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I can eat tomatoes only occasionally or I start reacting again. I love tomato sandwiches, but found cucumber sandwiches were a good substitute. Especially English cucumbers since everything can be eaten. Cucumbers don't taste anything like tomato, of course, but somehow that made me feel less deprived. I often eat a pile…

Definitely keep up the glucosamine. When I first started taking it, one knee had been injured quite a while before and wasn't healing very fast. It took less than a month for me to decide I was seeing enough improvement to keep taking it. I also found using a velcro type knee wrap/support helpful, but that was for…

Just a reminder that there is no minimum daily requirement for wheat or other gluten-containing grains. It is not unsafe to eliminate wheat. The world is full of other options. Wheat isn't even part of every culture. There is no need to defend the choice to eat other foods besides wheat, whether or not some doctor told you…

It might be worth making your own bread or rolls. I'm no cook, but I learned how to make bread while preparing to go freelance - I figured that if I was going to go back to peanut butter sandwiches for lunch to save money, I would at least have good bread! Nowadays you can even get bread making machines so it's even…

I just go really slow and don't fill up the shovel (or use a small one). Pick up a little snow, toss it to the side, rest and watch the cats watching me (they often wait for me to clear a path themselves....), shovel a little more etc. No hurry. Go inside if I get too cold and warm up for the next installment. If the snow…

I really like Dave's Killer Bread, the 21 grain version. It comes in a thin sliced version as well as regular thick. The thin slices are 1oz and 60 calories each. It is a really sturdy bread, lots of seeds and such. The ingredients seem to be all organically grown. I'm sensitive to wheat and can't eat that much of it…

By the way, you could freeze pieces of avocado if you figure out how much works as a thickener for you. Just mash with lemon juice and freeze in plastic wrap or bags. Sliced fruit for sweetener can be portioned that way in the freezer as well. You can freeze different fruits and veg in the same bag if you want to just toss…

You could try getting protein components of common protein blends separately and make up your own mix after some experimenting for taste. I know pea protein can be obtain separately, so I assume others can also. Ground seeds can be used to round things out. Pumpkin seeds are very high protein, for example, as well as hemp…

I hate stevia and artificial sweeteners also, although if the product contains enough cane sugar or fruit juice or sugar alcohols (no problem with xylitol and erithrytol), it masks the stevia or sucralose for me. Apparently a certain percentage of the population can't stand the taste of stevia. You might look at Lifetime's…

I've had two reconditioned vitamixes and the only reason I got a new one a few years ago was that the old one from the 1980s refused to die and I wanted something more powerful, smaller footprint. and with a clear spoutless container.... (I just didn't have room for the old one any more and it was a pain to drag it out for…

Does the Garmin track sleep 24/7? I just have a Misfit Shine 2, and it only tracks between 8pm and 4am, which is ridiculous for someone who works mainly at night. It also only includes the first installment of sleep if you have to get up after a few hours and then go back to bed to get more sleep, which is likewise…

I just quit and relaunch the app a few times and also go to the More and select Sync at the end of the list. MFP eventually updates...

That's great news about Walker! It would be so sad to lose my old version in iOS upgrade, but it sounds as though the newer version is as sensitive as the old one. Thanks for the report. By the way, the old Walker Lite easily communicates with the Health app as an intermediary to report its step counts to my food tracker…

SuperMotivated- don't forget to report back if Walker works to pick up the treadmill steps! I tried the Fitbit Mobile Track and it doesn't pick up much for me (iPhone SE, iOS 12). Just as bad as the iPhone built in software for Health. It reports about 630 steps when Misfit says 1900 and Walker says 2700 (mostly walk in…

The developer for Walker Lite is Naoya Araki. When I checked the iPhone App Store for updates to Walker Lite, I was taken to something called Walker - Pedometer M7-M13 with a paw print on the icon. (Walker Lite has a shadow image of a walking woman). So that might be the replacement for Walker Lite. Looks like it's at…

There are many ways to monitor weight, including weigh-ins or just the way our clothes fit or the way we look. But I love numbers and like the record, especially since I'm trying to boost my veg and fruit intake and have to limit certain foods for allergy/intolerance reasons. Also allergies mean I do better with more…

Long shot - But is there anything that you eat or eat more of specifically after exercise? Allergies/intolerances can do some weird stuff.

At some point, maybe one of those Velcro knee wraps with a hole for the knee cap will give you enough support to avoid pain. They are especially sold for athletes, who do a lot more than I do when wearing them after injuries. I don't squat or run or jump... I have a couple different ones that help when I bang up my already…

I find that the iPhone built in tracker in the Health app doesn't pay attention to walk in place steps or stair climbing for me (iPhone SE, iOS 12). Actually, it's very iffy on regular walking also.... Kind of useless software for me. Maybe that's its problem with the treadmill also. Try Walker Lite, a free iPhone app that…

AnnPT77 -- Protein needs vary depending on ideal weight, activity level, etc. At my size and activity and muscle, your protein intake would be serious overload for me. But it may well be safe for you. I know a vegan athlete who eats protein at your level, for example. And she needs it. In a meat-centered society, many…

I love numbers and so don't feel oppressed by food tracking. People who find it aggravating might look to other ways to keep an eye on how they are eating. It's not the only way to lose weight and keep your weight steady. Tracking can be helpful for other things beyond weight loss. It helps me see at a glance if I am…

Also cleanup is not a problem when making peanut butter in a vitamix or blender. Just settle down in comfort and use a spoon or your finger to enjoy the remainders... . Watch out for the blades. Then just add some soap and water and blend for a few minutes. I suppose you could omit the remainder eating step, but why waste…

I don't understand the comments that peanut butter is not a good source of protein. Just checked: 2 tbsp (32 grams) of Crazy Richard's peanut butter (just peanuts, no salt etc.) is 8 grams protein for 190 calories. That makes it a good source of protein for me. Provides 1/5 of my protein needs for 1/8 of my calorie needs.…

Love the Enlightened crisp roasted broad beans. They recently changed the name to the odd Bada Bean Bada Boom as shown in the earlier post... Hope they still have the garlic/onion ones, which have been my favorite neck and neck with the original unflavored ones. Nice protein boost and very tasty.

For what it's worth: many vegan protein powders today have the same amino acid profile as eggs. They simply blend different types of plant-based protein to get it. For example, I have one from Lifetime's Life's Basics lube that is made from rice protein, pea protein, chia seed, hemp seed, and vanilla (no sweetener,…

Food databases are always very rough estimates by nature, more or less. The real calories from any food will vary according to the exact type, the growing conditions (including where grown), etc. Your own body's ability to extract that energy also varies. Do you really believe that a honeycrisp apple has the same amount of…

You might try peppermint tea with some cocoa added. Experiment to see if you need a sweetener. Or look on the web for ideas about proportions.

Can you create a custom exercise for walking that has zero calories? I've done that tonavoid double tracking. My tracker (not MFP) also now lets me tell it to not include the calories for exercise but just display it so I know I've done it and do how long. Can MFP do that? Anyway - I just let the steps accumulate and don't…

Try blends of different protein sources rather than just pea protein. I like Lifetime's Life's Basics, the unsweetened vanilla one. Just has rice protein, pea protein, hempseed, and chia seed plus vanilla. The chia seed makes it a bit sweet even all by itself. Anyway, that blend is fine. I sometimes just add a banana and…

Commercial vegan Parmesan type granulated products nowadays are often made with nutritional yeast and ground nuts/seeds. Parma! used to use ground walnuts, a few years ago they added ground sunflower and hemp seeds. It's really good and can be used on veggies, pasta, salads, even in sandwiches and on pizza. I'm sure there…