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The normal stuff that's pretty much always going on here?
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What you choose to include in your water total here is up to you - whatever you want to be tracking. If the question is what counts as hydrating, the answer is not just water, but also coffee/tea and any other beverage that isn't so very diuretic it leaves the body ultra-fast, plus the fluid content of soups, stews,…
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Got a late start, so only 30' stationary bike, 3' CD, 104W average overall, supposedly 8.69 miles at 15.5mph. About 5' zone 4, 19' zone , remainder below. Went to supervise open rowing, but participants were apparently scared off by earlier rain, so I just watched the head coach run a dockside one-person learn-to-row…
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In general, you'll tend to find people with goals similar to yours in this part of the MFP Community: Best wishes!
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Others can give you more detailed advice about strength programs, but here are a few resources in the Community that may be helpful.
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I'm assuming you want to add mostly muscle, minimal fat. As far as an eating plan, good overall nutrition. I'd advocate for ample protein (around 0.8-1g of healthy goal weight should be plenty), adequate fats (0.35-0.45g per pound is a generic rule of thumb I like, but men might get away with a bit less, and plenty of…
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Note: I had trouble with the post editor, so split my reply into multiple posts. Apologies.
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That's very extreme. Eating too much sugar - added sugar or inherent in foods - can make it impossible to get adequate nutrition without consuming too many calories, or on the flip side make it impossible to stay within reasonable calories when getting adequate nutrition. It can also make dental cavities more likely.…
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I've made them in the microwave, too, using parmesan - the real cheese, not the powder in a can. Spread thin on a plate, microwave watching closely because they burn quickly once crisp.
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It can be difficult to use logic to address what is more about emotion, and I'm far from expert in that. If this is a severe problem for you, I'd encourage you to consider consulting a counselor of some type who's expert in eating-related issues. There should be no stigma in that: We call a mechanic when the car is making…
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@Alatariel75 That rose petal one is so beautiful! I think I mentioned previously here that I'm not a fan of flowery flavors personally, but the gorgeousness of that is undeniable. It's interesting to me that apparently dates as an ingredient don't count as "added sugar" for labeling purposes. (Reading a little, that seems…
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The classic advice here for boredom eating is to learn an absorbing new hobby, or resume an old one. Particularly good are things that require clean hands (like needlework, sketching, playing a musical instrument, etc.) or create dirty ones (like painting, carpentry, gardening, etc.). Some of those can be done while…
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Scam friend bingo would be great. I'd totally start such a thread, but it'd have to be in Chit-Chat and I never post in Chit-Chat. (I've found having a post there to up the odds of getting skeezy "let's chat" FRs/DMs on top of unwelcome quasi-flirty replies right out in public. Yuck to the ugh on that stuff!) I think…
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Unless not personally deficient or needed based on well-rounded health assessment. Just taking supplements because they're supposed to be good for us can be a bad plan. Selenium in particular has a low tolerable upper limit, meaning it's very easy to take enough - in addition to what we get from food - to have bad health…
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I'm confident you can un-stall loss, but in order to try to figure things out, we'd need more information from you. As background, I'm in menopause and am severely hypothyroid (medicated) myself, lost weight starting 10 years ago when those things were already in the picture, and have maintained a healthy weight for 9+…
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If there's swelling or water retention in your feet/ankles with the pain, I'd encourage you to see your doctor. If you're not doing new exercise that could explain the pain, I'd still suggest a medical consult. If it's about increased exercise or other activity, maybe back off the amount, recover, then gradually build back…
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Yeah, me too, even though I have premium - bar codes are less accurate, but more time-consuming and fussy, especially once recent/frequent foods are populated with regularly-eaten items so those come up first by typing just a few letters into search. I also don't like messing with my phone while I'm cooking, so I prefer to…
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Tips to prevent binging: Don't try to lose weight fast. Try to lose weight more gradually, which will be easier. On top of that, most people find staying at a healthy weight more challenging than losing in the first place. Using a more gradual plan provides more opportunity to experiment, find, and practice ways of eating…
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Is your symptom that your mind keeps running at awake-type speed, rather than settling into sleep? If so, the professional counseling staff at my employer's employee assistance program told me that a short course of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) could be very helpful for that. I didn't try that, so I'm just repeating…
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The default macros are consistent with mainstream health/nutrition experts' balanced-macros advice for the average person's typical omnivorous eating style. If you want to use a different eating style, that's not necessarily wrong or nutritionally risky, but it does mean that that person will need to adjust their MFP macro…
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Generally, if you plan to train fairly hard for the next month, I'd suggest eating maintenance calories. However, if you are very overweight, a small deficit might be workable, as long as you don't start feeling persistently fatigued. Nutrition? Just get good overall nutrition. Get 0.8-1g of protein daily per pound of…
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Added sugar is not currently totaled up in premium MFP, no different from free MFP in that regard. Generally, MFP staff don't read all the posts in the Community. The participants are just regular users like you. We don't have any more insight into what MFP will add/change, or when, than you have yourself. If you want to…
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I'm somewhat like Spring up there: I don't use MFP to generate a grocery list, and don't know that it's even possible outside of the meal planning feature. I do a variant of what she does. I don't pre-plan or pre-log meals. (Doing it can be a good thing; it's just not my style.) Instead, I've worked out and stocked a set…
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MFP tracks your fiber when you log your food. It isn't one of the default diary columns, but you can see it in a couple of ways. If you're using the phone/tablet version of MFP, it's in the Nutrition option of the More menu, Nutrients tab. You can see a day view or week view (daily averages for the week) of fiber and other…
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For most people, dietary cholesterol isn't a major determinant of blood cholesterol. There are a small percentage of people who have a genetic issue (familial hypercholesterolemia) or who are categorized as "responders" to dietary cholesterol. For them, dietary cholesterol intake may be a significant contributor to high…
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If you're progressing toward your goals, keeping energy level and health on a good path, that's perfect. IMO, personalizing tactics is essential, and maintaining good overall life balance is very important. By "good overall life balance", I mean things like fitting in social events and celebrations that involve eating,…
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Your job counts as a high activity level, most likely. If you started losing weight without trying to lose, and it happened more or less in parallel with getting a more active job, that's definitely a possible explanation. (We've occasionally had people here who couldn't understand why they slowed or stopped losing while…
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I've been there, the 60 hours a week thing. It does increase the challenge. If the main goal is weight loss, that can happen entirely on the eating side of the equation . . . but exercise is good for a body for many reasons, so worth doing. Short bouts of exercise are potentially easier to fit in, and better than no…
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MFP over-estimates your maintenance calorie needs, it seems. But MFP under-estimates mine . . . by quite a lot, in fact - around 500 calories too low. This kind of thing is about variation of individuals from the average needs of similar people, mostly. We aren't all exactly average: Most people are close, and a few are…
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IMU, there are negative adjustments in MFP possible for all fitness trackers, AFAIK. I differ somewhat from Spring, though, in that I think many/most people will get more reliable results if negative adjustments are turned on. If turned off, a person can be given added calories to eat when they're more active than MFP…
