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But many of those foods aren't really "highly processed CARBS" so much as highly processed combinations of carbs and fat and sometimes protein. Nuggets and fries and donuts and typically high cal coffees tend to get a large percentage of their cals from fat. I realize this may seem nitpicky, but it drives me crazy that…

Except typically it's odd these are called "carbs" when many or most have as many cals from fat. OP seems to be referring specifically to starchy carbs.

Atkins started the low carb trend back in the 80s or 90s (there were low carb trends before), but it wasn't especially a "sold" diet, although one could get the book -- but that didn't make it especially different than various other diets, including your "heart healthy" diet based on US gov advice. I think the "carbs are…

In addition to the above: No, there's nothing about being on a diet that makes it necessary to track total sugars. Calories are what matter for weight loss. Other things are important for nutrition, but not total sugar -- as OP already understands, various foods with sugar in them are also nutritionally dense. There is no…

100 g of raw sockeye salmon has 367 mg of potassium, according to the current USDA data. The best option is to learn the way those entries are structured (fish, salmon, sockeye, raw) and type them in so as to find the entries from the USDA MFP put in a while back (the numbers are slightly difference since I think they are…

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/139104-women-over-50-ready-for-2021 This group is still in existence and being used this year too. You remind me that I need to start participating again! Anyway, welcome!

I generally get lots of fiber from a variety of sources (including fruit and veg especially and to some degree nuts and seeds and whole grains), but my number one fiber source and the food that ensures I will be way over the fiber goal any time I consume it is beans.

If you want to track added sugar, you can note it in the comments box. I would otherwise not worry about sugar if you know it's largely fruit, veg, and dairy, and personally prefer to track fiber. What I did initially was look at the sources of my sugar to see if there were any surprises. Despite all the press that…

Are you trying to use the recipe importer? I find the add manually option much easier. The importing feature doesn't work so well IME. This is a separate issue, and has pluses and minuses. Basically, the database contains a small percentage of MFP added whole foods from the USDA database, and then enormous amounts of user…

I think you are asking about how to set the servings for a recipe, and the answer is: however you like. I like to do the math to set it to 100 g since that is just easy in practice, in many cases, but if I intend for something to be 10 servings or 6 or 4, depending on what it is, I might use that and then make sure I note…

I agree with what Ann said, but also -- assuming you don't have a kidney problem and a medically prescribed diet -- the MFP protein goal operates as a minimum rather than a max. No reason at all to be bothered by going over somewhat. I might be concerned about excessive protein if it meant you were prioritizing protein…

My experience was different. We did have a full mandate, and where I am (the specific areas I am mostly in in my deep blue city), the mandate was pretty well followed -- I'd see maybe one person not wearing a mask on the L, everyone was masked in a store normally, everyone at church consistently, and if anyone walked in my…

Leftovers from dinner are common for me, and for a while I was having salads.

This isn't how addictions work. It's a pretty common result of a diet that is full of fast carbs and too low on fat and protein and fiber, but lots of people who have this issue and a bad habit of grabbing more fast carbs if they felt low on energy or tired or hungry manage to switch their diets to ones that promote more…

To me that reads like it means grams, and--being charitable--maybe there's some room built in for underestimating or having a snack or alcohol or perhaps the protein amount is a minimum. But I think it's silly advice -- the percentages come in at 33/33/33, which is where I bet they came from. In fact, if you start with…

You cannot drop "sugar" and eat fruit, as fruit contains sugar. I am not at all saying it can't be a sensible strategy for some individual to cut out added sugar or to go low carb or various other things, but it is simply inaccurate to say one can cut out sugar and eat fruit, and if we are talking about a "sugar"…

Okay. I think given that there is apparently not a common understanding of how "addiction" is being used that it makes sense to be clear on what one is claiming when using the term. This is based on the assumption that people mean something they consider important when saying that food or eating or sugar or carbs or…

I think this is something that varies by person. Some studies suggest that people are less likely to have a satiety effect from liquid cals. I suspect some are that way, some are not.

Eating only carbs -- even something I otherwise find filling like plain potatoes or broccoli or an apple (I know lots of people here find fruit not filling or that it otherwise makes them hungrier, but I find it very filling) would likely leave me ready to eat anything around, since I would feel very unsatisfied. (The…

This is consistent with a lot of what I've noticed except I actually don't know that many who had omicron. Some, definitely. And vax compliance in my state and city is only okay, but it varies a lot by location and in my part of the city it has been very high, and so has mask compliance. (And as noted above, the date we…

Could be a craving in which case it will eventually go away as you adjust to your new habits, but perhaps you ended up too low on cals? What are your current goals?

We still have a mask mandate. It might be lifted on 2/28, when the state's is, but it seems like it may remain in place longer. Even after it is lifted, I expect it to be in place in public transit, theaters and concerts (even small ones), and similar (theaters tended to impose them independent of the city, and similarly…

And my point in posting the post that you initially responded to as the starting place for your initial post was that this current conversation involves a lot of people talking past each other because they are using different definitions of addiction. That's why I think it would make conversation easier if people would…

I don't disagree, but usually in these kinds of threads that's what is being argued against, since those are the claims that are made. That's why I said the problem was people using "addiction" in different ways and therefore talking past each other in many cases. Just saying what I am arguing against is "silliness"…

The question is whether reducing sugary drink consumption (or cals from sugary drinks) reduces overall overconsumption, and I think they'd need to focus in on that. It's possible it could, as the highest consumers of sugary drinks get a ton of cals from sugary drinks and it seems reasonably likely that for at least a…

Yes, I don't think that people are suggesting it is, actually (although I certainly believe that people are working with different understandings of the term). I had understood that the physical aspect is normally called "dependence," and that dependence can exist without what is usually called addiction, although I might…

Have there been studies released about the effect of the tax one way or the other? That's the question, and it will be hard to analyze given confounding factors, so the fact that lots of different places try these things is useful -- more studies can be done and other places can take them into account in deciding what to…

My car was supposed to come in at the end of December, and I just got it on Feb 1, but I guess that wasn't too bad. I did have my old one until I got the new one since I was trading it in.

So some ideas without getting sidetracked into the "addiction" word and what it means (a common debate around here, but one that we usually put in Debate and which I don't think you are asking for!). ;-) If you want to treat it with a cut it out model, you actually could cut out sweet dessert type foods or even added sugar…

We have something similar in some places too, but it's reasonably confusing. And prices also just vary so much based on where one purchases things. I recall when we had our ill-fated experiment with a soda tax people were making a thing in the media comparing the cost of a soda to a beer at the local 7-11. Not only does…