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Small food trend
Jane,
First of all, congrats on the spectacular weight loss!!! Re the portion sizes. Yesterday my sweetie and I went out for dinner. Afterwards we stopped at our favorite coffee place and he bought 1 large chocolate chip cookie which he brought home in a bag. It looked pretty big, so out of curiousity, I weighed it.. It came in at almost 7 ounces! I put that weight in my diet software and found that ONE of these cookies weighs in at 800 calories and over 100 gms of carbs. Eight hundred calories!!! And you know people eat them and think "I didn't really go off my diet, I only had one cookie." You do start understanding why you see so many fat people walking around, though. It isn't at all hard to eat 3,000 or more calories a day if you eat out. -- Jenny 168.5/137 Low Carb 9/1998 - 8/2001 and 11/10/02 - Now http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean How to calculate your need for protein * How much people really lose each month * Water Weight Gain & Loss * The "Two Gram Cure" for Hunger Cravings * Characteristics of Successful Dieters * Indispensible Low Carb Treats * Should You Count that Low Impact Carb? * Curing Ketobreath * Exercise Starting from Zero * NEW! Do Starch Blockers Work? "Jane Lumley" wrote in message ... In article , krtyrrell writes Interestingly enough I was just thinking about this. I made cookies for my family /daycare kids.. and I was thinking about the yield of my recipe. It's a very old one.. and it claims that you should average 4 dozen cookies. I Seldom got more than 2 dozens prior to LC. so this last time I made them.. I aimed to get the 4 dozen.. The cookies were about the size of a tablespoon when cooked. Since when did they have to be the size of a large mouthed glass ? like I had previously been making them. So true! Same with cupcakes, or fairy cakes as we call them - I used to fill up muffin tins. Now I make the number my ancient cookbook says they SHOULD make instead of doubling quantities to get that number. And look at the VAST sizes of coffees. Mugs are much bigger than cups, and then there's cappuccino grande! Venti! When I was young, it was just a cup size of cappuccino, and corresponding amounts of milk and sweetening. And Starbucks biscuits, in packs of two or even four, where one digestive used to be enough. I know the idea might be to share them, but most people want to pick their own flavour. And, yes, our vast plates. one key thing for me is that I never use dinner plates now. Crisps, too - when I was a kid a crisp packet only had about ten crisps in it. -- Jane Lumley 179/141/140 |
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Jenny wrote:
Jane, First of all, congrats on the spectacular weight loss!!! Re the portion sizes. Yesterday my sweetie and I went out for dinner. Afterwards we stopped at our favorite coffee place and he bought 1 large chocolate chip cookie which he brought home in a bag. It looked pretty big, so out of curiousity, I weighed it.. It came in at almost 7 ounces! I put that weight in my diet software and found that ONE of these cookies weighs in at 800 calories and over 100 gms of carbs. Eight hundred calories!!! And you know people eat them and think "I didn't really go off my diet, I only had one cookie." You do start understanding why you see so many fat people walking around, though. It isn't at all hard to eat 3,000 or more calories a day if you eat out. -- Jenny You can actually find the precise nutritional info online for a lot of that junk. Well, precise inasmuch as the cookies etc. weigh exactly the same amount, which they don't. How ould you just weight the cookie and come out with their nutritional content? You wouldn't know the exact ratios of the ingredients, would you? -- Jean B., 12 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
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