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It wont affect the weight loss if the calorie count stays under your limit. The only possible downsides if youre concerned about macros is a higher protein is going to mean lower something(s) else. Alot of people shoot for high protein anyway. I actually went 1 over my protein goal today, and was slightly un-amused to see…

He is correct :) except they do taste different, because while the ingredients are the same, they changed the proportions, which changes the flavor profile slightly. I did some reading on it awhile back. Men tend to avoid products that are called "diet" as male consumers associate that with women, but because they also…

Keep in mind some scales have a minimum, if yours is higher than that it wont work. I read somewhere that at least one had a minimum of 35 pounds. On mine, i had to press on it a bit to get it to register the hand weights but then it adjusted down after it started. You can always test a new set of batteries again just…

A kilogram is about 2.2 pounds. if you put your info into mfp, it can calculate for you what the amount is you should eat to meet a weekly loss goal, although it will not advise you to go under 1200 cal/day. Its best not to look at weight loss as quick fix. Weight quickly lost generally is weight quickly re-added. You also…

I focus on calories and take note of protein, although I rarely ever make mine. May eventually, right now i just make sure I stay under the calorie limit and try not to eat all candy :D for the other commenters- OP didn't ask what she SHOULD do, she just asked if anyone else only focused on a couple areas and disregarded…

Diet Pepsi (the one with no aspartame). I only marginally like coke & hate the diet versions. Diet coke is marketed to women and Coke Zero was invented to market to men, with a slight rebalancing of the same ingredients. I tried zero, it was a big fat zero to me, but then again, so is DC. I have no idea what DidtCoke is.…

I tried changing the batteries on mine, despite the lack of an indicator, plus I warmed it up, as the bathroom where it's kept is unheated most of the time. It did decide the hand weights are 10 pounds now 10.2 after it calibrated itself, and with a .2 allowed variance on this model, it is essentially the same reading. It…

Ha i was just about to post basically this same exact thread, you just beat me by like 20 some minutes. Better i think to just add this in then duplicate. The funny thing is when i googled "accurate weight scale" one of the top recommendations on the top site was the scale I already own (eatsmart precision plus). I know…

Well then, in your eyes, they better add a course in nutrition and diet to teacher's classes that generally deal with crowd-control more than anything else. Just because they are over a class doesn't mean they are any sort of expert in health, nutrition or the definition of "healthy food". This situation makes me SO glad I…

I wish it would come up BEFORE I get near a restaurant so I can plan what i want to order, or even choose where i want to eat based on the low calorie choices. I dont always know for sure what they serve or what the calorie count is, and i *sure* dont want to go in and then find there's nothing I can afford (calorie-wise)…

No. If someone says it doesn't matter how much you eat of X item, they are living in a fantasy land. Its easier to get full eating things that have a high satiety factor (for most people) but I assure you, all food has calories, and if you eat too much, you will gain. (It can be very difficult to overeat your calories on…

Nice reminder. I was under calorie the whole time, as usual, but yesterday, we got Pizza hut, and I carefully logged (went to the pizza hut nutrition site and calculated topping by topping) and I was only 502 calories over. But this morning, I cringed to see an entire pound up. I know it isn't physically possible to gain a…

Well i can say I eat slowly, it's just in my DNA, I have always done everything slowly and deliberately, and other people seem to get annoyed by it, but thats how my great grandmother was and that's how I am. I don't have a "speed up" button, and Im told neither did she. I was born to "dawdle" as my parents called it. lol…

That may be because those are the most memorable off the top off someone's head. Nonetheless, motivational statements can do just that, and if got you motivated to do what you needed to- then it's great advice. There's good reason many sayings become cliches. One idea I think has been very helpful to me is that I can eat…

I don't do resolutions, but I can make plans, and I plan to lose as much as possible of my excess poundage :smiley: I have 44 pounds to go (and then Ill reevaluate how it went, how I look etc) but I know the last ones are the hardest so I likely wont make it through them all. It would be nice, but I'm not going to set…

Oh man. Im pretty sure what you just did was illegal. Or should be. Now Im crying because I dont have anything remotely close to this, and when my hubby gets home from work, the store will be closed :'( (I edited the pic out so as not to torment myself- or others- any more. You realize that thing is 300 over my *entire*…

nevermind, I should have read further :)

So... Bread, baked goods, pasta, cereal... are "empty" calories? Really? Have you read a nutritional label lately? Its valid to say you can replace something with a lower calorie, nutritionally denser food, but they are certainly not all "empty" calories. (although baked goods covers HUGE range) But if you go telling…

Are you telling me all those little packets I have thrown away, emblazoned with "DO NOT EAT" are just LIES and they are really withholding some low-cal nummies from me?! Oh the agony!

I had always heard it "garden gnome" even though it isn't always in a garden. Lawn or yard is interchangeable, garden and lawn/yard are not. I think the problem with a word being a "US" word is that the US is so big, so we end up with regional differences. Then you get people like me who mix them all up- raised in the…

omg, you Brits make babies go to school? O.o lol. Must be what US would call elementary, or grade school. (usually ages 5-11 or so) That's the thing about the US, we have like 7 words for everything, and only some of them are shared by different regions of the country. :D

Use whatever you like the taste of/want to spend the calories on. As others have said, weight gain is caused by eating too many calories (over what you burn). I never noticed other sweeteners causing me to be "more" hungry, but if I eat candy/chocolate/sugary dessert, it does spike/then crash blood sugar and so usually…

I know the feeling exactly, my hubby worked also (12 hours), so I was here alone. Made him some burgers when he got home, and I had a little stouffer's lasagna. I might have eaten a burger( usually I have veggie burgers because the cals are lower) but i didnt want to weigh the ground beef I used for his, and didnt feel…

1138. Meant to have a bit of Christmas candy, which would have put me over, but it got to be too late to eat. No special meals today, home alone for the majority of it. Collected Feast of Winter Veil presents in WoW :smiley:

1600 .. yikes! Im pretty sure I would be in big trouble that way, as I only get 1290 (1300 a couple days of the week, whats up with that?) I hope you usually go by what the package or database says, otherwise you might be starving yourself O.o Since there were like 6 votes for 600, (ok 5, I went back and counted) I went…

that's me too, I would estimate something, assume I was wrong and tack on a bunch more! lol This time I was really lost though. Now I have much better idea!

Ooh ok, so you guys were counting the bready thing? Imma go update my log then because I added a separate entry for that. :) I probably overestimated that, too. =P

LOL and I hear ya with the 1 for Price is Right lolol :D

Thats a good idea, heybales, checking a similar chain. It isn't really the time of year issue for me, though, this is a after-church and coming from periodic specialist appointments which are an hour's drive away. I try to go to subway when I can, but it's not my husband's preference. I considered the size scale, (but not…

Thats amazing, I expected guesses to vary quite a bit, but everyone seems to agree. You make it seem seem so easy, how do you do it?!