This was the most helpful video I found on KZfaq. Great content; straight to the point, well organised, professional and simple. Subscribed, thank you.

It’s so hard when your parents are the ones making you the food

I’m 16, I weigh 318 lbs, i’m trying to lose weight for my future and I’m hoping that this can help me in the long run. I wish everyone luck out there trying to lose weight

I think I might have aced my new years resolution. I am watching this channel, I am working out 6 days a week, look better than ever before... What a time to be alive.

How are you guys liking the new schedule? Mon & Friday 12PM EST = Recipe and Wednesday 6:30PM EST = Something random (like this video for beginners).

Counting calories and setting goals for protein completely changed my physique in 6 months and lost 10, a total game changer. 1.5 years on and still going strong, improving my physique steadily on a flexible dieting approach 💪🏻☀️🍫🍎🤗

My main problem with these apps is the fact any food can be modified, whether it contains extra ingredients or less. I can't ever find the version of the actual meal I have eaten, so I end up clicking on a more ''caloric'' one.

Method 2.. 10 times more convenient.. That's what I used to do when I was body building. Went from 355lbs to 225lbs. Met my wife had two kids 6 years later im 300lbs again. 😭..

My issue is that it's hard to calculate calories for things like 37 grams of tomatoes or onions Or 10 grapes . I dont eat 100 grams of green peppers in one meal so this is driving me bonkers

Hey protein chef! Would you consider making a "breakfast" playlist?

What's annoying is having to convert to calories when most of my food items are in Kj in Australia

I’m glad you’re back! I got off the wagon with fitness and now seeing your videos motivates me to get back on it! Thanks Derek! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

bro im sooo so so so glad your back i keep saying it but man you dont even know

Having a food scale is very useful. I eat the same foods I always have but I actually just eat 1 portion size. Now I don’t feel groggy after eating and after years of trying could finally see my abs.

To save time, I'm planning to have an "universal" diet every day. Ones math is done, I know accurately my calories intake. I can add or take off 10% of my calories if I get bored eating same food every day. I want to keep my calorie intake 300 calories below what I need, and burn out at gym 300 daily. I hope my plan is good.

I personally find using MFP is very all over the place. How much did I consume. What chicken breast did I get. Why is one breast 100cals and ranges all the way up to 500cals. It's an 'analysis paralysis' trigger to have to scroll through tons of food items when putting a meal together.

My mother told me ,it was not neccessary to weight pot with nothing,she made orzo with lemon and parsley, huge failure with my fitness pall, so I used cronometer for tracking orzo,I just added my portion weight, so diff when you do not cooked, I did not eat fatty food today

This was so helpful man! Thanks a lot!

THANK YOU SO MUCH for talking about this!! The info being wrong and inaccurate sometimes when entering food in the app. I be so lost and frustrated with this and stuck❤

I think the simplest approach is trying to eat the same format everyday. Ie 500 calories per meal with say a 100 calorie snack. For example a 500 cal breakfast: bowl of oatmeal w honey, banana, walnuts =360 cal + 2 eggs = 140 cal. Lunch approx 500 cal= 6 oz chicken (280 cal), 1 cup roasted potatoes = (120 cal), 1/2 cup chickpeas (120 cal) veggies. Snack 100 cal (40 pumpkin seeds). Dinner 500 cal similar to lunch. Without needing to prep you just become familiar with the portion sizes and even if you go out to eat you know how to re-portion what they serve you and take the rest to go. Then its fairly simple to swap lets say the cup of potatoes for 1/2 cup of whole grains or the pumpkins seeds for another 100 cal snack or the oatmeal w honey for a cup of a different whole grain or a slice of whole grain bread with 1/2 avocado. The main idea is to be familiar with the cals in the foods you eat, and keep the cals and format consistent at each meal from day to day.

Glad your back! Love all your stuff

viewer from 2023, this is still relevant and the low stakes tone helped me feel better that I'm just getting started :)

How can I track food that isn’t made by me like from a friend ? Something that doesn’t give a label with the calories I find that hard

Maybe someone here can help... I work 9h/day and order lunch at the office. I mostly have to do guesswork when tracking, especially with quantity since I try to order as simple as possible (grilled meat, rice with vegetables, baked potato, etc). Is there an average margin of error? Let's say I'm going for 2000 a day so I set the app at 1800 to give myself 200 for undercounting... guess I'm stressing too much and not having patience to track the scale for a few weeks and judge by the results :)

My issues, 1. Calculating salads that i buy with no specifications, 2. Cherry tomatos, and grapes i eat a lot and its hard to calcilate

I always struggle with knowing if I should be weighing things cooked or uncooked. Chicken, rice are perfect examples.

Day 3 of counting my calories so this is a perfectly timed video... & as I was skimming through the comments, I second the request "Please make a healthy coleslaw recipe"😁 Appreciate your videos!

Good mix of humor and info. You rock!

I don't know if this is a stupid question but how do you know exactly how much calorie you're eating? For example how do you know that the rice you had is 5oz or 1cup?

well... i can eat 1800 calories/day (would be 2600 for "1kg/week") but i get no results so i think imma cut it to 1200 at midday only yall think thats good or should i just stay on 1800 (i fill theese calories up with a lot of protein and bout 300mg carbs)

Should I weigh the food uncooked or cooked? I was weighing my food uncooked then adding the amount of calories for the oil I use. e.g; 100 grams of chicken breasts have 165 calories and 1 tablespoon of ghee has 120 calories, I would add them up. Am I doing it right or wrong?

Great video! Thank you!

Great video, simple and straightforward, tells you what you need to do next.

What to do if i dont even know whats the name of the food and lets say the food is not straight up from the store?

you're cool. subscribed in the first few minutes of the video even though it's my first time seeing anything from you :D I can smell quality haha

Good stuff my friend and schedule.

The forearms make me think he screams for a deathcore band in the evenings

thank you for the app its not perfect but way way better than anything else still usable the free way

Healthy coleslaw recipe! Make this happen! Lol

Thank you!

my issue is counting calories like cooking oils ,tomato sauce and seasonings

Just rushed up a small flight of stairs and got winded lol it’s time to start taking of myself again

Haha my phone storage is already full

Why doesn't this guy post training videos?

Question: with tracking cooked food we can just make it in bulk, divide into portions by just dividing by the amount of each ingredient so we can track it that way? I really want to start this and it makes it seem much easier. Thanks a ton

great video.

You think you could do a whole day of keto meal prep?

Just ate 2peanut butter and jelly sandwiches .

Thanks Really Appreciate it

great advice

Starting today! 6’4 150 wish me lucc😁🤷🏾‍♂️

More videos!!! Missed em

Big fan 😁 keep it up

This’ll sound childish but I need help, the hard but for me is this. ‘I just made good and slapped some flavoured rice on the plate? How do I measure it?’ Literally. Do you put it on a scale before eating this is such a crazy thought to me. I’d like to track but I can’t be scaling specially when I would be working

you just earned a sub

are turtlenecks still in style?

When u scan the bracode it’s says it for the whole thing instead of just what I ate eg a bag of bananas it will give cals for all the bananas and not one

How many calories does one need to eat per day? What does that depend on ? And 2ndly, how many of those calories are you supposed to burn?

Thank you

Can you eat more/less or different foods on your rest days, will it ruin your diet?

awesome video

But is the food on the app being tracked not cooked? Wouldn’t it be different after you cook it

What if for example im eating a food that isnt listed ? and i dont know its nutrients?

Im so lucky my mom mostly cooks chicken and rice😂😂😂

how does burning water give zero calories?

I have gestational diabetes, I went to the required class.... But I'm still confused 😕

i put in 15 for my fitness pal because i trying to gain muscle for football and it said, “you must be 18 or older”pisses me off

How do you track food that is mixed with other ingredients

Hello sir i am a beginner and i was starting my calorie deficit but i just find out after lunch i almost ate liks 1,300 when i only need 1,500 i am scared i might get fat huhuhu

cool

1:54 Your welcome

Should I weight fresh or cooked food?

Dude reminds me something id watch on pbs as a kid cept with tattoos

1000's of so called great sites, yet I can't find one! How about naming one!

What if you are younger than 18 (the age requirement for the app) what do I do?

Are turtlenecks still in style?

I don’t want to add my goals I just want it to do my damn macro totals! I remember this app 7 years ago and the damn thing has to have choose between gaining weight or losing weight. Just need it to do my totals FFS!

Do you just add calories from every food or do you need some typa difficult math

How much of the cooking oil should you track. Sometines to fry something I put a lot of oil directly from the bottle to the pan not even measuring by spoons. When the meal is cooked a lot of the cooking oil stays in the pan and some of it is absorbed by the food. I have no idea how much calories should I put in the fitness pal app.

So question... when we meal prep for the week are weights considering RAW or COOKED meats?

It’s hard to know the calories in dishes that were cooked by other people or in a recipe I’ve been following forever so I don’t measure anymore. Any tips with this?

Damn I said stay healthy

what’s the specific calorie tracking app you were using in the video?

But how do I track food with more than 2 elements?

Can you just weigh your entire plate if its paper?

You talked about weighing the food but didn’t mention what that has to do with counting calories? Is it because you put the weight into the app and then the app tells you how many calories it is? I never understood the weighing thing

Im trying to get fat!

Bros ripped

How does one find out how many calories you need ? I google everything and they assume I’m trying to loose when I’m trying to gain haha

Looking forward to adding 10lbs of muscle, I just need a solid 4000-5000 calories a day.

Calories vs macros? Which one is better?

can you please by answers these questions. for one how is weighing more accurate then measures, for example I scooped enough rice to cover my plate of rice and then placed the plate on a scale wouldn't the weight of the rice alone be inaccurate as the scale is also weighing the plate? if that's the case what can I do to measure the nutrition of the rice that's on my plate?

I’m still lost man this is a little frustrating

I give up dude i just can’t understand counting calories at all. I eyeball everything and hope im eating the right amount of calories

Oh

What are macros

The fitness app is crap I try to scan it says to get premium how can a free app that's meant to help you NOT even help a little 1/10 for a app

Yh just pay for a calorie tracker

What would be your recommendation for an app that is free. Fitnessepal is only grate if paying premium :(

I really hate numbers