Need help inputting my chicken and rice

Fitlifestyle4life
Fitlifestyle4life Posts: 53 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
how can I be accurate when I eat my rice and chicken? So when I input it can be as close or on point to what I eat? I struggle with this

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  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Work out the raw weight of both you need for however many portions you want. Weigh it raw. Cook it. Reweigh once cool and divide into number of portions you made.

    Use raw weight when entering portions. (hope you're adding other foods to you diet as well?)
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Weigh each ingredient and input it.
  • kyrannosaurus
    kyrannosaurus Posts: 350 Member
    Weigh your rice. Weigh your chicken. Simple. It's the same for every recipe you create: weigh each ingredient and calculate the calories in each serve.
  • Zedeff
    Zedeff Posts: 651 Member
    kyrannosaurus wrote: »
    Weigh your rice. Weigh your chicken. Simple. It's the same for every recipe you create: weigh each ingredient and calculate the calories in each serve.

    And to that end, you don't even have to be super accurate with your servings. If you make 4 servings of rice totaling 1000 calories, if doesn't really matter if you eat portions of 250 x 4, or 300, 200, 150, 350. It comes out the same in a weekly span, so you don't need to stress too much about each portion size.
  • ncboiler89
    ncboiler89 Posts: 2,408 Member
    Fitlifestyle4life wrote: »
    how can I be accurate when I eat my rice and chicken? So when I input it can be as close or on point to what I eat? I struggle with this

    Scales
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    kyrannosaurus wrote: »
    Weigh your rice. Weigh your chicken. Simple. It's the same for every recipe you create: weigh each ingredient and calculate the calories in each serve.

    And don't forget any other ingredients that may be included in cooking, especially oils that can add up quickly.
  • Fitlifestyle4life
    Fitlifestyle4life Posts: 53 Member
    Ok thanks guy but yesterday I ate food from out side and meat I didn't know how much it actually was and when I do weight it it does not let me put it in to grams. And that's were I get confused.
  • Zedeff
    Zedeff Posts: 651 Member
    Just use "grams" as a search term, I find this useful. For example search the database for "chicken grams" instead of just "chicken".
  • hobbeskastiel
    hobbeskastiel Posts: 221 Member
    It depends on where you got the food from. The way you say it you seem to have gone out to eat, correct? Go online and find the restaurant or fast food place you got it from and look up the stats. They should have them on their site. You can either take it from there and add it to your list or look up the name here by store and food like : Panda Express chicken and rice. If someone has already added it then you just have to figure out if the portions are correct and add from there.
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    edited May 2015
    heres the thing....

    the more you weigh foods every day at home, and the longer you do it, the better you get at estimating weights when you are NOT at home.

    some places (usually chains) have nutrition info online.
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