When you weigh out your food is it before cooked or after? It seems like 8 oz of chicken after cooked ia a lot or is it just me?
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When you weigh out your food is it before cooked or after? It seems like 8 oz of chicken after cooked ia a lot or is it just me?
Always after.
huh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Deal Me In
Before obviously. Food is ALWAYS measured in it's raw state.
Always before.
Rice uncooked is 75g a serving whereas after its boiled it turns into 195g. This is because of water absorb. [an example]
ok thanks will do it before.
Depends on the food, and it also depends on what you're logging on the app you're using.
On myfitnesspal, it varies depending on the food, for the rice I use, I have to weigh it before, for the meats it's after.
on my calculator, it depends as mentioned above. you don't eat chicken raw, and so portion size is referred to in it's cooked state. Grain on the other hand, well, it states cooked, but when I add to a blender meal, it goes in raw. so if you want 1.5 cups cooked, you dump in 0.5 cups raw. Fruit is weighed as eaten. In fact, pretty much everything on my calculator is weighed/measured as eaten.
He asked specifically about chicken. You weigh chicken, or any meat, after you cook it. You don't eat it raw so why would you measure it that way?Quote:
Originally Posted by tarmyg
Thanks everyone. I just started doing this. Damn if I havent been starving. I weight out 8 oz of chicken and 4 oz sweet potato and the chicken was double the amount of what I was eating. The potato was just a little more.
Weigh after cooked for meats. And yes 8oz of cooked chicken breast is a lot of food. Im eating 6.5 ozs right now with sum dijon mustard and it is tuff to get it all down. With a side of cauliflower.
Weigh before cook. It doesn't seen right but it is. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Deal Me In
I'm gonna ask them to weigh my next BBQ Chicken Pizza.
Because then you know exactly how much you are getting. 8oz chicken raw has the same amount of cals and macro's after it is cooked. If you cook it for 20 mins it weighs more than it does than if you cook it it for 40 minutes but still has the same cals and macro's. That's why.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deal Me In
And your ice cream. Don't forget to weight that too!Quote:
Originally Posted by kelkel
Edit:
Did a lil googling, I've been wrong this whole time :( my macros have all been a lie
Forgot that. I'll just set it on my pizza.Quote:
Originally Posted by Back In Black
Bizarre that this question become a discussion. Been asked a million times and the answer is always the same.
Think I like the Ice Cream on Pizza idea. I would eat that!
BIB, I'm sure you know more about this than I do but this seems really strange. Raw chicken in moist. I always assumed the difference in weight pre and post cooked was the loss of water which would be negligible for macros. If the chicken isn't getting lighter because of a reduction in liquid, what accounts for the reduction in weight?Quote:
Originally Posted by Back In Black
Just trying to understand.
This is what I'm thinking. Using this logic, I've been eating way to much food because I measure my meat after I cook it. If I measure it before it will mean much less food.Quote:
Originally Posted by Khazima
It is, isn't it. I'm lost in the Nutrition Section but it's always fun to visit and poke fun at you guys and your calculators, then high tail it outta here!Quote:
Originally Posted by tarmyg
The day I weigh food or count a calorie is the day I quit lifting. But that's just me.
You are correct, it is water that is lost. Let's put it this way you have 2 pieces of cooked chicken one weighs 4oz and one weighs 3oz. The 3oz one has been cooked 10 minutes longer than the 4oz one but both were exactly the same weight before they were cooked. So which one of the 2 cooked pieces of chicken has the most protein?Quote:
Originally Posted by Deal Me In
Go and get on a treadmill you:aaSport14Quote:
Originally Posted by kelkel
Pick me BIB, pick me!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Back In Black
Well, I don't want to assume because that's what got my foot stuck in my mouth at the beginning of this thread. I'm going to say they both have the same amount of protein.Quote:
Originally Posted by Back In Black
So, just so we can take this through to it's conclusion. Lets say I have a raw chicken breast that weighs 8oz. If we assume 7g of protein per oz then it's 56 grams. The fact that it cooks down to say 5.5oz is not relevant. It still has 56 grams of protein. No nutrients are lost in the cooking process? Right?
So I've based my diet on eating 6 oz of cooked chicken. Which was probably 8oz raw. So I need to redo my protein macros for the day.
kelkel's comments about not weighing food I like. I can (as I bet he can) eyeball a chicken breast and know it's about the same size I always have so there's no real need to weigh after a while. I can do the same with my oats and potatoes too, I'd be within a few grams of my visual estimation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deal Me In
Don't sweat the small stuff:)
That's how I felt too! :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Khazima
Well, I know a high level trainer who trains quite a few pro male and female fitness competetors, and he says weigh meat after cooking for a proper macro content.
8oz of chicken raw, is not the same as 8oz chicken cooked. Cook the water out
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Thank you. I swear I learn something on here everyday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Back In Black
It's only proper if you use the macros for cooked chicken which not many use. The nutritional data on a package of chicken breast is specifically for RAW chicken. This is bc once you cook it and the water comes out it weighs less so if you had measured it after cooking but used the nutritional data for raw chicken you'd be off. 8oz of cooked chicken will have more calories than 8oz of raw chicken.Quote:
Originally Posted by JJ78
Start your own thread in the correct place please.Quote:
Originally Posted by jumpoff12
I like to "eye-ball" as many breasts as possible on a daily basis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Back In Black