how many calories you are actually taking in, especially when eating "homemade" foods, such as a salad or a bowl of homemade soup.    

 So, how do you keep track of the calories and does it get easier to monitor the longer you do it?

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Things that are "homemade" have the same ingredients as those made in a factory. Some if not most homemade food is healthier than the store-bought imitation because your homemade food hasn't been genetically modified.

For example, if your mom makes cookies from scratch, that means all the ingredients she uses to make the cookies like flour, eggs and sugar - all have calories. They can easily be found online. (:

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yes, but isnt that a pain in the ass?  The most you could do is estimate since you dont exactly how much of what ingredient ends up in each serving of whatever you made.  

I did find a very extensive list that has the caloric content of many foods, but my god, i dont want to have to look at that thing every time I eat a dinner that my mom made.  

Post edited at 4:34 pm on Oct. 7, 2008 by peri

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(This is from my day)I just look at every nutrition facts(labels) on foods. I may drink one soda a day and that's about 140 calories just that.. A diet one has like half of that I think. Then I take for lunch like a gronala bar which has about 60 colories(i'm guessing) with a tea, and together that's about 180 calories for lunch. For breakfast I eat an egg I don't thin that has any calories. Then for dinner I eat whatever and just total up the calories. Then I go walking/jogging for about an hour and burn hopefully half of it off and thats what I do. It's worked so far. 20 pounds lossed now doing this!

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The LEAST amount of calories any granola bar will have is around 80-100, and those are the HEALTHIEST varieties. Unsweetened tea actually has 0 calories. And a large egg, yolk included, can have up to 80 calories, but egg whites alone have 20 or less.

400 is hard

Eggs have 20 calories for the whites... 80-100 in yolk