Okay, how many calories are REALLY in grilled chicken

I would say that depends on how many oz it weighs.

It'll vary based on who logged it and how they cooked it. For example, if someone grills it dry, someone else uses nonstick spray, and someone else brushes it with oil, you'll see three different calorie counts (and that doesn't take into account people's imperfect attempts to estimate or fudge the numbers).

Your best bet is to log what you know you're putting in. Weigh the breast yourself before you cook it and log the nutrition for that. If you use a tablespoon of oil or some seasoning, log that. Then you know it'll be accurate for what you are actually eating.

The chicken breast I buy have the cals on the package so that's what I use.

You can't accurately get a caloric count for already cooked chicken unless it's a mass produced product being cooked under the exact same conditions every single time and has had professional nutrition analysis.

This is because meat loses moisture when you cook it, how long your cook it and how you cook it is part of what determines how much moisture is loses.

So if you start with 4oz of boneless, skinless, chicken breast (120 calories) and cook it, with no other ingredients, just to the point of no longer being pink inside, you will have about 3.2-3.4oz of cooked chicken (120 calories).

If you start with 4oz of boneless, skinless, chicken breast (120 calories) and cook it, with no other ingredients, to the point that it's overcooked and dry inside, you will have about 2.6-2.8oz of cooked chicken (120 calories).

So always weigh your meat prior to cooking and use that to enter your nutrition data into your diary.

I agree on the log each thing idea (the chicken, then the oil or butter, etc), but what is the base, breast only? Already in this thread there are 2 different answers. 110 and 120. i know in the grand scheme of things 10 calories is nothing, but I am curious, can can people figure it out for ourselves, what the base chicken is?

What color were its feathers? Without that info there is really no way of knowing.

The most accurate count is gotten by sending your chicken to a lab for testing. Of course that I'll destroy the chicken and you won't be able to eat it, but at least you'll know exactly how many calories you saved by not eating the chicken at all!

^^^This

Chickens every where are thanking you for sticking up for them!

I would say that depends on how many oz it weighs.

about 45-50cals per oz (ingredient dependant)

raw chicken is approx 40 cal per ounce.

I Generally look at at least 2 or 3 values for an item the first time check that the macro's are added and then use the highest one the same as with the exercise I check MFP my HRM and sometimes my Nike+ app or my pedometer and use the lowest calories burned for the exercise period
so highest calories - lowest exercise calories burned = a safe bet on my diarie entries

I use the figure of 30 calories per ounce for boneless, skinless, all fat removed, chicken breasts - baked, grilled, or otherwise prepared without oil or fat. I weigh my portion after cooking.

Chicken contains a lot of water...if you cook it until it's dry - it will have more calories per ounce since all the water has been cooked out of it.

You will find many different calorie counts depending on where you look. Pick one and use it - you aren't going to mess up your calorie intake if you are a couple of calories per ounce off!

Good luck!

I use the USDA database site, which says 114 calories for 100g of raw, skinless, boneless chicken breast meat.

http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/831

I weigh mine raw. Nutritional facts on the package. Voilà. It's better to weigh raw because the chicken loses moisture during the cooking process, causing it to weigh less and become more calorie dense, so you'd be underestimating its calories if you weigh it cooked.

I'll add that some chicken has sodium water added to it..check the package guys. and restaurant grilled chicken tastes processed and weird..I know it has more calories and stalls my weight loss. maybe it is the sodium... it redefines..funky chicken.