Is Tracking Your Food Raw Ruining Your Gains?

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[rick]

The Nutrition label on your chicken breasts when you buy it says (raw) on the label. If you want accurate macros weigh your portion, plug into your tracker, then cook. Really simple.

[adrienmanjikai]

TLDR : just specify whether the weight is from raw or cooked food. Myfitnesspal will take care of the rest

[ady_kotidou]

Tracking everything raw will always be the way for me. So much easier and more accurate. Great video! 👍

[TitoDespacito]

This is something I’ve been worrying about since I started tracking calories, glad someone finally made a video about it! 😎

[oatznsquats]

man i'm glad i'm not th only one who thinks about this stuff. what's even worse is that i like to have boneless skinless chicken thighs. i track it as the macros listed on the package, but i also trim off any big chunks of fat i can, plus some of the fat melts off in the cooking process. how much fat am i actually eating? no idea, but i just be consistent with it and try not to worry about it like you said.

[nataliab.]

Great video, I guess these are the most common doubts when starting to track! Thanks Felu!!

[kvpc]

Love the videos Felu, they are such a great resource! A good tip I always did was when cooking veggies or chicken with oil, I would pour the oil in a bowl on a scale and weigh it, and then toss the veggies/chicken in it to coat them. Made it so much easier than trying to guess how much oil I put in the pan. Thank you for all your content!

[jeff_costarica]

RAW thats it, finish of the discussion

[Makenor]

Something that sometimes confuses me a lot is related to food that has both edible and inedible parts, or parts that usually people don't eat. Basic example: chicken legs (thighs and drumsticks). It should have something around 200/210 cal per 100g, skin included. But is this referred to the total weight, bones and cartilages included, or just to the edible part? Same thing if I'm eating a whole roasted chicken, should I consider the weight of it with the carcasse when I log it into my food app or not? The edible part should be something like 66%. Same goes for fish btw.

Some other minor and more insignificant examples could relate to fruits and vegetables with a skin that is actually edible (potatoes, apples, pears etc), if you should account for its weight in the calorie count or if it's "free" because it's just made of fiber basically. But that's very minor because it'll impact the tracking very very marginally.

[ZiggyZoopZap]

I love this channel, I've recommended it to many. Very underrated, Thank You Felu <3

[cuppacheese]

The real problem is when dealing with proteins with a higher fat content. If measuring raw, it includes the fat (think ground beef for example), most of the fat gets rendered out and discarded when making a dish such as tacos. This changes the macros significantly.

[MrMaximllian]

Just wanted to say that it`s a very important topic, every person trying to lose weight should watch this video, it makes things much more simple!

[gosiam]

This took me a looong time to figure out when I first started tracking. 3 years later I can confirm it works

[jibijay]

I always track uncooked unless I'm cooking something with more fat like grilled chicken thigh fillets for example, then I will track the cooked weight. If I'm using the thigh fillets in something like a curry or paella then I go with raw as all the fat stays in the dish.

[bnanderson]

amazing video. Such a great way to explain this difficult situation. For me, I usually weigh veggies raw, but with meats, I typically do cooked weight x 1.33 to get the raw weight. It's not always perfect, but it's a way to stay consistent as you mentioned!

[ditznfitness]

Dried fruits are REAL KILLERS too when doing a comparison just like raw/cooked, but with their fresh/dried weight! I see SO MANY people snacking on dried fruit, thinking it's better, but those dried banana slices for example have SO MANY calories per 100g! And worst part of most dried fruit is, they usually have way less fiber, and way more simple sugars per 100g, making you way hungrier so much faster than their original fresh state! A similar video just like this could be done on that topic! Raisins VS Grapes is a good example too! 👆

[freakppl]

No one asked, everyone needed. Great video short simple and to the point, thanks :D

[TheBestTuber]

Did Jeff Caveliere write the title of the video?

[DannyT]

I've never once thought about this, thanks for making me stress about this now

[Maurus]

This is a 101 on how to overcomplicate things.