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Get a heart rate monitor, measure your average HR over your exercise period, and use any of the online calculators to determine your calorie expenditure.

If cardiovascular exercise expends energy about your normal metabolic rate, it will cause your body to consume more calories than if you were at rest. In that sense, exercise "burns" calories, which may but do not necessarily come from fat. That's why MFP adds calories to your daily diet if you exercise. However, if you do…

One of the most significant challenges using MFP is to get accurate nutritional information for your food diary. The database is full of inaccurate and conflicting information. For example, search the database for "pork chop". You will find a listing for Walmart that gives 140 calories for a 4 oz chop. It also lists a Stop…

WW and MFP are both calorie counting programs. It's just that WW uses the gimmick of "free foods" to make it appear that you can eat more. In reality, the "free foods" are taken into account by their assumption of how much them you will eat. MFP is more transparent, and makes it easy to also account for exercise calories.…

I should clarify that the 38 calorie/point ratio is based on the WW plan as it existed 3 years ago. It may not still be valid for newer versions.

It is quite simple. A WW point is about 38 calories. WW really is a calorie counting system, but they gimmick it up with things like “free” foods. If it works for you, go with it. My wife used it and lost weight. I used mfp at the same time and also lost weight with us eating mostly the same foods. I did most of the…

That's exactly what I said: You will eat less calories than your body needs. That is the definition of a calorie deficit. If you continued that indefinitely, you would starve. Presumably the original poster would stop eating a calorie deficit diet when he/she reached a desired weight. How is that confusing?

You also need to input your activity level when you use the MFP calorie goal setup. MFP gives you the choices below. These refer to your normal day-to-day level of activity, like the examples given illustrate. They do not include an additional exercise you might do, which should be logged separately. Unless you are in an…

You said "1250 seems like WAY too little! Isn't that a starvation diet?", and in fact it is. That's the point. You are going to eat less calories than you body needs. But instead of starving, you body will replace those food calories with body fat and you will lose weight. You can exercise or not, but exercising has…

To lose 25 lb in three months would require a calorie deficit of almost 1000 per day. Given your height and weight, your BMR is around 1400-1500 calories. That means you would have to limit yourself to 400-500 calories a day (net of exercise). The generally recommended minimum calorie intake is 1200/day.

5-7 pounds would make me suspect the scale. I weighed myself every day for about 16 months (while losing 55 lb) and the average daily variation was less than one pound. The maximum daily difference was 3.6 lb. Be sure your scale is on a solid floor (no carpet).

It is not possible to reconcile the Aquastar nutrition label with the entries for salmon in the USDA database. The lowest calorie salmon in the USDA data base, wild or farmed, is "salmon, chum, raw" at 120 calories/100g, or about 136 calories for 4 oz, so it's hard to reconcile that with 80 calories. A look at the Aquastar…

Steaming is a surprisingly good way to cook chicken and it avoids oil. Here's a recipe for steamed chicken thighs with Asian flavors: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/steamed-chicken-with-black-mushrooms-and-bok-choy-230450 You can use this technique with any combination of vegetables and flavors you like. It…

What's your average heart rate while exercising?

Plain greek yogurt and mix in fresh fruits

Endorphins. Here's a link: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-connection-between-chocolate-and-endorphins.htm#didyouknowout. If you search for "chocolate" and "endorphins" you will find many more.

The diversity in menu varies considerably by meal. Breakfast is almost always the same: Fiber One cereal with berries and skim milk and a cup of tomato juice. Lunch is somewhat more varied, but most often a green or spinach salad with ham and a low cal dressing (I like Bolthouse products), and some fruit (grapes,…

In theory to lose 42 lb in 11 weeks you would have to maintain a calorie deficit of about 1900 cal/day. (42 lb) x (3500cal/lb)/(11 weeks)/(7days/week). If you eat 2000 cal/day and exercise 5000 cal/day, that would suggest a calorie deficit of 3000/day. That hardly seems sustainable. Is it possible your exercise calories…

Down 55 lb in 10 months. Method is simply maintaining a daily net calorie deficit (food in - exercise) and logging everything and every day.

Is 223 the average, or just a spike? I use a heart rate monitor, and it occasionally gives me anomalously high spike readings, but the longer term averages are usually reasonable. According to the standard correlations, at age 22 your maximum heart rate is approximately 190-198 beats/minute (bpm), therefore 223 is an…

I eat 40 g of Fiber One for breakfast each day with some fruit like raspberries or blue berries. Not bad tasting and about 20 g of fiber. With various fruits and vegetables throughout the day generally that gets me to the recommended 30 g of fiber a day.

If you have or are willing to buy a bicycle, you can get a training stand for it. That way you can ride indoors and out. The training stand itself takes up little space. Prices range from under $100 to much more. I would recommend getting a bicycle computer (speedometer/odometer) and mount that on the bike. That way you…

Given your height, weight and age, your Basal Metabolic Rate is about 1500 cal/day. That's the amount you need to maintain your weight if you were completely inactive, essentially lying in bed all day. To get your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE), you need to multiply that by an "activity level" factor. The list below…

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The simplest thing to do is to weigh what you eat after cooking, and multiply that by the appropriate calorie content of the part that you ate. For example, the USDA database gives a calorie count for roasted chicken breast (meat only) as 165 cal/100g or 47 cal/oz. Smoking should be the same as roasting in terms of the…

Good Eats Meatloaf (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/good-eats-meat-loaf-recipe.html), but use ground turkey. Or 50/50 ground beef and ground turkey. Or 50/50 ground lamb and ground turkey.

how many servings?

To lose 14.5 lb (139 down to 124.5) over 5 weeks you would need to sustain a calorie deficit of 1450 per day. Given your age and weight, your basal metabolic rate is only about 1450 calories, so to achieve that weight loss you almost would need to be on a starvation diet. Not a good idea.

en papillote. Cut up root vegetables (carrots, turnips, parsnips, radishes, onions, potatoes) and put in a parchment paper bag or enclose in parchment paper with herbs (basil, thyme, etc.), salt and pepper, and a splash of white wine or wine vinegar. Put the package in a baking dish and cook at 400 F for about 30 min. Add…