DenialZombie's Journal, 27 December 2021

oh that looks so good! 

I can’t see the calories listed but i’d guess about 360 on the chicken with skin? Looks great btw! 

It's probably as high as you have logged. The amount and alot of calories in the skin. I recommend getting a food scale and weighing things out if you're unsure. They're cheap on Amazon. 

The package was 5.32lbs for 4 leg quarters. That comes to roughly 21oz each raw. According to FS, 21oz of skin on leg quarter yields about 700kcal! It's 3 times the rest of the meal combined! 

that's bone and all.... buy a scale weigh the meat, also weigh the potatoes. you have one 5" potatoe logged. per gram the calories are way off on those. (as are most anything on this app that logs by size and not weight) 

I weigh the cooked chicken (in grams), then weigh the bones after I eat & subtract that. Dark meat with skin is 71 calories per ounce (28 g). 

Cook time changes the weight of cooked food and changes the weight per calories as it dries out more or less if not cooked as long. Always best to weigh meat raw keeps thing accurate every time. 

And to make it even more complicated hot food right out of the oven weighs more then cooled food 😂 

I also weigh meat raw (minus bones) then cook. I usually buy boneless just for this reason.  

I weigh my meat after it is cooked and without the bones 

There are engineering concepts: tolerance and safety factor. Tolerance is the wiggle-room allowable for something to function (it matters not that your 9" pan is in fact 9.015"), safety factor is a built in assumption that stress will exceed design (a 100 ton bridge is built for 200 tons because pushing the limit is a feature, not a bug). I have my RDI set to 80% of this app's minimum (1600 kcal), I have set myself as "sedentary," and I mostly track intake over time. In the long term, it isn't worth it to me to weigh everything. Averaging out intake and erring on the side of higher estimates effectively increases my tolerance for inaccuracies, while setting my RDI low and only recording intentional exercise effectively increases my safety factor. In other words, I just use some simple engineering concepts to eat the accuracies. My results speak for themselves. Thanks for all the advice, though!