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Weighing the food, macros

r9i317
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Hello Everyone I’m looking for a help, I’m trying to figure out how could I measure or calculate my food for exactly amount of carbs , fats and protein in each meal for example if I need daily protein intake of 211g , 4 meals a day will which is 52.75g of protein in each meal. Now when I cook my chicken breasts and I want to scale them to portion my meals how do I know how much there is protein in each gram of the chicken same with the carbs when it come to rice for example I do I know how much carbs there is in example 20g of rice please help. Thank you for reading and putting your time in to the subject.
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Hello Everyone I’m looking for a help, I’m trying to figure out how could I measure or calculate my food for exactly amount of carbs , fats and protein in each meal for example if I need daily protein intake of 211g , 4 meals a day will which is 52.75g of protein in each meal. Now when I cook my chicken breasts and I want to scale them to portion my meals how do I know how much there is protein in each gram of the chicken same with the carbs when it come to rice for example I do I know how much carbs there is in example 20g of rice please help. Thank you for reading and putting your time in to the subject.
You can create a recipe for them.. ingredient: ___g raw chicken/dry rice + ____g oil (if used in cooking); serving size: _____ (cooked weight). It will give you an entry where your food has been re-scaled to the cooked weight as you have prepared it.1 -
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