Just curious if you weigh your dood raw or after cooking? We are having pork ribs and chicken wings for dinner… They both say 4oz servings is that just the meat or with bones?
Do you weigh food cooked or raw?
Faitmaker
(Patrick B.)
#2
My bag of chicken wings says a serving is “4 oz (edible portion)”. I had wings last night as a matter of fact. I cooked them, weighed them, added my buffalo sauce, ate them, and weighed the bones. Went from 675g (bones included) to 455g (minus the bones). I wrote this confusing so… I ate 455g of meat.
Theresa
#4
This is such a good question! Chicken wings are the worst for weighing and tracking because there is so much that we don’t actually eat. I usually just find some random entry in MFP and “wing it.” 
BillJay
#5
This is a great question and one that Brian Williamson and Carrie Brown indirectly answer in their podcast concerning macros.
The quick summary is that there is a lot of confusing information when it comes to logging foods based on weight versus volume, cooked versus uncooked, variability for foods within a single database and whether or not the entry found in the database is for cooked or uncooked.
@kim also brought up a similar issue when it comes to avocado and when I tried to log it into MFP, it was still unclear whether the entry was meant to include the weight of the inedible parts or not.
I recently ate some Sonny’s BBQ Dry Rub Ribs and from the My Fitness Pal (MFP) database it was never clear if the weights included the bones or not.
Eventually I went to http://nutritiondata.self.com/ and created my own foods based on the edible part of the avocado and tried to do something similar for the ribs with no success. This is the technique recommended by Brian and Carrie in the podcast.
JayMo602
(Jay Morris)
#6
Ohh…don’t tell me that the macros in cooked bacon are wrong!
If so, Im just gonna eat it raw…
mikki
(eat more)
#7
the listed info is unprepared…like the label on a package of chicken (or bacon 
) is uncooked weight because of water loss…veggies too…they lose weight and volume.
so you can do both but…112g cooked bacon could really be like 200+g per the nutrition info given.
like a blackjack dealer told me once “what you do…always do it…if you double down on 11…always double down on 11”
so…i weigh everything uncooked…
one of my exceptions is artichokes they don’t really lose weight or volume through cooking…may even gain some water weight…
i weigh them after cooking and then weigh the garbage leaves and subtract from pre-consumption weight.
if i don’t eat it i subtract it/don’t track it…bones, leaves, stuff left on plate…
i hate everything about mfp…i think it’s only popular because it’s the most marketed 
Kirkor
#8
Whichever method you choose, as long as you do it consistently over time it will work itself out due to averaging.
allan
(Allan L)
#9
This is my rule, Weigh everything uncooked. But if you used cooked to calculate your macro’s you’d probably explode from all the extra protein you’d be eating.