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I think it's a Midwest thing. I'm originally from Noo Yawk, so I was horrified to discover that yes, they cut thin crust circular pies that start out 18" across into tiny squares around 3" to a side. They're messy to eat. SMH.

I don't own a food scale. I measure using measuring cups or counting (small things) until I have a good "eyeball" sense, and every so often I'll measure again to recalibrate my brain in case it creeps up or down.

Depending on whether you have a family at home or whatnot...can you take it home and eat it for dinner? Pack it up in the container you just emptied from having brought your lunch. If it's good healthy food, and you can log it as a meal later, why not save some money?

It won't show on the dashboard itself with the new tiles. Click through to activities (I click on "see more" off of the week's activity tile) so that you can see the whole day, then change it from steps so you're seeing calories. All those tiny red bars like fringe that show up while you're asleep and in between stuff?…

YES. I always brought a towel with me and put it between me and the seat to catch any sweat, but then I haven't been to a gym since before the anti-bacterial craze took hold of the general populace.

Clothes that fit me fine a year ago didn't fit me in April, and I discovered I had gained 15lbs in those six months. That doesn't sound like much to lose compared to a lot of other folks on this board, but I'm on the "wrong" side of 40 so I needed to nip it in the bud. I started by rebuilding my workout routine (I had…

My daily goal per MFP is generally around 1500, not 1200, and yet even when I clock in at 1490 it still says I was "under my calorie goal" on my feed. I've stopped paying attention to it.

Sunshine absolutely helps, at least for me. Happy Friday!

Keeping it in a cabinet "out of sight out of mind" is a great way to minimize temptation as well! :)

Not necessarily! MFP usually tells me to eat ~1510, and it will tell me I'm under my goal (not eating enough) if I'm ANYthing under at the moment I hit that "complete diary for the day" button. To answer the OP, if not eating those calories puts you under 1200 (which isn't healthy) then look at your Nutrition tab and try…

Also inspect your shoes periodically. Rubber breaks down over time from exposure independent of how many miles you've put on them. Also, if the insides have fully "broken in" you're no longer getting the support you need so they can be retired to knockaround sneaks and a new pair used for running.

Agreed with what other posters have said. "Rest days" are good when you're doing a level of resistance training where you're putting strain on particular muscle groups (eg it's hard to do the last few of a set) which is best for building muscle. The sort of stuff in that video is using body weight to make the cardio…

Yeah. A few squares of good quality chocolate, eaten one bite at a time and let each bite melt in your mouth. You end up feeling as if you've eaten a lot more chocolate than you actually did! Well it works for me, anyway. ;)

I'm with others on trying to kick things up a notch (via taste or texture) when it's an otherwise dreary day. If that doesn't work, a small piece of high-quality chocolate for dessert. Think Godiva, not Hershey's. But we're talking *one* piece, savored. When it's that good you don't need a lot. ;)

Yikes! Yeah, your body did a good enough job of telling you NO WORKOUT TODAY there while it fought whatever it is. Hope you're at least on the mend now. Also hope you can make up that quiz somehow. Feel better soon!

The rule of thumb I've heard (which I use) is if your symptoms are all "above the neck" then it's OK, but if you have symptoms below the neck i.e. chest congestion or fever then don't do anything strenuous. Not to mention that if you have a fever you may be contagious so DON'T go to the gym! I know if there was a sneezy…

I am totally with ya. I just know it works for some people as a reminder of their goal. My goal is to fit into clothes that fit me just fine a year ago but are "suddenly" now rather snug, but they can stay in my bedroom closet just fine.

hang in there. hang ON there. on the hangar! ;) no different than the folks pinning teensy bathing suits (they want to fit in by summer) to their refrigerator doors to keep themselves from snacking.

There really isn't a whole lot of fat in most dairy products (other than the obvious ones like butter and buttermilk). "2% milk" doesn't mean 2% of what's in whole, it means that milk is 2% fat. Meanwhile whole milk is only 4% fat. I use full-fat plain greek yogurt, FWIW. The vanilla yogurts always add a ton of sugar even…

There is a "MFP with fitbit" group here in the MFP forums. It has an exhaustive FAQ explaining how to set things up (not hard) and how it all works. Lots of sub-topics for discussions too. :) tl;dr is you are going to use fitbit as your database of record for excercise and MFP as your database of record for food. Calorie…

That's what Cheerios says on the box. Fer reals: I eat them too. More calories get added from the milk, of course.

It seems to be fixed on the website as well, as of this morning. Last night at 11p it was still doing it: fitbit tried to tell me I'd eaten something like 6850 calories when really I'd only had around 1550! There were easily half a dozen line items for each meal, some with MORE than what the total summary should have been.

I buy large tubs of plain (but otherwise full-fat) Greek yogurt and divide it evenly in a half dozen small containers, having first half-filled each container with cut up fruit. Usually the fruit adds enough sweetness for me, especially if it's berries, but if it isn't I'll drizzle a tiny bit of honey on top just before…

So far, MFP hasn't been doubling anything as far as I've seen. It's just sending line items and multiple summaries over to fitbit.

+1-ing what everyone else said about it taking some time to not be so sore the next day, and adding the following small thing: if your quads (front of thigh) are what hurt after doing squats, it means you didn't have proper form. Your hams (back of thigh) should be what's sore! The trick to this is to keep your weight in…

Agreed, Armylife! My clarified question to OP would be: are you doing a workout and burning an estimated 400 calories (for example) and then giving *yourself* those calories back, or is it MFP that is adjusting the total and giving you those extra calories. Because if MFP isn't adding them but you don't have negative…

This happened to me yesterday and today. I'm getting maybe half a dozen rows of data per meal instead of one. It looks like MFP is sending over individual and partially-combined food item data in addition to meal summaries. So far I've just been deleting the extra line items, leaving the one that actually matches the meal…

Do you use a fitness tracker of some kind, that MFP is giving you those calories back? Those usually help because their data feeds MFP to know how active you "really" are compared with your original estimate.Otherwise you might not actually be earning any calories from your workouts. It wasn't until I turned negative…

I work out in the evenings right before dinner. But everything I've heard/read says that whether to eat something beforehand or not is really based on personal preference/concerns and not any isolated pros/cons.

WHO ARE YOU, AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING IN MY KITCHEN CUPBOARD WATCHING MY FRIDGE?! ;) Seriously, though...this is basically how I do things. Also, cooking several meals' worth of whatever it is at one time so there's "leftovers" that just need reheating.