Wasted Ink
Full Member
It's my first day back on CC and I'm feeling anxious over whether I'm counting my calories correctly. I'm aiming for 1600 a day.
First things first. I had porridge for breakfast this morning and measured out 4oz in a baby bottle. I assumed that it would be fairly low calorie, since it didn't look like much, but I've just looked it up on the internet and apparently that equals 133 grams, which is about 365 calories (178 cals per 50 grams.) Does this sound accurate or have I messed up the measuring? This is excluding milk. It seems a lot for what looked such a small amount of porridge oats.
Unforunately I was alseep when my dinner was being made, so I couldn't measure items individually. But based on the idea that 100 g of meat is about the size of a deck of cards, I've worked out that my pork chops should have come to about 410 (but I removed the fat, so how many calories should I call it with the fat removed?)
I also had:
A portion of mixed veg - 49 calories
Seven small roast potatoes - 228
One onion ring - 55 calories
3 TBS of gravy - 150 calories
Olive oil (to cook the potatoes) - 40 calories.
Dinner total: 882
These caloies seem really high, do you think I may be overestimating or do you think that perhaps I was under estimating before? I honestly expected my porridge to come out at about 240 (inc milk) and my dinner at about 700.
Thoughts?
First things first. I had porridge for breakfast this morning and measured out 4oz in a baby bottle. I assumed that it would be fairly low calorie, since it didn't look like much, but I've just looked it up on the internet and apparently that equals 133 grams, which is about 365 calories (178 cals per 50 grams.) Does this sound accurate or have I messed up the measuring? This is excluding milk. It seems a lot for what looked such a small amount of porridge oats.
Unforunately I was alseep when my dinner was being made, so I couldn't measure items individually. But based on the idea that 100 g of meat is about the size of a deck of cards, I've worked out that my pork chops should have come to about 410 (but I removed the fat, so how many calories should I call it with the fat removed?)
I also had:
A portion of mixed veg - 49 calories
Seven small roast potatoes - 228
One onion ring - 55 calories
3 TBS of gravy - 150 calories
Olive oil (to cook the potatoes) - 40 calories.
Dinner total: 882
These caloies seem really high, do you think I may be overestimating or do you think that perhaps I was under estimating before? I honestly expected my porridge to come out at about 240 (inc milk) and my dinner at about 700.
Thoughts?