Hard boiled eggs

maura_tasi
maura_tasi Posts: 196 Member
edited November 23 in Food and Nutrition
This is probably a very silly question, but I'm genuinely curious so bare with me guys! When you are logging a hard boiled egg what is your preferred method? I know a large egg is about 70 calories give or take, so do you just usually weigh the egg after it's hard boiled without the shell on or just guesstimate and leave it at 70 calories for the entry? I know it sounds nit picky and a bit obsessive but I eat them very often and want to get as accurate as I can with all of my tracking since I'm down to the final 15lbs. Today I had one that weighed in at 53 grams hard boiled and have yet to log it because I wanted some opinions first.

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  • JennJ323
    JennJ323 Posts: 646 Member
    I always chose the "USDA large egg" at 78 calories entry.. out of curiosity I weighed it (in grams) the other day before lunch, without the shell, and it turned out to be 92 calories. So not a huge difference.. it's not going to make me or break me. But now just to be safe I'll just always log 92. I always buy the same brand and size egg, so I assume it'll always be about the same.
  • maura_tasi
    maura_tasi Posts: 196 Member
    JennJ323 wrote: »
    I always chose the "USDA large egg" at 78 calories entry.. out of curiosity I weighed it (in grams) the other day before lunch, without the shell, and it turned out to be 92 calories. So not a huge difference.. it's not going to make me or break me. But now just to be safe I'll just always log 92. I always buy the same brand and size egg, so I assume it'll always be about the same.

    Thank you! It's not a make or break for me either, I was just wondering what others did in case there was another way I could do it. I eat a couple throughout the day usually so I guess I was thinking it could ~potentially~ add up. I'll just stick with the usda entry I've been using since I buy the same brand/size of eggs consistently as well!
  • Daveacpa2
    Daveacpa2 Posts: 19 Member
    I buy Egg-land's Best egg which has a nutritional label for an extra large egg of 70 calories for 56 grams.
  • Lean59man
    Lean59man Posts: 714 Member
    I go with 70.
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    I usually weigh eggs, especially when keeping a deficit. Hard boiled, I'd weigh it cooked without the shell. If cracking them directly into a pan, I tare them on the scale and read the scale with the empty shells. I understand trying to be as accurate as possible. Small errors can add up.
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,284 Member
    i eat hard boiled eggs and just log them all the same, no weighing each time.

    Differences are minimal and it averages out.
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  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    I agree with the other posters about 70 cals an egg.
    There are LOTS of peeps on here though who are likely to respond that they actually do weigh each egg....
    The only things I weigh now are rice/pasta/potatoes and cereal. I know what a portion size looks like by eyeballing in general - been maintaining my goal weight for 4+ years so it works for me :smile:
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    I don't weigh eggs.
  • RachelElser
    RachelElser Posts: 1,049 Member
    I don't bother to weigh it, I get whatever egg is on sale, and log it at that size.
  • joemac1988
    joemac1988 Posts: 1,021 Member
    I mean this in the nicest way possible but you are waaaaay overthinking this. We're talking just a few calories of intake. That's like worrying about staying in bed an extra 10 minutes because you burn less calories than getting up. By all means, do your best to be accurate but not on something where the margin of error is 20 calories.
  • pogiguy05
    pogiguy05 Posts: 1,583 Member
    Yeh I would go with 70 calories and be done with it. Sometimes I wonder if when I crack an egg to make an omelet and some of the egg is still in the bowl I scrambled it in, do I count that since technically it is not being consumed. I am just not that anal retentive to worry about those calories.
  • maura_tasi
    maura_tasi Posts: 196 Member
    NoxeemaJackson wrote: »
    70 cals per egg - and also my husband bought a countertop egg boiler, and I thought it was the dumbest thing in the world (um? We have a pot and water and a stove, what do we need a countertop egg boiler for?) and now, it is my favorite kitchen thing and we use it ALL the time.
    They're like $20 and every egg that it boils peels perfectly every time, and I don't have to watch it or anything.

    That sounds cool! I didn't even know those were a thing. I'm notorious for over cooking hard boiled eggs!
  • maura_tasi
    maura_tasi Posts: 196 Member
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    Evidently, I've been weighing my eggs and now I am questioning my entire existence.

    I have just always read on the forums that it's important to weigh everything when it comes to the last few lbs of weight loss so I assumed everyone weighed their eggs and it wasn't strange. Now I feel a bit crazy :neutral: but I'm glad I asked and got some responses haha
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  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    joemac1988 wrote: »
    I mean this in the nicest way possible but you are waaaaay overthinking this. We're talking just a few calories of intake. That's like worrying about staying in bed an extra 10 minutes because you burn less calories than getting up. By all means, do your best to be accurate but not on something where the margin of error is 20 calories.

    When your calorie goal is 1400 calories and your deficit is 250 calories, if you are off 20 calories here and 20 calories there, it makes a noticeable difference over time. Smaller people with smaller calorie goals trying to lose weight without subsisting on green salads sometimes do have to sweat the small stuff to get things moving. Not forever, but sometimes. I got to have a beer every once and awhile only because I weighed every damn thing.
  • maura_tasi
    maura_tasi Posts: 196 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    maura_tasi wrote: »
    fitoverfortymom wrote: »
    Evidently, I've been weighing my eggs and now I am questioning my entire existence.

    I have just always read on the forums that it's important to weigh everything when it comes to the last few lbs of weight loss so I assumed everyone weighed their eggs and it wasn't strange. Now I feel a bit crazy :neutral: but I'm glad I asked and got some responses haha

    Don't feel crazy. We all have to do what works for us, and different methods may be more or less useful at different times in your journey.

    There is no reason for people to scold you for going overboard when posters are also routinely scolded for not weighing all solids. Judgey people are judgey. :neutral:

    I typically buy the same eggs all the time, and when I started out I weighed a bunch of them after they were hard boiled and peeled. Most of them were a few more grams than the crate said was a serving, so I found an entry that matched the nutrition info on the eggs and always log 1.1 servings without weighing them. I am not ashamed to be anal and if crossing all your t's and dotting all your i's makes the process better for you, go for it. The only time you need to worry about overdoing it is if being exact about every single thing causes you stress or to skip out on events to avoid that stress. :drinker:

    I'm Definitely not stressed about being exact all the time thank goodness! :smiley: I like to get as exact as I can during the week when I'm providing the food for myself so on the weekends I don't have to stress about accurate logging! I appreciate your response. The popular opinion seems to be what you suggested about just finding the best match and logging 1.1 servings. I think that's what I'll do as well!
  • maura_tasi
    maura_tasi Posts: 196 Member
    Thanks everyone for the responses,I appreciate them. I definitely won't be weighing my eggs for the rest of my life, but right now I'm going to stick to it so I can be as exact as I can since I'm close to my goal and my deficit has gotten smaller. I'm glad I do weigh them because now I understand they do vary a bit in calories, but not a ton. I think of weighing eggs the same as weighing my prepackaged food (yes, I do that too) because now I know that there could potentially be more calories than listed, which do add up if I eat these foods frequently.
  • vingogly
    vingogly Posts: 1,785 Member
    edited November 2017
    The calorie numbers in nutritional labels, books, and sites on the internet are not as accurate as you might think; they're estimates. Measuring caloric intake is not an exact science. Since the numbers aren't reliable anyway for a number of reasons (some of them related to the nature and structure of the food, others related to the way our bodies process them), making yourself crazy trying to be super accurate about measurement is pretty much pointless in my book.

    https://www.livescience.com/26799-calorie-counts-inaccurate.html
    http://www.businessinsider.com/calorie-counts-arent-accurate-2013-7
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-reveals-why-calorie-counts-are-all-wrong/
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,002 Member
    Never weighed an egg and you don't have to either...
  • dbanks80
    dbanks80 Posts: 3,685 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    I log it as 70 and move on with life.

    Same
  • dsboohead
    dsboohead Posts: 1,899 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    I log it as 70 and move on with life.

    Amen just be confident and realistic.....70 and move on!
  • ahoy_m8
    ahoy_m8 Posts: 3,053 Member
    I buy the same Aldi eggs every week. A couple dozen. I usually weigh them. They range from 48g to 60g each. That's >20% variation. If you eat tons of eggs, it probably averages out. But then it could multiply your inaccuracy on a given day, too. Honestly, it is not any more effort to weigh eggs than butter. I usually weigh butter, too. It's all an estimate, even when weighing everything, and it all counts.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    ahoy_m8 wrote: »
    I buy the same Aldi eggs every week. A couple dozen. I usually weigh them. They range from 48g to 60g each. That's >20% variation. If you eat tons of eggs, it probably averages out. But then it could multiply your inaccuracy on a given day, too. Honestly, it is not any more effort to weigh eggs than butter. I usually weigh butter, too. It's all an estimate, even when weighing everything, and it all counts.

    What is the size on the label of your eggs?
  • grinning_chick
    grinning_chick Posts: 765 Member
    edited November 2017
    Considering there is a range of egg size/weight acceptable within each "size" category (e.g., medium, large, jumbo, etc.) I go with the standard 70 for the large eggs I use and figure it all evens out in the end to an average of...wait for it...the carton's printed nutrition label listing of 70 calories per egg.

    The only time I ever deviated from this was when I got a dozen that had, no joke, at least 10/12 (if not all) double yolked eggs in it. It was awesome.
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