wilson10102018 Member

Pills, pills, pills. People have to stop this nonsense. Get a box of All Bran, work it into your food plan and when you have finished it and maybe a second, come back and report.

Three generations of Americans were encouraged to reduce fat. It was bad science and still is, but there is no denying the pervasive movement. More recently, carbs have become public enemy number one. Also bad science. Also pervasive. And we have bred an entire generation of people with imagined food allergies and…

If the photo is recent, you are 240 and at 5'6" you can lose about 20 pounds.

There is no "average American Diet."

People use the terms like "eating clean" and "no processed foods" to give their excess consumption virtue. Their overall health is unaffected by the choices and only the radical endpoints of food choices have any actual impact beyond excess body weight.

Shrimp has 1 calorie per gram THAWED. I eat 2 pounds per week for the past 3 years fixed every way you can imaging. There is no way to measure shrimp frozen because every frozen shrimp has a different amount of water.

I see Paleo and the other name brand diets as just a diversion from having to measure what one eats.

If you make really y sticky rice for sushi or other dishes that 20 to 40 can be 40 to 80. I don't like being off 80 calories per serving on anything. If I did, I would not even need a scale.

Of course if a mfg cooks it and puts it in a sealed plastic pouch they know the moisture content and therefore the calorie count. But, unless you have some lab equipment laying around, you won't be able to determine that to a level of plus or minus 10%. I know that because I was a lab technician in a P&G food lab. That 10%…

I always wonder why people do this. Perhaps you can tell me? It is obvious that this thread is intended for guidance for a new person who is just getting into the swim of this logging calories thing. Now you know it is poor practice to use a cooked weight for rice or pasta. There are only about 1000 posts to that effect in…

Rice and pasta are always logged uncooked. Basmati dry is about 750 calories per cup. Weigh what you are going to cook then after cooking divide it up in as many equal servings as you need and log it based on the dry weight divided by the number of servings.

Homemade potato chips (crisps) are better then bagged and very low in calories when made in the microwave on parchment paper without any oil. Just labor intensive.

Ignore macros. Waste of time.

I have the same thing every day 6 days a week for 20 years. 352 calories. 66 grams of cereal Wheaties, raw rolled oats and granola. Mix doesn't matter - they all have about the same cal/g. 6 ounces of 1% milk. Banana, strawberry and blueberry in moderation.

Adopting crackpot theories of weight loss is a form of aversion. An excuse not to just regulate the QUANTITY of food. Try not to sign on to unscientific theories.

Well done baked Russet potatoes with butter, salt and pepper. washed and rubbed with powdered salt, 400F for 90 minutes. Crispy skin and brown around the edges. One with every meal.

Homemade chicken broth is best, but a bouquet garni wrapped tightly with string and removed before serving gets one 90% there with 10% of the mess. Use celery thin carrots, parsley, bay leaves at a minimum; garlic rosemary and thyme optional. Most people complain about the onions dissolving in a slow cooker, but if they…

seems like labeling may be a problem. A local favorite here, Husmans Porkies, claims 80 calories for 80g. I doubt that claim. https://www.innit.com/nutrition/husmans-crunchy-and-tasty-pork-skins/p/00041632011255

Blueberries, popcorn.

Yea, you have to build your own recipe for Shepard's pie. the range is too great to just pull someone else's off the database (which is usually wrong anyway). Put in the ingredients one at a time. For a traditional recipe you have the problem of how to score the lamb. Tradition recipe, one takes the left overs from the leg…

The beauty of calorie counting is that every day is a new day, unrelated to the day before. Just as important as any previous day.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9430080/ Abstract The misperception that dietary cholesterol determines blood cholesterol is held by many consumers in spite of evidence to the contrary. Many studies reported over the past 2 years have shown that dietary cholesterol is not a significant factor in an individual's plasma…

It is always good for one's health to eat a healthy diet and to have weight appropriate for one's body type and condition. But the discussion above is a flashback to 1970's "science" when folks thought one could reduce heart attacks by regulating dietary cholesterol. Did i miss something new? To my understanding there is…

As I said above, I weigh the butter and then use whatever i want and weigh it again. But, a normal looking pat of butter like one sees in the US is 7 grams. EU is more like 10, at least is was in England.

If you search for cooked, presumably you will get a result for cooked. and, if you search for raw, then you may get a result for raw. But, unless you are eating all of the fat rendered from the hamburger, raw doesn't make much sense.

Boiling the veges does move the calories to the broth unless they have oil. So count the oil and forget the veges. For the meat broths, the only way to tell calories is to let the broth cool and separate, remove the fat from the top and weigh it. Put back what you want at 9 calories per gram and disregard the rest unless…

The low sodium industry is predicated on some unsupported dietary guidelines decades ago by the American Heart Association. With billions at stake there is no turning back now. Just be sensible since the concerns you have expressed are important only if you have had recent heart surgery or a history of bad heart problems.…

Scanned or not, the MFP database is an embarrassing mess.

Buy an electric skillet. Non stick with lid. Cheapo is best do you don't trip circuits. $30 on Amazon. Anything can be cooked in an electric skillet that can be cooked on a stove top, oven, electric kettle, rice cooker, slow cooker, or grill. I was holed up for 6 months.

Pumpkin seed oil.