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Probably. I think both these devices measure your heart rate and use that along with other data to estimate your calorie burn. The fact that you are getting the same numbers probably just means that they are using the same equation based on your data. I don't know whether your cardiac issues might impact on how those…

Morning: - 2 x weetbix with light milk and half an apple - Boiled egg Lunch: - Tomato and sweet potato soup - 2 x bread, slice light cheese - 100g (ish) light greek yoghurt, plain Afternoon: - Fresh cherries, snow peas, cherry tomatoes - Muesli bar (Uncle Toby's savoury macadamia and chickpea) Dinner: - Chicken and…

All the numbers we are working with are estimates - food calories, exercise, calories, your calorie goal... all estimates. Just do your best to log as accurately as you can, get around your calorie goal (11 cals away is perfectly fine!) and track your progress over time. If you can see after a month or so you are losing…

Fried foods are OK but tend to be more calorie dense than a grilled or baked equivalent, so it really depends if you can fit those calories in your diary without sacrificing other nutritious foods.

I don't often buy soup, stock, sauces, herb/spice mixes (curry powder, taco mix etc), salad dressing, those are all very easy to make myself. I can make pasta, cakes, biscuits, desserts, bread, risotto, lasagne, roast chicken, paneer, jam, rice, mayo etc but sometimes I'm in a hurry or it's more convenient/cost effective…

Nope, one cup is 250 ml (not grams) (in Australia) and a bit less in the US. I don't know about other countries. You can't just convert a cup measurement to a weight measurement because foods have different densities - if you think about it, a cup of minced meat is going to weigh more than a cup of marshmallows. This is…

In that case, yes you broke your streak becuase you had a drink that wasn't water or milk. But, the important thing is not what you did yesterday but what you do today and tomorrow. Are you going to use this as an excuse to beat yourself up and tell yourself? "see, I knew I couldn't do this, I'm a failure, there is no…

You will find generic fruit salad in the database - this is what I used to use for fruit salad that is already made. It will be near enough this time, or you could go back as add it to the recipe builder estimating quantities.

Good, I'm glad these sound OK. Hang in there, you've had a tough few weeks!

I think you just have to make the best choices you can each day. You can certainly look at your calories over the full day and the full week and if you know you are going out for dinner have a lighter breakfast and lunch or cut back a bit next day.

Soup. Broccoli, potato, cashews and stock, cook it, blend it. Delicious and the cashews add extra cals and a bit of protein and also make it nice and creamy. Or sweet potato and tomato, with a bit of garlic and ginger in there, and chilli if you can handle it. Mashed potato or sweet potato. Avocado with cottage cheese in…

If you are weighing (or buying) it in ounces, then I'd probably use an entry in ounces. If you have a scale that lets you switch between ounces and grams then measure it in grams and use that.

I think this is the best idea. You are working really hard to grow a healthy baby in there.. and that's an amazing thing that not everyone is able to do. Be kind to yourself and don't waste energy worrying about things that are completely beyond your control at this point.

Yup, some nice ideas there, although lots of this stuff is really personal and will be different for different people. The list of denied treats though would be terrible for me too.. that would just turn into a list of foods to think about until I bought and ate them. Concentrating on the delicious stuff I AM going to eat…

Yup, I'm in Western Australia and distance to country towns is usually described in hours rather than km... Albany is about four hours south. Although if you are actually going any distance within the state, then you would use days... Broome is about 2 days drive. Or more likely flying time - Broome is 2 and half hours…

You can do either. There is no right or wrong. Weighing raw is probably going to be more accurate, but if you are eating leftovers or precooked stuff then you still need to weigh and log. Just look in the database for the appropriate entry: chicken breast, raw or chicken breast, roasted for example.

What kind of chicken? Raw or cooked? Marinated, grilled, casserole etc? If it's a chicken breast that you are cooking, then you can just look in the database for "chicken breast, raw" and enter the weight. If it's cooked chicken then weigh the amount you are eating and look for an appropriate entry - "Chicken thigh…

I didn't mean your post was not necessary... but that only eating prepackaged food wasn't necessary! Oh. what Alatariel said.

I'd guess Elastoplast would be pretty well understood to be the same thing as a bandaid here (Australia), though bandaid would be the most common term that I hear. Kleenex isn't commonly used, most people I know would use tissue instead. Sorbent the brand is pretty well known I think but I'd think of toilet paper first…

This isn't necessary at all. The recipe builder tool is designed for exactly this purpose. Enter your raw ingredients to get the total calories for the recipe. When you eat it you can either take the total weight of your finished dish and work our your serving size from there (eg 100g serving of 400g total weight), or you…

Sure. As long as you can ship those potatoes to Australia. Otherwise you can just pay via Paypal like all my other mentees from my great fad diet business :)

Oh but you aren't trying hard enough - if you eat your potatoes with ACV as 6 - 8 small meals a day but stop eating before 7pm, you would lose four times the weight!

I'm munching on raw snow peas, carrot and celery sticks right now and they don't need any seasoning. Things like cherry tomatoes are pretty sweet and tasty and easy to eat too. Re seasoning - for roasted veg (especially sweet potato) I like chinese five spice powder and a bit of olive oil. Yum! I often wonder if people…

Of course, he's right!

Same. Cheese on toast under the griller would be called... cheese on toast. A toasted sandwich would be squished/taosted in a press or the classic Breville toasted sandwich maker. Or, when I was a kid, it would have been put in the 1-bread-slice-sized round iron press with a long handle and cooked over the open fire, and…

I usually only eat if I'm going for a long run or have a race that morning. Then it will be a coffee and some toast with peanut butter. Or a muesli bar if I need something more portable. I try to make sure I have 30 - 60mins or so before I workout though.

@SueSueDio No Aussie would throw a "shrimp" on the barbie, we would chuck on some prawns :) They just used the word shrimp in that old Paul Hogan advert so the people in US would know what he was talking about. The barbie is the thing you cook on (the actual cooking implement and I believe it's a matter of some pride in…

Yes, it's oil, which has calories, it's good that you've recognised this, it seems that lots of people find this surprising. You might also like to know that non stick sprays usually contain propellants that can ruin the non stick surface if your pan - if it's a good quality pan I suggest you check online and see if they…

You can find out more about NDIS here. Basically it is the new Australian govt model for disability support that has been rolling out around the country in a series of launch sites. This means that not everyone has access to NDIS yet, in some areas it is limited to certain age groups at this time too. However, if you are…

I would either: - find a different part of town again, or maybe a different time of day. Look for somewhere that other people go to exercise too like a park and go when it's busy with families or dogwalkers etc. - look for a running group - join a gym or get a treadmill. I think that is a very boring way to run, but it's…