So, I'm trying to keep track of calories in / calories out during this first part of my new lifestyle. I'm having trouble, however, calculating calories in my oatmeal!!! It seems really high, perhaps I'm confused.
So, I eat Steel Cut Oatmeal and I make it 1 cup (dry) to 4 1/2 cups water.
The label says serving size is 1/4 cup (but it doesn't specify dry or cooked)
Calories 150
Anyone who has made oatmeal knows that if you cook 1 cup dry, you get a lot more than 1 cup cooked!!!
So, this morning, I measured out 1/2 cup cooked (which isn't much) and marked it in my food journal as 300 calories. Would that be right??
It really makes my breakfast a lot more calorie rich than I would like as I can do the oatmeal on it's own so my breakfast this morning looked like this:
1/2 cup oatmeal 300
1 mashed banana 105
1 TBSP walnuts 49
1 TBSP unsweet coconut 90
Total calories for breakfast = 544
Am I logging this correctly? I do have a calorie counter book but it doesn't list steel cut oatmeal.
So, I eat Steel Cut Oatmeal and I make it 1 cup (dry) to 4 1/2 cups water.
The label says serving size is 1/4 cup (but it doesn't specify dry or cooked)
Calories 150
Anyone who has made oatmeal knows that if you cook 1 cup dry, you get a lot more than 1 cup cooked!!!
So, this morning, I measured out 1/2 cup cooked (which isn't much) and marked it in my food journal as 300 calories. Would that be right??
It really makes my breakfast a lot more calorie rich than I would like as I can do the oatmeal on it's own so my breakfast this morning looked like this:
1/2 cup oatmeal 300
1 mashed banana 105
1 TBSP walnuts 49
1 TBSP unsweet coconut 90
Total calories for breakfast = 544
Am I logging this correctly? I do have a calorie counter book but it doesn't list steel cut oatmeal.