Hi all
TLDR: I've always picked the meat away from a dish, checked the weight seperately and then added it back in my dish. So for instance 90g of cooked chicken breast, i'd put in 90*1,66 on a calculator and type in 150g of chicken breast in MyFitnessPal app for tracking. How do you do it when for example your wife cooks and you don't know the exact pre-cooked weight?
Long version: I've been counting calories for so long, and for the most part it's always worked so i haven't digged into this subject for a long while, but i picked up weightlifting recently and now I'm wondering if i actually cheat myself from getting enough protein. The reason why is i've always calculated that well cooked meat would lose around 40% of it's weight in liquid and what not.
So for instance a 300 gram chicken breast is 180g when cooked, so i'd just pick something my wife has cooked out of the fridge, weigh the meat and type x-value * 1,66 on a calculator, to find out how much this meat was weighing before cooking.
Today I bought some already cooked chicken and salad in a box at the store, and when i weighed 60gram of it and scanned the barcode with MyFitnessPal, it showed only 73 calories.
If i couldn't scan a barcode, here is a perfect example of where I'd usually type (60*1,66) 100g of chicken into MyFitnessPal, but 100g of chicken breast is 105+ calories.
This means the manufactorer must have roughly calculated this chicken was around 70gram of raw = 60 gram of cooked, whereas i normally count 100gram of raw = 60gram of cooked.
I'm very curious how you go about this whole issue, because there's minced types of meat, chicken, beef, pork, fish. What's your general rule of thumb to make it actually possible to count calories when you didn't know the before-cooked weight?
ENGLISH IS NOT MY FIRST LANGUAGE, HOPE IT STILL MAKES SENSE!
TLDR: I've always picked the meat away from a dish, checked the weight seperately and then added it back in my dish. So for instance 90g of cooked chicken breast, i'd put in 90*1,66 on a calculator and type in 150g of chicken breast in MyFitnessPal app for tracking. How do you do it when for example your wife cooks and you don't know the exact pre-cooked weight?
Long version: I've been counting calories for so long, and for the most part it's always worked so i haven't digged into this subject for a long while, but i picked up weightlifting recently and now I'm wondering if i actually cheat myself from getting enough protein. The reason why is i've always calculated that well cooked meat would lose around 40% of it's weight in liquid and what not.
So for instance a 300 gram chicken breast is 180g when cooked, so i'd just pick something my wife has cooked out of the fridge, weigh the meat and type x-value * 1,66 on a calculator, to find out how much this meat was weighing before cooking.
Today I bought some already cooked chicken and salad in a box at the store, and when i weighed 60gram of it and scanned the barcode with MyFitnessPal, it showed only 73 calories.
If i couldn't scan a barcode, here is a perfect example of where I'd usually type (60*1,66) 100g of chicken into MyFitnessPal, but 100g of chicken breast is 105+ calories.
This means the manufactorer must have roughly calculated this chicken was around 70gram of raw = 60 gram of cooked, whereas i normally count 100gram of raw = 60gram of cooked.
I'm very curious how you go about this whole issue, because there's minced types of meat, chicken, beef, pork, fish. What's your general rule of thumb to make it actually possible to count calories when you didn't know the before-cooked weight?
ENGLISH IS NOT MY FIRST LANGUAGE, HOPE IT STILL MAKES SENSE!
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