Originally Posted by
jschristian44
i am actually going to look at a good deal bike tomorrow. hopefully everything will turn out good. i cant wait. anyways, to the person that said to actually count calories and youd be suprised, man you are right. i bought a package of the twizzler's niblets the other day and looked at it. it said like 140 per serving and like 5 servings per package. that is like 800 calories just for that one package of twizzler's niblets. it really shocked me to see how much calories are in candy. saw a 3 cupcake package and it was like 400 calories. so right there if i ate those 2 things, id have 1200 for the day already. thats how much i should intake plus my exercise just to lose weight. at this rate i will be stuck at my current weight forever.
Exactly right ... you may think you're not eating that much, but a lot of foods have a lot more calories than you think.
And really watch those serving sizes. That's one of my pet peeves with food companies, although I think they are getting a bit better. Sometimes you'll buy something which you might think is one serving, but when you look at it, it's actually 2 or more servings, but they only show the calories for one serving, so you have to calculate what it would be for the whole thing.
One product line you have to really watch is sugared soft drinks. It used to be that one 600 ml bottle of coke was actually something like 2.2 servings, and you had to do a calculation to figure out how many calories were in the whole bottle. But who buys a small bottle of coke and just drinks one "serving"?? I think they may have changed it so that they list the calories per bottle now, but I'm not sure .... it's been a long time since I've looked.
If you want to lose weight ... reduce or cut out the sweet stuff. Have a piece of fruit or bowl of veggies instead.