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Microwave half a tin of beans or chickpeas with some spinach and then top it with some pesto. Throw some veggies (asparagus, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, whatever) in the oven with herbs and half a tsp of oil Chop up some crunchy veggies and have them with a low calorie dip I'm also all about pickled cabbage at the…

Banana and nutella Frozen raspberries and peanut butter Microwaved chopped apple with cinnamon

Mine synced about 10 hours ago and then got stuck again. I did the standard 'disconnect, log out of mfp and fitbit, log back in, reconnect' and it's working again. For now..

One of my jobs is pretty slow and surrounded by food so for that one I'm definitely just getting through the time before I get to eat again. I generally bring a banana, an apple, a high protein yoghurt single serve, a protein bar (usually eat half at a time), cherry tomatoes, sliced capsicum, tinned beans or tinned corn, a…

Absolutely freezing here in Sydney, Aus. I've taken to wearing a doona around the house, on top of three jumpers, slippers, and with the gas heater on. Definitely feeling the cold more than previous winters.

Yep! Collarbones, ribcage, wrists, hipbones and face first. Thighs, calves and upper arms are holding on for dear life :D

I find Subway's bread to be a lot less dense than regular rolls and it's calorie count definitely reflects that. A roll itself could be 300+. Plus meat, mayo, dressing, and cream cheese.. definitely closer to 800 than 400

Happened to me a few months ago, after losing about 15lbs and about half a year into being a vegetarian. I work in a coffee shop so I've had plenty of coffees daily for years but suddenly it was making me really shaky, jittery, anxious and gave me a heavy chest, all day no matter how little I had. I don't know if the…

I go into settings and change my goal from lose to maintain, and back. That changes the calories for me. From memory it's about 5 calories per pound lost.

Have you compared the distance that both think you run? I only got my Fitbit recently but I think my stride length needs to be adjusted because when I've used it it says I'm running further, and therefore faster, than my runkeeper app does.. the app works from gps so I trust that slightly more. That might contribute to a…

Do your macros add up to 1700 or 2000? And have you logged any exercise?

A bit of a different situation but I've had off *fresh* almond milk, ie. cold pressed, no preservatives.. it tasted like ham. It was so awful. I'll never let any kind of milk go near a use by date now :D

It's just an annoying fact of calorie counting. Sometimes it's rounding, sometimes you'll check and see an entry is off, or sometimes the label is wrong. I've been eating the same tofu for months and I only JUST realised that the macros ON THE PACKET equal about a quarter more calories than what's listed. Just check…

Just have to have a good look when you're buying them. I find most are pretty empty and/or pretty small portions, but a couple of brands have decent protein and fats and are quite filling.

Or at least this it what it SHOULD be doing. If, for example, sedentary gave you 1200 calories per day and lightly active gave you 1400, but you burned 300 calories over sedentary according to your tracker, you should get a 300 cal adjustment or a 100cal adjustment depending on what you have mfp set to.

The fitness tracker doesn't just send over all of you exercise calories. It adjusts the difference between what it thinks your total burn for the day was, versus what mfp thinks your total burn is. It's completely fine to rely on your tracker's adjustment.

Sydney!

Labels are allowed to be off by up to 20%, but also measuring will never be totally correct. Weigh what you eat, and you'll figure out if there's actually four servings and you're under-logging, or if there's only 2.5 servings, and you're over-logging.

I often eat white bread BECAUSE it has lower calories

You can adjust your macro preferences in 'Goals', you just have to use percentages. If you pay for mfp you can adjust by gram.

As a vegan it'll be really hard to meet that kind of protein with such little carbs. Do you struggle to meet your macros? Tofu and other meat replacements will probably be your friends, plus beans and lentils. What tips are you looking for in particular?

I'm on week 8 of the c210k. I very rarely think "I want to run, I'm looking forward to this, let's go". But I KNOW when I'm done I will always think "I'm so glad I did it". Whether it was great or it was awful, I'm always so glad I'm done. I just focus on that feeling of getting in, having a shower and getting to make a…

I always lose weight from my wrists first.. it's just the way your body is!

Did you work out regularly before you started tracking or is it new as well? Chances are you're just retaining water from exercise, ovulating or menstruating, and possibly the salt in the pizza if you weighed after that. You might even have just weighed on particularly high days - I went up 1.5kg one day this week, and was…

The distances vs times make me laugh.. I'm doing the 10k version so I'm around the stage of running 5k, today I thought I did pretty well! Only took me 45 minutes!

I found the same thing when taking a multivitamin every evening, I had trouble sleeping just because I was so panicky. Maybe a placebo but I stopped and felt a lot better.

Yoghurt, either plain Greek yoghurt with some fruit and nuts or one of those flavoured 'high protein' single serves. Beans or chickpeas heated up with cheese and nutritional yeast. When I ate meat I would do boiled eggs with ham (I bought up all the sale Christmas ham, yum) and chilli sauce. Quest bars.

I'm almost the exact stats as you and I have the same problem figuring out which to use. I've just set it to .5lb for this week (TOM and I was just kind of hangry), but I intend to put it back down to 1lb for the coming weeks. I think it's probably just a case of trial and error to figure out what you can happily stick to.

Yeah, depending on where you're located ~most~ places will use either skim or light milk, so just see what seems to be the trend and log your preferred brand every time.

I would try and see which brand and type of milk your barista is using and then log around 440ml of that.