She
said that:
"We found huge discrepancies, our statistician gave me this
analogy: let's say you sell 10-lb. bags of sugar, and you sell 15-lb.
bags to your friends and 5-lb. bags to your enemies, and you call them
all 10 pounds. The average would be accurate but it wouldn’t be fair to
individual buyers. We found that's what may be happening in restaurants.
To give you some real examples, here were some popular restaurant dishes that far exceeded their stated calorie counts:
- Olive
Gardens chicken and gnocchi soup had nearly double the listed 250
calories, and the minestrone soup more than doubled its 100-calorie
claim, totalling 265.
- Bob Evans cranberry-pecan chicken salad with dressing, listed at 672 calories, had 315 and 551 extra calories in two tests.
- P.F. Changs healthy-sounding brown rice measured 477 calories, more than double the menu number of 190.
- Four tests of On the Borders chips and salsa found more than triple the claimed 430 calories, up to 1,511 actual calories.
The
Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act allows for "human error" in
nutritional calculations like calorie counts or vitamin and mineral
information, meaning your business won't face legal action if your
nutrition information isn't 100% accurate.
Since preparation can be
slightly different depending on who prepares a meal, it would be unfair
to expect that the information be completely on point all the time.
Basically
there's a built in loop hole where they can BS the calorie numbers
without any consequences... And they know that "lower calorie" meals
will sell more because people feel less guilty in eating them.
Bottom
Line - you can't always trust the calorie counts listed at restaurants.
So, if you are crunching the numbers in My Fitness Pal and think you're
in a calorie deficit, but you're still not losing weight - then I'm
sorry to tell you this, but you are NOT in a calorie deficit!
To
give you an analogy, if every morning I deposit $100 dollars into my
bank account, but every evening I withdraw $110 - eventually I’m going
to empty the bank account and go broke. I can't keep money in the bank
if more cash is coming out then is going back in.
The
same applies to calories in vs. calories out and your body fat. If the
numbers say you're in a deficit, but you're not losing weight - then the
numbers are wrong...
Either your calorie consumption numbers or your
energy expenditure numbers - because if the numbers are right the math
would add up correctly.
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