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Welcome to the MyFitnessPal Community: Food and Nutrition
🥗🍎 The Food and Nutrition section is here for members to discuss food, dieting tips, and nutritional advice. 🥦🥑 📂🧠Please make sure to post in the most suitable forum category so discussions stay organized. Off-topic posts might be moved or, in some cases, removed. Thank you for helping us keep the community running…
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Most Helpful Posts - Food and Nutrition (Must Reads)
These are posts that have been recommended by our community members for food and nutrition. * Calories and Macros not adding up? Here's probably why. * A List of Calorie Dense Foods * Sugar FAQ * A guide to going out to eat * Why Aspartame Isn't Scary * Carbs and Fats are cheap. Here's a Guide to getting your PROTEIN's…
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~What's for Dinner?
What are your dinner plans, this evening? Any good recipes to share?
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I have my gym workout how do I build my nutrition plan?
I'm a 24 year old male I weigh about 142 I've been going to the gym for 3 weeks but haven't been eating or for the most part sleeping right and I need some tips on how to build a good nutrition plan with how many calories and how much protein I should eat a day
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Gross Breakfast
I am frustrated today, I didn't have time to make breakfast, so I thought I'd get some from Dunkin Donuts - so I got an egg and cheese bagel, a small hashbrown and a small coffee. The egg was not good in the egg and cheese, the hashbrowns were room temperature and the coffee was awful. Calories and carbs wasted on gross…
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Macros in the dark
According to an MFP survey, 88% of MyFitnessPal users say they don’t have any idea of how much protein, fibre, carbs, sugar and salt they consume daily. Then what exactly are they using MFP for.
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Getting enough protein
I'm looking at trying to eat 220 gm daily but usually fall short. I don't want to eat when I'm not hungry...any ideas
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Protein Bars
Do you think protein bars are worth the calories if your trying to stay at 1400 cals a day?
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Per a day calories
why am I allowed over 3200 calories per a day that seems like a lot I can’t eat that much a day lol.I'm 54 and weigh 325lb.so why so many calories per a day.
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Best tasting protein shake for weight loss?
Any one have any opinions about the best? For weight loss, not building muscle.
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What do you eat/drink while cooking dinner?
What do you eat while you cook dinner or do you manage not to snack/pick the entire time you're in the kitchen? Painting the picture: between 5-530pm when my workday is over, my spouse is picking up kids, and I have 30 minutes of silence to unwind and cook dinner has become a daily pain point. I have a mid-afternoon snack…
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Premium +
I have Premium now, it renews Feb 17. I’d like to ad “plus”. How can I add the Plus now without losing the 27 days til renewal?
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Consumer Reports tests protein powders and finds alarming amounts of lead
CR’s tests of 23 products found that more than two-thirds of them contain more lead in a single serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day For more than two-thirds of the products we analyzed, a single serving contained more lead than CR’s food safety experts say is safe to consume in a day—some by more than 10…
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What’s did everyone have for breakfast?
This morning I’ve had a cup of coffee, 3 scrambled eggs, I slice of toast with butter on it and 2 blueberry biscuits.
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Favorite gluten free recipes, products, etc?
Couldn’t find a thread for this, so here goes it. I have to go gluten free. It’s official. Thanks Crohns and Ankylosing Spindolytis. I’m coming to terms with it but not quickly enough. I’m a foodie and love to cook…and eat. What do you like? Where are you looking? Best products?
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Today's lunch
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Garden thread
So, lets chat about planning your garden for next year.
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Looking for filling snack ideas
I have a long gap between lunch and dinner - I’m always hungry around 4pm and end up nibbling at rubbish. Any ideas for something to bridge the gap between 200-300 cals? TIA
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Can you edit nutritional info members have added for food that you find is incorrect?
I did chat but went around in circles. I am now finding discrepancies in member added foods. This makes adding incorrect calories or protein or anything else incorrect. So now I have to go back to my first day and check all my entries. I guess it would be better going forward to check entries against labels. Actually not…
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Water
What are things you add to water for flavor and nutrition? Looking for ways to get more water in my day and plain water is just to plain.
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Any idea why the app doesn't track protein
Hi everyone, I'm using the standard app , today I added a tin of tuna and 2 eggs which is about 40g protein but it shows 13g, any idea why?
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Cheese Admiration and Celebration
On another thread, there was a multi-person request for a thread devoted to cheese, for those of us who love it. Yes, it's calorie dense, though some types more than others. Personally, I love it anyway. So, please discuss: * Which is your favorite cheese? * Do you have a special way of using/eating cheese? Great recipe or…
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How to calculate a cal on food
How to know the calories of food per gram im new to calorie deficit hope you help me
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Meal Delivery for Type 2 Diabetic?
I am thinking of starting a meal delivery plan for low carb/diabetic meals. Can anyone recommend a company and is it worth the cost? I'm in the US. Sorry if this has already been asked before.
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Logging meal
Question! I have premium subscription.I know many of you train hard and smart meal plan:) I tend to eat 5 small meals a day and trying to figure out how to log them in separately each meals. Any tips appreciated!
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Trainer
My son's trainer is helping me lose my weight & I have lost over 10 lbs so far. Here is what I do: Breakfast: 2 jumbo eggs or 1 container Owyn 1 eggo waffle Drizzle honey Lunch: 4 oz chicken breast 1 low fat white cheese stick 1 pc bread natural, not white Snack: 4 oz chicken breast Dinner: 4 oz hamburger patty 1 also…
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why wont recipe calculator let you delete an item?
Trying to create low sodium recipies and as I add things realise they have too much sodium would like to delete just that one item rather than clear entire recipie and start again? annoying as especially since peope have added their own entries which are completly wrong nutrition but cant delete it and find a better option…
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This is what the Germans did to me!
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Exercise calories are missing
Myfitnesspla used to show I had gained additional calories from exercise but now it doesn't since I switched from fitbit to google account? My step source is fitbit and accounts seemd to be linked correctly. Under goals exercise calories are turned on, if I toggle it on and off it shows my projected weight changing it…
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Linking to stores
How do I link my app to a grocery store like Fred Meyer?
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Meal planning
I started using the meal planning in the app and I have my goal calorie set to 1900 but it keeps putting me way over my calories
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Volume Eaters Thread
I have recently come to the conclusion that volume eating is best suited for me. Eating mainly vegetarian means I can eat copious amounts of food and stay in my calorie goal. Are there others out there who do the same? Let's exchange ideas. Here is what I ate today: Breakfast, large shake with 2 cups spinach, almond milk,…