Weighing Food & Calories
Weighing Food & Calories |
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Which Weigh to weigh food?
It can be confusing at times when I read labels stating the
calorie content of the food. It doesn’t always say whether the food should
be weighed cooked or uncooked. If a food label states cooked then great but
what if you’re eating meat. You may buy meat weighing 300 grams however,
this is the raw weight, when meat is cooked it loses up to a third of its
weight as water is lost, plus the longer meat is cooked the more water it
loses. What if your preparing rice how do you know what 100 grams will be?
To be accurate it means weighing everything but some people don’t have those delicate scales and if you do, aren’t they too inconvenient to keep using them when preparing meals? Also, what if you’re eating out or at work, it’ll mean another guessing game!
I believe instead of trying to accurately estimate calorie content it’s more important to LEARN an instinct for foods that are calorie dense. This doesn’t necessarily mean avoiding suspicious high calorie foods like the plaque, rather recognize these foods and choose a much smaller portion. The whole idea of a negative calorie intake in order to lose weight is to consume less total energy on AVERAGE over the course of the week or month. It wouldn’t make much difference if we ate a LITTLE more than 1800 calories that we may be trying to achieve each day. The more we learn to use and polish this instinct the more we can average our LOWER intake overall, we may then consume 1920 calories one day but then 1700 calories the next day. At the end of the day as long as we are consuming on average less calories than the body needs we will lose weight, that's fact!
The only thing to watch out for is that “I’ll catch up tomorrow” attitude, where it becomes an excuse to overindulge one day with the belief that you can catch up on the next day, but the problem occurs when the same belief is repeated almost daily!
To learn an instinct for calories in foods create a habit of reading labels for everything you eat. Just concentrate on calories per 100 grams (3.5 ounces) then you can compare it to other foods for the same weight. You could also buy a book displaying the calories in thousands of common foods. The easiest way is to purchase a calorie weighing scales.
Calories per portion calculation * Always seek the approval from a qualified dietician before starting any new diet or introducing any new foods. Please read our Terms! |
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