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If you can keep yourself in check, allowing yourself to indulge now and then so that you don't rage quit and over indulge regularly.

I could understand this in the right context (too much bread maybe?), but a potato? Nah, a potato is fine. As long as you try to keep your diet balanced, you are probably fine. Then again, I'm not a doctor or a nutritionist. So where are the doctors/nutritionists and what do they have to say? This all sounds like the low…

I used to think potatoes weren't that healthy to eat, but after actually looking up the nutritional content of potatoes, they are actually pretty beneficial. For some reason, they just have a bad rep in pop culture and sweet potatoes are praised in their place. I wouldn't sweat the differences between the two. If you are…

I agree with this... I drink seltzer water during the week and enjoy diet sodas in moderation. This isn't so much that I think there is anything particularly wrong with diet soda, but I think it is better to be safe than sorry and I try to drink as much water as I can. Seltzer water doesn't compare to diet soda, but I…

I like to make homemade breakfast sausage (they taste better and are healthier) into patties and freeze them until ready to cook. I heat these up with scrambled eggs. I also prep a breakfast smoothie the night before and blend in the morning for a quick breakfast. I don't find them as filling though and usually need to…

Aesthetically, I really like these. They look really customizable. Too bad that they are having delays. I am weary of first gen tech though too. I'm getting the impression to not put much stake in the numbers, except how they compare to other entries. What you say seems to support this logic. I like how it breaks it down…

So for strength training it isn't effective?

is that a separate bluetooth thing that you use or something included with the FitBit?

so it measures it by movement? Figures as much. I don't know what I was expecting. I guess it could be useful for me though to see if I have problems over time with sleep or it shows improvement. I would like to try to make sure I get 8 hours of sleep.

How do they wear it wrong? Is it comfortable to wear or something you just have to get used to? I don't wear a watch anymore. I guess I would have to get used to that aspect again.

When I say accuracy, I meant how it may or may not misinterpret activity. I have read that it is a problem with some, but I was curious to see what actual, regular users had to say about it. There are a ton of them and it is a bit daunting. :\

That's a good point about the rain. Part of my logic is how much I would expect to use it. With the cold weather, I would rather work out indoors than outdoors. I guess it would be a lot more useful to me when I am outside on the warmer days.

So you have to get two different devices for activity and heart rate with Garmin?

I've read something similar somewhere and, iirc, it said that they all calculated the same amount of steps, bpm, etc, but interpreted them differently. Is that the same article?

I love getting the stats. I like to obsess a bit over these things. What does it show for sleep? Does it show if you wake up in the night or something or just overall hours slept? I love gadgets, so that alone peaks my interests. I don't want to buy one just because it is a gadget though and regret my decision later.…

That's an interesting analogy with the scale. Thanks for the input.

I kind of have the feeling that they are over priced pedometers too. I like gadgets though, so I am still considering one. I don't know, we'll have to see what people say I guess. Thank you for your input.

You said: I wonder if there is some kind of sodium/water issue here? I wouldn't be too surprised if there is at least some truth to this because our bodies work hard to maintain balances with body temperature, heart rate, breathing, etc. This would be another thing that the body would regulate and if you don't mix it up,…

Back in my military days, we had pull up bars near every workplace and they always said that each day, throughout the day, you should do a few pullups so that you can improve your count when you do your fitness test. I never did any pullups throughout the day, but others did and they were able to do more for their physical…

I love a good cup of coffee, but I haven't really needed it in the mornings. I usually work out in the mornings too, so I guess that would the healthiest alternative. I have read that a glass of cold water is the best thing to drink in the morning and it is what I usually go for first thing in the morning because I am…

I wouldn't bother with it and leave it as is because I think MFP overestimates the calories burned. I looked around online for calorie expenditure calculators and they all come out to be less than half of what MFP estimates. Also, I have read that it isn't good to eat back your calories anyway.

I don't eat a lot in the mornings because I'm not all that hungry in the morning usually anyway. Your body goes 8 hours without food the whole night. A few more hours isn't going to hurt you. The best thing to do is to eat something when you are hungry and don't go without eating for too long because you will most likely…

There is so much room for misinterpretation from these representations of the data. I wouldn't stress it too much if I were you unless you are consistently not hitting your goal somewhere. In that case, I would look for where I need to improve and make adjustments accordingly. I would start by researching the daily…

Bananas are funny. I usually don't eat them alone unless I need something to hold me over. Any other time, I love to have them mixed in with other things. PB and banana, yes. Ice cream and banana, yes. Banana smoothie, yes. I love bananas with other foods, but not so much on their own. Yes, there are a lot of books about…

I hear good things about investing in a slow cooker or dutch oven and my findings so far support this. They make cooking easy and low maintenance. I made Split Pea Soup using my new dutch oven for the first time and it was so much easier than anything else I have made in the last month. The most amount of work is chopping…

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I just made Split Pea Soup last night with my dutch oven and it tastes pretty good. This recipe is a good base to start with, you just need to season to taste and I would add some actual ham (I discovered ham hocks don't yield a lot of actual meat). This may be all too similar to your beans and ham, but I don't know. I…

I like to cheat on my diet once or twice a week with whatever I desire at the time. Today, I ate a big serving(s?) of french fries. Last week it was Korean fried chicken and pizza...and a night of boozing. Whatever, I am still losing weight.