Are you making these all to common mistakes logging your food in my fitness pal? Well tracking your macros is never an exact science you should always try to be as precise as possible so you’re doing everything in your power to reach your desired goal. Weighing your food after cooking and not logging as cooked. During the cooking process your food can loose weight. For example 249 grams of raw Salmon can translate to 199 grams cooked. So if you weigh your Salmon after cooking it you could be over eating by a pretty significant amount. If you can weigh your food raw go for it, but if you’re like the rest of us who cook and prep in bulk never fear! My fitness pal has the cooked option for almost everything. Just search for your item with the word cooked in front of it. Using generic entries such as “one banana.” A banana can have a significant amount of carbs and can vary in size, so what exactly does that ONE banana mean?! Grab your trusty scale, peel the banana and weigh it out in grams! Search my fitness pal to find an entry that allows you to enter your food in grams or ounces. Using tablespoons or eyeballing. I see you and your giant heaping scoop of peanut butter. Try this out, take one tablespoon of your desired nut butter and actually put it on the scale, do the grams match your nutrition label? This is especially important with something as calorie dense as nut butter! Cups and spoons will never be as accurate as your scale. ”Air macro-ing” did you happen to sneak a bite of your kids donut? Maybe you grabbed a couple pretzels while you were cooking dinner? Or maybe you had JUST one cookie that Karen baked at the office. These things add up! If you bite it, you log it. Those little cheats aren’t doing you any favors and typically they come from calorie dense treat foods.
Are you guilty of any of these mistakes?! Be honest in your tracking for the best results.