For instance, I stop at my husband's job and get a free 16-20 oz cappuccino a couple times a week, but I have no way of finding out what the calories are. At work we are offered free food, which is great, but once again there's no daily food values to be listed. I really can't afford to brown bag my lunch every day; free is a lot nicer to my wallet than anything else. So are there websites or something that help you estimate the calories? Is there a site anywhere that lists calories for just about every dish made? lol that would help a lot.
L.,
You can google it. Try doing a search for calories in food and I think some helpful sites will come up and the you can search from there.
I bet the milk in the cappucino is fattening, and depending on what you put in it, sugar or other sweetner.
Lots of luck,
M.
HI, I use calorie-count.about.com. It has so Many foods and restraunts as well, plus a daily burn meter and calorie in take tools.... I love it Hope this helps, C.
http://foodcount.com. I've been using it for six years to manage daily calories, nutrition (carbs, fats, protein, etc) my daily weight, and exercise. This is a great site which you can use for free if you only want information on food or it will keep all your daily records, which you can access anytime with a history. Membership is only $19.95/year.
Here's info from the site:
With a FoodCount.com account, you will have...
# Personal support Diet and Fitness Professionals through discussion groups.
# Access to a database of 30,000 food descriptions and more than 50 nutrients.
# The ability to add your own food to your own database- right from the label.
# Favorites - FoodCount.com will save your last 100 foods consumed so it gets faster each time you log in.
# Create your own food and add it to your personal favorites, right from the food label.
# Comprehensive Diet Analysis tools to compare your diet to the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA).
# Diet Planner - To help you modify your diet, FoodCount.com can tell you what foods are high or low in specific nutrients.
www.calorieking.com.
it lists carbs and other info too.
it also lists tons of stuff that fast food places serve. like einstein bagles, and starbucks items.
Try "dottiesweightlosszone.com" (dwlz.com) it's a neat website...gives you lots of tips and food info along with restaurants, etc.
Try www.nutritiondata.com ... It includes a calorie counter which provides nutritional data for a lot of convenience foods and items from casual restaurants. If you know the brand of the cappucino (say, it's a 7-Eleven 16 oz.) the site MAY be able to give you the information. If not, try looking it up on the website of the store where you get it (ex: 7-11's site may have a nutrition data box to click on?) Do some asking around to find out the source of all the free food, then call the source and ask where they've tallied it up. If these are homemade items you'll be out of luck but if they're storebought you should be able to find this data for part of it, at least, if you're willing to check into it with a few calls or INternet research. I have to say, though, that it's likely all this free and unlabeled food is very high in calories, salt and fat -- most convenience foods are. If you can't find the nutrition data for an item, you're probably healthier by avoiding it, even if it's free. If you wind up overweight and unhealthy due to your diet, the food isn't really free at all but it indirectly becomes very expensive because it will cost you a fortune long-term in medical/health expenses. Basically, if the free food isn't fresh fruit, vegetables, or obviously unprocessed, it's probably hiding a lot of unhealthy ingredients and you're better off brownbagging at least a few days per week. Don't sacrifice your long-term health for a few free meals. Good luck.
go to webmd.com they have a really cool calorie calculater GOOD LUCK!
I use this one:
http://caloriecount.about.com/foods
B.
Hi L.,
For $7.99, I bought a "Calorie, Fat, & Carbohydrate Counter" book by The Calorie King: Allan Borushek. It's 4.25 X 6 X .5 inches and it fits in a purse or briefcase easily. I'm on a low glycemic way of life eating and have lost 182 pounds with 160 to go. My plate is half veggies, 1/4 lean meat (3-6 ozs) and 1/2 cup yams, brown rice, ear of corn, tortias (2), 5-10 reduced fat Triscuits. Reduced Fat Cottage Cheese and berries is my desert. I always eat a salad before I eat anything or veggie soup.I eat nothing white or has sugar as it's first 7 ingredients.I'm in a wheelchair but I exercise everyday using a DVD by Jodi Stolove. I also do 50 situps a day. I also am using a dietary supplement that is safe and natural which reduces leptin which makes you store fat especially around your middle. I used it to lose the last 40 pounds and in 14 weeks I've lost over 11.5 inches off my waist plus more inches off on my midruff, hips, buttocks, and upper thighs. You can check it out at:
http://www.FitAndFatFree4ever.com
The weight is over ~ F.
PS: 16oz whole milk Starbucks Cappuccino: 145 Cal 7 Fat 1 carb. You could do worse. Add 1 Venti, .78 oz: 70 c 7 f 2 cb. Sugar Packet: 10 c 0 f 3 cb. Caffine spikes blood sugar and you'll be hungry again sooner then you think.
White Choc. Mocha, whole milk: 345 c 6.5 f 11 cb Yikes! Hey, stick with real food that is good for my body and far more satisfying.
Hi L.,
More important than the number of calories you eat is the TYPES of foods. If you stick to lean protein and lots of veggies, and stay far away from the sugars, breads, and high-starch foods, you will be surprised how much you can eat and still lose weight. So, be choosy about which "free" foods you eat at work; avoid the ones that aren't so healthy (I know, easier said than done).
I would also look into finding an alternative to the cappuccino on the way to work. The dairy content of the cappuccino is not friendly to your waistline over the long term, and coffee (whether regular or decaffeinated) contains herbal compounds that interfere with your pancreatic enzymes...thus compromising your digestion.
Best regards,
S.
Try www.calorieking.com.
Fitday.com is a free site that will calculate the calories/fat/nutrients you consume everyday if you input what you are eating. It will also track exercise and other things. Cool site.
On the internet you can look up comparable places, like Starbucks, and they have nutrition info, so you can get a rough idea about your cappuccino. As for the other food, find fast food or regular restaurants on the internet and look up their nutrition info, and find food that is comparable to the food you're getting, then you'll get an idea.
