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It is interesting to me that going vegan helped you with your stomach issues! Are you entirely sure they were related to the FODMAP content of foods? I'm only asking since animal products are some of the only foods with no FODMAPs (well, dairy has lactose, but lactose-free options are common). Is there a reason why you…

For whole foods such as fruit I like using the USDA database. I search for the item with only the "SR Legacy" filter checked, copy-paste the name of the item that most closely matches to what I'm looking for into the MFP database search, and use that. In your case this would seem to be "Tangerines, (mandarin oranges),…

I'm sorry to hear you are struggling. Having dealt with a large variety of stomach issues (bloating, gassiness, constipation) myself, I can sympathize. Did your doctor mention the low-FODMAP diet? That is something I mostly adhere to, and my stomach feels much better than it used to. I would suggest googling it, and also…

If you mean stomach bloating, foods high in FODMAPs have a tendency to cause that to some people (like me), so you may want to look into low-FODMAP foods. Grains include rice, quinoa, millet, cornmeal, and oats. (Gluten-containing grains like wheat, barley and rye also are high in FODMAPs, so I tend to avoid those.) Plenty…

I consume all my daily calories within a 2-3 hour time period starting from 7 pm. I managed to drop weight from normal weight to slim normal weight doing this last year. I'm still doing it because I simply like eating big meals (I also eat mostly low-calorie, high volume foods like veggies and fruits and low-fat dairy, so…

Carbs and protein are 4 kcal/g and fats are 9 kcal/g. 150 g x 4 kcal/g + 50 g x 9 kcal/g + 120 g x 4 kcal/g = 1530 kcal Looks right to me.

Yes, I only brought it up because your initial post made me think about my own lifestyle choices. Then again, excessive exercise is only one of the various ways my lifestyle requires more resources and produces more waste than strictly necessary. Again, because I am a well-off resident of a wealthy country.

To be sure, restaurants and retailers are responsible for a large portion of food waste. Still, in the report I linked above it says than in the US grocery stores only account for 13% of the total (again, households are at 43%). They also do more to reduce this amount - they are profit-driven businesses, after all, and…

I agree with greyhoundwalker: could you not just stick the leftovers in your freezer for consumption later on, when you do feel like eating that same food again? I mean, of course this means you need to keep tabs on what you've actually got in there so that it's not 2 years later and you find a bunch of containers with…

Yes, I suppose there's only so much one can do to make one's children finish their plate. Probably most children find the "starving kids in Africa" argument (that I definitely remember from my own childhood) quite unconvincing. I guess it must take a level of maturity brought by age to be able to acknowledge your own…

Is it impressive? Honestly, I'm baffled by the fact that households generate so much food waste. 43% in the US according to this report, which is probably similar to most developed countries. I've never understood how, why. Can anyone offer any insight into this? What kinds of foods do you throw out, and why? Me, I buy…

I'm maintaining my weight, so in that sense I'm not consuming calories in excess. But arguably I'm burning many more calories than necessary by exercising much more than needed for optimal health. I don't need to run six days a week. I don't need to train for a marathon. I presume that marathons, or really any very…

Really anything strength training-related. It's so boring and unrewarding. (Running is my jam.) I only do it because it's recommended for health. Plus of course I like the way I look with some muscle definition (though I suspect that might be more a function of me having a fairly low BF % due to all the cardio I do rather…

I second the above poster: low FODMAP diet is something worth looking into. It has helped me a lot with my stomach issues. But like most resources you can find on the internet say about low FODMAP, you should talk to your health care provider before trying it out, because it's such a restrictive diet.

Seems like you've got the right idea! Just FYI, my Garmin gives me much lower calorie burn from exercise than my old Polar (also with wrist-based HRM) did. I honestly still don't know which one is more accurate. The trouble with estimating your calorie burn using HR is that it's always just an estimate.

That's right, normal daily activity is not exercise. Instead, it's non-exercise activity, which contributes to non-exercise activity thermogenesis, which is the calorie expenditure from everything that is not rest, eating or exercise. According to this article, for sedentary individuals, it's responsible for 6-10% of total…

I also have a Forerunner 245. I think this model is just generally bad at accounting for any activity outside of purposeful exercise - or else I am at fault, since like you, I also have a very low HR, both at rest and during exercise. :| Once, I did almost four hours of yard work (a non-tracked activity). My HR remained at…

MFP only shows vitamin A, C, iron, calcium and potassium, and even those data are often lacking, since the database is user-generated. At least in my part of the world nutrition labels aren't required to post any micronutrient info, so whenever I enter something new into the database, all that information will inevitably…

If you use the web version of MFP, click on Settings, then Diary Settings. Here you can choose from the dropdown menus which nutrients to track. I like to keep an eye on fiber too!

Yes, I suppose from an animal wellfare perspective, what you choose to eat is an all-or-nothing proposition; your arguments were something I haven't considered before. But I tend to look at people's (and my own) dietary choices more based on the environmental impacts of food production (I have an environmental engineering…

According to my Garmin, my current 7-day average is 36. It's usually in the high 30s for me. I run five to six days a week and do weights three times (plus some cross-training), so I'm getting plenty of exercise, but I'm sure there's a genetic component to it since it's so low. (It probably was higher before I started…

Right. And in general I am in support of flexible rather than all-or-nothing approaches. Like omnivores who are willing and able to cut back their meat consumption even if they don't want to give it up completely. Doing something is always better than doing nothing, especially since one's food choices amount to such a…

I don't see a reason why someone couldn't cut animal products from their diet while simultaneously using leather and wool. If that doesn't make you "vegan" in the strictest definition of the term, so be it. At least you will be making less of an environmental/animal wellfare impact through your food choices. (I'm "only" a…

In my mind I'm comparing this to the way tobacco has been legislated in my country. Advertising cigarettes hasn't been allowed for several decades now, but it's been only a couple of years since they banned images of cigarette logos at checkouts. Just decreasing the visibility of these products, I imagine, will have…

I'm able to sync slightly, but apparently still managed to burn some negative calories today during my 80-minute run. Such a bummer. :(

I still can't access GC web. The things the status page says are online do show up in my mobile app, but I'm still getting the "We are currently experiencing an outage that affects Garmin.com and Garmin Connect" page with the web version. This is messing with my marathon training. I'm following Garmin's program, but need…

Like the article you link says, how much exercise is too much exercise "depends on factors like your age, health, and choice of workouts." It's "bad" if it starts having negative impacts on your physical health, mental health, social life, finances, etc. As for your original question about what is "optimal," it depends on…

My VO2max as estimated by my Garmin watch dropped by one point/unit/whatever for the duration of a recent heatwave. I also felt really lousy during my runs, especially toward the beginning. As soon as the temperatures dropped back below 22 degrees or so again (I live up north, we don't get much heat here), my VO2max…

If by "good source" you mean "healthy source," I agree with the posters above who say that the context matters and not any individual food. If by "good source" you mean whether peanut butter is high in fat, according to this USDA database entry it certainly is: about 50% fat. It also has protein and carbs in about equal…

Oh, googling this just now, I did find a white paper by Polar about their calorie calculation formula. https://www.polar.com/sites/default/files/static/science/white-papers/polar-smart-calories-white-paper.pdf That was published after I first got my Polar, so that's why I must've missed it before. I guess I'll just need to…