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Browning = caramelization or maillard reaction (sugars and proteins respectively as I recall). Those are both a molecular change. Maybe you mean it doesn't alter it enough to have a significant effect?

Humans have been modifying food for thousands of years. GE is just another tool to do what we've been doing all.that time. In general, GE is more targeted and more accurate than conventional breeding. It's also more tightly regulated than conventional breeding. The end result is that gmo is at least as safe, if not safer…

it really depends on how big though chicken breasts are. That entry is just over 60g of protein and chicken is about 8g per ounce, so that's around 7.5 ounces of chicken meat. If those 2 chicken breasts are 7.5 ounces of meat (337.5 calories using your number for baked) and it's fried at the right temperature to not retain…

looking at your diary, it looks like you're putting in default values for several items. That makes it seem likely that you're not weighing everything.

more science, less woo, please

I seem to recall that most of them were woo rather than science.

Yup, it's just anecdotal bs

It really depends on how much you're exercising. At a certain point you really should be eating back SOME of them. Say, for example, on a backpacking trip where you might be burning 4000-6000 calories a day.

re: No, MFP assumes that you are normally active I'm pretty sure it assumes you're whatever physical activity level you put in when you set it up.

I was just wondering that myself.

I had a physical on Monday (I'm going as a scout leader to summer camp). My fitbit heartrate was pretty much dead on with the heart rate from the finger clip they used while taking my blood pressure.

I can't vouch for it, but I have a fitbit charge HR, and when looking to see if there was any option to waterproof it, I stumbled across: http://waterfi.com/waterproof-fitbit-charge-hr

re: "how did you gain weight when you rarely eat meat?" I can't imagine that anyone who says that has actually looked at nutrition. I'm not knocking vegetarianism... but if anything, my diet includes more meat than it did when I started tracking. I find it a lot easier to stay feeling full/satisfied when I hit my protein…

it's what plants crave

personally, I like being able to have some idea how my weight changes during the day. It makes me feel like I'm getting a more apples to apples comparison.

I can easily fluctuate by 5 pounds in a day; Personally I've picked a time to weigh myself to be consistent: I get up and walk in the morning (usually about an hour), use the bathroom when I get home and then weigh myself. IF I miss a morning walk (happens occasionally) then I'm usually around 2 pounds heavier than I'd…

1. One week really isn't a "plateau" ... give it more time 2. Make sure you're not over-estimating your exercise. 3. Make sure you're tracking food accurately. If you're using volumetric measurements (cups, tablespoons, etc) instead of weight for ingredients and food (or guessing portions at restaurants) then you could be…

I generally wake up, take my morning walk, and then weigh myself. early on I was weighing several times a day because I wanted to get an idea how much my weight changes in a day... it can easily fluctuate by more than 4 lbs (from my lightest to heaviest of the day)

Maybe they were small pizzas and only cheese? Because when I had 2 slices of pepperoni (xlg pizza) from papa johns at the scout work day last weekend, it was more like 700 calories. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/update_nutrition_facts/307458413 I'm not totally avoiding "junk food" and I'm down almost 30lbs over the last…

1. Not all of what you spray will be absorbed by what you're cooking, depending on cooking method. 2. If you do a 2 second spray for a family of 4 then you're still talking less than 5 calories per serving. To me, that's negligible. My food scale has a margin of error that can easily lead to more overage than that.

Right now I'm looking at entering it as something like this... Though the calories seem kind of low for a breast, so I doubled it.

I would suspect that the chipotle salad might be a place you're unknowingly picking up extra calories. They will often give you more than what the calculator says, which can bump the calories significantly. For example, the serving size for the calculator on the cheese is 1oz. They could very easily double or even triple…

Unless you have an "I must be X weight by Y date for Z event" sort of thing going on... I'd personally just celebrate and let the chips (and empty bottles) fall where they may.

I tend to do smoothies; I started off with http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/buff-smoothie-recipe.html ... you can prep them the night before and just take it out of the fridge and blend in the morning. I played around a bit with the recipe (since I only need 1 or 2 servings if my wife wants one), adding greek…

I started off around 340, and I've been just walking/hiking. First a mile once a day, then two. Now I generally do between 5-8 miles a day, usually broken up into two or 3 chunks (when I first get up, on my lunch break, and after dinner). Between that and tracking my food, I have no issues losing weight (even going out to…

That's what I tend to do.

THere are 2 different screens. 1. My home. This shows Goal, then food minus exercise = net 2. Food > Diary. This shows Totals (food), Your daily goal and then Remaining On the first screen it's just food minus exercise = net. Goal isn't included in that calculation.

For some stuff. I do a lot of volumetric for my breakfast smoothie because it's fast, and "close enough" . Dinner was a recipe where I weighed most of the stuff, and then weighed it at the end to figure out the number of servings (4.5 lbs of end result = nine 8 oz servings). I had to correct the protein powder I'm using.…

Some stuff was measured volumetrically, but most of it was by weight. I tend to not eat unless I'm hungry, and I don't trust having 2490 calories from exercise (even if I was just over 24,000 steps on the fitbit)