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i ate pasta for the first time in almost a year, it was divine. thanks kids!

tea was very useful in my weight loss journey, but it was just a tool to drink less calorie laden beverages. i miss it :(

yeah man that's what got me here. i don't struggle with food like most, my calories came from booze. 14 beers a night adds up.

goodness i've been using mfp for 7 years and never noticed that. thanks so much! and sorry to hijack, OP. i hope someone can answer your question.

how do you enter blood sugar readings into mfp? i've never seen that feature.

i bought a titanium spork for the specific purpose of eating peanut butter. i'm fairly sure that was a factor in my divorce.

for whole chicken breasts (boneless, skinless), i do 350 for about 7 minutes per side. but i use a meat thermometer just to make sure.

^^ yep, i use the air fryer. i have a big one so i can fit 4 normal sized breasts in there. i don't bread or anything, just season. tastes awesome.

you'd be surprised how quickly you can lower your a1c just by losing weight. when i was diagnosed as type 2, i was never told to limit my carb intake, just to eat 'quality carbs', whatever the f that means. so i paid no attention to carbs at all, lost 46 lbs, and my a1c dropped from 10.7 to 5.9. you'll find plenty of…

i'm not gonna comment on the food stuff. if you are starting from zero, i highly recommend going slowly with your exercising. you have lofty goals, perhaps cut them into like 1/10, see how you do, then adjust from there?

i've kind of turned into an impatient prick towards other people. i hate that i have, but it's the truth. i probably need counseling.

macros are unimportant to weight loss, i don't understand why your nutritionist would tell you that. i lost over 40 lbs before i knew what a macro was. what are you doing differently now than when you were losing weight? have you accounted for your adjusted tdee via a calculator or mfp?

gilligan would break it

numbers geeks like me keep a spreadsheet that keeps track of calories in, calories out, and body weight.

i finally learned the concept of 'warm up sets' and incorporated them into my strength training this morning. sure as heck added time to my lifting, we'll see what happens! i'm trying to do less cardio and more strength training...it's difficult for me. i'm a numbers geek so seeing those exercise calories always motivates…

all that is necessary for weight loss is a calorie deficit. a great way to achieve that is by using a food scale and weighing/logging everything you eat. follow mfp's guidelines, assuming you did the wizard (that should take into account your job), the calories required for your weight loss goals will be spelled out for…

i know it sounds so basic but...just lose weight. cico. don't worry about sugar or carbs, you can do this with weight loss. best of luck!

the only reason i'm careful with carbs is because, to me, they are calorie expensive. i can eat 5 oz chicken for the same amount of calories as a half cup of rice sometimes, so i go for the quantity. but for weight loss...strictly cico for me. and i'm down 59 lbs.

i can't say for sure, but for me, the less cardio the better. diet control > cardio benefits as far as fat loss goes. any more, i do nothing more than a 'brisk walk'. my focus is on gaining muscle mass.

threads like this are why al gore invented the internets.

i'm bumping this because it was super helpful to me

for proper insulin dosage, assuming OP is a type 1.

couldn't have picked a worse time for this to happen. thanks mfp.

to gain 4 lbs of fat, you would have to be in a...fuggin math...14000 calorie surplus. i highly doubt that is the case. take a deep breath and carry on, weight fluctuations happen, no need to feel down. 10 days is such a short amount of time. best of luck!

this certainly isn't original, but i do: 1.1g protein x my body weight (multiply by 4 to get calories) 25% of daily calories from fat (divide by 9 to get grams) the rest carbs (daily calories - protein calories - fat calories = carbs calories), divide by 4 to get grams

with the amount of 'stone' comments, there's gotta be more england people than in this thread lol

please remember that doing anything is better than doing nothing. you have taken a step and that is awesome. all you can do is move forward, and i know you can do it!

i mean...to each their own...but after months at a -1500 daily calorie deficit from exercise and not eating enough, it started to destroy my body.

i can only suggest that you log everything. and if you don't have one, invest in a food scale. best of luck!