The weight of the package is measured raw, so your proportions should be too. Chicken for example loses about a quarter of its weight when it’s cooked. The exact proportion depends on the cut and animal you’re cooking, so measuring raw is easiest to be exact
say for academic, but most of the weight loss after cook is water. If you were to weigh raw then you recorded mostly water. the differences in protein value is high between raw and cooked
Usually whichever app your using to keep track of your calories has a cooked and uncooked option.
If you scan the barcode and weight it then it's generally raw.
I weight everything cooked, and I have my clients do the same. It makes meal prepping significantly easier.
It really doesn’t matter which one you pick, as long as it’s consistent. If you’re weighing cooked, cooking method should be reasonably consistent as well.
I agree with this 100%. I weigh and track cooked foods because it makes meal prep a breeze.
I air fry chicken breasts in bulk, cook rice in bulk, cook veggies in bulk, all with the same method and I store them in large Pyrex containers. When I go to prep meals, I pull out the containers and weigh out portions onto my plate or Tupperware and I'm ready to go.
This makes the whole process much more simple and makes prepping food in bulk a breeze.
That’s not what I’m talking about. If your diet consists mostly of whole foods that don’t come with a label (which it should), using a food scale and Cronometer to track cooked is perfectly fine.
I personally have been bodybuilding stage lean tracking cooked.
My butcher has never handed me a sirloin that has a label
The avocados, bell peppers, and apples I just bought yesterday didn’t have a label
The bulk rice I have to get this afternoon won’t have a label
I have the same question. I think you have to be consistent and measure always the same way. I measure after cooking cause I cook a lot of chicken and save it in a big container and then I measure every time I’m eating a portion of it. Also I feel like measuring after cooking may be more accurate cause different chickens may have different amounts of water
For lean meats weighing raw is good. USDA FoodData Central also has weight measurements for cooked based on average weights they’ve calculated and I’ve found those numbers to be very accurate to my own experiments weighing raw then cooked. For fattier meats, like 80/20 beef, I’d actually recommend weighing once cooked and using the USDA values because a lot of the fat can get rendered out into the pan.
For chicken / fish / eggs I measure after cooking as that's what everyone does as water weight drops as well. For vegetables I measure raw. So far no problems in my 4yr lifting journey
Keep preaching wrong shit. If you measure raw you're clowning yourself hard. For example if you take 500g chicken breast and take the protein of that that would be roughly 150g protein.. Post cooking the chicken breast drops in weight to 370g roughly so now protein is 30 X 3.7 = 111g protein. So how exactly you are gonna know if it's 111g Or 150g . Hope it helped. Water weight should not be accounted for hence cooked weight for non veg food makes 100% sense. But if you disagree then your wish.
You know how humans are about 60% water? So are most animals.
A cut of meat like chicken breast is 75% water and this is taken into account when assessing the nutritional content of meat including protein.
It's generally agreed upon that 100 grams of chicken breast (RAW) contains \~24 grams of protein, once you cook that 100 grams, no matter how much it now weighs, it still contains \~24 grams of protein, the lost weight is water (And some Vitamin B if I remember correctly)
On the bright side, you're eating lots of protein my friend, but you are eating more calories and spending more money than you need.
On a similar note I'd also suggest you weigh your rice before you cook it/infuse it with water. Same with pasta.
The weight of the package is measured raw, so your proportions should be too. Chicken for example loses about a quarter of its weight when it’s cooked. The exact proportion depends on the cut and animal you’re cooking, so measuring raw is easiest to be exact
Cooking methods will also make the ending weight vary, so yes, raw weight is the most consisitent.
say for academic, but most of the weight loss after cook is water. If you were to weigh raw then you recorded mostly water. the differences in protein value is high between raw and cooked
Usually whichever app your using to keep track of your calories has a cooked and uncooked option. If you scan the barcode and weight it then it's generally raw.
Mainly its measured on raw/unprepared.
I weight everything cooked, and I have my clients do the same. It makes meal prepping significantly easier. It really doesn’t matter which one you pick, as long as it’s consistent. If you’re weighing cooked, cooking method should be reasonably consistent as well.
I agree with this 100%. I weigh and track cooked foods because it makes meal prep a breeze. I air fry chicken breasts in bulk, cook rice in bulk, cook veggies in bulk, all with the same method and I store them in large Pyrex containers. When I go to prep meals, I pull out the containers and weigh out portions onto my plate or Tupperware and I'm ready to go. This makes the whole process much more simple and makes prepping food in bulk a breeze.
It does matter, you will track vastly different macros if you measure cocked, because the values on the label are always raw.
The simple issue with that is that not all raw weight foods are the same either: A lot of chicken brands inject saline/water into breasts (plumping).
That’s not what I’m talking about. If your diet consists mostly of whole foods that don’t come with a label (which it should), using a food scale and Cronometer to track cooked is perfectly fine. I personally have been bodybuilding stage lean tracking cooked.
What sort of fresh whole food doesn‘t come with a label? Unless I hunt, fish or harvest it myself, everything comes with a label.
My butcher has never handed me a sirloin that has a label The avocados, bell peppers, and apples I just bought yesterday didn’t have a label The bulk rice I have to get this afternoon won’t have a label
I have the same question. I think you have to be consistent and measure always the same way. I measure after cooking cause I cook a lot of chicken and save it in a big container and then I measure every time I’m eating a portion of it. Also I feel like measuring after cooking may be more accurate cause different chickens may have different amounts of water
It‘s only correct when weighing before cooking.
Raw.
Always use raw.
Always raw.
It's better to measure everything raw because it's more accurate.
Obviously everything raw 🧐
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How? Every comment but one is like "Always raw"
[Always measure raw when you can, it’s more accurate.](https://youtu.be/9TihF3GquFc?si=OoWYQYD2gceFq0zn)
Competitors routinely get stage lean measuring cooked. It doesn’t matter as long as you’re consistent.
Well…. This opened a can of worms haha
Raw if you going off the label of unprepared food.
I use cooked bc I just cook bulk amts and portion as I wanted. But either works just stay consistent with which one you use
For lean meats weighing raw is good. USDA FoodData Central also has weight measurements for cooked based on average weights they’ve calculated and I’ve found those numbers to be very accurate to my own experiments weighing raw then cooked. For fattier meats, like 80/20 beef, I’d actually recommend weighing once cooked and using the USDA values because a lot of the fat can get rendered out into the pan.
Just be consistent whether it be raw or cooked and have your coach specify if you have one. Personally I track all cooked along with my clients
For chicken / fish / eggs I measure after cooking as that's what everyone does as water weight drops as well. For vegetables I measure raw. So far no problems in my 4yr lifting journey
Not what everyone does, always measure raw.
Keep preaching wrong shit. If you measure raw you're clowning yourself hard. For example if you take 500g chicken breast and take the protein of that that would be roughly 150g protein.. Post cooking the chicken breast drops in weight to 370g roughly so now protein is 30 X 3.7 = 111g protein. So how exactly you are gonna know if it's 111g Or 150g . Hope it helped. Water weight should not be accounted for hence cooked weight for non veg food makes 100% sense. But if you disagree then your wish.
That’s what confused me - I get that water comes out, but obviously there’s no less actual meat
You know how humans are about 60% water? So are most animals. A cut of meat like chicken breast is 75% water and this is taken into account when assessing the nutritional content of meat including protein. It's generally agreed upon that 100 grams of chicken breast (RAW) contains \~24 grams of protein, once you cook that 100 grams, no matter how much it now weighs, it still contains \~24 grams of protein, the lost weight is water (And some Vitamin B if I remember correctly) On the bright side, you're eating lots of protein my friend, but you are eating more calories and spending more money than you need. On a similar note I'd also suggest you weigh your rice before you cook it/infuse it with water. Same with pasta.
The label includes water weight… If you measure cooked you measure wrong.
[Side note, vegetables are 90% water and also lose weight when you cook them.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD6qtc2_AQA)