Count Calories
Test Your Calorie-Counting
IQ!
By Joe Wilkes
From the Million Dollar Body Club - Join Today and Workout to
Win!
 6 oz. of filet mignon, 1/2 cup steamed broccoli, 1/2
baked potato. This tasty meal only has about 475 calories with 58 grams of protein, 19 grams of
carbs, and 18 grams of fat. Plus 6 grams of fiber. Not too
shabby!
 1/2 of a rotisserie chicken from the
supermarket. About 600
calories with 33 grams of fat, 10 of them saturated, but a bonanza of
protein70 grams! You could knock the calories and fat down a lot if you could
part with the skin. Add a little salad for fiber, and you could do
worse.
 6 oz. of salmon, 1 cup brown rice, 8 spears of asparagus
with 2 Tbsp. of hollandaise sauce. Sounds pretty
healthy . . . but over 700 calories! That little
bit of hollandaise sauce was responsible for over 100 extra calories and
brought 35 grams of fat (23 saturated) to the party. And at most restaurants,
you'll get a lot more sauce than that. The salmon, ounce for ounce, was
comparable to the filet mignon. The salmon had 40 fewer calories, but also 16
fewer grams of protein. The fat was about the same, but the heart-healthy
omega-3-rich oils in the salmon have the beef beat hands down. So beef is a
good choice if you're trying to load up on protein. And the salmon is more
heart-smart, but if you sauce it up, you pretty much were just as well off
having the steak (and maybe some fries, too).
 2 slices of a large cheese Pizza Hut pan pizza.
790 calories! For
two slices! With just cheese! Not even one pepperoni! Plus over half your
recommended daily allowance for fat, and 76 grams of carbs!
 10 pretzels, 1/4 cup of Spanish peanuts, 3 gin and
tonics. 980
calories! And we mixed the drinks pretty light. Go to a bartender with a
generous pour, and you'll easily clear a grand. Amazingly, most people will go
eat dinner after this. The calories were split about evenly between the snacks
and the drinks, with the edge going to the drinks. You could skip the snacks
(the Simple Life diet) to cut out the 20 total grams of fat, but
you're probably better off skipping the bar altogether. |
