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@linseygracemfp @sherryprn click the persons profile, then click "add as friend". https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/12032-how-do-i-invite-a-current-member-to-be-my-friend-on-myfitnesspal-

If you need a little "push", check out the Pact app. It is what economists call a commitment device. If you don't log for the number of days on a week that you commit to, you have to pay. If you do log, you and everyone else who made your commitment get paid by the folks who didn't. I've paid a few weeks, but on the whole.…

Haven't been on Carnival, but I assume it's like any other on this front... They typically have a vegetarian option for each cours that rotates each night, plus there are "always available" things that are available all nights. If you need, you can work with your assistant maitre d' and craft your menu for the following…

Booze makes it waaaaay too easy to eat too much bad stuff. After a while, I got enough of a handle on eating that I can comfortably drink heavily and still make "good enough" food choices.

so the HRM from the charge hr, surge, and blaze are really only most effective on steady-state cardio, where you're putting out mostly the same level of effort and burning the same amount of calories from minute to minute. When you have significant intensity shifts, the accuracy falls off. It will work for HIIT, but maybe…

some will say there's no worries, and they regularly transfuse crystal light into their blood because it helps weight loss and the package doesn't say not to, and other will say that anything that you can't grow or kill on your own is the devil and must be shunned. most folks take the reasoned approach that anything is…

It depends. HRM Is not a panacea for calorie burn measurement. It will probably be better than estimating based on activity, but it's only really in its element for walking, running, elliptical, cycling, or any other "steady state" cardio. If you're trying to measure burn for most sports, or weightlifting, or swimming, it…

Have you configured your goals yet?

I like the chicken breast substitution at Red Robin.. I get two of them on my sandwich instead of a burger patty, and that thing does NOT leave me wanting.

Gin, sexy tech gadgets, dark chocolate, and intelligent ladies (+1 if she's a redhead).

Sure thing. My dad was a Franciscan Latin teacher and I studied the language for five years. Id est quam volvam.

It happens.. I'm down five pounds in three days ,and I was only at moderate deficits of 500 to 750 per day, not the 6000 that would be required to support that loss. Weight loss is completely non-linear, and your weight is the end result of a whole pile of processes, only one input of which (calories in) and one output…

I like the cut of your jib, but that shirt is way too attention-seeking. Can I get it in simple black print on heather grey? Heh

Set it not to adjust based on exercise. Barring that, pony up for premium, which lets you set macros in grams and modify how exercise calories get allocated.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!

Heh. I will sit in the corner and NOT MOVE AT ALL. It's like watching one of those seeking nature shows, where the animal sits immobile as a camouflage mechanism.

Your calorie allowance will drop as your weight goes down. It takes less calories to fuel and move you. This is why it's easier to support a 1000 calorie deficit at 100 pounds over goal versus 10.

Two pounds per week with thirty to goal is "optimistic", which is why it feels restrictive. Start with one pound per week and take it from there. Usual guideline is half a pound per week for every 25 pounds you are over goal.

Do you have to bust a nut to get nut juice, or is it simply a matter of squeezing them?

Yes. Skip the strict diets that set you up for failure, set up mfp with your data, and start out for a week of logging without a weight loss goal. That way you get used to the concepts. After a week, set a goal of losing .5 pounds per week for every 25 you are over goal. Get out there and eat real food. Make your macros…

320mg of caffeine is nothing to sneeze at, but it's within reason. As long as you have balance, as in plenty of non-caffeinated drinks, you will be just fine!

I took up dance after my divorce as a cheaper and more fun means than therapy to get over shyness. It was through that process that I figured out that being shy and being introverted, while inextricably linked to one another, are separate things.

Congrats on your successes! I can't imagine what that would be like, I mean working out on your lunch break. It must be marvelous to get a true break and not be locked up with lunch and learns, incident response exercises, and vendor meetings! :wink:

Feel free to add me, do ye ken? That Stephen King fellow is a very trig cove.

Macros will change to match calories. Depending upon how far you are from goal, it may not be possible to make that kind of deficit on a regular basis.

@mandybee096 my wife has PCOS as well (and don't let them tell you pcos and weight preclude pregnancy--our ten year old would differ with that stance!), as well as JRA and hypothyroidism, and has been on metformin. She's been losing through standard calorie counting without cutting anything out of her diet completely.…

@mandybee096 There's a ton of ways to lose weight. Some of them are even good. Some of those that are good are also sustainable. What is sustainable varies from person to person. Personally, your doctor's recommendation sounds like a prison diet and I'd fail in a heartbeat. Is there some reason for the specific means (low…

Can you share the specifics of your diet plan? Without knowing what super low carb and super low cal mean to you, I can't really speak to them. Yes, you can use low carb diets to create a caloric deficit, and they can be used to treat metabolic syndrome, but there's any number of ways to create a deficit, and unless your…

This: My weight is all over the place on a daily basis, but is trending down in the long term. Weighing daily helps me see this, but I can accept the normal fluctuations.

I'm am introvert. INTJ though I do stray to P depending upon the day. I am a 95 out of 100 on the introvert/extrovert scale though. Totally get the "introverts do kinda way". My wife CANNOT understand how an introvert can be happy at a Latin dance night, contenting himself to hang back, watch, and dance a handful of times.…