![]() ![]() One other even more convenient option is using a meal prep company. Most of the meals come in between 500-850 calories per portion. The downside? The portions are quite small, but that could be a good thing if you’re trying to drop some weight. There’s sometimes still some work to do in terms of chopping, mixing and of course, cooking, but it does take the stress out of meal prep, and the best thing? The calories are all listed per portion, so no need to track anything. If you’re interested, I’ve written a Gousto review on a bunch of the different meals I’ve made using their service.Įssentially you choose which meals you want (there’s a very wide choice), then they send you all the ingredients for those meals all already weighed out. The big two in the UK are Gousto and Hello Fresh. There are plenty of pre-chopped and weighed recipe box subscriptions out there now. If you genuinely find tracking home cooking THAT stressful, difficult or time-consuming, there are other options. So 100g of cooked chicken will have more calories than 100g of raw chicken ( 100g of raw chicken will end up as around 75g of cooked chicken). 100g of cooked chicken would have started off as around 135g of raw chicken. If you’re using 100g of cooked chicken, enter 100g of COOKED chicken in My Fitness Pal.īecause the calorie amounts are different. if you’re using 100g of raw breast chicken in a recipe, enter 100g of RAW chicken in My Fitness Pal It only gains or loses water.īUT, this does mean you need to be careful when you track things in My Fitness Pal, i.e. Now, just because a food increases or decreases in volume throughout the cooking process, that doesn’t mean it gains or loses calories. Other foods decrease in volume when they’re cooked because they lose water (e.g. rice and pasta) because they take on water when they’re boiled. Some foods increase in volume when they’re cooked (e.g. I mentioned this earlier but it’s so important that I need to labor the point. So, how do you track calories accurately and properly? Well, to achieve something you’ve never achieved before, you need to do things you’ve never done before and trust me, tracking calories is one of those things. I’ll tell you this right now tracking is not accurate, but it’s a HELL of a lot better than just not tracking at all.Īfter all, that’s what you’ve been doing all your life right?Īnd I’m guessing that you’re reading this post because you maybe want to drop some fat. Second, your scales may not be 100% accurate, and finally, the values in My Fitness Pal may not be 100% accurate.īut you shouldn’t use these as excuses not to track, or to rationalize in your head that ‘tracking is pointless because it’s not accurate. Well firstly, the calories listed on food packaging may not be 100% accurate. Having said that, you can never hope to be 100% accurate with your tracking. Tracking calories properly and accurately is really important.Įating 1,600 and 1,800 could be the difference between losing weight, and staying the same weight. The other positive is that you can save ‘recipes’ in My Fitness Pal, so once you’ve made a specific recipe once, you won’t need to go back and track everything again, you can just re-track the recipe you previously saved. The beauty is that when you’re cooking a big meal, you’ll likely have some ‘dead time’ waiting for the oven to heat or the water to boil, and this time can be used to get organized and track everything. In cases like this, counting calories can certainly be a little trickier and more time-consuming, but it’s really no big deal and still won’t take you more than a few minutes in total. Some of the ingredients may not come in packets with barcodes.There are a lot of different ingredients.In situations like this, It can be really tricky to track accurately. The problem is, we’re not always eating food out of packets with barcodes, and even when we do, we’re not necessarily eating all of that food.Ī great example is if you’re batch cooking for several days, or you’re cooking a single meal like a lasagne or a chili that will be divided between 2 or more people. You scan the barcode on the back with My Fitness Pal and it clocks in at 200 calories, bosh, done. Tracking calories can be really easy, but sometimes it can also be really f**king difficult.įor example, let’s say you go to the shop and grab a bag of Beef Jerky. ![]()
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