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Calorie Count for Frannies Chicken Salad from Maynards Restaurant in Excelsior Minnesota
Frannies Chicken Salad is listed as having 989 calories on this website. Does that include the honey mustard dressing that comes with the salad?
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Eating light before weigh in
Does anyone who is a weekly weigher eat lighter the day before to see a drop on the scale? I weigh weekly on Saturdays and typically I will eat a very light dinner on Friday and avoid restaurant food, salty food and any other food that will affect the reading on the scale. I will sometimes just have some eggs for dinner. I…
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Weigh food raw or cooked?
Should I weigh meats ,poultry and fish raw? Or cooked?
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Edamame: calories, and refridgerate?
I had sushi tonight and ordered edamame with it. For some reason the restaurant gave me a huuuuuge pile. They've been steamed I assume and still in shells. Can I keep them in the fridge for a while, or even freeze them? And does anyone have a good calorie entry for them? None of the database entries seem to say whether…
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Anyone gone through AIP (auto immune protocol)?
It’s a long drawn out back story, but I have dealt with auto immune stuff for more than half my life (sick at 14, never got better kinda deal). I have trudged through flare ups over the years but this last one hit me hard. I basically lost a month of my life. I finally decided I was sick and tired of being sick and tired…
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Any body else have low blood iron levels without iron-deficiency anemia?
I had my iron checked (ferritin, iron, iron-binding capacity and % saturation) back in February by my rheumatologist. Of these, only my iron was below the normal range, but all the other numbers were in the low average (like 2-5 points above for some). When I met with the dr again in April, she recommended OTC ferrous…
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Doctor wants me to try low fat plant based diet. Very difficult, need resources.
I'm type 2 diabetic. Used to be prediabetic, but it got worse. The metformin stopped working so I went back to the doctor and she wants me to try 30 days of a vegan low fat diet. I thought it wouldn't be hard to find resources online but boy was I wrong! There are too many criteria to meet at once. Low fat and vegan and…
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Learning a Vegetarian Diet
Hi, I want to hear from the vegetarians in this group. How did you begin with the diet, where did you learn about it and how did you transition from being a meat eater to a veggie? I really want to transition into a hybrid diet that lets me eat meat but not as often. I find the my body fat % is about 23% and I have a…
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Help identifying Middle Eastern Food
Does anyone know an English name or how to search for this hard, slightly sweet bread? I purchased it at a middle eastern grocery. The receipt says quoershalli but nothing comes up on google.
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Best way to eat for GERD to lose weight
I have GERD. There is no diet that will cure GERD but i want to get off omeprazole, 20 mg. I weigh 168 and i want to lose 20 pounds. The weight loss will be good for my health and heal the GERD. I dont know if i should try a low carb diet, high protein with meats or plant based. I have been at this 168 stuck point for over…
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Sakara Life Food Delivery Service- has anyone tried?
I’ve gained about 10 pandemic pounds (that I worked so hard to lose the year before) and also feel like I need a clean eating refresh. Too much processed food, and working from home means I have full access to everything all day. Sakara Life is an insanely expensive plant-based food delivery service that looks really good…
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Protein intake
I am majorly lacking in protein and considering to use Whey protein to meet the requirements. Please advise if it is good to start it. My suggested calorie intake is 1200 and I am consuming around 1400 of it with worth 200 calories cardio exercise. Should I go for Whey or try to get the protein from the regular food…
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Summer Shift?
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, summer is upon us. For me that means rising and retiring earlier. I am still figuring out how to shift my calorie budget around to accommodate the season - including the addition of all that yummy summer fresh produce. Does anyone here change their meal schedule or calorie…
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Rice
Hey guys. So the rice that I use..on the label it says 45 g of dry rice is 150 calories. So when I cook the 45g it comes to 150g In weight . So basically when I'm eating all that 150g of cooked rice , it is basically 150 calories right ?
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What do you do when your bored of all your usual meals?
I genuinely do love cooking and eating healthfully, but lately I've just not felt like dealing with food because I can't think of anything I'm particularly wanting so I've just been eating quick/less nutritious things that are mindless. I need to get back into eating better stuff but I feel so un-inspired. What do you do…
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Keto Powder To Stay In Ketosis
I apologize if this has been a topic, but I did a search and didnt see it... So I met a gal the other day that said she used some pre-packaged powder that kept her in ketosis without doing a keto diet. Is that even possible? I tried Googling it and came up with answers that didn't answer my question.... TIA....
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How to delete a food you have entered
How do you delete a food...there was a minus sign after the food but is not showing now
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Watcha cooking with?
I am loving my Ninja Foodi "Flip" model of an air fryer. I cook up a storm in that thing!
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Before you changed your eating style
What foods were you eating then that you realize now you didn't even like that much? I'd have to say rice. I used to shovel all those carbs in even though that was something I could've easily said no to. :/ And what foods were never in your diet that you now eat and realize you really enjoy? Plain non-fat yogurt. I always…
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How Many Calories in 1/2 a Jar?
Dole Harvest Best - Mandarin Oranges In 100% Juice - 23.5 oz Jar can't figure it out - tia!
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Measuring frozen yogurt at a froyo bar
So, 1/2c (4 oz) has 100 calories. The scale at the bar said it was about 5.5 ounces. Should I record it as 137 calories (about 25 cal/ounce, 5.5 ounces) or is it another way to measure? I'm confused about weight vs capacity.
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Craved gummy worms today. What happened?
I've been doing a lot better lately but today I caved into my gummy worm cravings. I got the cravings instantly and it became so intesne. I eventually drove to the store. I've been trying to figure out what causes the craving. Is it stress, lack of energy or a specific deficiency? I took 1,500 mg of L-glutamine to see if…
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how to change percentages to grams
Hello. I am trying to change my iron and calcium displays to grams instead of percentage. Anyone know how to do this? All the other categories seem to allow this.
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Low carb ideas please
Hi there, please can you all list whatever low carb foods you can think of? I am in serious need of some guidance and a list of stuff would really help a lot. I have too much potato, too much pasta, too much dough and I really have to cut back. My support worker and people around me keeps telling me i have too much carbs,…
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This Past Weekend
This past weekend on a Saturday was the first time I ate at a restaurant. I ordered fries with steak sandwhich & just drank water(was tempted for coca cola ) , but did not log what I ate. Come Monday morning I weighed myself after using the bathroom & lost 0.5 pounds. How I lost weight but did not log?
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Anyone know the calories?
I know this will sound odd like an odd thing to do... I have a box of Kelloggs Raisin Bran cereal. The calorie count is 190 for 1 cup of dry cereal (no milk added). I don't want to eat the raisins, I just want the flakes. How would I figure out the true calories of just 1 cup of these flakes without raisins? Any…
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Trouble meeting macros for low carb moderate fat
So I gained about 20 lbs in 2020, partly because of stress eating comfort foods. I decided to take control over my emotional eating using an intuitive or mindful eating approach for the last two months or so, with 10 pounds lost. Mostly eyeballing portions and not eating any bread or refined carbs. My weight has been up…
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Subtraction feature
Hello friends is anybody else wishing that Fitbit had a subtraction feature? So that when I scan the barcode on my prepackaged salad I can subtract the croutons that come on the side and the little plastic wrapper that I always discard? Also I could subtract ingredients that I leave out of recipes after I've imported the…
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Foods
Just testing
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Any vegans or vegetarians
Looking for vegan and vegetarian friends. I'm going vegetarian in hopes of going completely vegan in the future. Would like to pick some people's brains.