Cooked vs. Uncooked

Str82go

I'm somewhat frustrated as I sit here after eating 6 oz. of cooked top sirloin. I feel like ive been doing it wrong. I weighed the food cooked after I trimmed the fat. So it's a grilled lean 6 oz. of top sirloin. How much difference is there between that and the uncooked, untrimmed 6 oz.?

Another question. I've been just throwing my chicken breasts in the crock pot and shredding, then weighing out 6 oz. for each meal. Is there a big difference here as well?

Either way it appears I've been slightly over the calories I thought I was consuming.

Any ideas to make this easier would be appreciated. Thinking about cutting meals down to 5 oz. cooked and trimmed. That would probably take care of it so long as it's the same amount of protein.

Lounmoun

If you weigh the cooked meat then choose a cooked meat entry to log.
If you weigh raw, choose a raw entry to log.

Str82go

That's a good point. Lol. Thanks. It appears the lack of carbs has severely reduced any common sense I had.

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Alatariel75

Lounmoun wrote: »

If you weigh the cooked meat then choose a cooked meat entry to log.
If you weigh raw, choose a raw entry to log.

Yup, this. Meat loses more moisture the more it is cooked, but so long as you're picking the appropriate entry (raw or cooked), you'll be close enough to accuracy.