Simple trick that took an embarrassingly long time for you to figure out...
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It's like MFP's best kept secret :laugh:3 -
I finally figured out the recipe importer.(Mobile) Have you tried copy/pasting a recipe website to it, for it to tell you the recipe won't parse ingredients? Instead of entering everything in manually, try this first.
-At the top of the page where it has the web address for the MyFitnessPal recipe builder, hold down and delete that.
-Now type in your recipe as search terms for the website you found it on. Ex: Beef Stroganoff- all recipes. It then does a google search.
-Find your recipe website, and click on it.
-At the bottom you can click import recipe. The ingredients should finally import.
-If not, use the search tool to find a similar recipe from a different website that will parse.
- Be sure to verify each item that it imports. Most of the time I need to fix a few things like the quantity, or just replace a bad item. ( like that pesky 600 calorie garlic!)
This has saved me TONS of time in the kitchen using the recipe builder. Now I can find a recipe similar to my own that I want to cook, and import it and most of the ingredients ahead of time. Then, when I get to the kitchen, I can simply edit, add and change items instead of hunting my kitchen and scanning barcodes to enter a recipe manually.
Edit: Found a typo...9 -
That maintenance calories are the total of your calories consumed during recent loss days (like 30 or 60 days) plus 3500 for each pound lost divided by # days. Why did I think it was more complicated????3
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ladyreva78 wrote: »I don't need to kill myself working out. I just need to a little bit less than my body needs each day and maybe move a little bit more (this more due to the rampant cardiovascular problems rampant in the family than for weightloss)
I've lost 35kg following that and have maintained that loss for the past year (trying to get into the mindset to lose those last 10-15kg
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If only I had known it's that embarrassingly easy 20 years ago...
I actually like working out hard and for long periods of time.1 -
Crafty_camper123Crafty_camper123 Member
August 28, 2018 11:44AM edited 11:57AM
“I finally figured out the recipe importer.(Mobile) Have you tried copy/pasting a recipe website to it, for it to tell you the recipe won't parse ingredients? Instead of entering everything in manually, try this first.”
OMG thank you! Saves so much time!1 -
It's like MFP's best kept secret :laugh:
That's crazy.... Been here for a while and had no clue.0 -
GemimaFitzTed wrote: »
Hahaha same. And as soon as I realised it, and if I felt like I was having a really off-plan day, I would try EXTRA hard to breathe out really enthusiastically
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You can't fix overeating with exercise!! Losing or maintaining is 90% food, 10% exercise.4
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Day 2 and I thank you for this thread and this great community. Anyone else tried intermittently fasting and light exercise for initial goals? Any tips would be great.💕💕0
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DefinitelyDoingThis wrote: »Day 2 and I thank you for this thread and this great community. Anyone else tried intermittently fasting and light exercise for initial goals? Any tips would be great.💕💕
You'll get better answers by either searching the forums or starting your own thread.4 -
That I could just type a calorie goal that was 150kcals higher than the one given to me and not be miserable with myself for being in the red every day.
And still loose weight12 -
Bulk weighing. I would weigh out every type of lettuce individually in my salads (most have exactly the same calorie densities).
Doing crazy math to figure out how much I'm eating. I used to weigh my bowl, pour cereal in weigh again, subtract for bowl then do some division and multiplication of fractions to figure out how much I'm eating. Now: bowl on scale, tare. Pour cereal in until 29g (1 serving), log!4 -
Not weight change related:
Tucking my jeans into my socks so my jeans don't ride up under my boots and try to escape.
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I would say knowing I CAN eat what I want, it is simply a matter of watching the amount I eat. For the longest time, I thought losing weight meant eating food I did not like and just toughing through it. Praise da lordt that is not the case, because I am a major foodie. 3
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I would say knowing I CAN eat what I want, it is simply a matter of watching the amount I eat. For the longest time, I thought losing weight meant eating food I did not like and just toughing through it. Praise da lordt that is not the case, because I am a major foodie.
This is a huge insight for a lot of people. I'm a little sad for the folks who never quite grasp this very simple, but incredibly liberating concept.
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The "copy meal" feature. For the longest time I would reenter every ingredient when having leftovers from the day before.10
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