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Help please - recording foods with bones

Newbie_at_this
Newbie_at_this Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone. Newbie here! Day 7 today and really enjoying being here. I have a question. When the app gives you the calories for foods that have bones, for example ribs or roast-in-the-bag chicken, does the weight include bones? Or it is just the meat? I haven't had either yet because I don't want to record them wrongly and blow my calorie allowance for the day. Thank you.

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    I never count the weight of anything I don't eat. If I weigh a banana, I leave out the peel. If I weigh an avocado, I leave out the stone.
  • LunaTheFatCat
    LunaTheFatCat Posts: 237 Member
    Same
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    The weight does not include bones. The easiest way to log those kinds of foods is to use the cooked entry and then subtract the weight of that you do not eat. (Although I often just pull the chicken I want to eat at a particular meal off a chicken breast with bones before weighing and eating.)

    A good entry for cooked meat should look something like: "chicken, breast, meat and skin, cooked, dry heat" and will also have lots of unit alternatives.
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