doylejohnpaul787 Member

You enter all your ingredients into the recipe builder, weigh the empty pan in grams, cook your meal, weigh the pan full of food and take away the weight of the pan. Now enter this number into the recipe builder as the number of portions. You can then weigh out as much as you want to eat and log that number as the number…

I logged my food intake carefully until I hit my goal weight and then stopped. My strategy is to continue weighing myself every morning and recording that. Some things have changed permanently, like taking coffee black with no sugar. It is working so far, but I have only been doing it for 2 months.

Eating in moderation is the only diet strategy that works. It doesn't matter what diet plan you follow, the only way to lose weight is to moderate the amount of food you eat so that you are eating less than you burn on a daily basis.

165 ... I am 166 at the moment so it shouldn't be too hard.

You are clearly a stranger to quality cheese.

Does it give you options for the size of the plate?

I have been weighing myself daily every day for the last ten weeks and recording it. Not once has the 10-day running average recorded a rise in weight, so I don't find it depressing at all. The day-to-day numbers go up and down but the trend is only downwards.

But you are left with a knife or spoon covered in PB and it's a shame to throw it away. Better to put the PB jar on the scales, zero it and take what you need. Now you have the weight of the PB on the bread and on the knife.

I just checked again. My profile is male and male is selected in the guided wizard. If I put in my current weight and the rest of my statistics, set my activity level to sedentary and choose to lose 1 kg/week, it sets 1200 calories per day.

I did not overwrite the MFP calorie goal. I used the wizard and it came up with that number. I was just explaining the calculations that the wizard used to come up with that figure.

Posted twice

It is not a glitch as such. I wanted to lose some weight and read on the NHS site that you could safely lose 2 lbs a week, so when I came to MFP I input my data and it calculated a TDEE of 2200. It subtracted 1000 from that and told me I needed to consume 1200 kcals/day. Despite being largely sedentary, my TDEE is…

It surprised me also. MFP put me on 1200 calories per day initially. I am male, 6'1", 47 years old and weighed 200 lbs 6 weeks ago. My job is completely sedentary, but I do have to look after a 4 year old boy. I have seen many people saying that 1200 kcals leaves them really hungry, but I have found it surprisingly easy to…

I've been using MFP for 40 days so far. I started with about 2 stone to lose and I'm down almost 21 lbs so far. I'm losing 0.5 lb per day. I haven't had to make any drastic changes to my diet. What has changed is that I am consuming a lot less milk and there have been no mid-afternoon snacks on whole tubes of Pringles. I'm…

I realise that, but plenty of others have already pointed out that she has misunderstood how the fast diet, as practised by Benedict Cumberbatch and others, actually works.

Why not? You eat 500 calories for two days a week and maintenance the rest of the time. When you hit your goal weight, you cut out the fasting days and eat at maintenance every day. Why isn't that a viable long-term option? In a way it seems easier as you would get used to eating at maintenance level right from the start.…

For example, my 40g of porridge this morning was 155 kcals. I made it with 100 ml of almond milk and about the same quantity of water, so that's an extra 25 kcals. Had I made it with just water, I would not have those extra calories from the milk. If I had used full fat cow's milk, the extra calories would have been higher.

In general, no. The calorie count will be for the cereal/porridge alone.

I weigh myself every morning. Sometimes I'll even jump on it again during the day if I happen to be passing. I see no harm in it. Sometimes it goes up, mostly it goes down.

"although their site claimed there were 12 slices" ... more probably their site gave the nutritional value of a slice which represented 1/12 of a pizza. Not that every pizza would be cut into exactly 12 pieces.

Not necessarily. In Italy, most bakers who sell pizza make it in rectangular trays and cut it into squares.

misskarne, because vintage dresses come in the size of the woman they were made for originally.

Have you tried picking up something heavy and standing on the scale with it? Does the scale increase by the weight of that object? What I am wondering is how accurate is your scale at your weight. If you pick up a pound of sugar, does it show you are a pound heavier?

I only started using MFP 3 weeks ago, so what I am seeing may just be the initial phase. This is what my graph looks like so far: My weight loss up to now is surprisingly linear. I set my goals using the calculator when I joined and said I wanted to lose 1 kg/week. I was surprised when I started losing 2 kg a week. If it…

I've been on MFP for two weeks exactly and I am in almost the same position as you; age 47, height 6'1", starting weight 201 lbs, and the same goal. I'm also confined to the desk for work and looking to lose 2 lbs a week. Sticking to the plan as closely as I can, I have been losing an average of 0.75 lb/day, and I now…

I'm new to MFP, but I guess that if you want to log the exercise you do at your work outs then you should enter sedentary. If you are not planning on logging exercise, then lightly active would give you a higher calorie allowance. If you set lightly active and log all your exercise, you risk overestimating your calorie…

You could do what most vegetarians do and eat more pulses, nuts and cheese.