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You could change your Add Food Default View to Frequent instead of Recent.

When I have leftover egg yolks, I make spaghetti carbonara. When I have leftover egg whites, I make cheese soufflé.

HI Madison! When I plug your stats into MFP I get that your maintenance calories should be 1710. So if your Fitbit is saying you are burning roughly 1700 calories a day, then you shouldn't be getting the ~400 extra calories from Fitbit adjustment (I know you already know that something is off, hence your original…

It sounds odd that 1658 Fitbit calories burned would cause MFP to give you 409 extra exercise calories. Now I see what you were saying about the 1290--not BMR, but what MFP apparently thinks is your maintenance, therefore when Fitbit pushes over 1600+ total activity calories burned, MFP gives you an adjustment. But 1290 is…

Going from your diary, it looks like your base calorie goal was 1200 calories. I assume you also have MFP set for a 500 calorie deficit, so MFP has calculated that your daily calorie burn at sedentary is 1700 calories (I'm going to assume for this purpose that you aren't running into the MFP 1200 calories minimum that…

What you are missing are the calories you burned in addition to BMR and exercise, through your everyday activity. Even a sedentary person burns more than their BMR every day.

I have heard of two differences between surgery+calorie restriction vs. calorie restriction alone: -surgery reduces ghrelin level, ghrelin secretion stimulates appetite so the immediate drop in ghrelin could make it easier to comply with the restricted calorie diet -surgery can have an positive impact on type 2 diabetes…

This thread is confusing. One ounce of protein is not 8 grams or 7 grams of protein, it is 28 grams of protein. It sound like what you really want is how many ounces of *protein-containing food* you must eat to achieve your protein goal. This varies depending on the food. For most meats, one ounce (28 g) of meat contains…

This is wrong. OP ate 50 g of cooked sweet potato. The calculation is (50/131) x 353 = 135 calories.

The one thing that stuck with me was the person who said she "couldn't go to the bathroom right" for two weeks afterward. At first I thought, what does she mean? She needs to be more descriptive! Then I realized that "couldn't go to the bathroom right" is all I need to know. Whatever it was, it was bad.

Hi Angela, I am also 47, 5'7" and my starting weight was 141. It took me 10 months to lose 20 pounds. You are already pretty light and don't burn a lot of calories to maintain, so it's hard to generate a significant calorie deficit. It's going to be slow, and in the early going, normal water weight variation can mask a…

One week is not a long enough period to analyze for meaningful conclusions. I analyzed my data over 14 weeks (it was a good stretch where I logged faithfully every day and wasn't eating out much so I didn't have a lot of really uncertain entries) and found that my Fitbit One burn corresponded very well to calorie intake…

If you are losing a pound a week at 1400 calories, then maintenance is 1900 calories (assuming your activity and exercise remain the same). As for gaining it back in five days, how much did you eat and how much did you gain back? It's unlikely you gained a significant amount of fat in five days; water yes, fat no. For…

I don't think anyone says self control is easy. And when someone is overweight or gains unwanted weight because they do not know how much they are eating or how much they should eat, then I wouldn't call that a self control issue, it's a lack of knowledge issue. But when a person knows how much they should eat for their…

I hate to see butter unfairly maligned. It does not contain trans fat, unsalted butter is usually available right beside salted butter if sodium is a concern, and gram for gram or tablespoon for tablespoon it has fewer calories than olive oil because of the water content.

For nutrition and lower calories, I'd also say the tuna or scallops, but personally I'd go for the salmon and spaetzle, two things I love that would also fare pretty well if I ate half and took the rest home (in theory to eat the next day but in reality I'd probably eat the same night while congratulating myself on getting…

In Canada, Health Canada has proposed standardizing the serving size on some products to "what Canadians usually eat" or to more easily compare between brands. For example, the serving size of bread on the nutrition facts would be standardized to 2 slices, and the serving size for crackers would be standardized to 20 g (or…

Because people have different personal sensory preference in what they drink. They are like people that way.

For the powdered, yes. But one ounce of powdered coffee mate is almost 5 tbsp. That would indeed be a lot.

Feelings are very inaccurate. If you don't want to weigh yourself, what about measurements?

Mussels. I was rummaging through my cupboard last week and found a 150 g can of smoked mussels: 50% of daily requirement.

Cream of Wheat. We used to have it often as children but kind of forgot about it for the last twenty years. It has different varieties now.

No, you are actually under your goal, just as it says.

I'm not sure what you are saying about two cheat days in a row. If Sunday is your regular cheat day, how about saying that this week your cheat day was Saturday and eat at your regular deficit on Sunday.

When I get this feeling, I have this internal discussion: Me: I don't know what's wrong with me, I am constantly hungry today. Other me: Maybe you are thirsty, you know what everyone says. Me: I am a grown woman, I think I know the difference between hunger and thirst. Other me: But why not have a big cup of tea first? Me:…

I'm 47 and I've lost 20 pounds. I knew that my weight was slowly creeping up as I got older but I was never overweight so I told myself I didn't care: "I'm a middle aged mom, this is what it looks like." "I'm still in the healthy BMI range." But I had summer shorts that were too small and I just decided that I was not…

Flourless chocolate cake.

I just saw this happen when trying to update apps (not MFP, but eight other work appropriate apps) on my work iPhone while connected to the office wifi. The internal network has security features that prevent connection to the App Store. So maybe it's the particular network you are connected to that is blocking updates.

Recheck your macro targets. What you have adds up to only 905 calories (130x4 + 25x9 + 40x4).

Nope, not necessarily easy at all to recognize hunger vs. just wanting to eat something. When I feel like this, I first have a big cup of hot tea. The combination of the volume of water, the heat and the flavor or bitterness goes farther than plain water for me in satisfying the urge to eat something.