Calorie Counting 101
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When I cook my cabbage it shrinks and I don't have the same amount after I cook it. (Of course) So when I weigh it and divide up the servings for example 28oz raw 7 servings each servings 4oz. Now when I cook it there is no way I'm getting 7 serving bc the cabbage now weighs 18.5oz cooked. So my question is should i divide my servings up after I cook? With meat I always did it before I cook it.0
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When I cook my cabbage it shrinks and I don't have the same amount after I cook it. (Of course) So when I weigh it and divide up the servings for example 28oz raw 7 servings each servings 4oz. Now when I cook it there is no way I'm getting 7 serving bc the cabbage now weighs 18.5oz cooked. So my question is should i divide my servings up after I cook? With meat I always did it before I cook it0
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When I cook my cabbage it shrinks and I don't have the same amount after I cook it. (Of course) So when I weigh it and divide up the servings for example 28oz raw 7 servings each servings 4oz. Now when I cook it there is no way I'm getting 7 serving bc the cabbage now weighs 18.5oz cooked. So my question is should i divide my servings up after I cook? With meat I always did it before I cook it
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Fantastic post! thank you
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Thanks for the great info..
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Great info!0
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Weigh it all raw, weigh it all cooked. Divide those numbers. Weigh the cooked portion you are going to eat, then multiply it be the number you got dividing the total raw and total cooked. This works for any cooked food.
Can you please be a little more specific about this. Do you mean divide the raw weight into the cooked weight or the other way around.
Thanks so much!
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lorisavage13 wrote: »Weigh it all raw, weigh it all cooked. Divide those numbers. Weigh the cooked portion you are going to eat, then multiply it be the number you got dividing the total raw and total cooked. This works for any cooked food.
Can you please be a little more specific about this. Do you mean divide the raw weight into the cooked weight or the other way around.
Thanks so much!
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tracyannk28 wrote: »Calorie Counting 101
Dining out: If you want to be 100% accurate you can bring a scale to a restaurant. [
I couldn't even imagine how embarrassing it would be for my friends and family if I started lugging my food scale with me into restaurants. The day I start doing this is the day I realize that this healthy eating plan gone too far.
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I'm 35, and amazed at how much I don't know about how to eat. Thank you for this post!0
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Okay, so gave in a bought a scale to weigh. I pretty much was accurate with the hand weighing, but it is better to just put in a scale.0
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All the research I've done says that it doesn't matter what and when I eat as long as I'm in my calorie deficit I will lose weight no matter what. However I see so many ppl on here very concerned about their macros and making sure they aren't eating too many carbs. Part of me wants to stop worrying about my macros and just worry about my calories but I've always been taught not to eat too many carbs and never eat after 7:00 pm. Is this something I should just let go of or should I be watching my macros and not be eating a snack closer to bed.0
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All the research I've done says that it doesn't matter what and when I eat as long as I'm in my calorie deficit I will lose weight no matter what. However I see so many ppl on here very concerned about their macros and making sure they aren't eating too many carbs. Part of me wants to stop worrying about my macros and just worry about my calories but I've always been taught not to eat too many carbs and never eat after 7:00 pm. Is this something I should just let go of or should I be watching my macros and not be eating a snack closer to bed.
If you hit your macros, you will hit your calories.
You can eat whenever you want, meal timing is irrelevant. Your body isn't going to store food as fat if you eat at 7:01pm.
Carbs are not the enemy. Excess of calories is the problem.
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I just started calorie counting 5 days ago and have lost 4 lbs. it's hard to cut back but it's very effective! That's what I mainly use this app for. Calorie counting definitely helps me make better decisions during the day. Thanks for the advice!0
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All the research I've done says that it doesn't matter what and when I eat as long as I'm in my calorie deficit I will lose weight no matter what. However I see so many ppl on here very concerned about their macros and making sure they aren't eating too many carbs. Part of me wants to stop worrying about my macros and just worry about my calories but I've always been taught not to eat too many carbs and never eat after 7:00 pm. Is this something I should just let go of or should I be watching my macros and not be eating a snack closer to bed.
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Vismal - good post.
As a companion to this I would suggest that people read the post " Logging Accurately " .
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide/p1
and visit this link as it has quite a few good posts that supports the Good Information in this post.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/833026/important-posts-to-read/p1
I was using MFP for a good 6 months before I found these posts so it is a bit of a personal mission of mine to pass them on to other people who are just starting.
My standard suggestion/tip is to do some reading and buy a kitchen scale!!!
Re-train/calibrate your mind as to what a portion size is..
You will be surprised how small some portions look when you start to weigh them out. The average cereal bowl I have in my kitchen will hold 2-6 portions.
The Food Database
@ arditarose and @ blankiefinder Nailed it when it comes to Logging accurately and selecting food using the search feature.arditarose wrote: »Weigh your eggs and find the appropriate entry. Two eggs at 50 grams is typically 140 calories. If you cooked them with olive oil, add that as well.blankiefinder wrote: »if I haven't found an entry that lists the grams, I keep looking for a different entry. This [ Enter Food ] item is already listed a bunch of times. Better to edit and correct one that is already there than add to the database mess that exists now.
When creating or editing a Food item from the existing database my Personal Bias is to Edit an existing Entry and enter the nutritional values based on grams ( 100 gm ) as it makes the portion size math easy. Especially when you use a scale and WEIGH EVERYTHING.
Rather than creating a completely new entry for a food item and adding to the Disaster/Mess in the Food Database I continue looking through the items until I find one with Grams in it and verify the data against the USDA website.
HINT if 2000 people have confirmed the nutritional value of an item it's a good choice, if 4 people have its questionable.
There are always a range of choices and one inevitably has by weight
If I can't find an existing entry with grams I pick one that has Nutritional Values close to the ones based on Manufacture Label - cross referenced to un-biased nutritional information from the USDA web site at and then edit it by adding a 100 gram reference and confirm the nutritional values based on Manufacture Label again cross referenced to USDA database ( MFP seems to automatically add a 1 gm value in the database). My personal Bias is to use grams ( 100 gm) as it makes the math easy especially when you use a scale.
http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search
Some of these links will show up in the other Groups and discussions.
Visit the Eat-Train-Progress group and read the pinned topics. If you click on the little STAR you can bookmark the topic for future reference.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/10118-eat-train-progress
Read the information at these MFP post. They have links to multiple very good reads.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1069278/acronyms-and-terms-for-new-mfp-members-v-6/p1
Visit these links about building Habits.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/ihad/view/the-power-of-habit-part-4-making-good-habits-stick-1-000-days-on-mfp-and-counting-698617
Its not practical or socially acceptable to carry a scale into restaurants-friends-family homes so that is where we have to fall back on our memory and estimates of what the portions sizes are. Do be careful about eyeballing as many people have posted how surprised at how small some portions are when they started to use a scale and weigh them out. I know I was. We can never be 100% accurate but the rewards of weight loss are worth the effort.
Keep coming back to this post ( bookmark it ) as I am sure Vismal and others will have lots of little pieces of information that will help you.0 -
So what your saying Vismal is I really should concentrate on not eating too many carbs? I have my macros set to 40 carbs 30 fat and 30 protein. I'm usually over on carbs and protein. I'm not over in my actual numbers just the pie chart says I'm over.0
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So what your saying Vismal is I really should concentrate on not eating too many carbs? I have my macros set to 40 carbs 30 fat and 30 protein. I'm usually over on carbs and protein. I'm not over in my actual numbers just the pie chart says I'm over.0
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