Still looking for Weigh-In Report from

@tdrjustus3

No-one due tomorrow (Tuesday)

@evangsimmons170 ....Here are my water and steps for 5/12/19 and 5/13/19.

how does one syncronize a fitbit to MFP? do I need the app? (currently I have fitbit synced to my tablet, and habitually use the website for MFP)

Can I UN-sync them later if I wish?

Random question: I roasted some sweet potato cubes with a spray of olive oil. I'm wondering if anyone on here can help me work out the calories. My potato weighed 400 gr raw. On MFP I'm finding listings for raw whole sweet potato 25 calories and for 100 gram - 90 calories (which would be 360 for 400 gr?). And then everything in between.
Which one is it? The descrepancy is ridiculous...
When I searched roasted sweet potatoes (as opposed to raw) I also get a whole variety of results.
Thanks!

Perla4686 wrote: »

Random question: I roasted some sweet potato cubes with a spray of olive oil. I'm wondering if anyone on here can help me work out the calories. My potato weighed 400 gr raw. On MFP I'm finding listings for raw whole sweet potato 25 calories and for 100 gram - 90 calories (which would be 360 for 400 gr?). And then everything in between.
Which one is it? The descrepancy is ridiculous...
When I searched roasted sweet potatoes (as opposed to raw) I also get a whole variety of results.
Thanks!

This drives me crazy too. I find it is probably the most accurate to find the raw vegetable, preferably one with a check mark (meaning it has been verified) or check on one of the national nutrition sites (USDA in the US). Then the separate calories for the oil. For sweet potatoes, I generally have one half of a medium potato (just by eyeballing the sizes generally available in the store), then I count the oil I sauté or roast it in by itself.

You will NEVER get a completely accurate calorie count. But you will get close enough to have a good idea of how much you are eating. Don't go for the low counts just to help yourself out (I used to do that!) but try to find the verified or most common amount among the many.

Creating recipes works really well too - when there is something you are going to make often, you can enter one ingredient at a time, figure out how many servings you get from that, and it figures it all out for you.

It isn't perfect, but hopefully you can get close enough to feel confident that your total for the day is relatively close.

jugar wrote: »

STEPPERS!

We are no longer tracking water this week, but you can keep reporting it if you want to. I'll just be recording the steps.

Even if your steps will never match the numbers of our stars, go ahead and report them if you want to! I do, and they are never impressive. I also do other exercise and don't worry about that number. It is kind of fun to know at the end of the day, though, so I just carry my phone around with its little step counter and let it do its thing.

So we're not doing the water, steps, and weight loss challenge?

Test

I had a good day yesterday and saw a correlating change on the scale this am. and my am BG was good today and head is clearer. So @evangsimmons170 here's to OUR successful day today!
Figured how to screenshot, but couldn't get it to go into the reply box on mfp. eventually...

evangsimmons170 wrote: »

Question: I had a REALLY good eating/exercising/water day yesterday (5/13/19). When I clicked on 'complete diary' last night, it said that 'if every day was like today, I'd weigh _____ in 5 weeks.' This isn't my first time seeing this, but I was taken aback because the projected number it gave me is 30 pounds less than I am right now. That super motivated me today because I want to find out how accurate the prediction is. There's only one way to find out: Have another equally successful day today, and tomorrow, and every day. I'm so excited to think that it's possible. Even if I don't hit the mark, if I maintain my efforts from yesterday, I will be SO much closer to that mark than I am right now.

So my question is: Has anyone tested the MFP prediction to see if it's actually accurate? Were you successful?

I personally have not seen it come to fruition. I marked 5 weeks on my calendar once to see. In all honesty, all my days were not like THAT day and that may make the difference. I eat varied things from day to day and my steps and exercise level are not consistent so that may be why I didn’t make it. I’ve been seeing estimates in Onederland for weeks and I’ve yet to get there. I’m hovering around 200. But do your test and go for it and be sure to let us know your results. That would be interesting. Good luck.

evangsimmons170 wrote: »

So my question is: Has anyone tested the MFP prediction to see if it's actually accurate? Were you successful?

Well done on sticking to it!
I tested this when I started MFP and it did come to fruition! So definitely worth giving it a go. Now i am finding it much harder to stay within my calorie limit (limit has been decreased) so sadly predictions aren't quite working as well.
5 weeks is a very good measure for testing, not too long but enough to see a good drop.
Good luck!!