I've been having 3 oz of grilled boneless, skinless chicken breast on my salad lately. There are dozens of results when I search for chicken breast on fitday, and there doesn't seem to be one that fits. Should I use the one that says, "roasted, skin not eaten" or will it be different because it was cooked without skin?
The one I chose today says that 3 oz would be 137 calories, does that sound right?
fitday's chicken always seems high to me too. I just tweek it, with the one you said til the calories come out right. i think 3 oz of breast meat is about 80 cals.
Looks right when I looked at fitday...Remember that 3oz of cooked chicken is different in calories than 3oz of raw chicken.
I would use either the broiled or roasted option. Note that among the options listed are:
oz, boneless, cooked (yield after skin removed): 127 cal
and
oz, boneless, cooked, skinless: 137 cal
I think the first is if you weighed the meat before cooking and then removed the skin...this leads to lower calories because there is actually a little less meat than in option #2, where your 3oz doesn't include the weight of the skin.
So, if you're using already cooked, skinned chicken and the weight is 3 oz, then use option #2.
If your 3oz is measured when raw, then use one of the raw options.
It never occurred to me to check to see if chicken was close or far off...you really think it overestimates?
But the one thing I think it really UNDER reports is pizza. No way is a slice of commercial pizza as low as fitday reports. I even went by weight yesterday, they had a cheese pizza from costco and the weight was listed on the box. She cut the pizza into 12 slices, and those were pretty big slices. 150 calories? I wish. And they were much less substantial than another place I get pizza.
If there's a label, I customize the info for pretty much anything I eat. I have my chicken as a custom item because I buy the 98-99% fat free boneless skinless chicken breasts, so I used the info from their package. I also enter the amounts raw because I don't tend to weigh my chicken when it's hot out of the oven. Instead, I take the amount in the package as labeled raw (usually slightly over 1 pound) and just divide it into however many serving I get out of the package. So if people look at my Fitday, they'll see nights where I have 1/2 pound of chicken, but that's raw, so it's actually less weight once it's cooked.
That was definitely way off on the Costco pizza. Costco's nutritionals can be found at www.dietfacts.com and here is a link to the nutritionals for a slice of their cheese pizza.
How do you enter chicken breast on Fitday
