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Your favorite healthy salad dressing
What is that salad dressing you would like to have that works well with your overall fitness and dietary goals?
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Restarting healthy eating
So I have been on a self distructing eating habit for a while now. Either I eat like crap or don't eat at all till dinner or late. I need to restart my eating not only for myself but health. I need some advice on how to start or what to do or some sample eating plans. I can be picky so it's hard sometimes but I need help.…
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“Local” foods that international friends don’t understand!
Okay I’ve been inspired by another thread about Canadian bar-thingies, with Graham’s Crackers and S’Mores. I have no idea what they are. So here’s some UK foods - don’t know if our international neighbours have them or know what they are! Bubble and squeak Haggis, neeps and tatties Over to everyone else! 🤣
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added sugars vs natural sugars
It looks like all sugars are bad and as a woman you are only showing total sugars, thereby eliminating naturally occurring sugars such as in bananas. So consequently I eat one banana and that’s almost all my sugar for the day. Stupid! It is added sugars that is the culprit. If labels need to show added sugars now,…
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How to measure out pasta
This might be a dumb question but it confuses me. I'm making penne pasta for dinner. It says 300 per 1 cup of dry pasta. How do I figure out how many calories per one cup of cooked penne? It seems that cooked penne is lower in calories if I google it.
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Using Barcode Scanner /saving scanned items
Once you scan a food package...how do you save it to a favorites list? I don't want to add the food to my day, just want to scan my groceries and have the items saved for later.
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Tracking oil & butter
so ive been tracking cals/macs for quite some time now and for the most part have a good understanding but some things confuse me on how it should be tracked... for example when cooking with oils and butters on the skillet/wok, i may throw in a bit of butter or coconut oil, should i be tracking exactly the amount i put in…
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Is it okay to take both Vitamin D with Collagen supplements? Kinda new to this.
Kinda new to consistently taking supplements so I'm tryna find out what's best. I eat lots of protein, especially after a workout, but I was told I should take collagen too. So I started that, but I was wondering if my vitamin D intake would interfere with it.
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Alternatives to Grilled Chicken
Hi! I just started trying to eat healthy again and am hoping for some ideas for alternatives to grilled chicken to change it up. Last time I lost a lot of weight I stuck to salads for every lunch and grilled chicken for dinner with various sides (rice, sweet potato, broccoli, etc). While effective, I got really sick of…
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Net carbs
I'm trying to stay around 20 net carbs per day, does the total carbs shown in nutrition chart reflect net carbs or total carbs?
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Binge Eating Disorder (BED) ?
Does anyone else suffer from this disorder? I've always been very overweight, and I've always known I had a problem that went deeper than just eating too much, but it wasn't until I read "Food: the good girl's drug" that I knew what it was. I'm using MFP as a way to try to beat this. If anyone else suffers with this, do…
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Diet and Psoriasis
I have severe psoriasis and I wondered if anyone else here has it? Also, I have read before that some people have had success in clearing or, at least, diminishing their psoriasis, through diet. Has anyone found this to be true?
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How to start?
How can I say that I am taking my right food? What should I focus on in my diet.. for example should I watch out carbs, fats and sugar as if I exceed the limit, it won't be healthy? or should I watch out fats and fiber.. and If I want to lose weight and feel satisified with the amount of food I have what should I eat more…
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Rice confusion!!
So I'm a little confused on how rice works lol on the back of the package, it says "160 cal for 1/4 cup"; is that for cooked or uncooked rice??
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Keto vegetarian meal
Anyone know any thing about a keto vegetarian meal plan to share , trying something new, Thanks
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I get intense cravings for specific foods. Now it's back to brownies.
Once or twice a year I will get intense cravings for very specific things: * Brownies * Fried Fish and Vanilla Milkshake * Fried Chicken with Pickles The chicken and fish cravings usually aren't so bad, b/c I can have it once or twice and move on. The brownie craving is more problematic because all it does is rev up my…
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Scannable Nutrition Lables
I wish myfitnesspal had a way of scanning a nutrition label and having it import the info into the app.
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Is there a way to add Vitamin Supplements?
I am wonder if there is a way to add vitamin supplements to the daily list. Thanks!
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Anti Inflammatory diet help ( for GERDS with Sjogrens)
Feel free to skip this part if you just want to give nutrition advice, I just wanted to you to get an idea where I am health-wise. <3 **************Beginning************** So, I have have significant auto-immune issues. Psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and sjogrens syndrome. Psoriasis - we all know what that is - red plaques…
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An alternative to unhealthy food
Hey! I LOVE to cook and this includes seeking healthy meals. If you have any questions to specific meals, I would love to help you out. Any recommendations please let me know. On youtube, there is a channel called the BUFF Dudes. They make great meals by creating healthy alternatives.
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High protein/low carb
Hello community! I'm new here and working hard on tracking what I eat! My main three categories are fat, protein and carbs... probably like most of us. I'm wondering if any of your know of good foods that are high in protein but low in carbs. I am using a 1200 calorie plan suggested by my nutritionist and it's going pretty…
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Whey Isolate Suggestions?
So I supplement my protein intake ("real" protein foods) with Whey Isolate powder. Not interested in non-whey protein, or Whey Concentrate or Hydrolyzed Isolates. Anyways, I've been buying my powder from MyProtein, which I really like. I've basically tried all their flavors by now. Problem is, I've been hoping to have an…
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Changing my Carbs to 5%
Question please. In order for me to move my carbs to 20 grams (5%) and my protein to 150 (40%) do I have to go premium in order to change it what I want to?
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Raw Onion Versus Cooked Onion Weight
I cooked pork meatballs tonight and I just realized that I have no idea how many grams of onion is in each meatball, as the weight of onion largely decreases after cooking. So should I just pretend that I didn't eat any onion tonight? For example, if I ate a meatball that weighed 150 grams, then I should just log 150 grams…
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Nutrition chart from App but in computer web browser
Hello, I only recently started using MFP and I noticed that there is a chart that I can get to in the Android app that I have not been able to find on the website, when logged in from a computer. The chart I'm referring to is the daily nutrition chart that shows whose rows are the different nutrient and the columns are the…
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Boiled eggs after few hours
Do boiled eggs smell or spoil if I peel them and carry whole or sliced in a box .Is it better to keep it unpeeled to be eaten later say after 3-4 hrs, Will it be healthy?
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Food and longevity
So the other day I was at work, someone approached me and asked "why do you eat healthy?" Yuck( how rude right) so I replied "why not?" . That person said it isn't Delicious and we only live once. My response was healthy food can be delicious, it's how you prepare it and I eat this way because I want to live a healthy life…
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So apparently everyone stopped making protein brownies.
There used to be a ton of different companies making protein brownies from lenny and larry, to chef irvine, to myprotein, and many more. Were they the best brownies? Well, they were to me. They tasted like crappy little debbie brownies, but they averaged 16-20g of protein and satisfied my junk food brownie cravings pretty…
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Food prep and quantity
Just curious, if anyone else good prep for the week ? And if so, do you do it weekly, 2x a week , or daily ( mornings for the day ahead)
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Salt and Vinegar cravings are intense!
Does anybody have any insight into what it means to crave salt and vinegar all the time? I've never had much of a sweet tooth, but this is getting ridiculous. This has been getting worse for about 7 years: - At parties I skip the cupcakes and have chips for the dessert - At theme parks and baseball games I load up on…