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Delete the whole mealand relog the right foods, or edit the individual line items in your food diary, depending on which is the least effort? But maybe I'm misunderstanding the question . . . .

Your doctor didn't advise? Mine did. I was already eating relatively low fat, within the guidelines the doc gave me, so I just continued eating in the same style, trying to get overall balanced nutrition on average. For me, that worked fine. If you just had surgery, eat at or at least near maintenance calories during the…

Try the research-based calculator here: https://examine.com/guides/protein-intake/ Note that the guide portion - at least last time I read it - suggests it's OK for someone very overweight to use a lower weight in the calculator, such as a healthy goal weight, rather than current weight. For many people, the recommended…

Yep, true for any nutrient, or calories. Pick misleading, inaccurate or incomplete food entries from the crowd-sourced international database, get inaccurate results. Good point.

There's a wonderful web site about the dangers of "dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO)", complete with things like Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) with risk and handling guidelines, statistics on deaths and injuries, research reports, FAQs, and more. Take a look: https://www.dhmo.org/ Fabulous, solid satire, so so good. Sample,…

Maybe it's analogous to some of the old email scams. It was pretty much accepted among computer security people that the seriously badly written ones, or highly implausible ones (like the "Nigerian prince" ones) were intentionally that way, because the scammers wanted to filter out smarter people (who'd waste their time)…

It's hard to try to help with this without more details. What is the error message you're getting? Can you maybe even share a screen grab of what you tried to enter, then the screen with the message one you enter it?

Premium MFP will subtract fiber from carbs to show net carbs. Free MFP doesn't. I used different macro percents than you while losing (let alone now in maintenance), then close to MFP's 50% carbs default, usually around 150g carbs most days, very little from added sugar. I lost weight fine, and have maintained fine for…

Hey, if a hedonistic aging hippie flake like me can lose 50 pounds at age 59-60 (and stay at a healthy weight for 8 years since after previous decades of overweight/obesity), I'm pretty sure a responsible 65 y/o like yourself can do it too. ;) I think motivation is a solo sport, and sincere commitment is a vital…

One common pattern is a quick drop in the first week or two that's partly fat loss, partly reduced water retention, partly lowered average amount of food residue in the digestive tract on its way to the exit. After that, water retention may rebalance, masking continuing gradual fat loss on the body weight scale. That…

Welcome, @welshflier4323! As you might guess, I'm an "Ann" too, just without the "E". I was overweight/obese for most of my life, until losing to a healthy weight at 59-60, about the same age you are now. I'm now 69 (as of last Sunday), and still at a healthy weight. If a hedonistic aging-hippie flake like me can do this,…

No one can tell you accurately what will happen to you; at most they can only say what happens to them. We all vary, and I'd expect greater variation between men and women than the average variation within one sex. Even then, individuals will vary over a range. I'd say: Be patient. Run the personal experiment for 4-6…

It's individual. I'm 5'5", female, age 69, around 135 pounds, and I'd lose around half a pound a week at a flat 1800 calories with my normal routine (close to sedentary daily life, half an hour to an hour exercise 4-6 days a week). Maintenance is around 2100 or so. Yes, that's higher than average for my demographic. No…

Satiety tends to be somewhat individual. It can even be food timing, calorie timing, or nutrient timing, in addition to food choices. Different people do best on anything from one big meal a day (OMAD) to many small meals spread over the day. First and foremost, don't try to lose weight aggressively fast for your current…

I think motivation is a solo sport. You've gotta wanna for your own reasons . . . or you won't stay with a sensible routine. Help yourself out by making a plan that's practical, relatively pleasant (at least tolerable), and as easy as it can be while still creating a sustainable path to your goals. Super restrictive eating…

I'm not willing to shortcut nutrition routinely to have alcohol, but do drink some sometimes. As long as I account for the calories, and don't let the alcohol persuade me that it's OK to go overboard with snacky stuff I forget to log, my weight behaves as I expect given calorie intake. I think that might not apply if a…

I don't prelog. I've had a couple of days recently where I logged a meal, and part of the items in the meal were duplicated, but not all. I've also had a few weird instances recently where I searched for a food I eat regularly with a text string that was in the name, didn't find it in recents, tried a different text string…

Calorie-wise, probably not a big deal to track or not. Personally, I like to track it to have a more complete record of non-water fluids and caffeine intake.

Reasonable advice above. In case you haven't already run across it, you can get some useful nutrition info from this web site, which has evidence-based content written by registered dietitians who are vegan. https://veganhealth.org/ If you do a search on the site, you can find information about nutrition for strength…

The eating piece of this is going to vary individually. Experiment and see how YOU do, with the type of exercise you're actually doing. Some people are giving you advice assuming you're like them, or perhaps what the blogosphere claims. That's a "maybe". Some people have digestive distress if they eat before workouts.…

Log the coffee as black coffee, whatever amount you drink; log the half & half as the amount of half and half you put in that coffee. All those entries were created by other app users who assumed the amount of half and half they like to use. Most of them didn't bother to say what amount of each thing is in there. Don't use…

Miso (the probiotic kind) is a paste. If you want to keep the good bugs thriving, you don't cook it. It can be thinned if necessary with warm broth or other liquid, then mixed into veggies (or presumably to meat, but as you probably know I don't eat meat). The dark types have a salty, umami flavor. It doesn't take lots.…

Huuuuge accomplishment: Good show!

@BCLadybug888, I'm still rooming with the cat. It's just an easier place to be than my house, and Deke is good company. My friend is gone until the 25th. I may stay here most of that time. My friends are kindly driving me places and bringing me things. I have ups and downs: I think this is going to be a slow process.…

Thank you, @nossmf: That's very informative. The dissolving thing doesn't matter to me, as I take my creatine monohydrate mixed in a bit of plain yogurt. The cardio benefit perks up my ears, though, as you might expect. (Someday, I expect to do cardio again . . . 🙄 . . . this head injury stuff is pretty weird. Even making…

Lietchi's advice is good. But are you talking 10kg by January? If so, change your plan unless you're well over 170kg now. If you're talking later in next year, it could be OK. Shoot for 0.5-1% of your current weight to lose weekly, with a bias toward the 0.5% unless you're so overweight that weight itself is a health risk…

What nossmf said, plus - of course - keep doing exercises or drills that maintain/build quickness, stiff like plyometrics, agility drills, short intense sprints, etc. There are a bunch of sports that require both strength and quickness. Maybe take a look at how those folks train?

We can come at least close to getting most micronutrients from our food with a bit of attention to it. I do. (In MFP, if you want to track micros, it's important to vet the database entries you choose for micronutrient accuracy.) Food - to the extent possible - is the best option. Averaging pretty close to reasonable goals…

I don't know if it's a bowl-appropriate thing, but I've been on a kick lately of adding kim chi and dark miso to veggies. Maybe memory is wrong, but it seems like I might have read you saying at some point that you like salty things, and they are salty. The right refrigerated commercial (or homemade) live-culture versions…

From a fitness or weight loss perspective, timing doesn't matter. Pick the time that is most practical for you, including considerations like whether late exercise helps or hinders sleep, whether a meal before exercise causes digestive distress or increases energy, etc. Those things tend to be individual, so you might need…