Hi all... Than you heaps!

elephant_in_the_room

Hi,
I use MFP as an app on the IPad, I have hardly ever logged into this website.
So a big hello to everyone!
And a big Thank You.
That's because of everybody's contributions to the food database. It would certainly not have all these weird and wonderful foodstuffs in it, from basic ingredients to the meals of common fast food chains, if it weren't for all you guys.
I quite often have a hard time (and not enough of it) to enter precisely the ingredients of all I ate, if I even know. So it's a godsend that mostly, someone has entered something remotely similar.
... Although if it were possible, I would sometimes like to ask if you couldn't make your measurements more precise... "one slice" of pizza can be one slice of a 10", 12", 15" pizza.... Or maybe of a rectangular one. How much did your slice weigh? And was it heavily or sparsely topped? A tablespoon of sugar usually has 15 grams, not 5. That was a teaspoon. If it's heaped, even 20. And half a cup of instant oats can be anything from 40 to 75 grams.

About myself: I did most of my weight loss without and long before 'MFP, with a combination of exercising, eating less carbohydrates and skipping dinners. I then decided to hold that weight at 62kg by just eating 2000 kcal a day. I managed for one and a half years. I counted calories by hand, weighed myself daily, went running for 30 minutes every day and ran a couple of half marathons. Then hamstring tendinitis struck and my sports doctor said I couldn't run for about a year. Swimming was out, too, and cycling could never match the exercise effect I get out of running. I noticed my weight slowly rising and then decided to use MFP.
With it's help, I have managed to mostly keep my weight over the past half year.
I told it my lifestyle is sedentary and just add all activity as exercise separately. It's put me at 1370kcal/day which down from 2000 seemed quite extreme, and to be honest, most of the time, I haven't been able to stick to it, but went over my calorie goal by a few 100. I'm still quite happy if I stay under 2000. Currently, I practise a sort of intermittent fasting and am also quite annoyed that MFP can't average out calories over several days. Well...
All the best to everyone.