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  • Baking is essentially chemistry so accurate quantities are important. Most baking recipes have a weight instead of or in addition to a volume. Is this not the case with your recipe? You should always use the given weight rather than the volume. If there is no weight given, I would start with 250g for a cup as this is what…
  • LOL. The censor on this page changes curse words to "kitten". So what they meant was "never mind shakes and bars" but what they said was something less acceptable.
  • A toasted slice of Silver Hills Little Big Bread with a tbsp. of peanut butter ~145cals
  • I understand where you’re coming from. My self control is practiced at the grocery store rather than in my home. By this, I mean I simply don’t buy things that I would regret eating later. If I do buy them, I have a very difficult time not eating them. So, instead of buying a dozen cookies and eating them slowly over the…
  • I think your main problem is that you are trying to gain muscle while in a caloric deficit. If you want to build muscle, you kind of need to decide between recomping or doing a bulk and cut. It is very difficult to build muscle while in a deficit. Recomping means eating at or just below maintenance and being very, very…
  • This crazy new scale tells me I've lost 9lbs this week. At maintenance >.< I guess I'm good as long as it doesn't say I weigh more and my pants still fit. Cursed technology.
  • Who are you trying to convince, me or yourself? So much of what you say here is utterly irrelevant to my comment and most of the rest of it is a bunch of (incorrect) assumptions about me. Good luck to you. You are going to need it.
  • You may want to hang onto your before pix. I regret not taking more progress pix. Now that I'm in maintenance, I have to rely on how my clothes fit to judge how I'm doing. Plus, I have nothing to show off for my success.
  • Even after reading the instructions for it, I don't see any way to zero the silly thing otherwise I'd be all over that like Oprah on a baked ham!
  • The triple beam at my gym must be a second hand or something because it is very indefinite due to the amount of wear on the beams and in the zero'ing function. I can get a bunch of different measurements without even stepping off of it so I avoid that one. There is a digital scale that reads closer to my old scale than the…
  • My main goal each day is to ensure that I get enough protein within my calorie allotment. Depending on what I'm eating for that protein, some days I have no calories to spare but other days, I have plenty of room and can afford something like a cupcake, a bowl of ice cream, a chocolate bar or some other treat. Find the…
  • I'm 43 and shed 25lbs a couple of years ago. I've been recomping for about 15 months now and my abs are finally starting to peek through! 5'4" 126lbs and something like 23% body fat though I've never had it professionally assessed. Currently, I walk the dog at a very brisk pace for 7kms/day, I do a body weight strength…
  • Try baking something with those measures. Or don't. *shrug*
  • A cup is 250g no matter what you are weighing. 1/3 of a cup is ~85g no matter what you are weighing. A tbsp is 15g no matter what you are weighing. You are correct that it is important to match your foods to what you are eating. My point is that the OP may be converting from volume to mass while it's on the scale. Still…
  • 1/3 cup is ~85g 2 cups is 500g 1 tbsp is 15g 2 fruits and 3 eggs OTOH are horrible measures. No indication of what type of fruit even and no indication of egg size whatsoever.
  • Finding low or zero calorie things to snack on won't solve your binging issue but could help with the weight gain. Sugar free Jello helped me a ton when I was first getting started because I could basically eat as much as I wanted with little to no consequence. As time progressed, I got a better idea of what foods keep me…
  • Daily out of habit. It gets me to log into MFP and helps keep me mindful of my calories for the day. Not that I'd go on a crazy binge if I didn't step on the scale, it's just part of my routine now like walking the dog, going to the gym or weighing my food.
  • Also very high for me. +250cal over my maintenance so not sure how I could possibly lose anything at that allowance.
  • Since moving to maintenance, I only log during the week. I do go a little crazy on the weekends but I don't eat back my exercise calories all week so I build up a surplus of 300-400 each day. This gives me something like 1500-2000 calories to indulge with on Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes I kick myself when I think of how…
  • I can’t get my husband to use MFP because he doesn’t want to enter all his food either. You’re not alone in your reluctance but there’s not really any way to count calories without counting calories. The database helps a lot just beware of inaccurate entries. After a while, you might be able to eat more intuitively. I…
  • I foam roll and stretch on a daily basis. It's mainly preventative because I do a ton of walking, at least 10kms/day. I would also like to be more flexible in general. My massage therapist recommended foam rolling in between visits but she didn't give me any specific direction so I just went with the little pamphlet that…
  • Convict Conditioning by Paul Wade. He starts so basic anyone can do it. You can buy his book or find PDF's online.
  • Ew. Were they cracking the can open and drinking it? Spaying the entire can into a bowl and dipping their food in it? How the hell do you use that much cooking spray??
  • I’m not sure where I said anything about criminalization. Please point that out. Chiropractic, massage and acupuncture are all de-listed services that standard provincial health care doesn’t pay for. Some people with additional health insurance can have coverage but everyone else pays out of pocket for it. This means it is…
  • http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/03/476636183/death-certificates-undercount-toll-of-medical-errors For those that questioned the statistic earlier
  • I'm not convinced by the blood type diet either. I wouldn't do it myself and I wouldn't recommend to anyone. If it's the magic bullet my hairdresser needed, however, what the hell do I care? You don't have to see a chiropractor if you don't want to but you not wanting to doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to. I'm not trying…
  • My objections have had nothing at all to do with kindness. I have not said anything about anyone being mean. I'm suggesting that there are all kinds of options to western medicine, many of which are proven to work as you admit yourself. The anti-woo crowd is doing itself a disservice, in my opinion, by severely limiting…
  • These people would be failing the "and healthy" part of my equation. Where I live, there is NO legal basis to force the non-institutionalized mentally ill to take their medication as prescribed. If we're not going to force people of certifiably diminished mental capacity to take medication they don't want to, then we…
  • I realize I've probably created an issue where there is none here by conflating holistic and alternative medicine. If so, I apologize for my strawman. It's just that I don't often observe much differentiation between the types of alternative medicine. A variety of people in my environment benefit from alternative medicine.…
  • You should be aware of another case here in Alberta in which a dentist caused a 5y/o girl permanent, debilitating brain damage during the course of surgery then, too. I share jgnatca’s POV. Both types of medicine can be of value.
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