Counting Macros in cooked food

ChristinaGeorgiou92
ChristinaGeorgiou92 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hi guys,I am new here,how is your fitness day? :D I have a question about my macros.Does anyone know if there a difference in weight of cooked potatoes?
And if you cook meals for the whole week,how do you count macros in such case? :)

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  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    I log the raw ingredients.

    If I do meals- I log it as a recipe and that tells you how many servings- I adjust that after I'm done and portion all of the food out into containers. Boom- done.
  • ChristinaGeorgiou92
    ChristinaGeorgiou92 Posts: 4 Member
    Ok but I want to get my macros exactly right.Cooked food and raw food weights differently.Like meat weights less when cooked,pasta and rice weight more.So in such case it's hard to know the original weight so that you get your macros right in each portion....Get me?
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    edited January 2016
    ChristinaGeorgiou92 wrote: »
    Ok but I want to get my macros exactly right.Cooked food and raw food weights differently.Like meat weights less when cooked,pasta and rice weight more.So in such case it's hard to know the original weight so that you get your macros right in each portion....Get me?
    Use the recipe builder.

    Enter the raw weight to get the overall nutrition and calories.

    Cook the food.

    Weigh the final result after it's done cooking. If you weigh the pan before you start, you can then weigh the final result in the pan and subtract the weight of the pan to get the overall final weight of the recipe.

    Put the weight of the final result in as your number of servings.

    You can then weigh out however much you want and enter than as how many servings you got.

    For example:
    You weigh all of the ingredients as they go in and enter them into the recipe builder. Let's say that the raw food weighs 500 grams and has 800 calories. That's the last you'll need of those original weights.

    Cook the food.

    After it's done cooking, it weighs 385 grams but it still has those same 800 calories.

    Enter it in the recipe builder as 385 servings (or 3.85 servings if you want to use 100 gram servings).

    Get yourself a serving that weighs 123 grams. You can then enter that into your food diary as 123 servings of your recipe. If your serving weighs 83 grams, that would be 83 servings.
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    ChristinaGeorgiou92 wrote: »
    Ok but I want to get my macros exactly right.Cooked food and raw food weights differently.Like meat weights less when cooked,pasta and rice weight more.So in such case it's hard to know the original weight so that you get your macros right in each portion....Get me?

    You have to weigh and log the correct entry- if the pasta is listed as DRY- then you log the dry ingredients. Don't over think it.
  • ChristinaGeorgiou92
    ChristinaGeorgiou92 Posts: 4 Member
    Sorry for the late reply.Thank you guys.I am new to this and i guess will take some time to get familiar with this app.
  • vvento
    vvento Posts: 28 Member
    Don't worry, the first couple of weeks is very difficult with constantly adding in recipes and weighing and creating different meals. Once the foundation is built and you go to alter a recipe say you have 500g of chicken instead of last time when you had 485g, it will get much easier.
  • ChristinaGeorgiou92
    ChristinaGeorgiou92 Posts: 4 Member
    Yeah you need to get used to it before it becomes easier.Write now pen and paper seems so much quicker to me but I will stick to the app.
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