Cutting Yourself Short on Portions?

It's time to sit down and enjoy a delicious and nutritious fat burning meal comprized of chicken drumsticks. Surprisingly, you discoverd Robert Ferguson's weight loss methodology in the Food Lovers Fat Loss System or his Diet-Free for Life book or maybe while taking the challenge at dietfreelife.com. You measure your one or two drumsticks on your digital scale and you're good to go. What you didn't realize is that the bone and skin make up for about 40-50% of the total weight. This new discovery means you may be cutting yourself short on the amount your eating.

TIP: Sixty-five percent of a whole chicken is edible. Approximately 50% of thighs and drumsticks are edible. Meaning, when you purchase protein sources with the bone (e.g., drumstick, thighs) - the edible weight is lower than what you weigh on a scale or assume via your visual cue (hand). Example: If your drumstick (not-as-lean) is 4 oz in weight, that means your protein amount is practically 2 oz.

At Diet Free Life we put drumsticks to the test and this is what we discovered. On average, the skin of two drumsticks weighs about one ounce. The chicken meat itself weighs about 1 to 1.5 ounce per drumstick. The bone weighs about an ounce. So, when it is time to build your fat burning meal, make sure you're enjoying two drumsticks for women, and three for men.