02-08-2016, 10:49 AM
thought id chuck this one in there
Measuring food properly makes difference between success and failure in losing fat or gaining muscle, find how to do it the easy and accurate way! lot of people think they know how to measure food but few actually do and the reason a lot of people “cant lose weight” is that they are not weighing things correctly. The amount of food you need to eat to lose weight at an optimal weight is actually a very precise amount. Eat too little and you burn off muscle. Eat too much and you never lose any weight
Measure before or after cooking?
Steamed rice, grilled chicken, scrambled eggs – how do you weigh them? Before cooking or after? Many people get this wrong and end up either eating WAY too many calories or not nearly enough. All nutritional databases have entries for both the cooked and uncooked foods and the name tells it all “grilled chicken” is cooked whereas “raw chicken” is uncooked. Laugh all you want but this problem has caused many people to get fat when they thought they were on a diet. my choice would be to measure raw unless the food is already pre cooked
aslo know your food ive added link hear good guide for foods
Foods List
What kind of scale should I buy?
A cheap spring scale is great for measuring postage but its not nearly precise enough for calorie counting. What you need is a digital kitchen scale with tare button.
if go in amazon or ebay and type in digital kitchen scale you will find all you need and would say £10/$15 is all that's needed tops
some notes ill add
don't put food direct on the scale use a plate or bowl esp raw meat
stick to grams its small enough to get everything perfect
google is your friend if need to find macros of things
also use that tare button for everything put bread on scale use tare then take off butter it and put back on scale this will tell you how much butter you have used things like this can often slip
Measuring food properly makes difference between success and failure in losing fat or gaining muscle, find how to do it the easy and accurate way! lot of people think they know how to measure food but few actually do and the reason a lot of people “cant lose weight” is that they are not weighing things correctly. The amount of food you need to eat to lose weight at an optimal weight is actually a very precise amount. Eat too little and you burn off muscle. Eat too much and you never lose any weight
Measure before or after cooking?
Steamed rice, grilled chicken, scrambled eggs – how do you weigh them? Before cooking or after? Many people get this wrong and end up either eating WAY too many calories or not nearly enough. All nutritional databases have entries for both the cooked and uncooked foods and the name tells it all “grilled chicken” is cooked whereas “raw chicken” is uncooked. Laugh all you want but this problem has caused many people to get fat when they thought they were on a diet. my choice would be to measure raw unless the food is already pre cooked
aslo know your food ive added link hear good guide for foods
Foods List
What kind of scale should I buy?
A cheap spring scale is great for measuring postage but its not nearly precise enough for calorie counting. What you need is a digital kitchen scale with tare button.
if go in amazon or ebay and type in digital kitchen scale you will find all you need and would say £10/$15 is all that's needed tops
some notes ill add
don't put food direct on the scale use a plate or bowl esp raw meat
stick to grams its small enough to get everything perfect
google is your friend if need to find macros of things
also use that tare button for everything put bread on scale use tare then take off butter it and put back on scale this will tell you how much butter you have used things like this can often slip