Is calorie counting hard?

paperpudding

I love making soups in crock pot.

Here is my vegie soup recipe - cut up aprox even amounts of carrot, leek, celery, potato into small pieces, enough to 3/4 fill crock pot - cook in slow cooker in vegie stock or chicken stock (I just use stock cubes, about 3 or 4) when cooked add 2 tins of creamed corn, mash with hand held mixer.

Too easy!

Some one mentioned bacon

I have a potato and bacon one too.

Cut up potato, onion and leek - aprox double potato to onion/leek ratio, also about 1 cup of diced bacon pieces. Cook in stock until soft enough to mash, mash with hand held mixer, then add one container of light sour cream.

While I'm at it, I'll add my pumpkin soup one.

Cut up butternut pumpkin and potato aprox 3:2 pumpkin to potato ratio, also 2 large onions and one large carrot - cook in stock until soft enough to mash, mash with hand held mixer, then add 2 tins of creamed corn and one container of light sour cream also turmeric and paprika to taste.

Menecairiel

Some one mentioned bacon

I have a potato and bacon one too.

Cut up potato, onion and leek - aprox double potato to onion/leek ratio, also about 1 cup of diced bacon pieces. Cook in stock until soft enough to mash, mash with hand held mixer, then add one container of light sour cream.

Holy smokes!!! I WANT IT!!! NOW!

akeller1862

My one "can't control myself food" is milanos. You knowm those cookies Peppridge Farm makes. I have a huge sweet tooth, and I keep a variety of sweets around so I don't go crazy and eat a whole cake; when they're always available I can portion them out. But milanos simply cannot be in my possession without eating all of them. Sometimes I buy those tiny packs of three of them, but that's it.

If we're sharing crockpot recpies, here are some of my favorites, although not all of them are particularly healthy.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/campbells-golden-chicken-with-noodles/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-dump-and-go-cheesy-chicken/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-taco-filling/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-beef-and-potato-curry/detail.aspx

I also know a macaroni and cheese recipe I can make in a slow cooker, and it's divine, but I have no link to it.

thomasgallino524

It all depends on how much you're willing to go through to get the results you want. At first, yes, calorie counting is a pain in the *kitten*. But, as said in previous comments, once you get into the groove of things and eat similar types of food, it becomes much easier. What I find helpful is using the MyFitnessPal smartphone app and using the bar code scanner. As for non processed/packaged foods; take the extra minute or two and add it into "my foods" so you can have it at your disposal. If you don't use the smartphone app; I recommend using a little notepad and date each page (over whatever period of time) and for each day, break it down the same way this website does (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, etc...). As I said before, if you're willing to put in the extra time, the results will show. It's a change in lifestyle. Change takes time. But every extra step you take, it's one step closer to your goal and a healthier lifestyle.

KayJaMikel

My one "can't control myself food" is milanos. You knowm those cookies Peppridge Farm makes. I have a huge sweet tooth, and I keep a variety of sweets around so I don't go crazy and eat a whole cake; when they're always available I can portion them out. But milanos simply cannot be in my possession without eating all of them. Sometimes I buy those tiny packs of three of them, but that's it.

If we're sharing crockpot recpies, here are some of my favorites, although not all of them are particularly healthy.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/campbells-golden-chicken-with-noodles/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-dump-and-go-cheesy-chicken/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-taco-filling/detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-beef-and-potato-curry/detail.aspx

I also know a macaroni and cheese recipe I can make in a slow cooker, and it's divine, but I have no link to it.

OMG, do I love milanos too. They are the bestest ever cookies, ever, and I don’t even like cookies that much. TO DIE FOR.

jkal1979

I love food. I use it for comfort, for happiness, for social so on...




I can never give up food...

Salem summed up my thoughts exactly.

I've always been an emotional eater. I've used food as a reward for a rough day, a good day, or just because I thought I deserved it for whatever reason. I was pretty good at justifying what I was putting in my mouth.

whitebalance

Moar kitteh massages, while I wait for that crockpot sweet and sour chicken to cook and calculate the recipe. Nom.

MyM0wM0w

:sad: :brokenheart:

I have to call vet in the AM for my sweet kitty. Last night when I was petting him I felt a lump on his side. I'll be stressing out like crazy until she can see him.

My little schmoobear

KayJaMikel

:sad: :brokenheart:

I have to call vet in the AM for my sweet kitty. Last night when I was petting him I felt a lump on his side. I'll be stressing out like crazy until she can see him.

My little schmoobear

Awe, I hope it is nothing. I bet it will be nothing.

_KitKat_

So, it looks like the original thread finally got modded into oblivion. Not even locked, just moved to Mods-Only. I guess it was the orgy references that did it.

Anybody remember the great crockpot recipes that were in there? I'm gonna be hungry in about 6-8 hours....

I was working, what the eff happened? Orgies, and I missed it?

^^^^This is what I'm thinking.... plus how the hell do I miss the orgies :sad: Well at least a thread was started for the important stuff from that other thread.

Kitties.....



I am a little bummed though, now I have no clue what to read with my morning coffee :grumble:

dsalveson

Soup?

Can we talk about other crock pot ideas? I'm not the biggest fan of soup during the summer- which is a shame because the White Bean Chicken Chili at Cheesecake Factory is one of the most filling items on the SkinnyLicious menu.

The actual counting calories is easy. The mental aspect and figuring out the right balance of calories between meals, however, is a bit more of a challenge.

Once you let HLB into your heart, she never truly leaves.

_KitKat_

Soup?

Can we talk about other crock pot ideas? I'm not the biggest fan of soup during the summer- which is a shame because the White Bean Chicken Chili at Cheesecake Factory is one of the most filling items on the SkinnyLicious menu.

The actual counting calories is easy. The mental aspect and figuring out the right balance of calories between meals, however, is a bit more of a challenge.

Once you let HLB into your heart, she never truly leaves.

Wow skimming through this one, completely missed she wandered over to this one.

So seriously, orgies are a bad topic, and that is what took down an epic thread. If dirty pictures were not posted, what is the issue. We are all adults and have the ability to not read a thread if we don't want to. I had a few on my FL that kept seeming upset that the thread was still going.....didn't get it because you can ignore it, just like If something you don't like is on tv you can choose not to watch it.

Ninkyou

So sad the original topic was closed. I was really hoping for a 5th roll.

dsalveson

I am a little bummed though, now I have no clue what to read with my morning coffee :grumble:

Same :laugh: It was becoming quite the nice routine.

SpencersHeart

I think I'm having thread roll over withdrawal symptoms. :sad:

whitebalance

I think I'm having thread roll over withdrawal symptoms. :sad:

It will be ok... what you're feeling is perfectly normal according to this article.
http://healheartbreak.com/seven-stages-of-breakup/

whitebalance

Soup?

Can we talk about other crock pot ideas? I'm not the biggest fan of soup during the summer- which is a shame because the White Bean Chicken Chili at Cheesecake Factory is one of the most filling items on the SkinnyLicious menu.

The actual counting calories is easy. The mental aspect and figuring out the right balance of calories between meals, however, is a bit more of a challenge.

Once you let HLB into your heart, she never truly leaves.

Wow skimming through this one, completely missed she wandered over to this one.

So seriously, orgies are a bad topic, and that is what took down an epic thread. If dirty pictures were not posted, what is the issue. We are all adults and have the ability to not read a thread if we don't want to. I had a few on my FL that kept seeming upset that the thread was still going.....didn't get it because you can ignore it, just like If something you don't like is on tv you can choose not to watch it.

So, seriously... I was joking about the orgy references. Yes, somebody said something about orgies, but the comments were very, very tame. I'm sure the thread was axed for some other reason... perhaps for public posting of private contact information, which is against the Community Guidelines. There were references to OP's accounts on other sites, which count as private contact information according to the CGs... and aside from that, OP was very free with personal details of who she was, where she worked, who her friend was, and so on... I think that with a moderate amount of digging, it would have been possible to locate her physically at a given time. And that's just not a good thing for her, and the MFP community is right to be concerned over that. Is she still so exposed now -- maybe so, on other sites, but not so much here.

Your friends may have been some of those with more experience on the MFP boards who remember a thread not unlike this one. A young MFP user was caught in multiple untruths and distortions, along with a great deal of oversharing... and in the process of debunking the insanity, her identity was exposed. The thread had many hilarious turns... and many warnings from individuals saying Hey, this is going in a direction that could be unsafe for the user in question. And eventually the thread was nuked. None of the usual lock with explanation from mods... just nuked. Like this one was.

So that's my best guess. And if the mods nuked the thread in an effort to protect someone's identity, I say cheers to the mods. :drinker: Even the wildest, most disagreeable MFP users are still real people on the other end... even if they're not the people they say they are.

MelodyandBarbells

That's actually a pretty good reason because the whiners and cat gif demanders were really starting to piss me off. Actually I think the gifs had more to do with the thread being axed due to band width waste and the fact that the thread was clearly over. Made possible by people who had no interest in it and kept egging others to destroy it for their own pleasure

MyM0wM0w

MelodyandBarbells

Guess ya didn't get a big enough bite last time...

MyM0wM0w

whitebalance

That's actually a pretty good reason because the whiners and cat gif demanders were really starting to piss me off.

So naturally, the only logical thing to do was come to this thread, the OP of which has expressly requested the cat gifs be posted... and complain about people posting cat gifs.

Actually I think the gifs had more to do with the thread being axed due to band width waste and the fact that the thread was clearly over. Made possible by people who had no interest in it and kept egging others to destroy it for their own pleasure

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1228173-come-to-mfp-they-said-there-are-kitteh-gifs-they-said
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1063495-my-gif-is-better-than-yours
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1302282-i-need-me-some-man-candy
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1281694-give-me-random-animal-gifs



Yeah, regarding the bandwidth thing, really, seriously, it's invalid. Images posted on the boards aren't hosted on MFP's servers. From MFP's perspective, they're no more costly than a line of text. That said, when a thread has become destructive or is obviously on a path to deletion, gif-bombing is not uncommon.

MyM0wM0w

Goodnight, Sunshines!

rideontechnology

I feel like I've gone through something traumatic and life shattering to the MFP community after taking days to keep up with reading all of the posts from the first one, finding it gone when I opened the tab today, and then magically finding the new one. Phew.

MelodyandBarbells

So naturally, the only logical thing to do was come to this thread, the OP of which has expressly requested the cat gifs be posted... and complain about people posting cat gifs.

While I considered the irony before posting, I would say this is an over simplification of what I did. I mean, come on. Your post theorizing on why the thread was shut down was three times as long as mine. I'm not allowed to do the same?

I'll read your links, hopefully they explain something I hadn't considered about bandwidth. I still maintain that the gifs took the thread way off topic (deliberately) and made it seem like it had run its course. But of course, the mods offered no explanation for their nuke so we'll likely never know

whitebalance

I feel like I've gone through something traumatic and life shattering to the MFP community after taking days to keep up with reading all of the posts from the first one, finding it gone when I opened the tab today, and then magically finding the new one. Phew.

Menecairiel

That just made me smile in the one place where smiling is hard: at work when the general system is acting up!!

Zombielicious

...there are no words...

AllieMarie2244

Soup?

Can we talk about other crock pot ideas? I'm not the biggest fan of soup during the summer- which is a shame because the White Bean Chicken Chili at Cheesecake Factory is one of the most filling items on the SkinnyLicious menu.

The actual counting calories is easy. The mental aspect and figuring out the right balance of calories between meals, however, is a bit more of a challenge.

this just had me crying laughing at my desk here at work lol

KayJaMikel

...there are no words...

Kittens are just so adorable.

I currently have a mamma and 7 babies, and they are about 5 weeks old now. They are just so effing cute and I can't stand it. They are in the following me around the house stage but are too small yet to get certain places, and it reminds of ducks on a pond following their mamma. They do all these things GIFs show and then some. They sleep in piles on top of each other, on their backs with their little paws up on the air, their mommy puts her paws around them as if to spoon them.

I want to keep all of them. Too cute.