My fitness pal calories
Losewtforlife4him
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I'm wondering how accurate the calories would be on this site? Are these what everyone calculates themselves? Sometimes I notice that my recipes don't have how many servings a recipe makes and I don't want to have to measure out how many, lol. It can be so time consuming to do that and messy for example scooping out Mac and cheese or soup, etc. Any tips on which recipes are most reliable? Also for pork BBQ, it gets tricky because there's no accurate calorie amount for that either. For a pork tenderloin from Costco, that shows up but then how do I calculate the BBQ sauce that I put on with it when I wouldn't be eating that full container. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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You entire the number of servings if you make the recipe. Recipe builder solves all these problems.0
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ForeverSunshine09 wrote: »You entire the number of servings if you make the recipe. Recipe builder solves all these problems.
The problem is many times the servings aren't listed in recipe and I'm too lazy to measure out servings to figure this out
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ForeverSunshine09 wrote: »You entire the number of servings if you make the recipe. Recipe builder solves all these problems.
The problem is many times the servings aren't listed in recipe and I'm too lazy to measure out servings to figure this out 0 -
Sloppy inputs = sloppy results.
No one else knows your recipe (and if you don't measure, you don't either).0 -
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You have to do the work for your recipes. You can't just go logging someone else's homemade meals. You have no idea what they put in there. Weigh your ingredients before hand, weigh the final product, split the servings. I usually just record a whole recipe as one serving and split it accordingly.0
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ForeverSunshine09 wrote: »You entire the number of servings if you make the recipe. Recipe builder solves all these problems.
The problem is many times the servings aren't listed in recipe and I'm too lazy to measure out servings to figure this out
You're going to have lots of fun dieting.0 -
jofjltncb6 wrote: »Sloppy inputs = sloppy results.
No one else knows your recipe (and if you don't measure, you don't either).jofjltncb6 wrote: »Sloppy inputs = sloppy results.
No one else knows your recipe (and if you don't measure, you don't either).
Just saying I've lost 15 lbs in 3 months so I wouldn't say those are sloppy results lol
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ForeverSunshine09 wrote: »You entire the number of servings if you make the recipe. Recipe builder solves all these problems.
The problem is many times the servings aren't listed in recipe and I'm too lazy to measure out servings to figure this out
You're going to have lots of fun dieting.
Lol I've lost 15 lbs in 3 months and exercise every day I'm having lots of fun but just was asking
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the more weight you loose the less calories your body will burn so the measurements will have to be more accurate. You will hit a plateau - then measurements will count more0
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Don't measure it out by volume. Weigh it, and either decide how many grams you want to be a serving, or enter the total number of grams as the total number of servings, and when you log it, just enter the number of grams in your portion as the number of servings. Not messy at all, and very little effort involved. If you can exercise every day, you can certainly manage to weigh your food.0
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If you're making a casserole type recipe. . Weigh your empty pot first, write down the number. Then weigh your finished product and deduct the weight of the empty pot. Say you end up with 2500g of food, In the recipe builder (you have to use this), mark it as 2500 servings. When you serve it onto your plate and it comes to 500g for example, then you add 500 servings to your diary.
It really is easier than it sounds. You only need to add a recipe once, and then it's there for future use.
Generic recipes could be hundreds of calories off either way, you really have no idea...0 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »Don't measure it out by volume. Weigh it, and either decide how many grams you want to be a serving, or enter the total number of grams as the total number of servings, and when you log it, just enter the number of grams in your portion as the number of servings. Not messy at all, and very little effort involved. If you can exercise every day, you can certainly manage to weigh your food.
Gotcha. That makes sense. I do weigh or measure all of my food but when I come up with my own recipes, I haven't done this. Many times the recipes I do use are on here so it gives accurate calculations. But then there are those that aren't. Sometimes I've noticed green check marks on the calories listed..I guess that mpf does that? Anyway, sorry to be confusing but my husband just started doing this and had some questions.
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jofjltncb6 wrote: »Sloppy inputs = sloppy results.
No one else knows your recipe (and if you don't measure, you don't either).jofjltncb6 wrote: »Sloppy inputs = sloppy results.
No one else knows your recipe (and if you don't measure, you don't either).
Just saying I've lost 15 lbs in 3 months so I wouldn't say those are sloppy results lol
Congrats on achieving your goals!
Sounds like you have it all figured out.0 -
Christine_72 wrote: »If you're making a casserole type recipe. . Weigh your empty pot first, write down the number. Then weigh your finished product and deduct the weight of the empty pot. Say you end up with 2500g of food, In the recipe builder (you have to use this), mark it as 2500 servings. When you serve it onto your plate and it comes to 500g for example, then you add 500 servings to your diary.
It really is easier than it sounds. You only need to add a recipe once, and then it's there for future use.
Generic recipes could be hundreds of calories off either way, you really have no idea...
Thanks! This makes total sense. I guess I pretty much use recipes that are online and match up to what is on here but for those cases I don't, I guess I've been using other people's approximates or use restaurants knowing that theirs would be even more calories most likely than mine and I err on the side of caution and use more calories than less. I just ran into a problem with making pork BBQ (hubby made it) and didn't know if we should just estimate the Costco pork loin that's listed with the amount of grams that I weighed and add more calories for the BBQ sauce. I get a bit OCD with this at times haha and do want to be sure I'm accurate so I'm not losing any calories I could be eating as well as not counting enough. I am losing though so that's good at least! Thanks again!
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jofjltncb6 wrote: »jofjltncb6 wrote: »Sloppy inputs = sloppy results.
No one else knows your recipe (and if you don't measure, you don't either).jofjltncb6 wrote: »Sloppy inputs = sloppy results.
No one else knows your recipe (and if you don't measure, you don't either).
Just saying I've lost 15 lbs in 3 months so I wouldn't say those are sloppy results lol
Congrats on achieving your goals!
Sounds like you have it all figured out.
Thanks! Well obviously I don't have it all figured out haha. My husband has just started doing this so he was asking some questions. Most of my meals that I make are cut and dry or the recipes are online and so the calories per serving are many times on here. But for those cases that they aren't, I've always just tried to find one that sounds like my recipe and I can sorta know approx what the calories or serving will be but I do want to do it right too.0 -
I have had many a headaches when My hubby cooks. He makes this stirfry with a bajillion different sauces and ingredients, so I had to just wing it and guesstimate the amounts he used..0
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Christine_72 wrote: »I have had many a headaches when My hubby cooks. He makes this stirfry with a bajillion different sauces and ingredients, so I had to just wing it and guesstimate the amounts he used..
I know what you mean and I bet that stir fry is yummy!
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Weighing each ingredient and then weighing the finished product putting what the grams as the number of servings or decide what you want the servings to be and divide the grams to see how many grams are in each of those servings. It is easy if you do it.0
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All calories and all measurements are approximate. That's just the nature of the beast. If you are as precise as possible inputting the ingredients and as precise as possible in measuring the product, I'm guessing MFP is pretty close. There are too many success stories at this website for them to be too far off.0
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positivepowers wrote: »All calories and all measurements are approximate. That's just the nature of the beast. If you are as precise as possible inputting the ingredients and as precise as possible in measuring the product, I'm guessing MFP is pretty close. There are too many success stories at this website for them to be too far off.
Huh?
What makes you think those success stories didn't properly weigh and measure their food/ingredients?0
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