Counting calories

Shauna708

Do you weigh the item cooked or uncooked..

margolinville

I never weigh food ! I count the calories! I have lost 10 pounds with my fitness pal doing this!
Digital scale helps too

margolinville

3500 calories eaten makes you gain 1 pound.

Holly_Roman_Empire

margolinville wrote: »

I never weigh food ! I count the calories! I have lost 10 pounds with my fitness pal doing this!
Digital scale helps too

So...do you use a digital scale to weigh your food or not?

OP, I tend to weigh my foods out cooked. I have no idea if that's the correct way or not, but there are entries in the database that specify calories for cooked or uncooked items.

Shauna708

Dnt understand why you have mentioned 3500 calories! !!!

margolinville

Most people burn 2000 calories a day.
So if you eat less than 2000 a day you can loose weight. Then your body uses stored food.
Use my fitness pal!

dfranch

margolinville wrote: »

I never weigh food ! I count the calories! I have lost 10 pounds with my fitness pal doing this!
Digital scale helps too

How do you count the calories if you didn't weigh the food?

margolinville

Use digital scale to weigh yourself! In the morning before you eat every day to see results!
It works for me. I can see my numbers go down in 7 days I loose 1 pound

Susieq_1994

margolinville wrote: »

Most people burn 2000 calories a day.
So if you eat less than 2000 a day you can loose weight. Then your body uses stored food.
Use my fitness pal!

You're making no sense.

OP, weighing food raw is more accurate than cooked, because the amount of time that you cook your food can result in more or less loss of water. However, you CAN weigh it cooked if it's more convenient for you, just make sure that you used "cooked weight" entries in the database, because 100 grams of cooked chicken will have more calories than 100 grams of raw chicken, for example, because that cooked chicken started out as around 125 grams of raw.

All the best!