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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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After a review my coach wants me to eat more, sleep more but also wants me to start tracking my calories..
What I eat during the day for work is easy but I’m really struggling with how to track my portion of the families evening meal! Any suggestions? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Some of the big calorie counting apps let you scan the barcodes of the ingredients you are cooking with 
Look up each ingredient, using the quantities for the whole batch, and add up calories for the whole recipe. Then divide by the number of servings.  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Which part are you struggling with? If I was you I'd would just weigh the portions on a weighing scales and then job done really. "
The bit I’m struggling with is working out the calories on my plate for the meal.
What we eat isn’t bad most of the time and generally fairly carb heavy with things like pasta and sauce, currys, cottage pies etc. There may be the odd meal where it’s chips and some sort of breaded chicken or fish product out of the freezer. |
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By *onb21Woman
over a year ago
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Is it because you're not doing the cooking or because they're cooked from scratch?
It is a bit of a faff to begin with, weighing and recording the numbers, but most people don't tend to eat that many different dishes, so once you've done them it's really easy to log every day. Easier again if a meal is cooked from a recipe. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I put my recipes into my fitness pal app. You can add how many portions per recipe.
Is that by weight or you divide my how many people are eating?"
I divide by how many people eating. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Is it because you're not doing the cooking or because they're cooked from scratch?
It is a bit of a faff to begin with, weighing and recording the numbers, but most people don't tend to eat that many different dishes, so once you've done them it's really easy to log every day. Easier again if a meal is cooked from a recipe."
A bit of both.. I cook and so does my other half depending on who is home first.
He just wants to gauge worthy how many calories I’m getting a day as he thinks I’m way short of where I should be to have enough energy at the end of the day to come in and have a workout session |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I put my recipes into my fitness pal app. You can add how many portions per recipe."
Good shout there. Its exactly what I use and I've got it linked to my Garmin watch so that it offsets my exercise too |
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