MelanieCN77 Member

The muffin top is the clothes, not you. Just sayin.

IT band pain is the worst! Rolling mine out is always painful, I should make it a daily thing.

Yep even at parties it's worth trying. I just start laughing when I'm at 1,000 calories over because of three mini quiches, some cake and a beer.

lol how do you fall of it, they're like 5" high :D

What bothers you about it?

It's good for working out muscles that have got tight, in lieu of a massage or something, but a lot of the tightness you may experience can be remediated by stretching every day. Set a timer for ten minutes and do what feels good.

Someone said fresh ones taste like mackerel and that has me interested. I just found peppered mackerel at Trader Joe's, yes! The texture of the canned always put my off, my brother would eat them sometimes, and pilchards. My mum would give them to the dog too, I never tried them, only smelled and observed haha.

After each party, weigh if you normally would daily but remember it might take a day or two for things to settle down if you're eating foods you don't normally. I'm restricting a little through this month too, I like the feeling of control actually.

Not stupid. I wanted to get off a 5lb gain and started at the beginning of November, knowing full well it would take me through Thanksgiving and holiday parties and food. Even with some big meals and a couple of off the rail days I'm right on 1/2 lb a week target because 90% of the time I stick to the plan. Eating it up on…

Well then it's not for you? You can safely ignore Instant Pot threads!

Yoghurt and fruit pre-gym, just on my way now. Got some cheese/prosciutto roll-ups for after. Lunch will probably be a sandwich and fruit and something. I have peppered mackerel for a snack, and a couple chocolate biscuits for afternoon tea. Dinner still not decided on - probably some pot stickers and veg stir fry.

You can't manually add to the Apple stuff, but you can to MFP. There's a small bug in the interface that erases my step calories if I log a workout (so, every day) and I actually let it be. For my casual steps in a day I don't think there's anything there worth eating back. Unless you're super active during the day outside…

My only pair have been Jaybirds and they are decent.

The Move rings do not do anything to MFP. Try to think of them as a personal goal of general activity level. However, deliberate logged AW workouts will port over to MFP and be added to your available calories for the day. Unlike Fitbit, you do have to start and stop a workout for it to register, as the AW steps up its HR…

How long is the "workout" and are you doing it high intensity? If it's one those challenges with a handful of moves and a 30 day infographic, it's probably only going to take a couple of minutes and as leggup says the calories will be negligible.

It makes sense to do fresh the moves you want to gain the most out of, but I always feel weird if I don't do a 20 minute cardio warmup of some kind. It probably hasn't hindered me much as my strength stuff is pretty casual.

I've had my watch/mfp set like this for 18 months and I achieved my weight loss goal and am maintaining going on 9 months. They are a good combo, and the bugs are not big enough to be a true problem.

Dates are so calorific, 200 calories of some other fruits would fill me up better. That said I do like the cashew larabar.

Set to sedentary, disable negative calorie adjustments, log all workouts. Like I said, you'll probably only be shorted a few dozen cals any given day.

Just don't name the workouts, leave them as "other" plain.

Any and all. The cheap and fresh French loaves from any supermarket bakery, those super dense, massive "bagels" with cheese and jalapeno baked on, a big old proper Warburton's crust toasted with butter if I'm home in the UK, lightly grilled pita... mmm breadbreadbread. Oh and those super easy to make Brazilian cheese…

Not all correspond, MFP doesn't recognise HIIT e.g. so you should avoid using the labels.

What type of workout are you doing? If you record an "other" workout and then "name" it on the AW, there are certain names that won't be recognised by MFP. HIIT is one of them, there are a few that won't sync. Just leave them as plain "other" and they will come through as Apple Health Workout.

A good banh mi is hard to beat.

Chop it up and add to stir fry.

I had a couple of clip Fitbits over the years and really enjoyed them. I ended up with an AW but I probably would have got the wrist one otherwise. I love tracking the data and having a history of info and goals to meet.

There's a bug in it somewhere. It counts steps and offers a few calories for them until a workout is pushed through and then it dumps those. I'm not particularly active outside of my workouts on any given day so it works for me. It's not perfect but workable. Maybe I burn an extra 40 calories in a day that's not counted? I…

Set to sedentary and disable negative calorie adjustments. Allow the AW to pass workout cals through.

I also like a drink and went for a long spell where I would have a couple every day. Middle of this year, traveling got me off schedule and I hadn't felt like drinking so I extended it for a full month of no booze once I got home. I do a week here and there now just to remind myself I am in control, and overall drink much…

It's the carbs that make me feel full. Bread is the thing.