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Nutrition & Health: 'Just a taste'
Posted on Wed, August 12th, 2009
Written by: Julie Mellen,
email: editor@syracuseparent.net
Did you know that eating just an extra 100 calories each day can add up to 10 pounds gained in a year? If you do the math: 3500 extra calories equals 1 pound. Just 100 extra calories each day for 365 days per year equals 36,500 total extra calories. Divide that number by the 3500 and you get a whopping 10.4 pounds of extra weight each year!
Think about your day and all the opportunities to grab a taste of something. Keeping a daily food diary can be beneficial in determining when and what you are eating. It is a great tool to catch the tastes. It allows you to be more mindful of your eating habits. Tasting while you are cooking or cleaning up, eating the last few bites of food off your child’s dish, sampling at the grocery store, grabbing that Hershey kiss out of your coworkers candy dish…whether we like it or not, it all counts! Here is an example of how easily and quickly that extra 100 calories can add up.
Breakfast:
Finish the last few sips of the OJ in the container (1/4/cup)
Calories: 30
Your child did not finish their slice of toast with a tablespoon of peanut butter on it, so you finish it (1/4 of slice)
Calories: 45
Grab a handful of Honey Nut Cheerios (1/4 cup)
Calories: 30
Add 1 tsp of sugar to your morning coffee
Calories: 16
Mid morning
One glazed munchkin…
Calories: 75
Lunch
1 Tablespoon mayo added to your sandwich
Calories: 100
5 Potato chips
Calories: 40
1 Oreo cookie
Calories: 50
Mid afternoon
1 Hershey Kiss
Calories: 25
Coffee with cream and sugar (10 ounce)
Calories: 120
Dinner
While preparing the macaroni and cheese for dinner you taste a couple of tablespoons just to make sure it tastes good…
Calories: ','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=280,height=160'); return false;">60 (','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=280,height=160'); return false;">2 tablespoons)
Finish what’s left in the pan after dinner instead of getting rid of it…
Calories: ','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=280,height=160'); return false;"> 108 (1/4 cup)
Nighttime snack
2 tablespoons of ice-cream while dishing out cones to the kids.
Calories: 50+
TOTAL EXTRA CALORIES: ','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=280,height=160'); return false;">749!!!
Here are some other scenarios:
While making a peanut butter sandwich you finish the peanut butter on the knife
Calories: ','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=280,height=160'); return false;"> 50
While baking chocolate chip cookies you grab a small handful of chocolate chips
Calories: 80
And than a spoonful of cookie dough…
Calories: 32
“Just a taste” can really add up. If you want to lose weight or not gain any as the years go by, it is important to be mindful of the little things as well as the big things that cross your lips. When you think of all the times in your day that you are confronted with “just a taste”, it really can add up!
Julie Mellen is a registered nutritionist with Morrison Healthcare Food Services at SUNY Upstate Medical University and a regular contributor to Syracuse Parent.
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Posted on Wed, August 12th, 2009
Written by: Julie Mellen,
email: editor@syracuseparent.net
Did you know that eating just an extra 100 calories each day can add up to 10 pounds gained in a year? If you do the math: 3500 extra calories equals 1 pound. Just 100 extra calories each day for 365 days per year equals 36,500 total extra calories. Divide that number by the 3500 and you get a whopping 10.4 pounds of extra weight each year!
Think about your day and all the opportunities to grab a taste of something. Keeping a daily food diary can be beneficial in determining when and what you are eating. It is a great tool to catch the tastes. It allows you to be more mindful of your eating habits. Tasting while you are cooking or cleaning up, eating the last few bites of food off your child’s dish, sampling at the grocery store, grabbing that Hershey kiss out of your coworkers candy dish…whether we like it or not, it all counts! Here is an example of how easily and quickly that extra 100 calories can add up.
Breakfast:
Finish the last few sips of the OJ in the container (1/4/cup)
Calories: 30
Your child did not finish their slice of toast with a tablespoon of peanut butter on it, so you finish it (1/4 of slice)
Calories: 45
Grab a handful of Honey Nut Cheerios (1/4 cup)
Calories: 30
Add 1 tsp of sugar to your morning coffee
Calories: 16
Mid morning
One glazed munchkin…
Calories: 75
Lunch
1 Tablespoon mayo added to your sandwich
Calories: 100
5 Potato chips
Calories: 40
1 Oreo cookie
Calories: 50
Mid afternoon
1 Hershey Kiss
Calories: 25
Coffee with cream and sugar (10 ounce)
Calories: 120
Dinner
While preparing the macaroni and cheese for dinner you taste a couple of tablespoons just to make sure it tastes good…
Calories: ','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=280,height=160'); return false;">60 (','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=280,height=160'); return false;">2 tablespoons)
Finish what’s left in the pan after dinner instead of getting rid of it…
Calories: ','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=280,height=160'); return false;"> 108 (1/4 cup)
Nighttime snack
2 tablespoons of ice-cream while dishing out cones to the kids.
Calories: 50+
TOTAL EXTRA CALORIES: ','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=280,height=160'); return false;">749!!!
Here are some other scenarios:
While making a peanut butter sandwich you finish the peanut butter on the knife
Calories: ','MyWindow','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=yes,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,width=280,height=160'); return false;"> 50
While baking chocolate chip cookies you grab a small handful of chocolate chips
Calories: 80
And than a spoonful of cookie dough…
Calories: 32
“Just a taste” can really add up. If you want to lose weight or not gain any as the years go by, it is important to be mindful of the little things as well as the big things that cross your lips. When you think of all the times in your day that you are confronted with “just a taste”, it really can add up!
Julie Mellen is a registered nutritionist with Morrison Healthcare Food Services at SUNY Upstate Medical University and a regular contributor to Syracuse Parent.
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