To want to know calorie content of hotel xmas meal?

[MaMisled]

I've emailed and they don't have the information. I'm surprised when the likes of Wetherspoons, McDonald's and KFC do.

I've chosen what I'll eat in advance. I've lost 50lbs in weight and calories matter to me!

One Christmas meal won't make you fat and that you have such anxiety over it is why diets are the spawn of satan

Even where you get carefully counted calories if you don't eat every scrap you are getting then it's wrong.

Just assume it has 2,000 calories for a main and dessert. A full sized typical non-healthy dessert will have 400 cals minimum (usually close to 600), full roast with trimmings is 1,000 minimum (more likely 1,500). Starters would be approx 600 depending on what it is.

They're expecting customers to use common sense. What a cheek.

You can not compare cheap processed food that is served in fast food pubs and takeaways with freshly cooked, fresh produce cooked in good restaurants. What you will get though is tastier, better quality ingredients and therefore healthier the calorie content is not always relevant.

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/pubs-and-restaurants-urged-to-display-calories-on-their-menus-by-council-leaders-10397571.html%3famp

Reasonable request op

Seriously? You couldn't google it?
I just looked up a 'turkey roast dinner' on MFP and it says 856.
Surely you could have looked it up yourself?

Agree with everyone else. Yes, YABU.
If you have been calorie counting for long enough to lose that much, it shouldn't be difficult for you to make a reasonable guess.

Why would anyone calorie count a christmas dinner? It's meant to be a feast.
If you're worried about calories then just eat part of it. You know which will be the high calorie parts of the meal. The meat and the veg (assuming it's boiled/steamed) won't be. The roasties, the stuffing, most likely will be.
Same with the dessert. A fruit based or ice cream dessert won't be too calorific. Christmas pudding with brandy butter or custard will probably have about 1000 calories.

Well done on your weight loss. I would try to eat slowly and don’t finish it if you are already full. Avoid appetisers and lots of alcohol. No second helpings. Assume that the veg has butter added so don’t overeat veggies either. Have a brisk walk after dinner or the next day. Based on no evidence I reckon about 1000 calories.

They are forcing all food outlets in Toronto to do this - one restaurant chain estimated the cost as $60,000 to produce a menu with counts plus an additional 12 weeks to get the figures produced. The net effect was to have more chains and less small businesses. Menus lost seasonality as it was too expensive to create new menus.

It's no way to live, is what springs to mind.

But well done on your weight loss.
I'm probably definitely jealous.

Just make estimates and watch portion size and you’ll be fine.

It’s xmas day so don’t fret about it too much.

YABU. Eat it or don't eat it - it's not going to kill you; it's only a Christmas Dinner!

Have that day off OP. One day doesn’t count, it’s what you do the rest of the week that will. But yes you should be able to work it out roughly and you don’t have to clear your plate if it’s a large portion.

@MaMisled - I don’t know f you have found it, but there is an app called My Fitness Pal - I have been using it for over 4 months, and whilst I have not achieved anything like your amazing success, the app does help track calories - it has a huge data base that you can use to work out an approximate value for the calorie content of a meal.

I have used it after meals in a hotel, and it was pretty easy to do, and helped me feel I was staying reasonably well on track.

You’ve lost 50lbs, you probably know calories inside out and could probably estimate and not be far off the mark.

For one meal on one day, I really wouldn’t worry about it, it’s not going to make a jot of difference to your long-term weight-loss

Jesus!
It's one day to indulge
YABU 😳😱

Another one here who uses My Fitness Pal. It’s all very well posters saying live a little etc, but I’m controlling my diabetes through diet and it is vital that I know what I’m putting in my mouth, as I can’t have more than 20gms of carb a day. (LCHF). So I’ll pig out on veg and turkey, but no potatoes, stuffing or gravy.

If you’ve lost this much weight now, you must know how much a dinner like this will cost you in calories?

Used MFP this year to lose 2 stones. For meals out I assume 1000+ calories for that meal and don't weigh myself for a few days afterwards.

The average Christmas dinner in the UK comes in at 5,200 calories and 190g of fat.

MyFitnessPal calculations are useless unless you weigh and measure your portions of everything... Impossible when you're in a hotel.

OP, if it's going to make you anxious, eat white turkey meat, a slice of ham and lots of green vegetables (sprouts), and have a coffee afterwards. Forego the potatoes, gravy, stuffing, roast veg, alcohol and dessert/chocolate and you'll be fine.

Or, if you can moderate, just have a half portion of everything and don't eat anything else that day and you'll come in at around 2,600 for the day which isn't too bad (you'll gain 1/6th of a pound and you can make up for it the next day).

I just looked up a 'turkey roast dinner' on MFP and it says 856.

Oh dear. Things like this are the reason people go on MFP forums and post things like "I'm only eating 1,000 calories a day and I still can't lose weight!"

Personally I always like to choose the MFP database entry that says a small portion of "chip shop chips" is 237 calories rather than the one right below it that says 753...

i reckon a decent christmas dinner would be around 4000 calories.
but that's just me.

*chrys' agree with you. It's impossible to say what a 'roast turkey dinner' contains. It could be anything from a few slices of turkey, 1 roast potato and plenty of steamed vegetables, to one of those dinner mountains, with 10 roasties, yorkshires, stuffing, vegetables drenched in butter, and every side dish known to man.
Eating out does lead to a loss of control over what goes into the food so you have just use your common sense.
Apart from that Op, you may find that your appetite has adjusted to smaller portions after losing that amount of weight. I just can't eat large meals anymore, it makes me feel ill and bloated.