Current Events > It's just not fucking fair that donuts are so calorie dense.

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I would happily eat a couple of donuts every morning with my coffee if it wasn't for the fact that one donut is like, 450 calories straight out the gate without even any frosting.

God damn it.
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I mean it's literally a fucking cake
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Bio1590 posted...

I mean it's literally a fucking cake

I get it. I'm just having a whinge.
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For me, it's not so much the calories as it is the sugar.
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I think its great its like a superfood.
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I have this thought all the time, and I miss just being able to plow through three big ass donuts at a time without having the knowledge of how bad for you they are :/
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If there're donuts, I just accept I'm gaining a pound that day and enjoy what I want.

I don't do it often. But if you're counting calories while you're eating donuts, you're ruining the experience. >_>
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calorie count lol
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the calories are the smallest problem with donuts
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But they make you happy tho
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Calories don't matter. Only the weight of how much you are eating does.
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Why exactly are donuts considered breakfast food anyways?
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i know the feeling pinky :(
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I wish I could eat a few donuts and get fat. You people make it sound so easy.
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I make protein donuts.

Muffinz0rz posted...

Why exactly are donuts considered breakfast food anyways?

Because they make you happy
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I once ate 18 Caseys donuts and a gallon of milk before working out.

I smiled at a hottie on the treadmill and threw up. The puke cycled around the treadmill and sprayed all over me and the surrounding area.

She saw me and screamed so I ran away. I left my wallet and keys in the locker room and just ran off. Out the door was a mom and her kids, I run into her covered in my puke full of whole indigested sprinkles. It gets all over her and her kid pukes from the smell.

I run away and get to my car, no keys. So I strip to my compression, run into the gym, snag my clothes and run out while the front desk calls the cops.

They never found me and my car still smells.
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

I once ate 18 Caseys donuts and a gallon of milk before working out.

I smiled at a hottie on the treadmill and threw up. The puke cycled around the treadmill and sprayed all over me and the surrounding area.

She saw me and screamed so I ran away. I left my wallet and keys in the locker room and just ran off. Out the door was a mom and her kids, I run into her covered in my puke full of whole indigested sprinkles. It gets all over her and her kid pukes from the smell.

I run away and get to my car, no keys. So I strip to my compression, run into the gym, snag my clothes and run out while the front desk calls the cops.

They never found me and my car still smells.

LMAO
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Touch posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

Why exactly are donuts considered breakfast food anyways?

Because they make you happy

So do cheeseburgers
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Why exactly are donuts considered breakfast food anyways?

Because western society decided it was okay to eat cake for breakfast.
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CirocObama posted...

At my local coffee shop the donuts have less calories than the muffins.

The muffins are still "healthier" since they have nutrients from fruits/grains, but if you only care about calories the donut's the better option.

no most wheat in the US have nothing for nutrients, thats why they are enriched. most people eating wheat today in the US are eating flour that has been bleached through chlorine gas and had vitamins sprinkled on top.
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There is a lot of food I just avoid now for this reason.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Why exactly are donuts considered breakfast food anyways?

breakfast used to be for farmers

it was like cereal or an oatmeal bar or something like donuts because

they would then proceed to work 5+ hours in the field, in the sun, hot and sweaty and not likely eat lunch till late

that requires a lot of energy or they would become tired and fail at the work


but for some strange reason a huge fat dude whose job is to sit at a desk all day thinks he needs to eat breakfast in modern day
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Calories don't matter as much as the sugar does.
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Bio1590 posted...

I mean it's literally a fucking cake

he wants them with less guilt! god damnit! aaaaaaaaaaaagh
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darkphoenix181 posted...

but for some strange reason a huge fat dude whose job is to sit at a desk all day thinks he needs to eat breakfast in modern day

You had me up to this line

You're saying people (desk jobs) don't need breakfast at all?
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If donuts had lower caloric density they also wouldn't be fucking awesome

It's a no win scenario.

rhklce posted...

I make protein donuts.

I've done protein pancakes before with eggs and blended cottage cheese and those came out pretty good, but I can't bring myself to defile donuts in the name of protein.

I mean, it's still fried sugary batter, except with some nonflavored whey in the mix?
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Muffinz0rz posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

but for some strange reason a huge fat dude whose job is to sit at a desk all day thinks he needs to eat breakfast in modern day

You had me up to this line

You're saying people (desk jobs) don't need breakfast at all?

you won't expend that energy before you eat lunch

which is why so many people are fat

if on the otherhand you wake up really early and go jogging for miles, that is a different matter


if you wake up, eat, sit at desk for 1-3 hours, eat

then no

you are just making excess fat in your body
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darkphoenix181 posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

but for some strange reason a huge fat dude whose job is to sit at a desk all day thinks he needs to eat breakfast in modern day

You had me up to this line

You're saying people (desk jobs) don't need breakfast at all?

you won't expend that energy before you eat lunch

which is why so many people are fat

if on the otherhand you wake up really early and go jogging for miles, that is a different matter

You're nuts, most peole burn 1200-1500 calories a day doing nothing. You should eat a 250 calorie breakfast.

if you wake up, eat, sit at desk for 1-3 hours, eat

then no

you are just making excess fat in your body

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darkphoenix181 posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

darkphoenix181 posted...

but for some strange reason a huge fat dude whose job is to sit at a desk all day thinks he needs to eat breakfast in modern day

You had me up to this line

You're saying people (desk jobs) don't need breakfast at all?

you won't expend that energy before you eat lunch

which is why so many people are fat

if on the otherhand you wake up really early and go jogging for miles, that is a different matter


if you wake up, eat, sit at desk for 1-3 hours, eat

then no

you are just making excess fat in your body

Literally just google "what happens if you don't eat breakfast" and you'll find more than enough sources to show you're wrong about that.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Literally just google "what happens if you don't eat breakfast" and you'll find more than enough sources to show you're wrong about that.

except none of those things actually happen if you're not a pussy
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

I once ate 18 Caseys donuts and a gallon of milk before working out.

I smiled at a hottie on the treadmill and threw up. The puke cycled around the treadmill and sprayed all over me and the surrounding area.

She saw me and screamed so I ran away. I left my wallet and keys in the locker room and just ran off. Out the door was a mom and her kids, I run into her covered in my puke full of whole indigested sprinkles. It gets all over her and her kid pukes from the smell.

I run away and get to my car, no keys. So I strip to my compression, run into the gym, snag my clothes and run out while the front desk calls the cops.

They never found me and my car still smells.

Story of the week
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Virus731 posted...

Muffinz0rz posted...

Literally just google "what happens if you don't eat breakfast" and you'll find more than enough sources to show you're wrong about that.

except none of those things actually happen if you're not a pussy

>Receives numerous reputable sources to discredit point
>Says don't be a pussy
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philsov posted...

If donuts had lower caloric density they also wouldn't be fucking awesome

It's a no win scenario.

rhklce posted...

I make protein donuts.

I've done protein pancakes before with eggs and blended cottage cheese and those came out pretty good, but I can't bring myself to defile donuts in the name of protein.

I mean, it's still fried sugary batter, except with some nonflavored whey in the mix?

1 cup Mashed Ripe Banana (Roughly 2 small bananas)
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Fat Free Greek Yogurt (I used a lactose-free brand)
1/4 cup Unsalted Soy Butter (Melted)
2 Eggs (Room Temperature)
1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
2 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Dairy Free Chocolate Chips OR fresh blueberries

I have like 676337864 recipes in an Excel sheet at home. When I was at my last job, I sold them on the side and had some fans for this one.

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

You're nuts, most peole burn 1200-1500 calories a day doing nothing. You should eat a 250 calorie breakfast.

According to the Healthy Eating Guide, sitting burns an estimated 75 calories per hour. The number of actual calories burned, of course, depends on your body composition, weight and metabolism. Reading a book while sitting burns 112 calories an hour for a 190-lb. man.May 28, 2015

pinky0926 posted...

450 calories straight out the gate

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Those powdered donuts with the cream in the middle though....
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@Muffinz0rz posted...

Literally just google "what happens if you don't eat breakfast" and you'll find more than enough sources to show you're wrong about that.

I am aware of psuedo science that gets tons of blog hits.

https://authoritynutrition.com/is-skipping-breakfast-bad/

https://www.aol.com/article/lifestyle/2017/03/01/breakfast-most-important-meal-of-day/21865875/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/07/take-it-with-a-pinch-of-salt-the-food-marketing-myths-weve-swallowed-whole

Let’s start with breakfast. There’s no conclusive evidence a morning meal makes you lose weight and feel great, but the idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day is widely ingrained. This is largely thanks to the efforts of grain companies. Kellogg’s, for example, funded an influential study that linked breakfasting on cereal with lower BMI. And The Quaker Oats Center of Excellence financed research showing that a daily breakfast of porridge reduces cholesterol.

Big Cereal isn’t alone in bigging up breakfast with biased science; bacon is also to blame. In the 1920s, PR man Edward Bernays was tasked with increasing bacon consumption in the US. At the time, most Americans ate a light breakfast; Bernays figured a good way to increase bacon consumption would be to increase breakfast consumption. So, he asked doctors to confirm that “a hearty breakfast was better than a light breakfast to replace the energy lost by the body at night”; 4,500 doctors agreed and Bernays got the media to report the results, strategically placing bacon adverts by the headlines. Today, 70% of bacon eaten in the US is eaten at breakfast.
but when you eat actually isn't the big factor

Thanks for citing a myth funded by big corporations though
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/10/the-science-of-skipping-breakfast-how-government-nutritionists-may-have-gotten-it-wrong/?utm_term=.0cdb3bc70c78

The notion that skipping breakfast might cause weight gain entered the Dietary Guidelines in 2010, during one of the reviews conducted every five years by experts to update its findings.

In preparation, a government-convened panel known as the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee collected research on skipping breakfast. Some of it did, indeed, suggest that breakfast skippers may be more likely to gain weight.

One of the key pieces of evidence, for example, examined the records for 20,000 male health professionals. Researchers followed the group for 10 years and published results in 2007 in the journal Obesity. They showed that after adjusting for age and other factors, the men who ate breakfast were 13 percent less likely to have had a significant weight gain.

“Our study suggests that the consumption of breakfast may modestly lower the risk of weight gain in middle-aged and older men,” the researchers said.

The advisory committee cited this and similar research, known as "observational studies," in support of the notion that skipping breakfast might cause weight gain. In "observational studies," subjects are merely observed, not assigned randomly to “treatment” and “control” groups as in a traditional experiment.

Observational studies in nutrition are generally cheaper and easier to conduct. But they can suffer from weaknesses that can lead scientists astray.

One of the primary troubles in observational studies is what scientists refer to as “confounders” — basically, unaccounted factors that can lead researchers to make mistaken assumptions about causes. For example, suppose breakfast skippers have a personality trait that makes them more likely to gain weight than breakfast eaters. If that’s the case, it may look as if skipping breakfast causes weight gain even though the cause is the personality trait.

tl;dr

breakfast is not special

if you eat cereal at 100 calories, that won't make you fat


but eating 1000 calories in 2 donuts will unless you are super active right after it
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I live across the street from a donut shop. People always ask how often I go there, but I rarely go and this is why. One donut is like more calories than my usual lunch and breakfast combined.

Every so often I will go and get an apple fritter, but that is actually a bad idea cause they are literally the size of my head.
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Muffinz0rz posted...

Literally just google "what happens if you don't eat breakfast" and you'll find more than enough sources to show you're wrong about that.

Dude, if there's one subject above all others where googling for answers is maybe the least productive way to learn accurate information, it's nutrition and exercise. I could probably find you 10 articles encouraging you to down pints of red wine for health benefits.

I thank @KiwiTerraRizing for that thrilling tale, though.
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AlisLandale posted...

If there're donuts, I just accept I'm gaining a pound that day and enjoy what I want.

I don't do it often. But if you're counting calories while you're eating donuts, you're ruining the experience. >_>

That's kind of my thing... its super, super rare that I go out and buy donuts. But if once every few months there is a box at work, I'll have one.
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rhklce posted...

1 cup Mashed Ripe Banana (Roughly 2 small bananas)
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Fat Free Greek Yogurt (I used a lactose-free brand)
1/4 cup Unsalted Soy Butter (Melted)
2 Eggs (Room Temperature)
1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
2 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Dairy Free Chocolate Chips OR fresh blueberries

Whole batch is about 2100 calories by my calcs, and that's before they see the deep fryer. And the total protein is 72g. 14% protein by calorie? Eh. Still better than a normal donut, I suppose.

I'll try it, maybe, cutting everything by 1/2 because that's a lot of food for just me
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It's not fair, there's so many delicious things that are so bad for you. :< Constantly, it's like, no I can't eat this, it's too unhealthy and/or fattening.
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philsov posted...

rhklce posted...

1 cup Mashed Ripe Banana (Roughly 2 small bananas)
1/2 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Fat Free Greek Yogurt (I used a lactose-free brand)
1/4 cup Unsalted Soy Butter (Melted)
2 Eggs (Room Temperature)
1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract
2 cups All-Purpose Flour
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 cup Dairy Free Chocolate Chips OR fresh blueberries

Whole batch is about 2100 calories by my calcs, and that's before they see the deep fryer. And the total protein is 72g. 14% protein by calorie? Eh. Still better than a normal donut, I suppose.

I'll try it, maybe, cutting everything by 1/2 because that's a lot of food for just me

I bake a lot of them. And again, that's just one recipe. If you'd like, I can PM you more when I get home so you can find one that best suits what you're looking for.

Stop having a shitty metabolism and then you can eat dem donuts. Fucking noobs
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darkphoenix181 posted...

Thanks for citing a myth funded by big corporations though

Nowhere did I say that it's the most important meal of the day. But I get headaches within an hour of waking up if I don't eat breakfast. Explain?

inb4Diabeetus
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Caseys has good donuts but their pizza is divine.
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