Baked Potato calories anyone??

I have a bag of potatoes. Each potato is 148 g/5.3 oz and 110 calories. I want to bake a potato.

 

How do I log the calories?? Is it a small potato, medium or large? How does the calorific value change when baked???

According to wikipedia, a medium potato is 150g/5.3 oz. 

Since you know your potatoes are 5.3 ounces, each, that is very helpful information. 

Since you know it is 110 calories, whatever method you choose to log it, you can double check that you get close to 110 calories and you will be correct.  If you want to err on the high side, log in as 130-150 calories and I'd think you'd be safe.

Taking some info I found at yahoo answers, about.com, and calorie-count, here’s the best I can come up with: 

A small baked potato, about two inches in diameter, has about 130 calories. A medium baked potato, about two and one-half to three inches in diameter, has about 160 calories. A large baked potato, about three and one-half to four inches in diameter can have about 275 calories.  Nutritional values are based upon a ready-to-eat portion. It is assumed you will cook a potato or an egg before you eat it, so calorie and nurtient levels are calculated from the cooked item, whatever it may be.

A larger baked potato from Wendy's with sour cream on it is about 320 cal. so if you eat one plain I'd say about 220.

Am I misinterpreting what you are saying? If you know the weight of the raw potato, just go to raw potato and log the weight. No need to bother with "medium" "large" etc. If you log the raw potato you don't have to worry about figuring out how much it would weigh when it's cooked.

If you bake it using butter or oil, you can log that separately.

Well, you could weigh the potato after it is baked and log it that way...but it will still be 110 calories.  The weight may change (water loss, etc), but calories will stay the same (unless you add ingredients).

I'd log a baked potato and do it by the grams you've provided us in my weight log, then add any toppings seperately.

leiann: This was the answer I was looking for. So the weight of the baked potato might change after baking but the calories remain the same.

 

Thanks everyone for your responses. I can eat my baked potatoes in peace now