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I cook for one and I don't love cooking, so meal prep is the only way for me. I do it like the OP says; I prepare a meal that has a defined number of servings and portion it out into containers so it can be my meals for the week. Usually I make two things and I alternate them, one for lunch and one for dinner. I try to be…

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I live alone and I don't love cooking. So I make two meals on Sunday, and one is lunches for the week and the other is dinners for the week. In that sense, yes, I eat the same thing every day. But I rarely repeat the same thing the next week, and I try to always keep trying new recipes so I have variety. It works for me.

I don't know of a way to do directly what you want to do, but I have a couple of suggestions. You can make the second recipe a meal. I do that for things like tacos, so the "taco ground beef" is a recipe and then I can have a meal saved as "Tacos" that includes the recipe for taco ground beef, cheese, etc etc.…

I've been on Wellbutrin twice, and one thing I would suggest when you're starting out - take it in the morning. The first time it gave me really anxious dreams and I ended up switching to Cymbalta for years. The second time I switched from Cymbalta to Wellbutrin and for a while I just couldn't go to sleep if I took it…

Are you talking about the list of recent foods that pops up when you first tap to add something to the diary? That gradually rolls as you eat different things. If you're talking about foods you've added to the database by putting in the nutritional information directly, then yeah, you can only delete them if you didn't…

I hadn't thought of protein powder in rice, that's an idea. I've actually been to the ER already. They gave me a pain shot and sent me home. At $400 each visit it's hard to justify going back, especially since I literally just had an MRI (I'm waiting on the Neuro to tell me the results). No legal weed here either. I could…

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Unfortunately no. The texture is a problem.

I might be able to do milk, I hadn't thought of that

Fitbit app has an update recently - have you updated that? I haven't had any issues. I do find that I have to sync my tracker with the Fitbit app, then go to the MFP app and wait for it to update.

What device are you using?

I donate platelets, often every other week. You can do every week, but at about three hours of moderate discomfort early on a Saturday morning...I don't go every time I could. The first few times I did it I was wiped out all day Saturday (as in, I slept all day and all night) and didn't do much Sunday either. I…

I often find soft spicy and warm soft food works well. I get cold that become bronchitis really easily if I cough so I'm treating the sore throat and congestion trying to avoid coughing, so sometimes soup and sometimes something with refried beans and very hot salsa. I discovered that by accident a couple years ago - it…

My biggest thing is making a menu plan, then using that to make a grocery list. If I don't have it planned out I will invariably buy stuff that doesn't work together well. Maybe if I was a top chef I could work with whatever I had but I'm not. Currently I use pepperplate.com for menu planning because it has a planner,…

It was working fine yesterday and even first thing this morning. Hopefully a temporary issue.

If you're not using it already, herbes de provence is a great spice blend for chicken and a different flavor profile than what I'm used to having in my kitchen. You can make your own or just buy it where you get your spices. I learned about it from an eatingwell.com recipe called "chicken and spiced apples" that I really…

I use pepperplate.com for a recipe repository, menu planner and shopping lists. I add recipes here only to be able to log them in my diary. The recipes here are just too clunky to be using to cook from. The only problem with pepperplate is you can't share access to your recipes if you want to link something to someone.

Black bean smothered sweet potatoes ....sounds weird but I love it. The original recipe calls for sour cream as a garnish but it's not required. Two sweet potatoes and one 15 oz can of black beans is four servings. I usually portion all four out at once. Boil and mash (or bake but I prefer mashed) the sweet potatos. No…

I make "muffins" that I really like for breakfast. They're overnight oatmeal and then you a add an egg, some oil and maple syrup and blueberries and bake them (no flour or rising agent so not exactly muffins). The recipe makes six and they keep in the fridge about that many days. Can eat cold or reheated. The recipe is on…

The tofu they have at Costco is shelf stable, and I checked with a vegetarian friend, that's totally legit (she says Americans refrigerate unnecessarily). It's firm, not silky, so it depends what you are doing with it. I don't use enough to bother with bulk, and even grocery store prices are cheaper than meat.

Even a year and nearly 40 lbs down, I think the hardest thing for me is when the portion doesn't look big enough, and I feel like I'm being deprived. This happens especially with recipes or foods I ate before I started counting, so I have a "before" image to compare to. I use the small plates in my dish set a lot and I've…

I definitely agree on seeing a doctor. But I can tell you that I started with cutting back on soda and drinking more water. That made me feel enough better to start logging food and then I put in 5 meals a day instead of 2 or 3. I would get really tired and not have the energy to decide what to eat and make food happen, so…

Depends on whether you mean mentally wanting more or physically still feeling hungry. Whether I mentally want more depends on how stressed and tired and irritated and petulant I feel, most of the time. Whether I'm still hungry sometimes depends on mood (I had a phase a few weeks ago where I had wild swings between being…

I like daily weighing because it's a comfortable level of checking in - multiple times a day would be too often and once a week would have me thinking about it all the time. I was just trying to figure out if there was something wrong with the scale (i.e., if I came back 20 minutes later would it be different) this…

Blackberries. You can peel mandarin oranges (with your thumb, the peel is really thin), spread the segments in a bowl and pour over them a little hot tea, a little honey and sprinkle some cardamom on them. Fresh mozzarella cheese, cheddar cheese curds. Refried beans with some salsa mixed in. Avocado with a few pretzel…

It sounds active to me. I'm lightly active with a lot less than that.

I gain a pound or two every month, and then immediately lose it a week later. I think it's some kind of cyclical water weight or something, honestly. I agree, find things you can use to treat yourself that aren't going to bust the budget, and try not to stress the scale until the next week when you see if it it's not just…

MFP takes your input from how "active" you say you are and makes an estimate of how many calories you will burn. It creates your calorie allotment from this. If you are using a constant tracker like FitBit, that has a more accurate count of your calorie burn on a day to day basis, you can enable 'negative calorie…

Oh, ok. Well you can hook up your fitbit to MFP like a lot of other fitness apps. You'd download the fitbit app on your phone (or at the very least create a profile on the website), and then go to the Apps section of the MFP website or mobile app. It's pretty simple to link the two - you just have to have a FitBit profile…