...and thank you to all the posters who have provided helpful and informative posts like this.
I got a digital kitchen scale recently and told my best friend and she made a face at me and when I asked why she said "I just don't think it's healthy to be that obsessive," so I've had conflicted feelings about the scale ever since. I'm reassured to see it recommended so strongly here. I mean... I'm terrible at deciding what "thumb sized" or "palm sized" means.
It's amazing how people are fine with all kinds of crazy diets, spending hundreds on special supplements and foods, buying exercise equipment and fitness gadgets, drinking nothing but expensive juices for days. But putting your food on a scale is just too much
Need help in setting the activity level. So I work from home and have a desk job but I do not sit more than 6 hours. I cook once a day, take care of 2 year and 6 year in the evening (not lot of running), 20 mins exercise on most of the days. Right now I have set to LIGHTLY ACTIVE , after reading this post , I feel like I am under sedentary. Please suggest ...
Need help in setting the activity level. So I work from home and have a desk job but I do not sit more than 6 hours. I cook once a day, take care of 2 year and 6 year in the evening (not lot of running), 20 mins exercise on most of the days. Right now I have set to LIGHTLY ACTIVE , after reading this post , I feel like I am under sedentary. Please suggest ...
Depends on which system you are trying to use. But under Sedentary is totally wrong direction.
On the TDEE system you are easily in the Active category with exercise and daily life combined.
Your daily life with kids is already Lightly-Active, exercise just bumped you up a level. (unless exercise is very slow walking for 20 min).
On the MFP system you are still Lightly Active with household responsibilities - and then you would add the exercise when actually done - which sounds about daily.
At the end of the week - they would likely end up at the same amount of average daily burned.
Though on TDEE system you eat the same amount daily - may be good for planning. But you better workout.
On the MFP system you vary amount eaten daily - so maybe harder to plan.
That was a poorly thought-out decision to change the links.
Yep, I am happy to update the links and will work on that now.
Does anyone know when these links broke? The urls looks very old school, as in 5 years ago before went to a hosted forum model, so perhaps some redirect function recently broke since I don't think we have made changes to the English forum urls in some time. I will look into it though, first to update the links.
That was a poorly thought-out decision to change the links.
Yep, I am happy to update the links and will work on that now.
Does anyone know when these links broke? The urls looks very old school, as in 5 years ago before went to a hosted forum model, so perhaps some redirect function recently broke since I don't think we have made changes to the English forum urls in some time. I will look into it though, first to update the links.
Alrighty, links updated. I have not sorted out why these broke now but happy to correct in the meantime.
That was a poorly thought-out decision to change the links.
Yep, I am happy to update the links and will work on that now.
Does anyone know when these links broke? The urls looks very old school, as in 5 years ago before went to a hosted forum model, so perhaps some redirect function recently broke since I don't think we have made changes to the English forum urls in some time. I will look into it though, first to update the links.
Alrighty, links updated. I have not sorted out why these broke now but happy to correct in the meantime.
Alex, I believe (and I could be wrong) they broke around the time that the New Help system was implemented. If not then, it has been very recent.
The weird thing is that the other links in the stickies (the "Most Helpfuls") seem to have gotten updated presumably on purpose whenever it was that this broke, because they redirect correctly. It's just weird.
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It's amazing how people are fine with all kinds of crazy diets, spending hundreds on special supplements and foods, buying exercise equipment and fitness gadgets, drinking nothing but expensive juices for days. But putting your food on a scale is just too much
Depends on which system you are trying to use. But under Sedentary is totally wrong direction.
On the TDEE system you are easily in the Active category with exercise and daily life combined.
Your daily life with kids is already Lightly-Active, exercise just bumped you up a level. (unless exercise is very slow walking for 20 min).
On the MFP system you are still Lightly Active with household responsibilities - and then you would add the exercise when actually done - which sounds about daily.
At the end of the week - they would likely end up at the same amount of average daily burned.
Though on TDEE system you eat the same amount daily - may be good for planning. But you better workout.
On the MFP system you vary amount eaten daily - so maybe harder to plan.
Anyway, thanks for this!
Me too!
I guess the links in the first post are archived now.
The links are not archived; MFP forum URLs have changed and the links on that first page are as follows (In order of appearance) :
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/819055/setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets/p1
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/818082/exercise-calories-again-wtf/p1
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/817188/iifym
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/872212/you-re-probably-eating-more-than-you-think
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/830595/body-fat-estimation-methods
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/826435/bodyfat-estimation-thread
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/925464/fitting-it-in-giggity
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/833026/important-posts-to-read
Can you edit the original post to these new URLs? This thread is really helpful and we link to it all the time in the forums.
If not, I'm tagging @Alex
That was a poorly thought-out decision to change the links.
Yep, I am happy to update the links and will work on that now.
Does anyone know when these links broke? The urls looks very old school, as in 5 years ago before went to a hosted forum model, so perhaps some redirect function recently broke since I don't think we have made changes to the English forum urls in some time. I will look into it though, first to update the links.
Alrighty, links updated. I have not sorted out why these broke now but happy to correct in the meantime.
Go to page 1 and start reading. 😉
Alex, I believe (and I could be wrong) they broke around the time that the New Help system was implemented. If not then, it has been very recent.
The weird thing is that the other links in the stickies (the "Most Helpfuls") seem to have gotten updated presumably on purpose whenever it was that this broke, because they redirect correctly. It's just weird.