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Protein, Protein, Protein -enough Protein
It's like an epidemic. Of course, we need protein, it's essential for our health, it's used to build muscles, hair, and nails. I think the typical American diet contains enough protein. We eat meat, fish, and eggs with every meal. I am not a bodybuilder, neither am I an active athlete. I am just a fat woman trying to lose…
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Chicken and Brown Rice
I want to use some chicken leg quarters and half a cup of brown rice. Maybe add some vegetables if I'm feeling brave. I tried using .5 1 cups of Brown Rice, but it assumes I'm eating all half a cup of rice when I'm just cooking it into the meal. How do I separate "I'm eating just a little chicken and rice" from "Oh hey,…
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Diabetic Meal Prep ideas
My recently widowed elderly mother in law is hoping to stay living at her home alone but she's still recovering from the flu and doesn't get around super well. We are visiting her this weekend and I wanted to make some meals for her that she can freeze and reheat. She's on a lot of meds and is diabetic. Anyone have any…
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Any Wisconsin WFPB No-SOS members?
Hi all! I’m located in LaCrosse, Wi / Rochester, Mn and I’m seeking other local friends!
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Making a new recipe
Ok, so i'm new at this and want to input a new recipe but how do you find out all of the nutritional info so that it is correct for weight loss? What i'm needing help with do you go buy what is on the packaging as for servings, just so that you have the correct information. Like when you are putting together a salad such…
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How Do I Calculate Chicken Calories?
My fitnesspal says a 100 gm of chicken drumstick contains about 178 calories,is the bone weight included in these measurements,cause when you finish there is really a lot of bone.
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Did I mess myself up and is the pounds I lost muscle?
For context, I think I have been reading the app wrong and not eating the proper calories. I assumed that I can only eat under my goal calories even with exercise. I do know that the listed goal is what I can eat to lose weight without exercise (1530), but I thought that burning what I ate with exercise is what was needed…
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Hungry hungry hipo
How do I reduce hunger. Protein Protein is not working.
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Nutritional information corrected, but no change
Right then, I've noticed over the past months that when I correct the nutritional information, it goes uncorrected. Example: A few weeks ago I had packaged Salmon and scanned the bar code. The info returned on my mobile and while the name was the same, the nutritional facts were off. I submitted corrections. Sad it doesn't…
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Hi guys starting this new journey
Pls share recipes that help me with weight lose at the same time I'm lifting weights and trying to build muscle. Thank you !!
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Can someone help with a high protein Vegetarian diet?
As a male Indian who is vegetarian there are many restrictions to my diet that I believe do not let me achieve my goals and hit the desired amount of daily protein. I can’t eat eggs and I don’t wish to consume much of soya due to the ambiguity around it affecting the oestrogen levels in males. In India I don’t see many…
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Carbs/net carbs
My dr wants me to have no more than 40g of carbs daily. I only see net carbs on here to log.. can anyone help me out on how to figure that? Tysm
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re nutrition
How do you find out how many calories you should be taking in on a day
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Anybody have any good recipes for homemade protein bars?
I need good recipes for homemade protein bars😂
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Recipe Discovery - GONE!
Hi everyone, hoping someone can help me. I found a recipe in the “Recipe Discovery” section. I also bookmarked a bunch of recipes. However, I cannot find them without going through all the recipes again. I actually bookmarked and logged one. I have the name, macros, etc, but can’t find the instructions. Anyone know where…
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Meal prep buddy - food for thought
Message me if your interested in a meal prep buddy. Share ideas to create meals that meet our fitness goals
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Nutrition
I’ve seen on a healthy eating website that nuts and seeds are healthy but in moderation and that drinking water is good . I have a refillable water bottle I think I need to drink five for the day . As far as nuts and seeds the one I like is chia seeds how do I get in mindset to have it as a snack and lifestyle. Same thing…
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Rice cooked and uncooked calories?
Sorry if this is a stupid question which has been asked 1000 times, but this is really confusing me. Is there any difference between uncooked and cooked rice? I didn't think so but after doing some reasearch, I'm confused. I read this:http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_calories_in_100g_of_rice and the calories seem to be…
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Water, weight loss and bad decisions
One of my main challenges is not drinking enough water, I often notice I'm dehydrated and it leaves me feeling a bit liable to poor choices, I actually notice how drained I feel. This has increased a bit as I've started drinking more water and noticed I feel dehydrated more quickly inbetween drinks if not little/often.…
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Protein requirements after exercise
I am 63M and noticed that the app adds 50g of protein to the day's nutritional requirements because I burnt around 1000 calories on a bike ride. That means the app thinks my total intake today should be 138g of protein, which is a lot! Does that sound right?
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Struggling to hit 1200 calories!
I'm doing the slimfast thing and it's working (3kg in about a month) but sometimes I'm struggling to hit the 1200 calories. Shake for breakfast (230) Meal bar for lunch (230) Cereal bar snack (70) Homemade tea or similar for 450-ish calories... Should I just add on fruit and similar until I hit just over 1200? (BMR is 1658…
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What is the best food for high quantity protein?
I need to hit 270 G’s of Protein per day! What’s the best way to hit that without eating 8 times a day?
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Can I eat 500g of cottage cheese a day and is it safe?
The macros are 330 calories 57g of protein 12g of sugar 10g of fat
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Food Logging/Getting rid of
Hi, everyone. Being on maintaining from enough time to let me hope I've figured out how many calories I can eat/have to burn to stay here, I moved my focus towards nutrients crucial to my health. So I'm trying to get rid of *all* the foods I used to log while losing (I chose the ones with the right amount of calories, but…
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Wrong info
Just ate a magnum as a treat and it says it has 22g of protein 😂😂😂
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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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change my calories?
Hi all, just a quick one, once you start losing weight, should your calorie intake reflect the weight loss, or should it stay the same from day 1 of your weight loss journey?
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Let’s talk sleep & food! Should I care?
Do you eat or avoid something before going to sleep? Does it affect you at all? Bonus: do you track it in MFP?
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Is there a recommended ratio of Fat to Carbs/Protein in a diet for weight loss?
Hi all, New user here. First time focusing in on my fitness and health really. I have been tracking and losing weight over the past 42 days. Seems to be going well. Feel good, energy levels are at least double just from eating better. I don't hit each goal every day but I am getting better at managing through food choices…
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Sweet tooth.
My biggest hurdle is my sweet tooth. Any suggestions for low cal low carb "sweet" food to satisfy a sweet tooth? I just can't resist chocolate when it's around.