January 07, 2007

What does 200 calories look like? Portions of various foods that make up 200 calories; everything from celery to bagels to butter. Photo heavy, via more than one place.
  • wow, that's really interesting, and some things are surprising. as someone who just re-dedicated myself to the diet-n-excercise path for the new year (I've lost 4 pounds so far--woohoo!) I appreciate this graphic and intuitive reminder of why it IS a bad idea to eat a handful of herseys kisses in the middle of the afternoon!
  • The phood photos are gorgeous. The sliced kiwis just leap off the screen!
  • Measuring foodstuffs is way too much work. Someone please invent 200 calories in tablet form that I can buy at my local pharmacy. Make sure the tablets come in different flavors such as bacon, seaweed and cockpunch.
  • Food is so wonderful. So cunning and deceptive. Also, why eat a whole bowl of ketchup? Anyway, good on you for the 4 pounds. I lost ten during an excessive flirtation with good health-no white food, no sugar, lots of water, lots of salmon and other high protein foods that burn fat quickly. Also, no vodka and tangerine juice, as the body tends to metabolize booze before anything else. I was an amazing, pedantic bore during the whole thing. Everyone hated me but I lost the weight and kept it off. Shrimp, fleur-de-sel, salads, exotic olive oils and red wine keeps me at the desired weight. And running like hell on a treadmill. Better with loud rock and roll. So now I'm thin and deaf. No one seems to notice the deaf part.
  • Damn, that Bailey's photo is depressing.....
  • oh Darshon, I felt the same!! I LOOOOOVEEE bailey's and jebus it is caloric :( in general the whole boozehound lifestyle != the skinny monkey...
  • I loved Baileys up until a month ago... for some reason sugary alcohol beverages now seem icky to me. I don't know what's brought that on. Back to beer.
  • Well that was interesting. One a slightly different tangent some Japanese peeps have just developed a machine for measuring the calories in food.
  • I had no idea a glass of balsamic vinegar was so many calories. Guess I should stop having vinegar in my coffee and switch to milk instead.
  • Bailey's is how I gained the 10 pounds. And Godiva Raspberry and White Chocolate ice cream.
  • This is pretty cool. A little bit of information can go a long way to changing one's eating habits. One ounce of butter equals 4 lbs of celery! Holy jumping! What gets me is they still continue every year at Christmas time to publish those crazy recipes in the paper, the ones that say start with 1 cup of butter. One cup! Criminy! I would like them to change it so that it reads "One cup butter or 64 lbs of celery".
  • Yes! They pictured the correct type of Smarties, not the Canadian one! *thumbs nose out window*
  • They have the same candy up here, but they call them Rockets. As if! Everybody knoe that Smarties is the children's aspirin-like candy pills that make you SMART!
  • Tell us about it, Ms. knoe-it-all.
  • *hands Koko a Dum-Dum*
  • Cat fight in aisle 13501!
  • *hands Ralph a sticky handful of Runts*
  • I was surprised at how many froot loops fit inside 200 calories.
  • But how much beer is 200 calories?
  • Way off topic here, but since we've already travelled through cockpunch, smarties and dum-dums, I think it too late to push the derail button. I was googling for the Canadian candy called Rockets that Ms. Koko was eluding to upthread, and came upon this link that just screams "Post Me!'. Zoooom! Calories in the sky!
  • Celery anyone?
  • in general the whole boozehound lifestyle != the skinny monkey... Start running. If you burn it, you can eat pretty much whatever you want (though you need to be smart about it, of course). I drink plenty of bourbon, and since I started running, the six-pack is coming in nicely. I did cut back on the beer, but I don't really miss it, what with all the damn bourbon. Or you can just do what this guy did.
  • I wish running worked for me. Unfortunately, as is the equation for many women, wide hips + running = knee injury. I've taken up swimming for the new year, so we'll see how that goes. Was anyone else surprised by the caloric content of almonds and mixed nuts? Maybe that's why they have them in bars - to offset the alcohol people are drinking. And nice link, Ralph.
  • I am doing the Karnazes thing one step at a time: right now it is drinking vodka at four am and flirting with pretty women. I figure I'll start running in about three more months, or when their husbands show up (whatever comes first).
  • After years for being "husky" "a big guy" and then progressing to a "fat ass", I decided to lose some weight. After trying everything under the sun... Everything .... I finally fell upon the one thing that works (for me). It's simple and the best part is... you don't have to buy a book, follow some strict calorie diet.. or restrict your diet to veggies and tofu. This is it. No sugar. No corn syrup. No fruit. No diet soda. That's it. Eat anything else you want. As much as you want. Whenever you want. Take vitamins to offset the lack of C in your diet. No fucking sugar. Sugar is the devil. Corn syrup is his inbred half cousin. I'm 6'3" and was 310 pounds (egad) I'm down to 200 and feel better than I ever have in my life. I did it by cutting out sugar . The first four weeks of the diet... well you won't see any changes. Then, you really notice it. You realize how addicted to sugar you were. Your hunger becomes a part of ... well, being hungry... rather than something that controls you. Try it. It works. (And MCT is dead on with the bourbon thing)
  • Corn syrup comes straight from Satan's balls, I'm convinced of it. Evil stuff.
  • And yentruoc, have you seen an expert about the knee thing? Often times joint pain can be cured with the right gear, like shoes for overpronation (which I use) or stablizers to keep your IT band in place when you run.
  • Gosh Argh well done! If anyone needs motivation read this story. Dude lost over 300lbs through sensible eating and moderate exercise.
  • Arrrrrrrggghh! (ah, no, not you, that was a scream of frustration) Damn addicting sugar. I just ate three 1" homemade peanut butter cookies. An old person horse's metabolism sucks.
  • Bravo, argh. Well done.
  • Sugar free bananas to Argh! > Celery anyone? I wonder if celery is a negative energy food. Surely the exertion required to eat it (all that chewing!) and digest it exceeds the energy extracted? I've just realized my olive oil and balsamic vinegar salad dressing contains more calories than the salad... :-(
  • Argh, why no diet soda???
  • Needs to establish a metric for comparison. Something like weight or volume(size). The photos mean very little otherwise. Has Chyren been invited back yet? I liked him, though some of you may not have. I mean how bland do you want this place to be? Singaporean totalitarian blandity is nice 'n' all but is that what you want? All vanilla all the time, like Amish village life. In jokes and very little else? Tracicle can moderate how she wants to, but to moderate against passion is to worship boredom.
  • I too am missing my RDA of vitamin Chy; however, such concerns are more suited to the MofiLog, methinks!
  • 48g hardtack (Sailor Boy Pilot Bread) = 200 Kcal. Just the thing when you need a couple thousand easily digestible spare calories on hand. And as a semi-ex-runner, I counsel care to all you spry young things just getting into it. I'll quote my own birthday toast to my father on his 65th: "...and he was my first running coach, giving me a gift that I'll cherish all my life: Achilles tendonosis and plantar fasciitis." Watch those joints, and remember to warm up and cool down after every run. Don't skip the cool down stretching part. *hobbles back to rocking chair*
  • > Needs to establish a metric for comparison. Something like weight or volume(size). The photos mean very little otherwise. Like where underneath the picture it says: Celery 1425 grams = 200 calories Mini Peppers 740 grams = 200 calories ...?
  • Needs to establish a metric for comparison. Something like weight or volume ... The photos mean very little otherwise. Has Chyren more than 200 calories? That's a good question, randomaction. I'd say if you eat the brain, you'd get a good 300, maybe 350 calories a mouthful. But if you really want some calorific density, you wanna fry up the ol' anus - maybe give it a little soy sauce. Of course, then you'd be a goddam buttmuncher.
  • "I was surprised at how many froot loops fit inside 200 calories" Yeah, but if you wanna pour that nice glass o'milk over 'em, you're up to 400.
  • What does two hundred calories look like? Well, the close up/abstracted images of food stuffs fail to answer the question. 200 calories of watercress looks a lot larger than 200 calories of olive oil. So by metric I was thinking something with a common standard volume and weight in all the photos. Like a brick. <- only that a brick would be a crappy idea as it's much to large and heavy. Perhaps... Oh god I don't know, like you see photos in CSI with measuring tapes in them to give a sense of scale? Only with mass as well. What's wrong with a little butt munching Mr kid? Try it without soy sauce, it's less salty.
  • I'm gonna try once more: Argh, why no diet soda??? being ignored by Argh is so...lonely
  • sorry about the Chy stuff. i didn't know him at all, but i liked him. And the 'your out' stuff seemed heavy. But I don't get all the social/political/historical stuff around here. First they came for Chyren but I ain't Chy, then they came for galmmajamma etc. So I guess I aint so sorry after all. Wow this started out as an apology, then working through it with my mind I find I'm right. Your wrong and something amazing that I forgot. Something to do with neutrino mitigation in fusion reactors, that also simplified the process precipitating fusion itself. Buggger, I can't believe I forgot that, it could have solved the calorie crisis. Though I may be wrong. As I seemed to have polluted this thread somewhat I'll put myself on a timeout, and leave you in peace.
  • Phew - I thought he'd never leave. Diet soda and weight gain.
  • Sorry Ralph, I went to that "outside" place. It's a scary and painful place that outside is.. I think I'll avoid it. Ahhh the warm and fuzzy internets.. home sweet goatse home... After I lost the weight, a friend of mine tried the diet... she was having less success than I did... We went over what she was eating and the only thing that *could have* been screwing things up was the diet soda (or "pop" as we say here in the midwest). She stopped drinking the diet crapola and... she lost 45 pounds in about 5 months time. I'm telling you... this works. Every single person (and I mean every single person) who tries it... loses weight and feels better. It's simple and it's effective.
  • Congratulations, Argh!
  • Argh, does that mean no bread, because there is sugar in it? Or just no food that is mostly sugar, like ice cream or flavored yougurt?
  • Ice cream is out. Yogurt is out. Bread is fine. This isn't Atkins. I found that if I skipped the carbs (breads) I felt like crap. The trick is to avoid all the corn syrup, fruit, sugar and artificial sweeteners. You're basically forcing your body to burn off the fat that is stored up by depriving it of the sugars. It's like atkins but reality based. Bread is your friend.. but You have to realize what they make the bread with. Some commercial breads have a ton of sugar added to them. I eat at Panera Bread all the time (free wifi). What I don't eat are the muffins or coffee cakes. Bagels - sandwiches - no problem. You really have to think of sugar as the enemy because...well it is. Your body wasn't made to be eating snickers bars. It's not what you were designed for. It's like pouring sand into an engine instead of oil. You eat crap and you'll feel like crap..and then eventually, look like crap. The trick is to find the hidden sugars and avoid them. It's everywhere. Most commercial sausage has a ton of corn syrup added to it. Doritos have corn syrup while regular potato chips do not. The best part of this is you eat when you're hungry. After a month of no sugar, you'll find that hunger becomes a good thing rather than an enemy.
  • Jesus H Christ, I feel like an Amway salesman.
  • Monkeyfilter: Like Atkins but reality based
  • I would agree with Argh's hate-on for sugar (from a weight loss standpoint anyway; I do loves me some sugar), but would add that from a health standpoint, it's really only the refined sugars, corn syrup and glucose/fructose you should avoid like the sweet, sweet poisons they are. Natural sugars found in fruits are fine; and if you're cutting out fruit for weight loss, bulk up on veggies! Yer body needs them nat'ral fibers to keep [regular].
  • More veges, more water, fewer processed foods. Buy everything in the most basic form you can and cook from scratch, avoiding prepackaged meals and flavourings. Things taste better then, too. We tried that Australian protein-rich diet, which is based on the theory that protein makes you feel fuller. The recipes call for lots of grilled fish, steak, red meat in general, which basically meant that we were giving meals more thought and that in turn meant we were eating better because we weren't throwing together a quick dinner of fried meat and pasta. So the diet works but on a different principle than that intended. (Now if I could stop eating so much chocolate after the kids go to bed...)
  • Not to mention the fact that most procesed and pre-packaged foods contain loads of sugar and trans fats. You might as well eat GLASS.
  • Ich kann Glas essen, es verletzt mir nicht.
  • Das tut Ihnen nicht weh!
  • Speak American you goddamn Frenchies.
  • I gotcher glucose/fructose right here, baby. And also agree with what Argh, et. al. said, although my theory, *ahem* which is mine and also what it is too: is that Diet Soda (tm) has that 35mg of caffiene which is just enough that one or two of them makes one rumbly in the tumbly, a.k.a. munchy. Throw in a desk job and some snacks and c'est ca, extra weight. Don't touch my caffiene though. I SAID DON'T TOUCH IT!! precioussss
  • Save that precious glucose and fructose for Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Everybody wins that way. *hic*
  • They fail to take into account running from the cops.
  • ok, so mr medusa & I are HEROICALLY on day 3 of "no drinking til xmas" for weight-loss and general lets-not-be-alcoholics purposes. I'm really hopeful we'll make it to the weekend... however, I have to say that I do, and have traditionally, consumed WAYYY less sugar than the average american, not because I am so noble, but because I dont have much of a sweet tooth. I almost never drink soda, or eat much sweets, nor do I eat fast food, also very little processed food. really my only serious sugar is...alcohol. so what am I supposed to do? not eat CHEESE or something? is losing those 10-15 pounds of vanity weight worth a life devoid of it's creamy goodness????? just ranting, feel free to ignore do not feed cheese
  • *slips a bit of cheddar under the door*
  • mmmmmmmmmmm, cheese!
  • My large glass of wine last night was the caloric equivalent of a doughnut. I'm still better off, though, because I hate doughnuts.