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I've never noticed non-wheat pastas being different from wheat pastas regarding calories. They are all about 200 calories for the recommended serving size of 56 grams (2 ounces). That's a lot of pasta, especially since I'm adding a lot of veg. Sometimes I eat less. The non-wheat pastas can be lower than wheat pastas in…

I have to limit wheat because something other than gluten in it causes me trouble if I eat too much or too often, so I like to have a variety of non-wheat pastas available as well. Some people buy shoes, I buy different kinds of pasta. Wheat is not junk food for me, however. It has a lot of protein and the whole grain has…

Oops, that's Leslie Sansone with the walk at home videos. Autocorrect thinks she is Samson, not me. But I caught it this time...

Can you walk in place if you have something to touch or hold for balance? That can give you a lot of exercise over the day for free, and you won't be stuck halfway around the block if you have problems. Even a minute or two at a time would get you moving. I like the sidestep for reading and viewing and games, but anything…

I got tired of finding the scale periodically to adjust the calorie budget. So I just set it for what I knew was my ideal weight, where my body naturally kept me without effort in my 20s and 30s whenever I was healthy. That kept weight loss at a safe level also, declining with my weight. Also no surprises at maintenance. I…

Some of it must be on the web by now, so you could use keywords of interest to you in order to track down more current information on the subject if interested. I recall at least some of the material I read long ago referred to immigrants from Asian countries, in particular Japan, and also studies in modern Japan to see…

Speaking as a chemist and as an eater: A milk is just a colloidal solution or suspension. Nut and seed and grain milks are called that for the same reason that mammary discharge is called a milk, they are indeed all colloidal suspensions in water. And for culinary purposes, the nondairy milks are functionally similar to…

wilson10102018 - to be more specific about dumb things dieters turned vegan can do: Rich kids especially can afford to eat in restaurants. At that time, without the vegan options more available today, they probably were just subtracting animal protein without replacing it with non-animal protein. Take the chicken off the…

My guess is that the rich vegan girls were dieting... There is a common myth that eating vegan or vegetarian helps you lose weight. A vegan diet just avoids animal products, but can be just as unhealthy as any other approach can be. Oreos are accidentally vegan, after all. They may have been vegan, but they weren't smart…

I don't know why you have gotten snarky responses to saying this. In the US, there have been interesting studies over the past few decades comparing immigrants and their progeny with people back in the Old Country (or here) still eating their traditional diets. The old resistance to certain diseases common here pretty…

You can just include vegan as a keyword and search for the item on the web. That will bring up sites that will likely tell you if it is vegan not. For example: McDonalds French fries vegan will tell you that their fries aren't even vegetarian.. (has never been a veggie-friendly except in places where sufficient local…

Dogs and cats have trouble understanding that we don't have enough hair to just jump out the door any time. We need accessories. When one cat was a mongrel longhair, I could tell the temperature by how long she stayed outside to make her rounds in very cold weather. Her short-haired sister just hibernated all winter on top…

Check whatever is feeding the info to MFP. I had the opposite problem - no MFP adjustment even for 6000 steps. Turned out my linked Misfit thought I weighed 40 lbs or less... There may have been other oddities, so I just reset all the info. Then the "calories" indicator on the Misfit came up to reasonable levels. Maybe…

Fortunately B12 supplementation today is cheap and easy insurance. But I doubt that earlier human populations had problems with B12 deficiency even if eating solely plant-based, because B12 is produced by soil bacteria. Historically, our problems with B12 seemed to have surfaced as our food supply (and the food supply of…

Ha ha. I had some frozen goodies coming mailorder today and we went down to single digits yesterday night, so I finally defrosted the big standup freezer (stashing everything on the porch). My freezer was so stuffed and I needed to clear at least a little bit of room for the new arrivals. Found enough veggies and vegan…

Oh, dear - at least you survived! Since I hit my fifties, I can fall asleep while typing or proofreading. So I set up to stand while typing and proofreading. Still start falling asleep standing up when I'm really tired. I used to bounce on the ceiling from one dose of Excedrin (130 mg caffeine per 2-tablet dose) or even…

Sounds like the stimulant caffeine gives you the energy boost you need. Diet and regular Dr Pepper only have 41 mg caffeine in a 12 ounce can, but you might be particularly sensitive since you avoided caffeine for a long time. You may become less sensitive with exposure, that happened to me. For me, B vitamin complex…

I've often said I would pay software developers to stop updating software all the time.... So yeah. Ask for expiration dates and give yourself a New Year's present! Also bars like that freeze well. So stuff the old ones in the freezer....

Maybe you could just look up calories for a certain fraction of a cake like what you are eating and go by that.

I like protein powder in nondairy pudding or yoghurt, just 7-10 grams brings up their protein levels to their dairy analogs. I keep a plastic spoon in the canister and ignore the scoop. You can try small amounts in anything to see if it works for you.

I like to get Lilly's hummus in small containers (1/4 cup? 2oz by weight) that are shelf stable. That way I don't have to commit to a big container of hummus when I really only want it occasionally. Love the little empty containers for small amounts of things also... I get them from Thrive Market online, but I think Amazon…

This is good advice for other situations also, such as when you knowingly go over your planned daily calorie budget. The worst that will happen is that you won't meet your final goal on the original schedule. No need to beat yourself up or punish yourself by overexercising or starving yourself. Tomorrow is another day.

People are allowed to avoid any food for any reason or no reason at all. It gets tiresome when some folk think they have to trivialize other food choices or shame their friends and family because they don't want to eat nightshades, gluten, sugar, dairy, meat, or whatever. Why does it matter to anyone if someone else…

I'm definitely not a 4 year old but two different trackers (MFP and LoseIt) think my daily calorie needs for maintenance at 110 lbs (not skinny, that's always been my normal) is well under 1500 calories -as low as 1430 calories. That's why smaller (and especially older) women who are not very active can have trouble…

I like to have protein/meal replacement powders on hand in case I get sick and for the recovery period after an illness. I've had situations when I'm sure I would have done a lot better if I could have drunk my meals for a while. Otherwise, I'm more likely to add some of the powder to nondairy yoghurt and puddings, which…

The link is obviously a guy, because he refused to stop to ask for directions.

I have food allergies and do react to tomatoes if I eat them too often. One tomato or its equivalent in sauce per week seems safe for me, after a long period of avoidance initially. A lot of food allergies and intolerances are like that - avoid them for a long time and then you might be able to handle reasonable portions…

Also remember that everything we record so carefully is still an estimate. The database averages info and is unlikely to accurately match the food on your plate. Package info likewise. Plus we don't really know how much energy our specific bodies use for our daily activity and our basal metabolism. It's all guesses based…

I prefer to weigh everything in grams, but also keep alternate entries with volume measurements in my tracker database and use that info to estimate if needed. I generally put grams per piece, per package, or per cup info on relevant items in the Brand space when entering new items into my database, even though I use…

I love avocado plain, so I can just cut it in half, remove the pit, and eat it... It's good mashed up with lemon or lime juice or chopped pineapple also, eating with a spoon or on crackers or in corn taco shells. I don't like avocado on softer bread, but whole grain pita bread works very well for me. Sometimes I use it…