You're eating a cup of rice, 4oz of roasted broccoli and 5oz of 93/7 lean ground beef.Ī. For almost all foods besides those measured well by volume (like liquids, oats, dry grains, rice etc) choose to weigh in ounces or grams. If you are eating 4oz of chicken cooked, do NOT select an entry for 4oz of raw chicken, these are not the same at all.ģ. Select the mode in which you measured and are eating it (so usually cooked). I have yet to come across a program as great as this.Ģ. I highly prefer Cronometer though for accuracy and ease of use. If you insist on using MFP I highly recommend searching for entries through the USDA database which are vetted and measured in accurate amounts like grams and ounces. I used My Fitness Pal for years and was constantly annoyed by the shear number of inaccurate entries for common foods, even ones from seemingly credible sources.
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Instead, you need to stick to the plan and only when you can ramble off the calories and macros of common foods you eat should you get more flexibile with how you track. If you can't tell me how many grams of fat per ounce cooked salmon has, how many grams of protein per ounce raw chicken has or how many grams of carbs are in a cup of rice, you shouldn't be making advanced calls. For most people though, this is a recipe for error. Very experienced users or coaches have enough knowledge on when to use estimates, choose not to log something or make informed decisions on the fly. Here's the thing with counting macros: if you are going to do it, you need to do it all the way. Those are three really big ways to screw up counting macros but lucky you, I have an easy fix and I'll tell you how to do it in this blog. Choosing entries from other users, especially if you are not extremely familar with the calories/macros of foods, is probably NOT accurate If you sometimes weigh your chicken and sometimes measure it by your palm, it is NOT accurate.ģ.
I.e measuring your chicken raw and entering is as cooked is NOT accurateĢ. Not understanding the difference between cooked vs raw. In the United States alone 27.4 million people use Fitbit, 19.1 million use My Fitness Pal and 14.9 million use S Health.īut how much of that is accurate, especially when it comes to nutrition? In talking to the average person who tracks their food with an app, I find a few key areas most people do not understand.
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