How to Weigh and Log Food: The Beginner’s Guide to Accuracy Without Stress
Sep 15, 2025
If you want to get your calories under control, lose weight, gain weight, or recomp your body, then you need to make sure you log your calories. It's going to make it an awful lot easier to achieve your goals.
Logging food sounds complicated, but a few simple rules make it easy and consistent.
Raw vs cooked weights
Pick one method and stick to it.
Meat, rice, pasta: weigh raw for consistency.
If only cooked is possible, save custom foods in Calorik with your cooked weight.
Quick cheat sheet
100g raw rice = ~300g cooked
100g raw chicken = ~75g cooked
Scale basics
Always use grams, not cups/spoons
Tare the plate before adding food
Be consistent with your method
Top logging pitfalls
Switching between raw and cooked
Forgetting oils, sauces, or spreads
Guessing instead of weighing
Using multiple inconsistent entries
How Calorik helps
Take a photo or scan the label of your products — Calorik does the maths and remembers your common meals, so you don’t have to weigh forever.
