Guess Calories Instead of Counting Calories: How Many Calories in These Foods

You're about to eat a bowl of cereal. Do you know about how many calories you are about to consume? If you are an accurate calorie guesser you will. The reason you want to be good at guessing calories is that you will be able to more accurately estimate your total calories throughout the day, helping you manage a healthy body weight and increasing your overall health.

Guess how many calories are in each picture below. Each picture contains food serving sizes that are either exactly 100, 200, 300, 400, or 500 calories. Don't count the calories in the money, battery, or card that are pictured. When you get to the bottom of the page, click the link to find out how many calories were in each picture. After each vote you will get to see if you voted like other people. Then when you visit the link you can see what the true answers are.

The RDI values on nutrition labels for a day worth of calories are based on a 2,000 calorie diet, so keep this in mind. I am 6' 4'' and weigh 220 lbs, so I need about 3,300 to maintain my weight at moderate activity levels. Also, remember there are 9 calories per gram of fat, 4 calories per gram of protein, and 4 calories per gram of carbohydrate. In other words if something has a lot of fat it will have more calories for the amount of mass. Good Luck!

When you reach the bottom of the page click on the link to find out the amounts of calories in each picture.

When you are finished click HERE to find out how many calories were in each of the pictures.