*boggle*

[thistlechaser]

My god. And under "Reasons to check things BEFORE you eat them":

I didn't eat much of anything yesterday, so around noon today I was starving. I don't like Pizza Hut and I almost never order from them, but it was cold and I didn't want to go out, so I did. I tried to be "reasonable" in what I ordered: A personal pan pizza and an order (6 pieces) of breadsticks. Unfortunately that didn't meet the minimum for delivery, so I added another order of breadsticks (figuring I'd eat them for dinner tonight or tomorrow or something.)

I ate the personal pizza and one order of breadsticks for lunch, and the second order for dinner just now. Once finished, I wondered what the calories of this stuff would work out to, so I wandered over to pizzahut.com to check.

One single breadstick has 270 calories and 12% of the fat you should have in a day.

My god. 3880 calories for the two orders of breadsticks and the personal pizza. 283% of the sodium you should have in a day. 181% of the fat. I could pull my hair out. 3880 calories! For "food" that tastes like crap! (I try to stick to under 1200 calories a day, so I've eaten more than two day's worth... almost three day's of calories.) I could cry.

I had intended to include "how can companies get away with selling such horrible-for-you food like this", but this is my own fault. I should have checked FIRST.

270 calories in one single breadstick. I try to keep my MEALS to 300-400 calories. I swear, I will never, ever, ever go to Pizza Hut again.

Comments

Re: It will be OK!

[linmayu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with Alessar on the calories thing. I always thought 1200/day was, like, the absolute minimum you can do on a weight loss program without a doctor's guidance. As for the "go crazy and eat lots of food once in a while" plan, there's a program that I tried for a bit called Body-For-Life which used a similar philosophy: basically, 6 days a week you kept to a very strict 1200-calorie-a-day regimen, and the 7th day you ate whatever the fuck you wanted. There was a workout program to go along with it. The people who actually stuck with the program for 12 weeks made absolutely *amazing* transformations to their bodies. (I didn't really make any amazing changes because I didn't last even 2 weeks. >_<)

Re: It will be OK!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

There's some math thingie you can do to find out how many calories you burn a day just to live, then you need to eat less than that to lose weight. Because of my sloth-like lifestyle, I burn very few, so I need to take in less. (I think it worked out to me needing 1500/day, but don't hold me to that number. I know on most days I'm not under my number by very much.) If I didn't spend my life behind a desk, 1200 probably would be too low!

Re: It will be OK!

[alessar.livejournal.com]

Well, that's not exactly... it.

You burn a certain number of calories just to (as you say) keep your body alive. You burn a few more just by being ambulatory, and a few more yet if you're active (and you do walk). If you're at all under that figure then your body will have to tap its stored reserve (fat) to make up the deficit. I just kind of felt the 'eat less than you need to live' comment a little unsettling.