MelanieCN77 Member

Well shoes aside (some bandaids for now, and moleskin for when your heels are healed) for the treadmill try intervals by which I mean a couple minutes fast, a couple slow, over and over, and eventually up the speeds and lessen the slow intervals. I think someone also suggested using some other cardio machines like the…

I'm thinking fiery orange poops?

Look, I tell it like it is and I don't care if anyone likes me or not, and my advice is you just have to motivate yourself and live in a vacuum ok.

Database has been screwy today, presumably a heavy load due to the new year.

Correct. It's not the release method that makes anything tough, it's that the cook time is just longer with NPR.

The weights and quantities are all changeable, just tap on it on the app. It should be kinda obvious on the site.

It's a fad that works because the idea that you can have something high fat or high cal and feel no guilt about eating plays into the way our brains have been programmed over the years. Exactly like "a glass of wine a day is good for you" and "a piece of dark chocolate a day will keep you something something" etc. etc. All…

If you set up MFP correctly, the number of calories it gives you to eat to lose weight doesn't factor in any exercise. If you do any deliberate exercise you will be burning extra and can and should eat some or all of those as well.

At 5'5 and 170, MFP had me eating a little over 1700 and I was losing. Trust the system and get to work!

That website has the most garbage content given its name.

I ran my flip Fitbit alongside my AW when I first got it and Fitbit was consistently a couple hundred calories more generous than the AW. I was using MFP's numbers so it didn't throw me off too much, but it was notable. I feel as though Fitbit gives too much for casual steps, like me walking around the house and office,…

Thanks everyone. I think my plan is to shave off a small portion of my exercise cals eaten back, at maintenance, and plan a proper progressive lifting plan for myself. I'm in the middle of 8 weeks of a HIIT program right now, that I picked up in November after realising I wasn't really progressing, just to add some variety…

I don't have pictures outside of incidental ones. I took some deliberate ones in November when I first started to realise I was spinning my wheels, so I can have something to compare to in the future. I am planning some small diet adjustments including making my actual meals larger instead of saving cals for snack junk. My…

Apple Watch does not place any importance on steps, it's the nature of the device.

Yeah, the time thing is a bit of a fake out BUT I will say that once you close it and set it to go, you are completely free to go and do whatever. Never have to check, stir, adjust, watch. I would never use if for something I could make in 10-15 minutes on the stove top, but if I can decide at 5pm that I want stew for…

I don't know why it bugs me but it's Instant Pot, not insta pot.

Thank you both! I'm not a recipe follower usually, just wondered if I was missing something with how bland mine have turned out over the years. I'm gonna assume salt and time.

Not while I was losing, but now I am in "maintenance" if I need to cut back for a little while, this is how I do it. I found I was doing the mental gymnastics anyway, and can also do without the red number if I'm 20 cals over a vague goal. I also should stop doing that "complete diary" thing because it annoys me.

I get the same thing a couple hours after I work out. I've managed it by taking a 150-200 cal snack to the gym with me for right after, and making sure I have another one of 150-200 cals another hour later. I'm usually not far from lunch then so I don't overeat at that time.

Dates are too calorie intense for my preferences and satiety. My go-to sweets are plain graham crackers (130 cals for two), sweetened cream cheese on rice cakes (add fruit if you want, prob 150 cals all in), small squares of dark chocolate (50-70 each). There's no magical low cal dessert that satisfies like something with…

Oh I also use mine for frozen fish fillets. Something like cod or halibut will cook nicely in 7 minutes, a fatter tuna steak in about 12. I put half a cup of water or so in the bottom and put the fish on foil on the trivet.

Try Googling it.

So where does it go? I have to know!

I keep a version of a paper journal for meal planning and shopping as well. I'll jot down rough goals for the day and what I need at the market and stuff.

Can you please share your stock recipe? I've made stock a handful of times on the stovetop and it's been so underwhelming I never wanted to try again.

There's a sliding scale of woo response you'll get, from begrudged tolerance of diets that chop a macro all the way down to wooing of a raw vegan diet and juicing. I would be curious how, Robcola, you measured/interpreted your decline and incline health-wise. What factors do you consider health markers that your diet…

Touche.

I don't know why you wouldn't log it, it's your real weight whether you think it includes water or not.

I went down 5lbs when I had mine out years back, probably gained it back as I wasn't on any kind of tracking kick.

Well how are you tracking? Are you watching the red Move cals or are you using workout mode? If the latter, which workout are you choosing?