weighing my chicken breast
jmosquera33
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should I weigh my chicken breast before or after cooking it?
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I only weigh mine after cooking and just make sure I find the correct calorie intake for the portion I eat.0
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I generally weigh before, but the most important thing is to make sure you are using an accurate database entry that reflects the status of the chicken when you weighed it (raw v. cooked roasted v. cooked grilled v. cooked stewed v. cooked fried v. cooked fried battered v. cooked fried flour) and what parts you ate (meat only v. meat and skin).
https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list?SYNCHRONIZER_TOKEN=062411ad-cf5b-4342-b49f-05351e01c582&SYNCHRONIZER_URI=/ndb/search/list&qt=&qlookup=chicken,+breast&ds=SR&manu=9 -
I weigh before, since weighing after cooking isnt necessarily going to be accurate due to cooking time, cooking method and moisture content of the meat.5
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What does the package say as sold or as prepared? Whichever it says go with that0
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My dilemma is I eat out usually at buffets. I have been surprisingly successful at weight estimation before I enter my food when I get home into MFP. At least I still am loosing weight so I know I must be doing things right. No carbs for sure and keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me. Cooking weight is the only way it works for me.1
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My dilemma is I eat out usually at buffets. I have been surprisingly successful at weight estimation before I enter my food when I get home into MFP. At least I still am loosing weight so I know I must be doing things right. No carbs for sure and keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me. Cooking weight is the only way it works for me.
Why are you paying a nutritionist for advice you are simply ignoring?4 -
My dilemma is I eat out usually at buffets. I have been surprisingly successful at weight estimation before I enter my food when I get home into MFP. At least I still am loosing weight so I know I must be doing things right. No carbs for sure and keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me. Cooking weight is the only way it works for me.
Why are you paying a nutritionist for advice you are simply ignoring?
It’s inaccurate to say s/he’s ignoring the nutritionist’s advice. The poster indicates they’re using estimation to count calories. I would agree that estimation is much less accurate than weighing. And I would agree that it’s really easy to fall into a pattern of self-deception when it comes to making those estimations. OTOH, there are situations where weighing is just not doable. It’s definitely preferable to make a good-faith effort to estimate and track that estimate in those situations. And if the result is consistent (over time) with expected outcomes then it’s a practical tool. There are quite a number of people who have successfully lost/maintained using a hybrid system where weighing/measuring is done at home and estimation is done when away from home.
Although I would also agree that if someone has only a small amount to lose, the margin of error becomes much smaller.1 -
My dilemma is I eat out usually at buffets. I have been surprisingly successful at weight estimation before I enter my food when I get home into MFP. At least I still am loosing weight so I know I must be doing things right. No carbs for sure and keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me. Cooking weight is the only way it works for me.
Why are you paying a nutritionist for advice you are simply ignoring?
It’s inaccurate to say s/he’s ignoring the nutritionist’s advice....keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me.
Okay then.1 -
My dilemma is I eat out usually at buffets. I have been surprisingly successful at weight estimation before I enter my food when I get home into MFP. At least I still am loosing weight so I know I must be doing things right. No carbs for sure and keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me. Cooking weight is the only way it works for me.
Why are you paying a nutritionist for advice you are simply ignoring?
It’s inaccurate to say s/he’s ignoring the nutritionist’s advice....keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me.
Okay then.
The "target" is presumably an upper limit with a margin of error. Very few people exactly hit their calorie goal to within one calorie. I did not read this as the OP stating that they were deliberately eating less than the nutritionist recommended, but as saying that they were eating the recommended amount.1 -
I weigh raw and use a reliable entry on mfp database. Provided I either don't add, or account for anything added during the cooking process I am good to go. Typically I weigh as much of my food as possible raw.
ETA - I started this reply and walked away - just read the rest. Gotta do what you gotta do - if you have to use an estimate for cooked weight then go for it - if it's working then you're estimating must not be too far off.0 -
rheddmobile wrote: »My dilemma is I eat out usually at buffets. I have been surprisingly successful at weight estimation before I enter my food when I get home into MFP. At least I still am loosing weight so I know I must be doing things right. No carbs for sure and keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me. Cooking weight is the only way it works for me.
Why are you paying a nutritionist for advice you are simply ignoring?
It’s inaccurate to say s/he’s ignoring the nutritionist’s advice....keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me.
Okay then.
The "target" is presumably an upper limit with a margin of error. Very few people exactly hit their calorie goal to within one calorie. I did not read this as the OP stating that they were deliberately eating less than the nutritionist recommended, but as saying that they were eating the recommended amount.
A "target" and a "limit" are not the same thing. Bring on the "woo"s I guess, but don't shoot the messenger, I didn't define the words.4 -
I tend to cook it in bulk and then eat it across days, shared with others (at least when I first cook it), so I pretty much have to weigh it cooked. I buy various brands, sometimes frozen and sometimes fresh depending on what's on sale. I think it is often more accurate to weigh cooked. It is not at all unusual for one piece to have a higher water content than the next, weigh the same or more before cooking and cook down smaller.1
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rheddmobile wrote: »My dilemma is I eat out usually at buffets. I have been surprisingly successful at weight estimation before I enter my food when I get home into MFP. At least I still am loosing weight so I know I must be doing things right. No carbs for sure and keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me. Cooking weight is the only way it works for me.
Why are you paying a nutritionist for advice you are simply ignoring?
It’s inaccurate to say s/he’s ignoring the nutritionist’s advice....keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me.
Okay then.
The "target" is presumably an upper limit with a margin of error. Very few people exactly hit their calorie goal to within one calorie. I did not read this as the OP stating that they were deliberately eating less than the nutritionist recommended, but as saying that they were eating the recommended amount.
A "target" and a "limit" are not the same thing. Bring on the "woo"s I guess, but don't shoot the messenger, I didn't define the words.
I prefer to attempt to understand what people intend to say than to pick apart how they say it.4 -
rheddmobile wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »My dilemma is I eat out usually at buffets. I have been surprisingly successful at weight estimation before I enter my food when I get home into MFP. At least I still am loosing weight so I know I must be doing things right. No carbs for sure and keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me. Cooking weight is the only way it works for me.
Why are you paying a nutritionist for advice you are simply ignoring?
It’s inaccurate to say s/he’s ignoring the nutritionist’s advice....keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me.
Okay then.
The "target" is presumably an upper limit with a margin of error. Very few people exactly hit their calorie goal to within one calorie. I did not read this as the OP stating that they were deliberately eating less than the nutritionist recommended, but as saying that they were eating the recommended amount.
A "target" and a "limit" are not the same thing. Bring on the "woo"s I guess, but don't shoot the messenger, I didn't define the words.
I prefer to attempt to understand what people intend to say than to pick apart how they say it.
I would expect that a nutritionist, if at all worth the money they're being paid, would give a patient/client a target not a limit (i.e., the nutritionist intended a limit), because a limit means anything below that number would be fine. Do you think a nutritionist intended to say, eat any tiny amount you want, or nothing at all, so long as you don't go over this limit?3 -
I think that the OP at no point said that or anything close to it, so berating her for ignoring her nutritionist is misplaced.lynn_glenmont wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »rheddmobile wrote: »My dilemma is I eat out usually at buffets. I have been surprisingly successful at weight estimation before I enter my food when I get home into MFP. At least I still am loosing weight so I know I must be doing things right. No carbs for sure and keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me. Cooking weight is the only way it works for me.
Why are you paying a nutritionist for advice you are simply ignoring?
It’s inaccurate to say s/he’s ignoring the nutritionist’s advice....keeping my calories below my nutritionists target set for me.
Okay then.
The "target" is presumably an upper limit with a margin of error. Very few people exactly hit their calorie goal to within one calorie. I did not read this as the OP stating that they were deliberately eating less than the nutritionist recommended, but as saying that they were eating the recommended amount.
A "target" and a "limit" are not the same thing. Bring on the "woo"s I guess, but don't shoot the messenger, I didn't define the words.
I prefer to attempt to understand what people intend to say than to pick apart how they say it.
I would expect that a nutritionist, if at all worth the money they're being paid, would give a patient/client a target not a limit (i.e., the nutritionist intended a limit), because a limit means anything below that number would be fine. Do you think a nutritionist intended to say, eat any tiny amount you want, or nothing at all, so long as you don't go over this limit?
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