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Look for visual portion guides on Google, and do your best estimating your intake that day. You can even start putting like 3oz of food on your food scale to start getting used to the amount of space it takes when you're looking at food

My drug of choice has not hindered my weight loss or my ability to exercise on the regular. I don't think I'm addicted to exercise, but i know i have addiction issues, as do others in my family tree. I have heard of "runners high" before... I've yet to experience it. Or maybe I've been experiencing it and don't even…

I'm a little jealous of you that you've never had to use a database entry that only had cups listed, and you had to read the label's conversion of cup to g or oz and then pulled out a calculator to enter the right amount of 'cups' on the diary lol

Hmm, I thought that post was a comparison of volume. The top choice is something upwards of 300 grams (I don't know what that listing is about 7 eggs and 600 grams of cauliflower being a 1/8 omelette?) but 84g of chocolate versus 300+ grams of other things if I only have 476 cal left in my budget and it's only 2:00 pm, I'm…

Oh my, the math! :'(

Yeah, i also just shut down all publishing. I didn't realize it spams my two mfp friends with my dillydallying

Create the recipe, set servings to 1. Weigh all the ingredients and log them all. When you finish cooking, weigh the finished recipe in grams. Edit the recipe and change servings from 1 to the total weight you just took. When weighing your portion, log the weight in grams as the amount of servings you're eating

You may find your answers here http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10098937/faq-syncing-logging-food-exercise-calorie-adjustments-activity-levels-accuracy/p1

Fitbit also sends a weekly progress report, and for those reports, the extra entries mess things up

I had this problem today too. Glad the fix is simple!

Hard to say... body fat seems to be somewhat difficult to accurately track. Scales with bio electrical impedance analysis have a notoriety of being inaccurate, as do calipers, body pod and some even say Dexa scans are inaccurate... If the scale is not showing much movement, keep photos of yourself to compare and contrast.…

Thanks everyone, I'll experiment with the recipe builder more. It has great potential for logging, i just need to understand it better

Wow!

You can only do this when first creating the recipe though, right? This is one of my biggest gripes with the recipe builder... i don't know the total weight of my recipe until it's all assembled, so i don't know what to enter as total number of servings when I'm creating my recipe from the start of the process.

kbye. Eat less move more, btw. lololol

Oh, and for extra activity, I'd imagine clapping your hands for maybe 10 minutes every hour is going to burn more calories than not moving your arms at all. I offer this as a suggestion only because it seems like your physical movement is fairly restricted from what I read of your initial post for this thread. Since you're…

Your goal is to find a variety of foods you can eat for the rest of your lifethat are satiating for you and wont put you over your calorie goals. My palate and yours are different. I could start listing the things I'd probably do with 1300 calories a day, but if it's not food you'd want to eat then it's a pointless…

If you're seeing a trend develop over 4-6 weeks of losing and gaining the same pounds, then it's not about what you can't eat, it's about how much you are eating. Eat less of what you're eating now. Get a kitchen scale and start weighing your food if you're not doing this yet.

My first month of weight loss was with Weight Watchers, which got me introduced to the idea of weighing my food and counting "calories." One of the things they told me was "you can eat anything you want and lose weight." I didn't believe it. I was pleasantly surprised to see that, indeed, losing weight and not changing my…

You may get more helpful replies from the exercise and fitness sub forum or the nutrition sub forum, My inexperienced guess : continue eating at a (small) deficit to make your body burn fat to fuel its repair efforts. The macro distribution is not important for that, but people here regularly suggest having .78-1.0 gram of…

Great quote. Thanks for that!

Do you want it?

Is the walking 15k steps a day a new thing for you? Were you very sedentary before starting the 15k steps? Are you earning calories from cardio or strength training exercise? Is this also a new regimen for you? Has it only been a week? If you were very sedentary before and are now becoming more active, your body is…

Absolutely, since you're not eating any of it. However, if you end up repurposing it for a different dish, maybe you should keep it in your log. If you're throwing it away, well, then I suppose you'll never eat it, so it shouldn't be on your log.

In terms of weight management, grease and oil is alright if you can fit it into your calorie budget. So, do your best to accurately determine the calories of what you're eating before you eat it. If it's not a chain restaurant that has an entry in MFP's food database, then guesstimate what they're cooking with. Are they…

I do it the same way rabbitjb does. This was especially helpful for me over the last week; I've been sitting home doing no strength or cardio training because of an injury, and wanted to be sure my CI was lower than my CO for the week. If I were doing TDEE I'd probably have a higher CI than CO this week, and while that's…

Are you hungry enough to eat celery and carrots? Then eat those. Are you still hungry afterwards? Then you should eat something more. If you're not even hungry enough to eat celery and carrots, then assume you can wait a bit longer until you are.

Those are fresh figs. Mmmm

Put the whole container of oil without the cap onto the scale, then turn on the scale. The scale will start at 0. Remove oil container from scale, use desired amount, then put the container back on the scale The negative number is how much is missing from the container. Oil is very calorie dense (being liquid fat) so be as…

I have 3 categories of food entries in my diary. "Food eaten at home" "food eaten at work" "snacks" i log my food depending on where i ate it, snacks being anything eaten outside of home or work. I also work overnights. It doesn't matter when you eat, just log it. In other words, don't fret about what day you're counting…