So Im at Walmart and in the bakery buying whole wheat sub buns. Theres not a nutrition label back there and I wanted to ask the bakery people if they had a list back there and get the info I needed but....

I felt like Im way too fat to ask people that question. Too afraid that they will be like.... why do YOU want to know the calorie count? I guess I need to just get over it. Any of you ladies get this way about dieting stuff? Feel like you have to keep it on the DL or preface your request for the calorie count by showing them a before picture? Lol

I understand where youre coming from, but... I always take the 'I'm paying them for it, so they work for me' kind of view. They should be able to provide you with some sort of nutrition info, no problem... and really, I doubt you'll be the only one asking!

I have never liked to ask for nutritional information. After I had my second son, I did Weight Watchers, Curves, and was in the best shape of my life, but I had to work at it. I asked the cashier at Arby's if they had a nutritional information sheet, and she actually laughed and called out another worker to "Come look at this skinny girl! SHE is asking for the nutritional information! Can you believe it? Have a sandwich girl!" I was soooo embarrassed, so thin or chubby, I have never liked asking.

I have the same issues with asking for anything like that. For me, although there's a great deal of personal pride about weight loss, there's also a sense of public shame, somehow, and I find asking for things like nutritional info or dressing on the side embarrassing. I feel that it's silly of me to think this way and I'm not proud of it--why am I more ashamed of being seen making an effort to lose weight than I was of being big?--but there it is.

I take the coward's way out and Google nutritional information or guesstimate it based on other similar items (always rounding up, of course).

Oh, I definitely know where you're coming from!

I really dislike doing stuff like that, and as Nole Celeste said, I will Google if at all possible. BUT . . . this, to me, is one of those uncomfortable things that goes along with weight loss. Just like exercising, or turning down dessert, or dealing with food pushers.

What I tell myself at those times, and what I'm telling you now (and I say this with a sympathetic smile) . . . you're a grown up, so suck it up and do what you know you need to.

I thought it was just me. I asbolutely feel shame when asking for or even looking at nutrition info. I went to the grocery store this morning, and I wanted to get a salad dressing...I swear there's half an isle dedicated to dressing, and I wanted to find something low calorie, plus lower sugar and salt...I had to keep picking up bottles and turning them over to look at the back. Thankfully I was the only one in the isle at 8am, but had the isle been busier, I would have been mortified to be checking out the nutrition info.

And asking for nutrition info? I dont! I give anyone whose asked for it credit! I'm just so embarrassed, and I dont know why. NolaCeleste, you are so right that there is some kind of pubic shame attached to asking for info or dressing on the side or making a effort to know what you are eating, but it seems it only if you are fat!! (I will ask for dressing on the side, but I'm more embarrassed if the waiter is an attractive man. Weird, huh??)

And here's the weird part...I would think it would be more shameful if we just went into a food palce and loaded our carts with crap, crap, crap. Eating healthy shows that someone who is over weight has begun to take responsibility for their eating habits, and that should be something to be proud of...but some how I'm not.

I seem to think other people look at me (over weight) make the immediate assumption I eat garbage all day and sit on the couch. They dont know I've been working on losing weight for many months, that I've already lost like 30 lbs, or that I was not this heavy before I had kids (and despite any of that no one should judge an over weight person, but lets face it, people do)...
THEN they see me ask for lite dressing, or grilled chicken or the nutrition info on something and they think "How silly that this fat person thinks by ordering lite dressing on the side she is going to cancel out all the snickers bars she probably just ate."

I get really embarassed about checking labels and asking for nutritional information. I swear when I'm shopping sometimes and I check people give me really funny looks! I don't even like people seeing me exercising outside of a gym. If I exercise at my house, I do it inside with the blinds and currents drawn closed. One day someone saw me power walking and mocked it and I turned beat red. My sister asked me what my problem when she noticed me being weird about it and I said, "As far as people outside a gym are concerned I don't exercise. It's embarassing to exercise all the time and still be fat." I know the whole thing is silly but in a weird way I am very self concious about dieting and exercising and extremely self conscious that I do so much and I'm still very overweight. I hear ya.

I think that the people who have the courage to ask for nutrition shouldn't be made to feel bad but that's just the society we live in.

I'm the same way with a lot of things like that. When I was bigger than I am, I was ashamed to ask because I thought people would think, "Good god, why does she even bother?"

And now that I'm a "normal" weight, and people no longer avoid the topic of weight around me or point out that I'm fat, I'm afraid to ask for the info because people will think I'm obsessed or something. Which I kinda have to be. But it's especially hard when I'm around people I know - they give me this stare that I hate.

But hang in there and do what you've got to do for yourself! Other people will get over it.

I feel like I'm prioritizing ME when I ask questions like that! I might ask the waiter at a restaurant how food is prepared, or to give me food with no butter, etc. And I have asked for calorie count info at places.

Again, this journey is about prioritizing me. Why not give myself all the info I need and all the tools to do it well?

Oh! I feel for you but just go ahead and ask. If it helps, explain to the person that you have a fat auntie on a diet or something ;-)

And esp. now...remember you are trying to get healthier and eat better...and knowledge is POWER!

I think you might also be able to look online and just google stuff by brand, such as "great value hamburger buns nutritional information". Or call the stoe to find out. It won't help if you're already there, but it can help you plan your trip.

I ask about stuff all the time. And I let people know that I'm trying to eat well. And that I've lost X number of pounds so far. Helps put it into perspective I guess. They usually are happy for me and very encouraging, esp. with all of the tv shows on now etc. I think that's helped the general population understand more.

Good luck, you CAN do this!

Barb

Same here, when I was bigger I felt ashamed and then when I hit "normal" I felt like people were going to think I was anorexic or obsessed.

You know what, WHY are we having to go out of our way to ASK for this stuff anyway? This kind of info should be readily available, especially in most restaurants (not that they aren't going to fudge the numbers or try to anyway!). The whole situation just presents itself as one of those places that don't post prices next to the menu choices hoping you won't ask out of fear of sounding like some kind of cheapskate.

I remember asking at Arby's once and the employee just looked so "put out" because she had to walk a few steps aaaaaall the way back to office to get one. They should be on the counter for anyone who wants one!

I used to be like that. I think at first I felt like I was "faking"--pretending to be this healthy, energetic person when in reality I was the sort of indulgent eater I always had been. I hated ordering a light dish because I thought it was obvious that I was a cheeseburger-fries kinda girl, and I felt like a little girl dressed up in mom's fancy dressing, thinking she looks like a princess but actually pretty ridiculous. I didn't think I had the RIGHT to be healthy in public.

I will say this: it gets easier with practice. I used to practice OUT LOUD in the car. "I'll have the chicken breast, and roasted vegetables. Can they steam those without butter?" or "Do you all have nutritional information?" or "Does the fruit come with a glaze?" I'd say it over and over until it sounded natural to me, like it was something I did all the time. And after I'd asked these sorts of questions a few times, I came to believe that I was the sort of person who can ask those sort of questions.

And sometimes, when I started to have all these doubts and question in my head, I'd remind myself that these people are total strangers, so &#$* them.

I've never even thought twice about checking out nutrition information at the grocery store. Not when I was 110 pounds, or now as fat me. Maybe because my mom (a health nut) always did it, too. I remember looking at nutrition information when I was a kid.

think of it this way... how many people walking down the aisle really pay attention to what everybody else in the aisle are doing? aren't most people are fixated on themselves and their own shopping? I know I am.

This is me, exactly!

I'm not embarassed... I just ask. Or if I feel like I'm getting the run around or would get faster/better service/my point across easier, I tell a white lie and say "I'm diabetic and I need nutritional values. Could you help me?" (I actually have PCOS, but people know about diabetes more than they know about PCOS).

Or just look it up online. Google "nutrtion wheat bread" and it will get you close enough. It is

http://caloriecount.about.com/calori...repared-i18075

And then all you need is a food scale to weight it. One slice is usually about 1 oz though.

A.