Not sure if this is the right place for this but i guess the moderators can move it if it belongs elsewhere.
So here's my story--
Just yesterday i bought several flavors of Yoplait Light yogurt.(it had been listed in a book i'm reading as one of the lower calorie yogurts) I got home and my daughter and I were each going to have one for a snack. So i looked at the calories and saw that there were 10 calories in one container. I was astonished and pleased, but also thought it a bit strange. How did they manage such a thing? I told my daughter that the next time we got yogurt we should get something with more calories in it for her. She's quite slender and needs more rather than less calories. So i had a container in the afternoon. Later that nite as i was totaling up my calories i saw that i had 170 left so i thought i'd have another yogurt, half a nectarine and a little granola. It was yummy, very satisfying food-wise and knowing that i'd had a substantial snack and still not used all of my calories, I was quite pleased with myself.
So this morning as i was getting my lunch and snack together it occured to me again that 10 calories seemed quite low. I thought, hmmm....I wonder if maybe i missed a 0. Don't know why it didn't occur to me yesterday to put my glasses on and check the calories more closely, but it did this morning and sure enough(you veteran counters knew this already no doubt) there are 100, not 10 calories in a container of Yoplait Lite yogurt
Ha, ha, ha, the joke(and calories) are on me
Oh well--it's a marathon, not a sprint and I may as well chuckle. It's over and done and i know something now i didn't know before.
I don't have a funny calorie story per se but if you are looking for a low calorie yogurt, Dannon Light and Fit is 60 calories per container, and quite yummy
I bought chicken (buffalo frozen chicken strips, excellent baked with a little fat free ranch or in a wrap or on a salad) one time and it said that 5 pieces were X number of calories. I was excited, it seemed like such a good deal (calorie wise). The chicken became a diet staple, it was such a good dinner. Then one time, probably when I bought my 5th or 6th bag, when I got to the store I got the bag of chicken and the other things I needed and I was on my way out when I ran into a friend that I hadn't seen in some time. She noticed I was losing weight, asked how, I explained WW and the points. I pulled out the chicken and said "this is the greatest stuff" and showed her on the nutrition label that I could have....oops, 3 pieces were X calories and there were 5 servings. I was eating almost double portions of it. Oops! And here I was showing her "how it was done". I felt like a dork, but I'm pretty good at laughing at myself, so it was ok.
I bought a Michelina's Light pepperoni bites frozen "entree" at Walmart...it was cheap, like $1.18, but the calories were right..it said 200 per serving so I thought, "eh, it might make a good snack for when the rest of the family is having pizza and I feel left out". I ate it...it was so good! So I ran out and bought 4 more. After eating a box of them today for lunch, I took a closer look at the information on the box....it says "Calories per serving: 200. Number of servings: 2" !!!! Dont you hate that! It was early enough in the day so the 400 calories werent that big of a deal but I could have eaten a lot better lunch for 400 calories. I felt duped...but let the buyer beware, it was really my own fault. I forget sometimes that you really have to be careful of marketing. Those are the exact tricks some of them use to get you to buy.
I gave the other 2 boxes to my kids.
Its not exactly a funny story...more of a lesson learned type story.
Thanks for the yogurt suggestions. I'll investigate them.
I'm learning tons about labeling and servings as i go on. Buyer beware for sure. I just have to remember to wear my glasses when reading the fine print. And laughing at myself is bound to burn calories, so it wasn't all bad
The first time, I bought a Marie Callendar's pot pie, I knew they were a calorie splurge. I checked the box, 550 calories. Not so unreasonable that I couldn't fit it in my "points" as I was on WW at the time. So I pulled it out of the box one night, and it was much larger than I expected. Hmmm, I thought and changed my mind on making a salad as a side. The taste was amazing, but after the first few bites, I thought maybe too amazing. So checked the box, yep 2 servings.
1100 calories for a pot pie. At the time I thought WHO eats 1/2 of a pot pie?
Funniest thing is, I bought one a couple months ago. It just looked so good (and was), and guess what. I only ate 1/2. And it wasn't like I stopped at half, still hungry, wishing I'd had more. It was lunch, not dinner, but I was just full after eating about 1/2 the pie. I've come such a long way, I amaze myself, and yet it's a bittersweet victory because my metabolism has dropped so drastically over the years, the weight loss is so terribly slow. I can't help but think that if I had been able to do this in my 20's, eating like this, the weight would have fallen off. I can't let myself fall into the woulda, coulda, shoulda trap, just can't help but thing what if. Then again, playing that game, if I hadn't gotten this far, on the metabolism I have now, I would probably weigh 600 lbs if I had continued to eat the way I did when I was younger.
A funny calorie counting story, anyone else?
I was quite pleased with myself.
Ha, ha, ha, the joke(and calories) are on me
