weigh before or after?

[yazzyb]

Quick question when i cook a piece of chicken breast or any other meat do i weigh it before cooking to get macro nutrition or after cook as before cooking it weighs more and after cooking less which should i take? thanks

[Eddie_m63]

I think is before cooking.

[Damienm05]

I weigh and portion out my food after cooking.

[BuiltForThis]

I do all my measurements based on the pre-cooked numbers.

[collar]

always before cooking.

[youngster26]

Good question. I was wondering the same thing. So how is everyone properly getting their macros. I cook a bunch of frozen breasts and they ate all various sizes. Is there a site that has macros on cooked breasts

[frodo89]

I base all my macros on end product (that is cooked). Get onto fitday.com. They have a few options that show cooked normal, cooked in fat and so on. Best way to do it

[D7M]

Any good nutritionist will tell to weigh your food RAW

[gbrice75]

Any good nutritionist will tell to weigh your food RAW

Absolutely. I researched this extensively because I was confused. I came to find out I was overeating every piece of meat because I was measuring them cooked.

Weigh raw, cook then eat. It's difficult sometimes to take a 12oz steak and try to 'eyeball' a portion to make it 4oz (for example) - do your best, or find a perfect 4oz portion, cook then weigh it - whatever the number, you'll know from then on that you can cook and cut a portion of that weight (it'll be close, but not perfect every time).

I've found personally that a very rough estimate is 4oz of raw meat will yield about 3oz cooked. This will definitely vary from meat to meat, but it's a loose guideline.

[frodo89]

Absolutely. I researched this extensively because I was confused. I came to find out I was overeating every piece of meat because I was measuring them cooked.

Weigh raw, cook then eat. It's difficult sometimes to take a 12oz steak and try to 'eyeball' a portion to make it 4oz (for example) - do your best, or find a perfect 4oz portion, cook then weigh it - whatever the number, you'll know from then on that you can cook and cut a portion of that weight (it'll be close, but not perfect every time).

I've found personally that a very rough estimate is 4oz of raw meat will yield about 3oz cooked. This will definitely vary from meat to meat, but it's a loose guideline.

Holllllllly crappp, are you serious... So i have been screwing up all this time. That means I have been over eating. But believe it or not ricey its been about two weeks on that diet i posted and i have not gone up a gram. I got pissed off so i just finished eating half a banana cake, see what happens when I hit the scale tomorrow.

[gbrice75]

Holllllllly crappp, are you serious... So i have been screwing up all this time. That means I have been over eating. But believe it or not ricey its been about two weeks on that diet i posted and i have not gone up a gram. I got pissed off so i just finished eating half a banana cake, see what happens when I hit the scale tomorrow.

I did it for 6 months before I found out! Better late than never.

You didn't go up a gram; but did you go down?

[frodo89]

I did it for 6 months before I found out! Better late than never.

You didn't go up a gram; but did you go down?

I stayed the same, I'm thinking I may have calculated my initial bf percentage a bit to high at 20 percent, and now I could be eating at my actual TDEE with the 3200 cals. Funny thing is i decided to eat the whole banana cake (might I add this was a big cake) I weighed myself yesterday and I went up about 600 grams. But I really dont want to get tempted to eat crap and dirty bulk