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Weighing your food...precooked or postcooked

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  • magnetwife
    magnetwife Posts: 2 Member
    I've been going with cooked weight. I read all the posts but have yet to run into a restaurant yet where it has the pre cooked weight, other than McDonalds referring to their quarter pounder. now I'm wondering if I've input data wrong; I've managed to lose 24 pounds in 8 weeks so I'm sticking with what I'm doing but now wondering!
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Depends on the food. Just be sure to log accordingly.
  • nataliewood222
    nataliewood222 Posts: 1
    Meat is cooked
    rice is cooked
    oatmeal is cooked
    potatoes are pre-cooked
  • 3dogsrunning
    3dogsrunning Posts: 27,167 Member
    why are you weighing your food? should i? :embarassed:

    It's more accurate. You don't have to, many people are successful by using measuring cups and stuff but if you find you are stalling you may want to look at it.

    I weigh pre-cooked as often as possible especially for things like rice and pasta which can really depend on cooking methods for after cooking weight.
    If I do measure cooked I make sure to use an entry that reflects cooked weight, not raw.

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