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I think meal times is a paid premium member feature. I guess you could get around this by replacing the breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner, etc meal categories with a whole bunch that just had times?

MFP is a calorie tracking app rather than a work out app and since the calories burned by strength training are relatively negligible when you add your lifts in to the app it won't credit with extra calories. There is a cardio entry for strength training but I personally wouldn't trust the calorie burn from that entry as I…

I eat what I crave. Never understood the sense in denying yourself what you want. If I feel like pasta then a steak's just not gonna cut it and chances are I'll end up wanting (and potentially eating) the carbby food I'm looking for as well.

My calorie goal is to eat slightly fewer calories than I use. That should be everyone's calorie goal. (provided they're trying to lose weight) Don't compare yourself to anyone else. It's never works out well.

Think of fat as a pool. You can drain the pool, but you can't chose to selectively drain the deep end or the area around the steps.

10kg loss and only a few % BF change? I'd suspect that person probably does look quite different as I'm guessing they've probably lost a limb. Serious answer is that it's probably a combination of poor measurement, lost muscle mass, water retention changes & difference between low/high point natural fluctuation between…

I considered all that years ago but decided it was a terrible idea. Mainly just couldn't bring myself to committing to a lifetime of taking some kind of medication. The thought of the cost of decades of taking pills is just something I couldn't bring myself to do.

You could just have nothing? Other than that then the answer is 'anything you find filling'. You'd know what you find filling better than anyone here would so eat that in amounts that meet your calorie target for the meal.

Hey there. #1. Not really important so just drink when you're thirsty to stay hydrated. Your efforts are better spent on #2 #2. Absolutely, log everything, weigh everything. This is where you need to be focused. #3. Yes, but be flexible. Striving for perfection is likely going to backfire. Eat close to your calorie target…

Just to be clear about something, MFP isn't a program in the WW sense. There are no rules, or guidelines, or do's and don'ts, etc. There's no plans, approaches or advice (beyond this forum) as such or things to stick to. MFP is essentially a fancy food diary where you can track what you're eating. What MFP does could be…

To be clear I'm not advocating the idea that you must overeat just because the food is there. Clearly that's not appropriate or wise. And I'm also not talking about leaving scraps of food on the plate because you're full. I get that sometimes servings are excessive but, my objection was to viewing that excess food as…

Yeah, it doesn't quite work that way. Ketosis just means your body has adapted to use fat that you eat as a source of fuel. Being fat adapted doesn't change the amount/rate/way your body uses it's bodyfat stores. It's like having a car that burns petrol to run, then you start putting diesel in your tank and your car is…

I gotta disagree with viewing perfectly good food as 'garbage'. Such a flippant attitude when so many people don't have or can't afford enough to eat. Obviously I'm not talking about leaving a few bits of meat or half a potato on the plate when you're full or not eating something because it doesn't taste nice, but if…

Nothing is free. As the saying goes, "If you're not paying for a product, then you ARE the product". In the case of MFP the eyeballs of all the 'free users' are the product being sold to advertisers.

MFP is a calorie tracker. If you have a template that you eating day after day then you know how many calories you're eating an no longer need a calorie tracker like MFP. In fact if you're eating the same template every day where is the need to keep a food log at all?

Is that so? The package says 1 serving (80g) = 320cal, however the package actually weighs 94g I weigh out half the packet and log 47g for 188cal. Accurate, and most importantly simple as I just need to use the number shown on the scale. But I guess technically you're right. I could log that as as "0.5875 servers" and get…

Intermittent fasting isn't magic and doesn't inherently or directly have any impact on weight loss. Weight loss comes from a calorie deficit regardless of how that deficit is achieved. Intermittent fasting is just an eating schedule that some people find lets them more easily achieve the caloric deficit required for weight…

You don't have to sell me on the idea of minimal effort. I absolutely advocate the methodology that if you can get what you want easily then why make it more difficult. I'm just trying to head off the future post where this person comes back distraught because they're not seeing results only to have you, me and dozens of…

Which category you food gets logged into doesn't matter. To a large extent it doesn't even matter which day your food gets logged into. The important thing is that all your food gets logged in some way. If you eat 3 times a day then just log them as breakfast, lunch and dinner regardless of when they occur according to the…

Yes, that's correct but either way the crucial step is weighing the serving rather than eyeballing 'about half'. Sticking with the 56g example, if you weighed out 28g you could log it as 0.5 serve or 28g and get the same result. Then if the actual serving in the package was, lets say the 64g you could weigh out another 28g…

But look out! Here comes person C! Person C, is the identical triplet of Person A and Person B and gets that 1550 from MFP in order to lose 2lbs/week, they too do 250 cals worth of cardio every day, however the additional exercise they're doing increases their appetite to the extent that 1800cals isn't enough so they're…

Yep, as mentioned. Scale readings should be relative, not absolute. This means that which scale you use doesn't matter as long as its the same scale each time. If scale 1 says 120lbs today and 119lbs next week and scale 2 says 122lbs today and 121lbs next week you've lost 1lb. The problem comes when you start switching…

Yep, my horrible horrible shin splints were instantly stopped by getting a pair of properly fitted running shoes. As a side not I also started to save money as I wasn't having to ice my legs down with bags of frozen peas and corn each week =)

No, but the serving size on packets don't need to be accurate. They're allowed to be something like 20% off in either direction so if you're looking to log accurately you'd still weigh the food and use the gram entry not the 'serve' entry. Further 'half' is the epitome of eyeballing. So now you're eyeballing a 'half serve'…

While that's true it's also important to learn from the past. There's no point in starting again if you're just repeating the same things that didn't work last time. Take a moment to reflect on your past attempts and ask yourself a few questions 1. What worked well and I found really easy 2. What worked but was difficult…

Yes, but you shouldn't if you can avoid it. "Servings" for the most part aren't going to give you an accurate calorie reading, even less so than volume measurements like cups and spoons. If you can you're better off putting that "1/2 serving" on a kitchen scale and logging the actual weight by the gram.

The calorie goal is kinda the central principle of MFP so you can't just turn it off. Best you could do is to put in crazy stats (Male, 600lbs, 7'2", 90yo, Sedentary for example). This will set your calorie goal at such a ridiculous amount that it will lose all meaning and you can just ignore it.

Agreed! This person, even at close to 500lbs has managed to go his entire life without accidentally dying of dehydration so I think they're OK in that department for now. Much better off putting their effort and focus on things that do need attention in order to begin to reduce body fat, that being a consistent calorie…

The whole 'drink x amount per day' is pretty much a myth. The amount someone needs to hydrate will vary on an individual basis from day to day let alone trying to pinpoint a set level for an entire population. Your body has a terrific mechanism to ensure you're getting enough fluids called 'thirst'. If you drink when…

Be careful on the treadmill please! Particularly if you're having difficulty walking/moving. Treadmills are far less forgiving than the rest of the ground. That belt is going to keep moving regardless of what happens. Stumble slightly, a bit of a misstep, tweak one of your joints, need to slow down or stop suddenly, all…