Do you count the calories of the oil?

AsrarHussain
AsrarHussain Posts: 1,424 Member
edited December 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I am bulking at the moment, I wanted to ask, do you count the calories from oil
My food is lightly pain fried in oil,wohkd you count it in your diary, how would you guesstimate the calories of it?

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  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    edited September 2016
    Of course. 1TBS is around 100 calories...

    Don't guesstimate, weigh or measure it before you put it in the pan, or place the empty pan on the scale, zero it, then add oil and take down the weight. After cooking and the pan is cool, place the pan back on the scale, take down the weight and log the amount that has been absorbed by the food.
  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    Everything with calories counts.

    Weight the bottle, pour the oil in the pan, and then weight the bottle again. The difference in weight is how much oil came out of the bottle.

    If there's no oil left in the pan after you cook then you ate all of that oil. If there's some left then you need to estimate how much you didn't eat.
  • AsrarHussain
    AsrarHussain Posts: 1,424 Member
    seska422 wrote: »
    Everything with calories counts.

    Weight the bottle, pour the oil in the pan, and then weight the bottle again. The difference in weight is how much oil came out of the bottle.

    If there's no oil left in the pan after you cook then you ate all of that oil. If there's some left then you need to estimate how much you didn't eat.

    My mum cooked it before, I could not measure it.
  • flagrantavidity
    flagrantavidity Posts: 218 Member
    I do count the oil calories for my foods. If I am sautéing fajita veges, I use the minimum amount of oil to get the job done and even though there is some oil left in the pan if I used 1Tbps of oil, and it's 100 calories, I record 100 calories.

    This way I can't cheat and sabotage myself. If I consume less calories than I record it's better than being over and not realizing it.
  • Hamsibian
    Hamsibian Posts: 1,388 Member
    I just started putting olive oil on my veggies as a dressing because it may help me gain weight. So yes, I do log it.
  • Sara1791
    Sara1791 Posts: 760 Member
    c. 120 calories for a tbs. of oil. Yes, count it. It adds up fast.
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