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Food inputs
I've been mostly doing my inputs by hand looking up USDA nutrition facts. I decided to create a recipe on here for myself that I had looked up every ingredient. Every input, Protein, Carbs, Fat, and Calories exceeded the amount, sometimes significantly. Is there a better way? Doing it all by hand is very time consuming.
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chip shop cheese pattie?
Any one have any idea how many calories will be in a cheese pattie from the chippy. it's made with mashed potato, onion and cheese, then fried in batter. rough guess? 500 calories! haha
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High Cholesterol At 30. Help!
I have no idea where to begin but my doctor wants to put me on medication and I would rather try to fight this with diet 1st. I'm about 25 pounds over the weight I should be and I want to change for my children. What kind of diet can I eat? All I know is little dairy and low fat diet... But I'm not sure what else to eat…
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Calories
Can someone help me change my daily calorie amount it's 3400 and want to be 2000
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Calorie Intake
I have always been a firm believer you are what you eat… what you put in your body, shows it out… meaning eat healthy life style it shows… bare minimum going in and you won’t be so big… However so I am stagnant for months on my weight… I have lost over 120 pounds, I am active working out 5 days a week 2 hours in the gym……
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Increasing Macros after working out
So I just became a premium member as I am trying to focus more on macros vs calories. With that said, I noticed my “Allowed macros” increase after I do a workout (just like how my calorie goal always went up if I worked out during that day). My question is, is that actually something that’s recommended, or should I stay…
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Why does my throat close when I eat sugar?
Sometimes when I take a bite of something particularly sugary (like a piece of hard candy) my throat closes up for a few seconds. It's extremely uncomfortable. It doesn't happen all of the time, but a lot of the time. What could this be? It also happens somethings with gum.
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New Avocado find
Aldi has Lilcados which are single serving small avocados that are only 88 calories. I often cut up a bigger avocado and trying to watch calories only eat part of it that sometimes goes to waste unless my husband eats the rest of it. These are perfect. They have a website https://lilcados.com with recipes.
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November is National Peanut Butter Month!!!!!
November is National Peanut Butter Month so please spam me with everything you love to make, eat, drink, take to events or otherwise use PEANUT BUTTER! Creamy, Crunchy, Powdered... I'll take ideas for it all. ;)
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Tidbits - rats and eggs
I read this in a local Tidbits paper.
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Optimal calorie percentage per meal
What is the best distribution for weight loss when is comes to % of total daily allowance for each meal
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Macro calculations
If there is a - in front of anyone of your macro in your dairy, does that mean I am under (missing) that much to complete my daily intake? For example: my dairy says -13 on carbs -10 on fats and 1 protein “am I over or missing my daily count on my carb and my fat? Please help thank you in advance
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Pasta cravings
What should I have for/with pasta that is low calorie? I don't like those miracle noodles that are like 8 calories per serving and I tried pasta with the springlina (vegetables like carrots or zucchini) and I wasn't impressed. I think I eat two or three servings of pasta which is too much and the toppings aren't exactly…
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What weight loss program do you use?
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I can’t resist junk food
Let me give you some background info. I work at Greggs so all day long i’m surrounded by junk food in the town centre that is full of restaurants. I’m also in the town centre for college. Every break my friends and I go to some form of fast food place cuz it’s just convenient and better than sitting around campus. Not only…
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Diary
Is there a way to look at my diary from over a year ago? Curious what foods I was eating when I was making more progress.
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Give me name of some vegetarian food rich in protein ..
I can't reach my protein goal.
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Self.com Nutrition Data?
In the past, I've really liked to use the nutrition data on self.com for more detailed information on nutrition (including micronutrients, etc.). For example, here's what it says about swiss chard: https://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2399/2 I like it because I can see details on what…
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Splenda brown sugar?
What is the point of splenda brown sugar when it has 16 calories per tsp compared to 17 calories per tsp regular brown sugar?? And 4g carbs vs 4.5g carbs. Why would someone buy this?
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Calorie counting
I am still a bit confused on the calorie counting,. When I am counting calories, how do I count the calories in salad or do I even count them? Any help would be very useful on this. thank you
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Asda instant oats 27g . Do the nutrition value include milk ?
After scanning the barcode on asda instant oats 27g it said 100 calories dose that include milk?
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Help please
I have been given a goal of: 1630 calories (with 110g protein (27%), 70g fat (39%), 140g carbs (34%)) per day. I am lost. I need help with a meal plan. Does anyone know where easy meal plans exist? I am not someone that can spend hours cooking. I feel so frustrated and defeated and I haven’t even started. This is why it’s…
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What's your ingenious splurge?
Hi everyone. As I approach my 60-day mark here on MFP (second round, after a 10-year gap), I was thinking about what's made the difference for my success this go-round. I have been able to sustain my effort, maintain my focus, and persevere despite obstacles and setbacks. I was thinking about why that is. One of the…
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How are you cooking?
As people focused on improving or maintaining a healthy body, we tend to spend a lot of time on ingredients and quantities. We tend not to think about how we cook. The methods, appliances we use are important to maintain the health benefits of our efforts. Eating needs to be enjoyable, rather than bland and tasteless. So…
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How much butter should you use when frying food?
I made spinach and onions and used something like 25g of butter. What is the minimum I could have used while still having a good flavour and having a well greased pan? My meal was about 600 calories and I used about 300 just on butter and cooking spray (for the eggs)
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How many calories in this?
Grilled chicken nachos with cheese from the Mexican restaurant
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Snacks
I need suggestions for snacks. I get 128 calories bur even though I am eating fruit or plain yogurt I end up way over. Suggestions?
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Deleting a Food Entry
My lunch somehow got “doubled” when I entered it and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to delete it. I do not see a “delete” option, only “report food”. Can someone tell me how to do this?
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Evening snack
What is your evening snack choice?
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High Protein Low Carb Foods
Hi I am new to the app and I’m looking for high protein foods that are low carbs I can slot into meal times.