Weighing your food.

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  • FixIngMe13
    FixIngMe13 Posts: 405 Member
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    Yep... before.
  • browneyes97
    browneyes97 Posts: 98
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    Honestly, I weigh my meat after cooking. I make enough for several meals and the pieces are not always the same size. How do you know which piece of meat will be your meal that time?
  • ritchiedrama
    ritchiedrama Posts: 1,304 Member
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    Honestly, I weigh my meat after cooking. I make enough for several meals and the pieces are not always the same size. How do you know which piece of meat will be your meal that time?

    I weigh all food out to be 200g, 200g, 200g etc.. thats why.
  • PumpJockeyy
    PumpJockeyy Posts: 98 Member
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    After cooking would be most accurate. You can find the right entry for your log. Different methods of cooking provide different weights, therefore different nutritional values. (baking,grilling,boiling, etc)

    Edit: This is for meat/fish. Anything that comes in a box/has a food label is the raw/uncooked value. (such as oatmeal. Measure it out dry then cook etc.)
  • stonel94
    stonel94 Posts: 550 Member
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    most entries on here and nutrition facts on meats and things that need to be cooked are for the weight raw. so i weigh it raw if I can and if I can't I try to figure out the weight it should be cooked, not do like 4 oz of chicken cooked. Some entries will say cooked or grilled so you can use those. If not, just try to guess, like 4 oz raw chicken usually yields 3 oz cooked, so if you want an 8 oz serving as written on the package but you only have it cooked weigh out like 6 oz. For things like rice 1/4 cup or Xgrams is 140 calories, but that yields 3/4 cups cooked, so if it was 40 grams raw then times 3 would be 120 grams cooked.
  • dolphin1963
    dolphin1963 Posts: 6 Member
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    i weigh my before cooking then you getting the real weight, but i want to know is, im eating low gi and in 90grams of broccoli , zucchini, green beans it says they have 2sugar, should i count theses sugars in the vegies??? its puzzling me i only get 20 sugar aday doesnt leave much for my fruit ,
  • devils44
    devils44 Posts: 43 Member
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    For meats, I always weigh after cooking and find the method of cooking in the database (I.e. grilling, pan seared, baked, etc.). I've been loosing weight consistently.
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