Leigh - I had a bunch of questions I was going to ask at the Summit, but I will ask them if that's OK..
I am really confused by nutrition labels and food preparation, maybe you can shed some light on the topics
1) Looking at a bag of frozen turkey burgers, the give a serving size of 151g/patty (didn't weigh) with 200 calories/patty. After cooking (on a George Forman grill), the weight of 1 patty is between (85g and 100g). So if I have one patty (weight 85g) is it 200 calories or 200 x (151g/85g) or roughly 115 calories?????
2) package of frozen chicken breasts roughly 30 calories/oz, check most nutritional data sites (
www.nutritiondata.com), you get the same numbers for the raw breast, but frying the breast increases the calories per oz to 52 calories per oz, and even roasted increases it to 46 calories per oz.
If you don't add anything to the food, (cook in butter and pan spray, etc), how do you add more energy(calories to the food by just cooking????
3) I am pretty good M-F of tracking my caloires (1400-1700), but some weekends, I am just to busy, I know blow my calories by 500-600 calories, come Monday, my weight may be up 2-3 lbs.. If I only blow my caloires by 1200 calories in 2 days, how could I put on weight that would constitue a 7000-10500 calorie overage???
I realize that some may be water weight, but why then does it take 2-3 days to burn off that water. This was a big issue last Halloween, when after 3 days, I was up 10 lbs, that I am still trying to shake off
. I know I ate bad that weekend,
but 35000 calories in excess?????
For the moment, thats all I can think of. I am sure I will come up with more later.
Thanks, and just wanted to add, I was dissappointed you didn't make the Summit, but I can completely understand. I have had a couple rotten flights myself.