Ugh... Consumed 24oz of chicken breast

WhimsicalX

Just cooked grilled 2 chicken breasts and ate both of them along with 1/2 cup of brown rice, 1 cup of black beans, 1/2 cup of spinach. I go to enter it all into MFP, glance at the Generic 4oz chicken breasts option I have always been using and think "hmm, just for curious let me see what these actually are" so I head out and buy a cheap kitchen scale, grab a breast from the fridge, and come to alarm that it weighs over 12oz! And I ate two of those!! And some sides!

This puts me 134g protein over the top. FML.

Dinner totaled out at 1,472 calories, which is fine because I spent an hour and half mountain biking this morning and I had skipped lunch. It didn't even occur to me that it was that much food. I was planning on resting the remainder of the day, but now I definitely have to hit the gym and put this surplus protein to use. Going to hit weights so hard.

Well, at least now I know to just eat HALF of one breast (6oz), instead of two whole ones (24oz), if I want a serving size.

RodaRose

You learned something today. That was good.

CipherZero

I want to have dinner at your house!

LeonCX

bumping, so that I can keep abreast on the latest replies.

WildOkapi

This is why I'm glad we have a food scale!

FredDoyle

RodaRose wrote: »

You learned something today. That was good.

What did they learn?
Seems fine to me OP. What are you worried about?

FredDoyle

I do that on purpose

fatcity66

Wow, you really have never weighed anything before, huh?
Quite a wake up call, isn't? At least now you know.

WhatMeRunning

I ate 24 oz of chicken yesterday in my food diary. My numbers came out right where I wanted them...which are not the same as MFP's recommendations due to carb restrictions (glucose intolerance). Granted, I was eating high protein for the rest of the day to make up for a high carb refueling after a run that morning. But, hey. It worked in the end.

999tigger

I just looked it up 35x24=840 calories for rilled chicken breast. Cant see why on earth you are bothered.

Alatariel75

Weighing food can be quite a shock! Really shows how you can be underestimating. Have a good time at the gym.

auddii

When you log it, be sure you use the "raw" chicken entry since you're using the weight of a raw chicken breast. I find the USDA entries pretty accurate.

oxers

I am genuinely jealous. 24oz of chicken sounds friggin' awesome right now.

fatcity66

oxers wrote: »

I am genuinely jealous. 24oz of chicken sounds friggin' awesome right now.

I know, I wish I could eat that much in a sitting...I would always meet my protein goals!

Alluminati

FML?
Really?

mockchoc

Chicken breast is the worst part of the chicken.. how could you eat that much of it? Yuk.

Capt_Apollo

you're muscles r gonna get so bulky.

debsdoingthis

MMMM Roast chicken breast for dinner.

amsnew

999tigger wrote: »

I just looked it up 35x24=840 calories for rilled chicken breast. Cant see why on earth you are bothered.

WhimsicalX wrote: »

Dinner totaled out at 1,472 calories

I know there's a certain subset of MFP who is convinced that eating a lot of food will magically make you lose weight, but that would be over some people's calorie limit for the day, just in one meal.

Weighing and measuring your food can be shocking when you first start doing it. I've lost 35 lbs. so far and I weigh and measure everything I eat. When I saw how small the servings for some things really are, I can see why I was so fat in the past.

gmallan

It's threads like these that make me really glad that I used to work in a deli and therefore got really good at guestimating the weight of food.

ndj1979

not really sure what the big deal is….

OP - are you sure that you entered this in correctly? when I look at 24 oz of chicken I get 660 calories….

WhatMeRunning

I'm guessing the skin was on.

leevank

Were these regular chicken breasts, or the boneless kind. If they were regular chicken breasts, when you weighed them, did you weigh the entire breast, or just the edible part? If you weighed the entire breast, you consumed a lot less than 24 ounces of chicken. I don't think I've ever seen a chicken breast with 12 ounces of edible meat.

Francl27

Yes the scale is an eye opener for sure. You would probably have a surprise if you weighed your rice and beans properly too... (in my experience the MFP entries for cooked rice are like 30% off).

amjmom

My doctor told me that the protein on here should be the minimum not the max.

baconslave

I just ate a mammoth chicken breast and it was 6oz of meat after it was all picked off the bone. It was humongous. Unless you ate a pterodactyl breast, I think maybe something is a little off.

onefortyone

One of the biggest changes we made when starting out was splitting a chicken breast instead of one each! Those things are HUUUGE!

*cue the jokes about large breasts*

Sophiareed218

Yep.. 4 oz is not much! Almost any store bought chicken breast is going to be much bigger (unless we're talking Cornish hen). That's why you hear the mantra weigh everything!

Makterbro

Yep. Having a food scale is an essential part of weight loss.

nickatine

Don't sweat it , its better than eating a bunch of greasy pizza or carls jr. I've been on a trip down south for the last few days and this morning at the hotel for breakfast I must of had a pound of scrambled eggs and a bannana but I knew it was better in the long run then having the belgian waffles with butter and syrup..

neanderthin

24 oz of prime rib sure, but chicken breast, nope couldn't do it.