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Eating out & tracking
Hi, Trying to loose a bit more weight. I work away regularly and finding it hard to track on an evening. Generally work away with 1-2 other people and we always eat together, been doing this job for 17 years, so sorta like family now. Back in the day it was big breakfast in hotel, supermarket lunch (pies, pasties, chocs…
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Questions about Vietnamese Grilled Pork/vermicelli? (Bún Th
how healthy is this stuff? I wonder about the calories. everything in our database just can't be right. i mean, something with that much flavor can't be healthy for your! same goes for summer rolls ... my god, i had some last night and scale was real good to me this a.m. I might eat this everyday! (joke, kind of ... !) lol
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Resistant starch in baked products
If resistant starch is made by heating and then cooling does it mean that foodstuffs like bread, biscuits or pastry have high resistant starch content because they have been baked for some time in an oven and then cooled before eating?
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Recipes
Looking for new recipes to help me lose some weight. I want to learn to cook more healthy meals for my self.
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Switching from coffee to tea
I'm switching from coffee to tea as my morning beverage, aside from water. My 7 year old has learned coffee has caffeine and can be addictive. While I love coffee, I'm trying to switch to tea. I drink coffee and tea without creams or sweeteners. Anyone have suggestions on tea brands, flavors, or methods of brew that can…
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Vitamin Difficulty
Anyone else try taking vitamins but cant deal with nausau? Trying to be healthy because I dont get the anount of vitamins I should but its becoming expensive to try different brands. I took it with breakfast... still dont understand why I have such a hard time.
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weighing meat before or after it's cooked
On the label of my turkey breast, it says that 4 oz serving has 58mg sodium. We counting sodium since my husband had a heart attack & is on a low sodium diet. I have heart that you weigh meat BEFORE cooking, but i can't slice off a piece of thurkey breast & weigh it before cooking. So how do i weigh the meat? and what…
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You want me to eat how much protein ??
Fitnesspal is suggesting that I eat what feels like an inordinate amount of protein. Most days I can get between 40 and 50 grams of protein just on diet but there are days where Fitness Pal wants me to eat upwards of 200 grams of protein exercising. Starting to think I should go start knowing on live cows it might help. I…
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How many calories a day to lose fat and keep muscle?
Hi all, I’m just wondering how many calories I should be eating a day if I want to lose fat and either keep building or at least maintain muscle. I’m 5’3 and 175, I was at 200 and I lost all that weight from severely undereating and now I’ve been at a plateau since October. 2 months ago I started getting into lifting…
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Meal plans
Has anyone tried the meal plans like Home chef or blue apron, ect.? I’m trying to eat better and was wondering if it worked for other people. Thanks!
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How accurate is Samsung?
How accurate is this?
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Is it possible to choose only VEGAN recepies
Hi I am hilly allergic to dairy and cannot stomach meat or fish so I am vegan. All the recepies have one or the other in them or I don't know how to change the settings? Maby? I really would like to be able to see only vegan choices for me if possible. If not it would be a brilliant settings add on for this osom app.
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How to add a food to database from the scanner
I bought a jar of olive bruschetta that when I originally scanned came up not in database and then later I try again and it came up as artichoke pesto which has a bunch more calories and no same ingredients.
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New to Keto
Hello, My name is Cayla. I am 27 years with 2 kids. Back in May 2019, I switched from working full time to staying home full time with the kids, and gained 25lbs. I am a boredom eater, who went from 10k steps 5 days out of the week to a mainly sedentary lifestyle. 5 days ago I started easing into the keto diet. I cut out…
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Avocado?
I bought frozen avocado today and I’m going to use it tomorrow. I’ve logged it in my diary however, it’s not showing up any monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fat content only fat in general. Is there a reason? I thought avocado had monounsaturated in it?
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Total sugar?
I know they’re natural sugars in fruit & vegetables. And there are added sugars from sauces, breads, sweets etc. What is a good daily total goal of the two? My fitness pal does not differentiate between the two in our goal selection.
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Calorie tips
I am an 18 year old made and weigh roughly around the late 13s early 14 stone. At the moment I probably eat 900-1200 calories per day. My target is to lose weight, I train 3-4 times a week (weight training followed by 15 mins of cardio per day) am I doing this right? Should I be eating less or more
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Late night hunger
How do you control it? Some people say drink water works etc but sometimes when you are proper hungry water can’t save you haha
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What are some of your little known nutrition/health/fitness/weight loss tips?
Please back up with respectable sources (Mayo Clinic, Web MD, medical journal, etc. links). 1. A global, 25 year study has linked long term, low carb, animal-based diets to a shortened lifespan. https://thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(18)30135-X/fulltext 2. Probiotics and herbal supplements can assist…
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Keto flu
How do you know you are having it? I think I’m probably fighting it bc I feel foggy low energy tired and muscle tiredness. Which is not great for work I do it makes me have the feeling like I’m bonking after a long hike if that makes sense. I’m feeling hungry a lot I think bc my body wants use sugar as fuel. I don’t think…
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Favorite prepared meal replacement?
I just tried a new high protein, low carb "shake", I guess you call it that. Wasn't thrilled, but I know it's just in the short run to get myself going. I was wondering if anybody has a brand that they prefer?
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Fixing a broken metabolism
Hey everyone, I recently met with a nutritionist and got my resting metabolic rate tested and needless to say the numbers where not good. I am 19 years old male 5 foot 10 and 155 pounds. I lost a ton of weight by drastically cutting calories which is why my resting metabolic rate is 1270 calories. For comparison the…
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Salad dressing?
Any suggestions on brand and flavor/ types of salad dressing? I find it hard to find a dressing that is low in calories, sodium and sugar, but taste good. I've tried a couple from Primal kitchen and Newman's, they seem ok, but nothing I'd eat every time like a good old fashioned ranch or Italian. What are some of your…
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Barcode scanner Barilla n5
Hi, I just scanned this food and it says it has like 300 calories per 100 gr while on the box it says 174 cals per 100 gr. I don't know which one to trust as 174 seems low for 100 gr pasta and 300 seems correct but not written on the product . Could be something to do with cooked Vs uncooked (on the box it says 174 cals…
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Saved recipes serving size
Hello. I am having trouble figuring out what the serving sizes are on the recipes on the app. I want to be able to make the recipe but I’m not sure what the serving size would be for one person.
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Having second thoughts about diet changes
So back in November December I started changing my diet. Cutting out junk food, soda, etc and now 3 ish months later, I'm down from 4500 to 8k calories to 1200 to 1500 and aside from a few junk snacks (in proper portion size), I have cut that all out of my diet. However I am now having even more problems than before. I eat…
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Jar of Eggplant
I bought a jar of garlic eggplant on a whim and I had some on crackers yesterday and it's .... fine. Added a little hot sauce, still fine. I need ideas of what to do with the rest of the (large) jar. It's pretty mushy already so minimal further processing would be ideal. I only ever saute or wok up fresh stuff, I'm drawing…
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Air Fryer Fanatic
Hi i have an air fryer and always looking for interesting healthy and easy recipes. We love making our 'roasted' veggies in it as well as most everything else. Open to swap recipes and ideas with anyone interested!
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Creamer Alternatives
I’m a sucker for putting flavored creamers into my coffee, like the Coffee Mate or Simply Natural brand that is French vanilla or hazelnut. Anyone know of any good alternatives to sweetened creamers?