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Logging Food and Supplements
Logging Supplements How do you see supplements you add and intake quantity if the supplement is not listed by default to the app? Want to also see a combined food nutrient intake to also include the supplement value. Thx
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Brown Rice Confusion
Ok. What am I missing here? I recently added brown rice to my diet because of the handy Birds Eye Steamfresh bags in the frozen section. When I logged it, I just looked it up on the MFP food list and found 1 cup equals 150 calories. There are multiple entries at 150 calories per cup, and some even say Birds Eye. Then I…
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Beans - Dried vs Canned Calories - Frustrated!
So…as a Vegetarian I use a lot of beans. Mostly I cook them in smallish batches from dried - 200g dried weight per batch. I have multiple ‘recipes’ set up which I edit every batch to reflect the exact cooked weight of the batch so I can accurately count what I’m using. The frustration arises when I compare the resultant…
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Easy meals/snacks
G'day all. I am a police telecommunications supervisor that works 12 hour shifts, chained to a console in a tiny room with a fridge, microwave and toaster oven. I cannot leave to eat, nor can I cook my meals at work. I find I'm hungry most of the time so I over pack food for the day but am really good about only packing…
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When eating out with friends at a place where you can’t track the food on MyFitnessPal
Ever happen? How does this work?
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Need… More… Protein!
While I’m not as afraid of going over my calorie goal as I used to be, I still want to maintain my 1700-1800 limits while still reaching my protein goals. Too often I find myself going over my carb goal, while having barely gotten half of my protein for the day! I love carbs and I’ll forever stand by them, but I want to…
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What's on your dinner plate?
Show a picture of your loaded-up dinner plate, and tell us what's on it (not all pictures are worth a thousand, or even a dozen words). If you want to, let us know why you chose the items, and give a calorie estimate and how that fits into your daily eating plan (or how it doesn't fit if you're eating off-plan). If there's…
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1200cal / Day - Breakfast ideas help!
First post here! Successfully losing gradually and consistently on 1200cal but getting bored with breakfast. I have my day split 300 breakfast / 100 snack / 300 lunch / 100 snack / 300 dinner / 100 snack (or load this to lunch if I feel like busting something really calorie dense out!). Rarely hungry, eat boatloads of…
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I need veggie suggestions!
What are some of your favorite healthy veggies recipes to eat
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Apple Juice
Anyone have any recommendations for a sugar free/low sugar apple juice or water enhancer? I'm hesitant about the water enhancers because I feel like it won't taste the same as apple juice, but one of my friends said there was a Great Value one that was sugar free and tasted great. I can't seem to find it anywhere, so I am…
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Grilling
I made a conscious decision to prepare my own food at home to save money and to know exactly what is on my food, salt, oils etc. I live alone so I don’t need much and don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. Enter the George Foreman Grill. I randomly saw a YouTube video about grilling vegetables about 2 months ago…
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Red meat
I eat homemade burgers (93 or 96 if I can find it)1-2 times a week and fit it into my calorie budget. Will this impede my weight loss?
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Tips to get in my carbs? Usually coming up short
I'm using MFP to lose weight. Generally I'm hitting or sometimes exceeding my protein and fat goals but usually coming up well short hitting my carb goals. My nutritionist has stressed that getting my carbs in is important. Awhile back I was exceeding my sugar goals, but some food swaps helped me dial out some of that…
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Rate my diet plan
45 year old, 200lbs, with 20% body fat %. Looking to recomp off 20lbs of fat with the below eating plan. Planning to lift weights 3x a week and cardio 2x a week; taking weekends off to rest. Cardio would be an hour of biking or 40 mins of jogging. Would you change the below eating plan? Thanks! Lifting days 830am: 45g…
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Just not that hungry
I'm on day 10 of my effort to ditch that Quarantine 15 (20 actually!) and after a few days of hunger my body has adjusted to eating less and I'm just not as hungry. As such, I've adjusted my behavior to eat until I'm satiated and then stop. Yesterday when I closed out my food diary for the day, I got a caution from the…
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How to accurately count calories when eating specific foods?
This morning, I had a salad from a restaurant that changes it's menu enough that there wasn't a calorie count listed. I scoured MyFitnessPal for this particular salad but couldn't find anything like it. Since I'm fairly new to this whole "counting calories" thing, I don't really know what to input for custom amounts.…
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Post-Workout Meal help
Hey guys, I finished my workout a little over two hours ago, but I didn't get to have my post workout meal because of bad preparation. I need help, where do I go from here?
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Iodine / salt
Hi I want to track my salt / iodine consumption. Just like there are fields for vitamins - can I track iodine in various items quickly using mfp?
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Need Help with Weight Goal!
Hey everyone! I've been working out heavily in preparation for a kickboxing match. My goal was to fight at 135 pounds but I seem to have hit a wall at 140 pounds. Something feels off in the accuracy calorie counts, both exercise burn and RMR. I'm 38, 5'7, 141 lbs Male. According to everything online my RMR is 1,200. My…
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Intermittent Fasting!!
I bet this has been discussed ... but ..... .Does anyone do Intermittent Fasting and if so Does it help you? I have actually tried it and try to do it every day but it is hard for me to commit
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100 carbs a day for those who don't like veg?
I've struggled to find a post on here for low-carbers who don't like veg. And when I do, there are far too many people preaching how we should be eating it. Veg makes me physically puke, and at my age, I will no longer entertain it. I know many will respond by saying, "oh, roast it" etc etc tc. Tried it, hate it. I can…
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My One Day Snickers Bar Story
Some of you here on MFP know me, but most of you don't. I've lost 192 pounds, and have maintained that weight loss since March of this year. I lost this weight through diet and exercise alone. I know, just as many of us here know, what it takes to lose this kind of weight, and keep it off. I've had many weak moments along…
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How to input food in the diary...?
Say you're at work and your coworker brought in bagels, donuts, fruit & coffee for everyone. All you pick is a small plate of fruit - a couple of red grapes, some cut up honeydew & cantaloupe. No way to measure or weigh. How do you enter it all in the food diary? It looked more than a cup's worth. Any ideas would be…
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What items do you not calorie count?
Hi! Was wondering what items people don’t bother calorie counting. (Eg. Herbs and spices, lettuce etc?) I’m wanting to get back into calorie counting but I don’t want to become obsessive again. ☺️☺️
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Constantly checking macros and don't understand how it works
Could someone please be kind enough to explain the macros part in myfitnesspal. I do not understand how it works. And what do I need to cut down on foods with a lot of cards and fats and focus only on protiens? And the last question is, If I consume 1000 calories and lose 500 calories through workout, will I still be able…
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Romanians - Stop adding salt as sodium!
Hi, I don't know if this is an issue only with the user added Romanian products or if it's widespread, but for the love of God, people, please stop adding the SALT on the label as SODIUM. It's not the same thing! If a product has 3.1g salt, they make the conversion and add 3100mg of sodium wich effs up the whole thing…
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Meals
Brain trusts I have a question what are some good vegetarian meals wife doesn’t eat meat is allergic to seafood and fish and is also celiac I need new ideas ? Please
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How to change quantity of food?
I'm new to myfitnesspal, and I'm trying to log my breakfast. except when I look up a food, it only gives me one serving option, which is the serving size. I can't adjust the serving according to what I actually consumed. so if the serving size is 1/2 cup which comes up in the results, but I really had 1/4 cup, how can I…
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chicken breast calories
I was looking at chicken breast labels, what caught my eye that one package says 110 calories another package says 120 calories. Which is the accurate calories for the skinless breast, or should I looked up the accurate calories on google.
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ISO a good Shaker Cup
I just bought one at Walmart and went to shake up the contents and managed to get it all over me! Anyone have one that they absolutely love and where did you get it? Thanks!