My friend brought me a sausage biscuit from Hardees for breakfast this morning. I know most of you are awesome about not letting people dictate what you eat, and props to you. I don't want to say I'm a pushover, but I've had a lot of success with my diet, and part of my success has come from having a treat now and then. So I ate the sausage biscuit and didn't feel too guilty about it, lol. It was a small little thing, scrawny little patty and a biscuit.
So I looked up the calories in a sausage biscuit on Hardees website. 590 calories!!!! Holy moley!!!! Now I still don't feel guilty, I'm not panicking or anything. Just extra workout and eating light for the rest of the day. And I definitely will not be accepting anymore sausage biscuits, lol. But good lord. In that puny little sausage biscuit, that wasn't even that good, there was more than a third of my day's calories.
It just amazes me seeing calorie counts like that now. A few months ago, I would have eaten two of those sausage biscuits for breakfast and a supersize big mac meal for lunch, lol. And not thought anything of it. I truly don't understand how I didn't weigh more than I did. And I'm SO glad I got a handle on my eating before it snowballed any further.
My husband and I are really being militant about our carbs due to his diabetes and his eyes are really opening up to how many carbs are in the most innocuous items. Its really amazing when you become conscious of what you eat. And sugar! Ohmygoodness! We were looking at some self proclaimed healthy juices (you know, the kind yoga moms always carry around) and they had upwards of 50 grams of sugar for a personal size bottle.
That's what I wonder sometimes. Why wasn't I heavier? The s&!% I used to eat amazes me!! And I knew better, I was just in denial. Oh well, live and learn, right?
I remember back when I was on weight watchers years ago. I had a craving for one of those original chicken sandwiches from Burger King and I looked up the "points" value only to realize that it was equal to my total points allowance...i.e.....i could eat the sandwich but would have to starve the rest of the day lol
I recently found out that my favourite 'healthy' snack, a yoghurt covered muesli cluster, that I get from the whole food section of the supermarket, contains more calories than a Snickers Bar. I mourn for all of those Snickers Bars I could have eaten instead.
I know exactly what ya mean mkendrick. I could eat fast food all day and pile on the sweets and think nothing of it. I wonder how I wasn't bigger either, it's crazy. Having done this (calorie counting) for a while now and paying much more attention, I can't bring myself to eat some of the things I used to. Just not worth it...Though I do miss my cereal.
I think the big shocker for me was a Twix bar. Would you believe there is 110 calories in each piece of a King size? I used to eat the whole thing without even thinking twice! I even KNEW to count calories, but had never bothered looking. Oh, that and juice. I still have a cup now and then, but I stick to EXACTLY 8 oz, and I don't have any more for the rest of the day. Also, I drink more V8 which only has 70 cal a cup.
Haha, yep, you guys all know what I'm talking about.
And I did know that I was eating unhealthy food. I'm an intelligent person, I understand metabolism and I can add. Somehow it just never registered to me that I was eating twice or probably even three or four times the amount of calories I should be eating in a day.
I had NO idea there were so many calories...lol
