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Macro Tips: How To Track Cooked Protein Without Measuring Raw

If you are like me, you don't have time to weigh out every single piece of food item you are going to consume for each serving. Meal prepping is time consuming enough and the whole point of flexible dieting is a FLEXIBLE approach right? Well yes, but if you aren't estimating the foods you track correctly (or even intuitively eat), you could be consuming way more than you had planned.   The macros in foods are based on the raw ingredients themselves and not cooked so to get a 100% accurate measurement, you should measure raw but who on earth has time for that? When I was prepping for a show, I was measuring it all out individually and wasting so much time prepping for a few days at a time. For the level of lean that you have to achieve as a competitor, accuracy is crucial, however if you aren't trying to get into single digit body fat percentages, then you certainly don't want to waste all of this time. I made a whole batch of jasmine rice using a boil in a bag ...