Ugh... Consumed 24oz of chicken breast

WhimsicalX
WhimsicalX Posts: 6
edited November 8 in Food and Nutrition
Just cooked grilled 2 chicken breasts and ate both of them along with 1/2 cup of brown rice, 1 cup of black beans, 1/2 cup of spinach. I go to enter it all into MFP, glance at the Generic 4oz chicken breasts option I have always been using and think "hmm, just for curious let me see what these actually are" so I head out and buy a cheap kitchen scale, grab a breast from the fridge, and come to alarm that it weighs over 12oz! And I ate two of those!! And some sides!

This puts me 134g protein over the top. FML.

Dinner totaled out at 1,472 calories, which is fine because I spent an hour and half mountain biking this morning and I had skipped lunch. It didn't even occur to me that it was that much food. I was planning on resting the remainder of the day, but now I definitely have to hit the gym and put this surplus protein to use. Going to hit weights so hard.

Well, at least now I know to just eat HALF of one breast (6oz), instead of two whole ones (24oz), if I want a serving size.
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  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    You learned something today. That was good.
  • CipherZero
    CipherZero Posts: 1,418 Member
    I want to have dinner at your house! :D
  • LeonCX
    LeonCX Posts: 862 Member
    bumping, so that I can keep abreast on the latest replies.
  • WildOkapi
    WildOkapi Posts: 81
    This is why I'm glad we have a food scale!
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    RodaRose wrote: »
    You learned something today. That was good.
    What did they learn?
    Seems fine to me OP. What are you worried about?
  • FredDoyle
    FredDoyle Posts: 2,272 Member
    edited October 2014
    I do that on purpose
  • fatcity66
    fatcity66 Posts: 1,544 Member
    Wow, you really have never weighed anything before, huh?
    Quite a wake up call, isn't? At least now you know.
  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
    I ate 24 oz of chicken yesterday in my food diary. My numbers came out right where I wanted them...which are not the same as MFP's recommendations due to carb restrictions (glucose intolerance). Granted, I was eating high protein for the rest of the day to make up for a high carb refueling after a run that morning. But, hey. It worked in the end.
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    I just looked it up 35x24=840 calories for rilled chicken breast. Cant see why on earth you are bothered.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,349 Member
    Weighing food can be quite a shock! Really shows how you can be underestimating. Have a good time at the gym.
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    When you log it, be sure you use the "raw" chicken entry since you're using the weight of a raw chicken breast. I find the USDA entries pretty accurate.
  • oxers
    oxers Posts: 259 Member
    I am genuinely jealous. 24oz of chicken sounds friggin' awesome right now.
  • fatcity66
    fatcity66 Posts: 1,544 Member
    oxers wrote: »
    I am genuinely jealous. 24oz of chicken sounds friggin' awesome right now.
    I know, I wish I could eat that much in a sitting...I would always meet my protein goals!
  • Alluminati
    Alluminati Posts: 6,208 Member
    FML?
    Really?
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    Chicken breast is the worst part of the chicken.. how could you eat that much of it? Yuk.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    you're muscles r gonna get so bulky.
  • debsdoingthis
    debsdoingthis Posts: 454 Member
    MMMM Roast chicken breast for dinner.
  • amsnew
    amsnew Posts: 9 Member
    999tigger wrote: »
    I just looked it up 35x24=840 calories for rilled chicken breast. Cant see why on earth you are bothered.
    WhimsicalX wrote: »
    Dinner totaled out at 1,472 calories

    I know there's a certain subset of MFP who is convinced that eating a lot of food will magically make you lose weight, but that would be over some people's calorie limit for the day, just in one meal.

    Weighing and measuring your food can be shocking when you first start doing it. I've lost 35 lbs. so far and I weigh and measure everything I eat. When I saw how small the servings for some things really are, I can see why I was so fat in the past.
  • gmallan
    gmallan Posts: 2,099 Member
    It's threads like these that make me really glad that I used to work in a deli and therefore got really good at guestimating the weight of food.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    not really sure what the big deal is….

    OP - are you sure that you entered this in correctly? when I look at 24 oz of chicken I get 660 calories….
  • WhatMeRunning
    WhatMeRunning Posts: 3,538 Member
    I'm guessing the skin was on.
  • leevank
    leevank Posts: 1
    Were these regular chicken breasts, or the boneless kind. If they were regular chicken breasts, when you weighed them, did you weigh the entire breast, or just the edible part? If you weighed the entire breast, you consumed a lot less than 24 ounces of chicken. I don't think I've ever seen a chicken breast with 12 ounces of edible meat.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Yes the scale is an eye opener for sure. You would probably have a surprise if you weighed your rice and beans properly too... (in my experience the MFP entries for cooked rice are like 30% off).
  • amjmom
    amjmom Posts: 32
    My doctor told me that the protein on here should be the minimum not the max.
  • baconslave
    baconslave Posts: 7,021 Member
    I just ate a mammoth chicken breast and it was 6oz of meat after it was all picked off the bone. It was humongous. Unless you ate a pterodactyl breast, I think maybe something is a little off.
  • onefortyone
    onefortyone Posts: 531 Member
    One of the biggest changes we made when starting out was splitting a chicken breast instead of one each! Those things are HUUUGE!

    *cue the jokes about large breasts*
  • Sophiareed218
    Sophiareed218 Posts: 145 Member
    Yep.. 4 oz is not much! Almost any store bought chicken breast is going to be much bigger (unless we're talking Cornish hen). That's why you hear the mantra weigh everything!
  • Makterbro
    Makterbro Posts: 101 Member
    Yep. Having a food scale is an essential part of weight loss.
  • nickatine
    nickatine Posts: 451 Member
    Don't sweat it , its better than eating a bunch of greasy pizza or carls jr. I've been on a trip down south for the last few days and this morning at the hotel for breakfast I must of had a pound of scrambled eggs and a bannana but I knew it was better in the long run then having the belgian waffles with butter and syrup..
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,262 Member
    24 oz of prime rib sure, but chicken breast, nope couldn't do it.
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