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BlahdeBlah60
BlahdeBlah60 Posts: 2 Member
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Did MFP years ago, I just want to lose 10ponds I.. 60 May and well can't afford to lose too much, maybe starting at wrong time, staring bereavement counselling and just getting over bad flu oh and my hair is shedding so much gone so thin but I was really ill and lost a stone really quick as didn't eat.. I have Fibro too and various other health issue... One thing about CC is whn you do a homemade meal ie shep pie or chilli how do you break it down too log?... Bless you all

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  • Betty
    Betty Posts: 8,881 MFP Staff
    Welcome back! Wishing your success with losing those 10 pounds.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,325 Member
    Hello, and welcome (back)!

    I'm not sure there's a wrong time to start, it's more about matching tactics when starting to one's then-current situation. In one sense, any time when one is motivated to start is a good time to start.

    If you only have 10 pounds to lose, going slowly, making moderate but sustainable changes, would be a good route. The loss would be slower to show up on the scale, but with some health challenges in the picture, and only a moderate amount to lose, it might have a higher payoff to focus more on tuning up overall nutrition, if there are any issues there?

    You've been through a lot, so just recovering from all of that would be a priority in itself, it seems like!

    I'm 66, a widow, also with various health issues (different from yours, it sounds like), but have been active on MFP for a while. It has really helped me with quality of life through self-care, like managing my weight, getting good nutrition routinely, staying active. It keeps my eyes on the prize in those ways, I guess.

    As far as your question about home-made meals: Have you experimented with the recipe builder function? It lets you enter a list of ingredients (with quantities), and it will look them up. It sometimes takes a little bit of tweaking to get it right, but it gets easier with experience. If you got the recipe on the internet, you can even just put in the address of the recipe, and it will look up the stuff in it.

    Either way, MFP will calculate the amount of calories in the whole dish, and let you specify how many servings are involved.

    I live alone, so for some things (ones I cut up in pieces like a pie-type thing), I just put in the number of mostly-even-sized pieces I cut as the number of servings.

    For things that are more variable, like soup/stew, I weigh the finished thing, and put in the number of grams as the number of servings. MFP will usually give a message that amounts to "are you sure you meant 1163 servings?", but will let you go on with the big number. Then, when I eat some of the soup/stew, I just put the number of grams I dish out for myself as the number of servings I ate, and MF does the math.

    For that "grams as servings" method, it's helpful to weigh the pot before starting (so you can weigh the whole pot of finished food, subtract the pot weight to get the total food weight). Some people even make a list of weights of their frequently used pots/baking dishes, and tape it inside a cabinet door for reference.

    Best wishes with your time here on MFP: Wishing you great success!

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