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In addition to what Spring said about this, MFP said that that part of the software was very old and becoming costly and difficult to support/upgrade - disproportionate, in their view, to the number of people actively using it. It's reasonable to argue how persuasive any part of that is, but I will say this, as someone who…

Hi, Vicky, and welcome! There are quite a few of us here who are 60+. I'm 69F, widowed, retired, living in Michigan. I used to be obese, but joining MFP and committing to weight loss back in 2015 helped me reach a healthy weight, and stay in that range for 9+ years since. Congratulations on losing 12 pounds: That's a great…

My breast cancer survivor rowing team has started up again, with the start of the academic year (because we're sponsored by a university women's rowing team). This is a group with varied rowing experience and a range of fitness levels. Many of the participants haven't rowed since Spring. We rowed the barge for around 3k,…

Probably some water retention effect, unless there's evident constipation in the picture, assuming your activity level and calorie intake remain close to consistent. Some people find that a few days eating at maintenance calories will trigger some water retention release, but that's not a sure thing. Seems like weight…

If weight loss is the key goal, then calorie intake is the most important variable. Macros are important for health, but only indirectly affect weight loss: Sub-par nutrition can spike appetite, making it hard to stick with reasonable calories; and may trigger fatigue, so we drag through the day burning fewer calories than…

This. ^^^ But also: At first, when either new to strength training or resuming after a long break, strength can improve surprisingly fast. It's from neuromuscular adaptation, better recruiting and utilizing the muscle fibers we already have. Since strength is useful in everyday life (and feels good!), that alone is a…

Hello, and welcome to the Community! I see that you appear to have joined MFP back in 2015, a few months before I did, but this seems to be your first Community post, or at least first in a long while. Water retention sounds like a good explanation, but I'd say the reason is that a new or increased exercise load means…

Honestly, this really is your decision. I feel empathy because it seems like the tradeoffs you're facing are similar to a place I was at a few years back. On one side of the possibilities, there's sticking with a comfortable, long-term routine that has short-term rewards of yummy food, enjoyable drinks,…

If you're asking how to log it in the cardiovascular section of the MFP exercise list, I'd suggest the entry "Stretching, hatha yoga". That should be fine, whether we consider this as yoga or as a more generalized stretching/mobility sort of thing. Names of things don't matter; moving more is great no matter how it's…

Honestly, I don't think my favorite fiber suggestion would be what you're explicitly asking for: Vegetables that have lots of fiber even when eaten in small quantities. Instead, I'd suggest focusing on personally identifying foods you do like that have more fiber. I agree with those above saying that diverse foods with…

Yeah, more rowing, two seat of the quad. Really lovely cooler morning, just a nice LISS/MISS row, a few minutes zone 3 but mostly 1 and 2. Tonight, spent two hours scrubbing out the barge, which felt like mild exercise. 😆 Also a little boat carrying at open rowing.

There's no universal right number or even universal minimum. As extreme examples, a large person working an intensely physical outdoor job in a hot climate needs lots more than a petite person who works at a quiet desk job in a climate controlled building and lives in a temperate place. You want to consume enough fluids…

You may be thinking of the fact - at least I think it's a fact 😉😆 - that with premium a person can specify macros in addition to calories for a quick add?

Gotta say: I still have anosmia - lost sense of smell (from brain injury, not Covid). Odours/odors/smells or not, food is still good, just not very nuanced. I tried a new local Indian restaurant on Saturday. I loooove Indian food, and this place was so good. The chickpea main I had (choley bhature) was excellent, and…

I'm on premium now (year 9+ of maintenance), but used free MFP to lose from class 1 obese to healthy weight back in 2015-16, and for the first months of maintenance. I like the extra nutritional metrics in premium, but for me they're useful rather than absolutely essential.

Fluctuating weight is normal - water retention and waste in the digestive tract vary by several pounds within a day or across a few days. Drink a pint of water, immediately weigh a pound more. Eat an apple, immediately gain the weight of that apple. It's not fat weight, so why worry about it? By contrast, even fast fat…

One option would be to add it in "My Foods" where you can give it a name, and log it from there. You don't have to add all the nutrients, just calories

Hello and welcome! I'm Ann, age 69 and an MFP long-timer. I joined at age 59, took about a year to lose around 50 pounds, and have been at a healthy weight for 9+ years since, still hanging around here to keep my head in the game. Reaching a healthy weight has been a huge quality of life improvement for me, and I want to…

Do you think there is a bug causing the problem? If you're not sure, review the information here about the parts you're having difficulty with: If you think you're doing everything correctly, but are still having problems, then contact MFP support through the Help link, via https://myfitnesspal.zendesk.com/hc/en-us or…

Weight gain is all about consuming more calories than you burn, pure and simple. The usual route would be to eat more, and especially more of calorie-dense foods: Fats, starches, sweets. For health, you also want adequate protein and plenty of veggies/fruits, at least as most health authorities recommend. Maybe this is…

You can make Community groups yourself, be the administrator, and make posts in the main part of the Community to seek members who want to join (within reason, respected the cross-posting limits mentioned in the Community Guidelines). MFP itself generally doesn't create groups, other than some it uses to communicate with…

@nossmf, yet another demonstration that you're a smart guy, and an experienced lifter who pays attention to your personal performance and recovery. Some kinds of cardio accumulate more muscular fatigue/stress than others - I usually say some are "more strength-y" 😉. Obviously, any cardio generates physical stress - useful…

You might consider reading some of the posts over in the Goal: Maintaining Weight part of the Community, threads where long-term maintainers talk about how they do it. Here are a couple of examples, to start: I'd say maintenance looks different for every person, because we each need to find methods that suit our own…

Usually, yeah. But it depends on how much of an overachiever a person's fork has been. Looking back, we've had a few folks here who had a very slow creeping on of body weight when their lifestyle changed - going from a semi-active job to a full-on desk job, or moving from a big house/garden with lots of chores to a one…

Oh, it's worse than that . . . or better. If a raw slice weighs 45 grams, and a cooked slice weighs 17, cooking made the slice lose 28 grams of . . . something. 28 grams of fat would be around 252 calories. If the bacon lost 252 calories of fat, starting out at 186 calories when raw, then when cooked it has become the…

Even on US labels, the "added sugar" labeling requirement is fairly recent. Many/most of the entries in the MFP food database were created before that was on labels. MFP has added a field to put that data in, but if they totaled it up on the Nutrition page or reports, there would be high, high odds that the total would be…

If there is belly fat, there's no way to reduce it just in that spot. Generally, the answer is to eat in a sensibly moderate calorie deficit to lose body fat. Our body will decide where to lose that fat, but sooner or later it should reduce the belly fat. If the belly fat is visceral fat, the fat that's inside the body…

Find a blender hollandaise sauce or aioli recipe? No, it's not low calorie . . . but it's easy and delicious. Fruit curd is an option. Lemon curd is the classic, but other fruits can work, too. They can be used to thicken or emulsify various things. They're used in some pasta sauces, usually mixed with some of the pasta's…

Thursday, just a physical therapy session; nothing dramatic at open rowing. Friday, about 8.7k in 3 seat of the quad. Atypically, we rowed up past the Westernmost bridge, partly because the water ski team was practicing at the East end of our usual stretch, and partly because it was a nice day and we could see more…

I've never seen anyone on this thread check IDs at the door, and we've had other participants who were not quiiiite to to 60 yet. 😉 So: Welcome! And welcome to you, too, @tammyroberts4070! If you have questions, comments, just need to vent or want to chat, don't be shy about posting here. 😊