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I always measure food raw for one simple reason. How long you cook your food alters how much water (and water weight) you have cooked out of your food. The nutrition info for raw chicken, for example, should be consistent whereas the cooked weight could factor 80% of the water cooked out instead of the 50% (making up…

About 4 pounds per week.

Appreciate the advice! I'm thinking that's likely what I need to do as well, but to be honestly, I'm avoiding the shock that will come as a result of hitting the scale after so long with the reduced calories. That's why I'm hoping I can go at it in stages and gradually increase my consumption until I get to that point and…