Hey Eric! I hope you are doing well. I seriously need to thank you. With the help fo your videos and posts I have lost 30 pounds. Ive been a bit down because its taken me about six months and I was hoping to be at my goal weight by now. But you have taught me so much about moderation and not depriving myself. I seriously was thinking about doing keto until I saw your videos and how much you hate it. Now every time I think of doing keto your Karen voice pops in my head lol. So thank you for motivating and educating so many people like me!
I cook for a family of 6 everyday and this has been the bane of my existence lol. This helps though for sure! I'm thinking this is a cue to cook less complicated/airy creative food though bc man it gets dicey!
I cook every single day and count everything. I make for example a meal for four persons or for prep meal. Its quiet simple: counting, cooking, splitting, freezing or in containers in the fridge. When I'm out is more difficult, but either i ask for the components and assess a bit or i do not eat this. for all cases i never leave home without a small container of rescue food or protein shake. i don't care, that my friends doesn't understand why i bring my own almond milk to a Café for having a cup of coffee with them :-D
Hey there , I have a question. I did post my question separate under this video as well.. but just Incase no one sees it I wanted to ask under your comment.. when making one big recipe for 4 persons/meal prep. And my Fitnesspal calculates how much calories would be for 1 serving. My questions is..how do you figure out how much grams is per serving so you know how much to weight out for one ?
@@Shel15 Here's what I would do. You put the entire thing you cooked on a scale, now lets say it amounts to 500 grams. You cut exactly 1/4 of it and measure again. If it's 125 grams then you have your portion. Now the problem for me is, I'm not quite sure what to do because if you're making a pie, some parts of it can be more dense and other parts not so much. Good luck.
Lemme add an extra 2 hours to my cooking time to do all this math. Omg these videos make me want to just but prepackaged meals. Who could keep up with this for every meal??
This girl explains better: ruclips.net/video/O-weKVCoSqE/видео.html In nutshell you will enter serving size the number of grams of the whole pot, that way you just weigh your portion before eating.
me, 12 kilos down currently. living with constant hunger, but its ok, its fine, its for the better me. i am doing this for the better version of myself. if you don't want to achieve this, don't do it :) There are ways to do this with minimal effort, you can just eat junk food, of course yuo will end up eating waaay less volume of food, but you still can
Great video. What I have learned in this couple of days is that counting calories is hard, requires discipline and determination. This is not bad but it has taught me that I have lived 44 years a different way and changing is going to take time. I have change little things in my diet for the past years and have seen the difference but this is going to be a processed. I need to understand that I will not be perfect in 10 days because I have the desire to do it.. it is going to take time to find my rithym. Like always I enjoy your videos and they motivate me to be better and keep going.
Thank you my brother ! Very well put together stuff man! I learned a lot!! Hands down the best part is that “measure everything in grams”, I been doing that for very long time, not just with that type of “food” 😂 Thanks!!
My issue is understanding how do you determine the serving size if you’re making a casserole you don’t necessarily know the serving size before hand, so how do you determine that?
I go off the average amount of scoops I use to make my plate.like if I look at the whole casserole and say I can get 24 scoops out of it either I do 1 scoops to make my plate making it 24 servings or I need two scoops to make my plate then it would be 12 servings. So when I plug my ingredients into my app with the servings I see it does the math for me
Eating a home cooked meal is where I give up tracking 😭 it feels like I’m supposed to eat stuff that’s all sectioned up or else it’s not going to be accurate. I feel like people that don’t cook that often will have a lot of success with tracking but it’s soooo hard for me do 😅 You should do a more in depth video with cooking and measuring ☺️☺️☺️
This video is very good, thanks! But what if i have something like a home cooked potato Soup... how can i measure out my portion when it is all cooked and in one Pot... i tried to measure out everything before cooking... Then i put the cooked soup in another pot to weigh out and then tried to figure out how many ml one portion would be... this is so complicated... HELP
What I’m not getting is how to determine how much is a serving… for example 1 serving is 1 cup or 1/4 cup is 1 serving how do I get that when I make something like spaghetti or rotel dip
I make my own Yogart out of 3% milk, I then strain the whey out, to make it into Greek. I and trying to figure out how much cals are in the Yogart. I use the whey later in home made bread. I not sure if this whey (because it not from cheese ) has the protein in like whey from cheese making. That what I m looking for in a video. Do you know how to figure that call out
Give me tips on this if this is wrong somehow, I just need to know am I doing things right or not: I usually prepare large meals, cause I am a student atm (so I rather prep a ton and then don't give a damn for a week) and I do this - I weigh each ingredient and take the calorie count, when I am done cooking, I don't use the weight of the raw ingredients, instead I weigh the whole meal, and since I know every ingredient's calorie count, I don't need to care about the water boiling off when I am sauteing onions or carrots for example, right? So I add up all calorie values from my ingredient and then divide the whole calorie count by the total weight I got when I weighed the finished meal, so I basically get the amount of calories per gram for the whole meal, right? Then whenever I eat I weigh how much I eat and multiply the weight in grams by the calorie per gram value I got and that Is the total calories for that specific meal for that specific portion. I came up with this myself but maybe this is a viable method that was already discussed somewhere, anyways I want to know - whether or not there's a problem with this method? Thanks in advance
Yeah, but what if it's a chicken vegetable, bean soup? How can you determine call when you may grab more beans or chicken with the soup ladel? I'm just going to make a serving size one cup. See how many cups the soup is and divide cals by serving size. Exhausting
So, when I scan an item if the recipe calls for 10 tortillas do I change the number of servings when I scan the item. Or it called 1 ½ cups of shredded cheese. Do I put that amount of the amount on the package? All together everything scanned with no modifications to the total comes out to 685 calories. So what would be a serving size, 1 cup, 2 cups, ¼ of the casserole dish? Each item I scan has a different size serving for each item.
Decided to ask this on your latest video but, this question refers to it to your calorie counting. You said I can measure raw meat right? But wouldn’t the meet weigh less after it’s cooked? Should I still consider it the same even after it’s cooked?
My question is that If you make home-made cookies and you find out that all the calories of the cookies make 1950Kcals and for example you make 9 cookies do you have to do 1950kcals division by 9? or do you have to weigh each cookie which for example is 25g each cookie to see the grams of it and do it 25g of 1950? Please someone help me honestly
Thank you for this video I appreciate how you broke things down it's just one thing that I've been confused about on my account calories drink let's say I'm cooking a pot of chili and I'm starting with dry beans and dry rice when I cook it the rice and the beans are going to double and wait from when I originally measured them out dry so when I go to measure out my portions how do I calculate it correctly with the rice and beans adding more weight if that makes sense? Any tips tricks will definitely be appreciated
Okay riddle me this if you cook with one tablespoon of olive oil which is approximately 120 Cal and you cook 3 to 4 pieces of fish in that olive oil and you only eat one piece of fish how do you include the macros for the oil.. obviously you add the macros for the amount of fish you eat.. the same goes for if you cook 1 lb of broccoli and only add one tablespoon of oil in there and steam it with water how do you account for the calories from the oil...??
What is your approach when clients start saying they don't have time to track, or their "burned out" ? I make suggestions, but let's be honest, if you don't track, especially when you have a goal that you have not yet reached, you can't really say you're in a deficit, I offer diet breaks, but if they don't want to track even at maintenance, this seems counter productive. I would love to know how you approach those clients and keep them on board.
I just want to clarify this... my goal BW is 135 ish so I’m multiplying by 12 for my calorie deficit of 1600. And if I want to take a maintenance week(diet break) I take my current Body weight x14?
Weighing in grams is the only form of counting weight. Oz is an American thing trying to have something of their own to fulfill their baby history and behave like teens that seek attention, and cups and spoons as you said correctly in your other video are for volume measurements.
I don’t even have to watch this to know this is going to be an awesome video. I struggle with this every day
hahaha makes me happy :)
@@ericrobertsfitness Your videos make me happy ❤️
He is so good at it
Hey Eric! I hope you are doing well. I seriously need to thank you. With the help fo your videos and posts I have lost 30 pounds. Ive been a bit down because its taken me about six months and I was hoping to be at my goal weight by now. But you have taught me so much about moderation and not depriving myself. I seriously was thinking about doing keto until I saw your videos and how much you hate it. Now every time I think of doing keto your Karen voice pops in my head lol. So thank you for motivating and educating so many people like me!
You are absolutely amazing ❤️❤️ let’s go!!!
I cook for a family of 6 everyday and this has been the bane of my existence lol. This helps though for sure! I'm thinking this is a cue to cook less complicated/airy creative food though bc man it gets dicey!
Thank you! This is exactly what I was searching for!
I cook every single day and count everything. I make for example a meal for four persons or for prep meal. Its quiet simple: counting, cooking, splitting, freezing or in containers in the fridge. When I'm out is more difficult, but either i ask for the components and assess a bit or i do not eat this. for all cases i never leave home without a small container of rescue food or protein shake. i don't care, that my friends doesn't understand why i bring my own almond milk to a Café for having a cup of coffee with them :-D
Hey there , I have a question. I did post my question separate under this video as well.. but just Incase no one sees it I wanted to ask under your comment.. when making one big recipe for 4 persons/meal prep. And my Fitnesspal calculates how much calories would be for 1 serving. My questions is..how do you figure out how much grams is per serving so you know how much to weight out for one ?
@@Shel15 Here's what I would do. You put the entire thing you cooked on a scale, now lets say it amounts to 500 grams. You cut exactly 1/4 of it and measure again. If it's 125 grams then you have your portion. Now the problem for me is, I'm not quite sure what to do because if you're making a pie, some parts of it can be more dense and other parts not so much. Good luck.
@@lils8005 thank you so much still. I appreciate it. I’m actually about to give me a try again so your response was good lol . Happy new year as well
This video explains much better: ruclips.net/video/O-weKVCoSqE/видео.html
You’re awesome eric. Super thankful for you ♥️been so helpful
Once again the superiority of the metric system is proven
Lemme add an extra 2 hours to my cooking time to do all this math. Omg these videos make me want to just but prepackaged meals. Who could keep up with this for every meal??
Not every meal, but it helps when dieting if you know roughly how many calories you consume per day so doing this for a few days is ueseful
This girl explains better: ruclips.net/video/O-weKVCoSqE/видео.html
In nutshell you will enter serving size the number of grams of the whole pot, that way you just weigh your portion before eating.
Get a fitage food scale you only have to do the math once
me, 12 kilos down currently. living with constant hunger, but its ok, its fine, its for the better me. i am doing this for the better version of myself. if you don't want to achieve this, don't do it :) There are ways to do this with minimal effort, you can just eat junk food, of course yuo will end up eating waaay less volume of food, but you still can
then dont do it...damn
This was incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Great video. What I have learned in this couple of days is that counting calories is hard, requires discipline and determination. This is not bad but it has taught me that I have lived 44 years a different way and changing is going to take time. I have change little things in my diet for the past years and have seen the difference but this is going to be a processed. I need to understand that I will not be perfect in 10 days because I have the desire to do it.. it is going to take time to find my rithym. Like always I enjoy your videos and they motivate me to be better and keep going.
The plate ratio example is gold! Thank you
Keep them coming, great vidoes.
Thank you my brother ! Very well put together stuff man! I learned a lot!! Hands down the best part is that “measure everything in grams”, I been doing that for very long time, not just with that type of “food” 😂
Thanks!!
My issue is understanding how do you determine the serving size if you’re making a casserole you don’t necessarily know the serving size before hand, so how do you determine that?
I go off the average amount of scoops I use to make my plate.like if I look at the whole casserole and say I can get 24 scoops out of it either I do 1 scoops to make my plate making it 24 servings or I need two scoops to make my plate then it would be 12 servings. So when I plug my ingredients into my app with the servings I see it does the math for me
@@bestuploader yes i figured it out
Great information! Thank you!
Glad it helped :)
@@ericrobertsfitness you need to come to Houston. You are a good trainer and to the point! Love that!
I usually just mark down all calories before cooking then divide after by how many portions I get.
Ima do it this way. I'm so confused by all this math
Great video! When portioning out a meal should I use the scale to make the serving sizes are the same? Thanks!
Eating a home cooked meal is where I give up tracking 😭 it feels like I’m supposed to eat stuff that’s all sectioned up or else it’s not going to be accurate. I feel like people that don’t cook that often will have a lot of success with tracking but it’s soooo hard for me do 😅 You should do a more in depth video with cooking and measuring ☺️☺️☺️
I love your videos! They help me so much.
Great video 👏🏼👏🏼
Thank u glad it helped :)
Learn something from this video😍 thank you so much eric.
This video is very good, thanks! But what if i have something like a home cooked potato Soup... how can i measure out my portion when it is all cooked and in one Pot... i tried to measure out everything before cooking... Then i put the cooked soup in another pot to weigh out and then tried to figure out how many ml one portion would be... this is so complicated... HELP
New subscriber 😊 great video
Yey! Another vid!
Yayay!! ;)
What I’m not getting is how to determine how much is a serving… for example 1 serving is 1 cup or 1/4 cup is 1 serving how do I get that when I make something like spaghetti or rotel dip
I always overestimate just in case.
YESSSS! Thank youuu
Welcome :)
I’ve been tracking for 6 weeks- what a great change.
does it matter whether we choose to input the raw numbers or the cooked numbers? like say for example the chicken.
Yes, cooked is not accurate anymore
Yehey thanks
do we want to weigh the chicken raw? is that how it is inputted?
I make my own Yogart out of 3% milk, I then strain the whey out, to make it into Greek. I and trying to figure out how much cals are in the Yogart. I use the whey later in home made bread. I not sure if this whey (because it not from cheese ) has the protein in like whey from cheese making. That what I m looking for in a video. Do you know how to figure that call out
Loving your vlogs making me feel so motivated thank you x
Give me tips on this if this is wrong somehow, I just need to know am I doing things right or not:
I usually prepare large meals, cause I am a student atm (so I rather prep a ton and then don't give a damn for a week) and I do this - I weigh each ingredient and take the calorie count, when I am done cooking, I don't use the weight of the raw ingredients, instead I weigh the whole meal, and since I know every ingredient's calorie count, I don't need to care about the water boiling off when I am sauteing onions or carrots for example, right? So I add up all calorie values from my ingredient and then divide the whole calorie count by the total weight I got when I weighed the finished meal, so I basically get the amount of calories per gram for the whole meal, right? Then whenever I eat I weigh how much I eat and multiply the weight in grams by the calorie per gram value I got and that Is the total calories for that specific meal for that specific portion. I came up with this myself but maybe this is a viable method that was already discussed somewhere, anyways I want to know - whether or not there's a problem with this method? Thanks in advance
How do you determine the serving itself in order to ensure you're not overeating? Does that make sense
Yeah, but what if it's a chicken vegetable, bean soup? How can you determine call when you may grab more beans or chicken with the soup ladel? I'm just going to make a serving size one cup. See how many cups the soup is and divide cals by serving size. Exhausting
So, when I scan an item if the recipe calls for 10 tortillas do I change the number of servings when I scan the item. Or it called 1 ½ cups of shredded cheese. Do I put that amount of the amount on the package? All together everything scanned with no modifications to the total comes out to 685 calories. So what would be a serving size, 1 cup, 2 cups, ¼ of the casserole dish? Each item I scan has a different size serving for each item.
Food with a lot of sodium is problematic to combine, if I am still in a calorie deficit?
For example pastrami.
It’s said to damage muscle.
Decided to ask this on your latest video but, this question refers to it to your calorie counting. You said I can measure raw meat right? But wouldn’t the meet weigh less after it’s cooked? Should I still consider it the same even after it’s cooked?
My question is that If you make home-made cookies and you find out that all the calories of the cookies make 1950Kcals and for example you make 9 cookies do you have to do 1950kcals division by 9? or do you have to weigh each cookie which for example is 25g each cookie to see the grams of it and do it 25g of 1950? Please someone help me honestly
Exactly the question wanted to ask! Nobody seems to be helping 😭
Divide by 9 if they are exactly the same size, but weighing each is more accurate.
Thank you for this video I appreciate how you broke things down it's just one thing that I've been confused about on my account calories drink let's say I'm cooking a pot of chili and I'm starting with dry beans and dry rice when I cook it the rice and the beans are going to double and wait from when I originally measured them out dry so when I go to measure out my portions how do I calculate it correctly with the rice and beans adding more weight if that makes sense? Any tips tricks will definitely be appreciated
What about the food that gave it to you that cooked? How will you know the calories of this, because you don’t know the ingredients?
Okay riddle me this if you cook with one tablespoon of olive oil which is approximately 120 Cal and you cook 3 to 4 pieces of fish in that olive oil and you only eat one piece of fish how do you include the macros for the oil.. obviously you add the macros for the amount of fish you eat.. the same goes for if you cook 1 lb of broccoli and only add one tablespoon of oil in there and steam it with water how do you account for the calories from the oil...??
Divide
What is your approach when clients start saying they don't have time to track, or their "burned out" ? I make suggestions, but let's be honest, if you don't track, especially when you have a goal that you have not yet reached, you can't really say you're in a deficit, I offer diet breaks, but if they don't want to track even at maintenance, this seems counter productive. I would love to know how you approach those clients and keep them on board.
I just want to clarify this... my goal BW is 135 ish so I’m multiplying by 12 for my calorie deficit of 1600. And if I want to take a maintenance week(diet break) I take my current Body weight x14?
But how about like rice and pasta and stuff
Do we weight raw 😘😂
Weighing in grams is the only form of counting weight. Oz is an American thing trying to have something of their own to fulfill their baby history and behave like teens that seek attention, and cups and spoons as you said correctly in your other video are for volume measurements.