Too much brown rice?

[nevagetsfit]

I've recently begun eating brown rice regularly (once a day), and I usually eat 1 cup of it alongside chicken breast/veggies for dinner. The first couple of times I ate it, I just measured the already cooked rice into a 1-cup measuring cup. However, when I saw that the serving size for cooked brown rice was 195 grams, I started weighing it out instead, and it was around twice as much rice as when I was just measuring it with the cup. It looks like a ton of rice, and I want to trust the scale, but it honestly just seems like waaaaay too much rice to just be 216 calories!

I make the rice with a 2:1 water-to-rice ratio, so I'm wondering if perhaps I'm not adding enough water to the rice, which would cause me to be eating more rice than I should be since more of the weight would be coming from the rice rather than the water absorbed from the rice.

Any advice would be much appreciated - I'd love to hear how you prepare/measure brown rice so I can make sure I'm eating the proper amount. I feel like overeating rice could have a pretty negative impact on my progress, so I really want to figure this issue out as soon as possible.

Thanks everyone!

[ErikTheElectric]

Weigh it raw/uncooked? Problem solved.


Personally I think rice is a poor source of micronutrients with practically little to no satiety. Blows my mind that people eat it on a cut.

[nevagetsfit]

Weigh it raw/uncooked? Problem solved.


Personally I think rice is a poor source of micronutrients with practically little to no satiety. Blows my mind that people eat it on a cut.

I was thinking that was probably what I'd end up doing. I've only been eating brown rice for a little while, but I've found that it definitely helps to keep me full and energized. However, that could also be because I'm eating way to much of it, haha. I suppose I'll just have to see how I like it once I get the measurements figured out. Thanks for the reply!

[WonderPug]

If you really love brown rice, you can of course consume such and still have a proper diet, depending on the content of all nutrients consumed.

[WonderPug]

asparragus and kiwi are good for lean bulking

Please stop posting nonsense in multiple threads.

[Mrpb]

Please stop posting nonsense in multiple threads.

I think he has been taking care of, thankfully.

[WonderPug]

I think he has been taking care of, thankfully.

They run a tight ship