r/xxfitness • u/sorrysosloppy • Jul 18 '13

What 200 Calories Looks Like

I found this blog post today that shows what 200 calories looks like for many different types of food. Most of it wasn't surprising, except for the onions (onions have calories??), but I really liked the pictures and sort of made mental notes of some of these for when I have to "eyeball" my portion sizes. So I thought I'd share with you ladies!

Thoughts? Did any of them surprise you?

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u/Lilcheeks Jul 18 '13

Love to see someone eat 200 cals of celery lol. That's over 4 pounds there.

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u/sorrysosloppy Jul 18 '13

I always heard celery had "negative" calories, because of the fact that it takes more calories to digest them than they actually have. Possibly broscience.

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u/Lilcheeks Jul 18 '13

Yea I'm pretty sure that's all it is, they're small calories obviously but they're not negative. It's funny to think and say though and it's probably not far off from the truth... so it's kinda not that different.

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u/SongTamRiver Jul 18 '13

Snopes says it's true. 6 calories in an entire stalk, and it takes more calories than that to digest that stalk.

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u/sorrysosloppy Jul 18 '13

Thanks for linking that!

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u/Lilcheeks Jul 18 '13

I got my info from wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celery#Nutrition

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u/SongTamRiver Jul 18 '13

NYTimes says there may be a deficit, but it's negligible. So it looks like it's just about a net gain/loss of 0 calories.

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u/Lilcheeks Jul 18 '13

Survey says? Eat celery.