weighing your food.

kalel9980

ok so i always way my food after its cooked. (ex. baked potato, steak, chicken breasts,etc.) i dont eat soup or food mixed with liquids. i was weighing pre cooked but i noticed most foods lose atleast 1-3 oz after they are cooked. whats everyone's thoughts on this?

diannethegeek

As long as you're choosing accurate and appropriate entries from the database (ie you wouldn't choose a grilled entry if you boiled it) then it shouldn't be a big deal whether you weigh before or after. I prefer to weigh raw.

eeejer

if you weigh cooked you have to find an entry in MFP that specifies cooked. Most entries are for raw.

rosebarnalice

I usually weigh my food raw

alyssa0061

If you log 3oz raw chicken but you eat 3oz cooked chicken, you've underestimated your calories. If you're logging raw entries for all your cooked food you're severely underestimating your calories.

139 calories, 3 oz cooked chicken

96 calories, 3 oz raw chicken

That's 43 calories unaccounted for.

Ready2Rock206

I prefer raw for accuracy

ASKyle

Nutrition label information is for the raw weight. Be careful that you're choosing cooked entries, or you could be underestimating your intake by a lot.

Shells918

I weigh my food cooked. If I weigh it raw if have to keep it separate from the rest of the food I'm cooking. I log cooked entries so I feel I'm being accurate.

nixxthirteen

For me it depends. I weigh rice cooked because we make a big batch at a time, veggies raw, meat raw (unless I cook a big pork tenderloin and take a small bit off for myself)... I just make sure to try to pick the correct database entry.