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    Question about calories

    Posts: 28 Member
    edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
    So I made a dish with mushrooms and meat, but I didn't like the meat in it so I did not eat the meat. So I should remove the calories from meat in MFP?

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    • Posts: 517 Member
      Absolutely, since you're not eating any of it. However, if you end up repurposing it for a different dish, maybe you should keep it in your log.

      If you're throwing it away, well, then I suppose you'll never eat it, so it shouldn't be on your log.
    • Posts: 2,145 Member
      If they cooked together at the same time in the same pan, I would remove 3/4 of the meat calories since they were cooked together & you are probably getting some nutrients and calories from the residual juices... Otherwise, yeah, gone!
    • Posts: 15,151 Member
      Personally, I would just leave it, but if you need the calories, log half.
    • Posts: 185 Member
      edited October 2015
      Liftng4Lis wrote: »
      Personally, I would just leave it, but if you need the calories, log half.


      But isn't that technically the same as under-logging because you ate over your goal? Your body doesn't know mfp exists, there's no point in lying to a phone app. :)

      OP, I'd probably log like 15 or 20% of the calories from your meat, especially if it was all cooked together in the same pot, and the meat wasn't something really lean. It's probably overestimating a little, but fat and stuff from the meat would probably have been mixed in while you cooked.
    • Posts: 9,603 Member
      I'll vote for logging 75% of the meat calories. It's just one meal, so not a huge deal either way.

      Meat and mushrooms go very well together sometimes. :)
    • Posts: 9,603 Member
      I'll vote for logging 75% of the meat calories. It's just one meal, so not a huge deal either way.

      Meat and mushrooms go very well together sometimes. :)
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    • Posts: 28 Member
      dinosaurparty wrote: »
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      But isn't that technically the same as under-logging because you ate over your goal? Your body doesn't know mfp exists, there's no point in lying to a phone app. :)

      OP, I'd probably log like 15 or 20% of the calories from your meat, especially if it was all cooked together in the same pot, and the meat wasn't something really lean. It's probably overestimating a little, but fat and stuff from the meat would probably have been mixed in while you cooked.

      it was chicken leg, meat and skin, and yes they we re cooked together and I also eaten some of it at first. I guess I m gonna log it 50% or all
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