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A calorie is a very small unit of energy. When we talk about food or exercise Calories, those are actually kilocalories. The convention is to capitalize Calories when it's used in place of kilocalories but that's rarely done these days. If your watch says 73, you burned 73 kilocalories, which would be 73,000 calories. You…

"Rude" isn't the same as "out of the question." If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you need to assert control over what, when, and how much you eat. Even if you must eat at the restaurant, no one can enforce your portion size unless you let them. It took a lot of emotional effort (and still does) to say no and…

The weight on the scale swings a bit even if you do everything correctly. You want to look for an overall downward trend over time. Patience and consistency are needed. You don't have to be perfect. If you fall off the wagon, just get back on and keep going. I don't know if 1900 calories are a deficit for you, especially…

There's no way to know "for sure" how many calories are in anything that we eat. Luckily, close enough is close enough. The more you can narrow down variables, the closer you can get. Eating food that someone else prepared introduces a lot of variables. Even if a restaurant lists calorie amounts for foods, that's just a…

Are you using a tracker? If so, just link it to MFP and it will take care of the adjustments. Where the calories are counted from (as exercise or daily activity) really doesn't matter as long as you don't double-count. For example: A person who says that they are sedentary might get 1450 calories per day as a baseline and…

Body types don't matter. Losing weight requires that you consume fewer calories than your body uses. Nutrition is always important so I follow the rule-of-thumb to get 80% of my calories from nutrition-dense foods and 20% from treats. You can build your own way of eating using the foods that you like by adjusting your…

Be sure to double-check the entries that you scan against the box for accuracy. Scanning a barcode just searches MFP's own user-generated database for an item that uses that barcode number as one of its search terms. There's no direct manufacturer link. Nutrition Facts can be different for different locations, the…

My Fitbit reported an inflated calorie burn before I started taking a beta blocker. Now my reported calorie burn lines up quite well with my actual weight loss rate. Pulse rate is a proxy for determining intensity. Your medication is artificially reducing your pulse but the same exercise intensity will burn the same…

For weight loss, what is needed is to consume fewer calories than your body uses. Too many calories, even if the calories are from "clean" foods, will cause weight gain. My suggestion is that you log the way that your normally eat for a couple of weeks. That will give you some data. You can then look back through to see…

125 g is a unit of weight, not volume. They are sold by weight and, as long as the weight is right, there's no legal problem. Volume measurements are secondary and that's why so many items say that "some settling may occur during shipping" or something similar.

Calorie recommendations from online calculators are a starting point. If you've been counting calories for months and months, then you should have gathered enough personal data to know your personal calorie requirements. If you eat X calories and burn Y calories, what does your weight do?

Weighing daily lets me see that one weigh-in is just a data point so I don't stress over it. It's the trend that matters. Having daily weights also lets me see patterns.

Many restaurants have nutritional information for their food on their websites. Fast food chains tend to be more consistent in preparation so I'd trust their info a bit more. Calorie and/or macro counting takes experience and practice to get good at doing. Start exploring and you'll learn as you go.

You're welcome! On the website (not the app), go to My Home > Goals > Fitness and click Edit. The right side of the screen shows this box:

I have Premium and do most of the things mentioned here. From the website: go to MY HOME > Goals To set Macros by the gram: click Edit beside Daily Nutrition Goals click Set by Grams beside Macronutrients To set Micronutrients/Macro subcategories where you want them: click Edit beside Micronutrients To turn off exercise…

Those are still foods that users enter into the MFP database. The barcode isn't linked to manufacturer information. Barcodes are just associated with database items like keywords are.

The MFP default is 50% of your calories from carbs, 20% from protein, and 30% from fats.

Sub-200 pounds seemed to be the magic threshold for me to move into the realm of medical visibility. Things got even better when my BMI got down to the Overweight range. Normal didn't seem to provide much of a change of attitude compared to Overweight.

That, right there, is a great reason for you to find a different way. However, that doesn't mean that calorie counting is a lesser way than whatever way that you eventually settle into using.

I was referring to your second post as much as the video when I mentioned pushback. Why does it feel like a crutch? Also, what's wrong with a crutch? It's a tool. Tools are there to use and there's no shame/harm in using them. It's like saying that side mirrors on a car are a crutch because you can just look over your…

So, basically MyPlate: He didn't mention fats at all in the video. He laid out a suggested ratio with clock hand positions and then didn't even follow it himself. He discussed food portion size but not eating frequency or number of meals. He was spot on when he said that it's ultimately about calories and figuring out how…

Few things are just one macro. For example, the USDA entry that I use for rotisserie chicken gets 79% of calories from protein and 21% from fat. ETA: You do need to check the accuracy of the MFP entries that you use against a known source such as the box or USDA database.

Have you set a high protein goal? Many posters who have trouble reaching their protein goal have set an unnecessarily high protein goal.

A cup shown on US Nutrition Facts is 240 ml. US Nutrition Facts that show cups also show metric measurements in parentheses so it's good to check the label if you have it in front of you. Sometimes it will show ml and sometimes grams.

I'm currently using a Charge 2 and I've never had an Ionic. In my experience, I've been lucky if I get a whole year out of any Fitbit. Then again, I tend to smack them into doorways, columns, corners, or anything that sticks out.

Do you mean "calorie counting" rather than "low cal" in your question? One and only way to lose weight: Consume fewer calories than you expend. Ways of potentially controlling calorie intake: Keto Low Carb Low Fat Calorie Counting "Clean Eating" (not firmly defined) many others Any way of eating that you use has to be in…

Whether you did or didn't, all you can do now is move forward. Use this as a learning experience. What would you differently next time?

A meat tenderizer works nicely: Use the flat side so that you don't end up with a bunch of little holes in the bag. Don't ask me how long it took me to figure that out. ;)

My suggestion is that you let go of worrying about rate of loss. You've lost 10 pounds in 3 months. Congrats! You've got a system that is working. Be patient.

I weigh it frozen in the tray and then weigh the tray when I'm done to subtract that out. So, if the dinner weighs 398 grams and the Nutrition Facts say it's supposed to weigh 355 grams, I'll enter it as 1.12 servings or 398 grams, whichever works with the database entry that I'm using.