Weighing Food

SquirtyFlower

SquirtyFlower

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Seems a silly question after training all these years but I have never tracked food as serious as I want to now, do you guys weigh your chicken for instance, raw or cooked and drained?
 
I just do basic division to get close enough to the kind of macros I want. So I'll buy a 2kg pack of chicken, cook it, then divide it up into 6 containers by eyeballing it. So on average that's 333g (raw weight) of chicken per meal, about 75g protein. That's good enough for my purposes.
 
it doesn't really matter if you weigh cooked or raw, the protein content for 100g raw is different to 100g cooked but just work your numbers out accordingly.
I go by raw uncooked as I find it easier for me.
100g raw chick breast I calculate at approx 25g of protein, if I want my meals to have 50g of protein then that's 200g chick ( uncooked )
 
I’ve always gone with raw weight .

How you cook it and how long for, size of the meat etc can change the cooked weight. As above things like mince or chicken I just cook 1 or 2kg at a time and if I wanted 250g per portion I divide the cooked weight by 4 or 8. When you do it that way you actually see the vast difference between cooked weights and why you shouldn’t use that as the only measure.
 
I just make sure I eat a full pack a day

So if I open a kilo of chicken I’ll eat all of it over 2 - 3 meals

Can’t be arsed fucking about weighing stuff

Raw or uncooked doesn’t matter if u do decide to weigh out each meal
 
Cheers for the replies fellas, more so to do with making sure calories are tracked correctly and not so much protein content
 
For speed, I get 10kg of chicken, weigh it all out into 200s or 220s and then bag em and freeze em and then take out the night before!
 
I weigh all my food now.
Its the only thing that stops me over eating.
I grill chicken in 1-1.5kg batches and just use cooked weight when its cooked.

I even weigh my whey ffs.
 
Just to say majority ( if not all ) meat packaging is going to state protein content by weight raw.
Usually will state all nutritional values of 100g
so if you are calculating cooked values take this into account.
100g raw is going to have less protein than 100g cooked.
 
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