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Why would anyone want (to achieve or enforce?) universal agreement on anything? Every home truth once dictated by legitimate state or religious or medical or athletic authority of the day has come and gone again. I used to advice colleagues going into contentious discussions, "Always go into a meeting with an open mind ...…

Won't bring coal to the alternative protein Newcastle above, but I think many get hung up a bit on "grilled" and conflate Chicken in general with boneless, skinless (often dried out too chewy) breast. On the latter, changing up therapeutic chicken to forgiving dark meat thighs or drumsticks tastes different, better to…

2nd complaint re our very good condo facility, recently reopened from lockdown (first was about noisy overhead TV sets). The reopening introduced online booking with strict user limits for distancing, and almost all the time slots were immediately filled through to February. But whenever I pass by it's empty or maybe a…

I distinguish "weight" (including healthy muscle mass) from "fat", want to keep the former and lose the latter and have no plans to own or use a scale - can find one when wanted. The alarm tool is my pants - tight at 36" waist means getting too fat and the main progress tool is a mirror. Over the last decade my waist had…

I only eat them out, style / shape less important than being cooked enough - most fast food joints and a lot of better joints don't crisp them. I got converted to vinegar (cider or white) with black pepper after moving to Canada, salted if in the mood. (And of course, Quebec's poutine is a sovereign independent culinary…

I've generally thought of standard push ups almost as a repetitive cardio exercise, and am good for fifty or more on a good day. When I've gotten fat and weak I've started flat on the floor, just gradually pressing up shoulders and leaving my fat belly on the ground. I do much better working to 20 or 30 of those, then…

Thanks, I had set five calorie target meals with a final empty (usually protein) Snack, and will play with Quick Add and with saving a custom Exercise for spreading the fast day nutrition loss over following days.

Interesting approach, thanks, I suppose I might calculate Cardio "Create an Exercise" something like "Fast Day Carryover" to enter on food days, and (I think) that would adjust the daily macros along with the calories to make up for the uneaten. (I am using the free service - mainly Android. I haven't seen a "Quick Add"…

I was puzzled by the lack of calorie calc for Strength early on, but simply use the Cardio / "Create an Exercise" button (Android app) and calculate calories using inputs (for "time" and "calories") based on estimates from outside sources - "time" may not be a great proxy for resistance load, reps, tempo and sets, but the…

i keep a spreadsheet list of "concentrates" and buy in bulk on sale, on the basis of grams per dollar. I've used protein for some years as you do, usually with milk, yogurt, oatmeal mixed with a variety of other tasty and calorie-laden things. On that basis important considerations for "taking it straight" with water - the…

I'm only familiar with the Android app interface, probably doable on the others. At the bottom of the daily Diary is a "Nutrition" button, clicks to "Nutrition" page with a little "storage" icon upper right - it brings up a "File Export" page. The default period upper right is "Last 7 Days" but tapping that offers "All…

Might recommend Turkish Get-Ups with a kettlebell, but can't do it myself.

My general warm up is 2 sets of 100 JJs / 20 burpees or a 5 sets of 100 strokes on a piston rower. On personal experience of common patellar tendonitis, that worsened to ordinary walking around, I won't work a painful knee for love or money. I was (knock wood) able to fix the PTitis with ankle and pilates-style hip and…

Genetic hair loss at age 20 would be rare, e.g. as caused by high testosterone. From info here, diet could be the culprit: I'd suggest logging food with display of Macros in MFP for a few weeks, and seriously eat to meet the protein target. Assuming protein has been poor, should target it to about 1 gram per pound of…

Fairly new and not feature-fussy, the redesign is fine without being all that much better or worse, except that it is very noticeably more sluggish to navigate pages via links to and within the topic sections. Especially slow on Android, but even on Windows (both have fast internet connection) where the old was pretty much…

With no special attention I got surprising trap development increasing ordinary upper body workouts (bands, DBs and bodyweight) last Spring. A fitness podcast mentioned that they have about the highest concentration of androgen receptors in men, and web search seems to confirm that unusual responsiveness compared to other…

The only way I've come across is "exporting" the Nutrition data to a file that can be loaded into a spreadsheet. In the Android app, that's pressing the Nutrition button next to the Notes button. Upper right on the Nutrition page, there's a little icon that looks like an SD card, click the icon to File Export and upper…

There are serious back problems (e.g. disk, joint or skeletal) that require medical attention to improve. But for many others (like my "long back") the problem is only a structural inclination to intense muscular lock-up. These latter are high-maintenance backs as compared with people naturally built lightly or like fire…

Good things discussed here, I'd throw in isometrics (my current thing for shoulder recovery) and not necessarily full body planking all the time: a yoga strap, towel, whatever held around the shoulders can be pressed forward and held for intensity at various arm positions just sitting or even flat on the back.

Fairly new, I deal with the automation by setting Goals Activity Level to Not Very Active, so it's not bumping target calorie or macros based on "expected" rather than actual performed exercise burn. In Cardio have Created some custom exercises for Diary entry based on external source estimates for what I do. (At the…

I agree the problem is off-putting, especially when the algo restores lousy entries to personal lists after deletion. Another thread mentioned the service "Cronometer" as having a better-curated but maybe more limited food database. Haven't found time to dig into it.

In my long experience of both, lot depends on whether deskwork is in a conspicuous "Dilbert" cubicle environment or private office. It's easier to adopt a standing desk and break for active movement in a private workspace. In a cubicle, apart from taking walk breaks I'd strongly suggest isometrics - lots of online…

May not apply, but I initially set the Activity Level in Goals to include anticipated exercise, then logged sessions - essentially super-adding them. Defining basic Activity Level as Not Very took down target calories - I also had to use the Create an Exercise module in Cardio to reflect routines from other sources.

I entered (Android app) a couple of "Create an Exercise" workouts in the Cardio section, based on the info from other sources. Those include resistance training routines. Seems if you paid for this program the providers could well be able to provide the energy burn estimates for its various elements or routines. The DIY…

My working assumption is there's a ten to fifteen percent "margin of error" on just about every metric for calorie / macro counting and exercise energy burn that I'm using, and further that it doesn't make any difference in achieving long term targets. If my (2000) target calories over or undershoot by 200 on a day it's…

With that information, seems a lot of lifting moves will be too risky, everything should be within medical restrictions and eased into gradually. For years working at a college with no free weights I used cable machines for prone hamstring pulls and seated leg presses - much less taxing than barbell lifts and didn't bother…

Didn't know, always assumed table salt is the cheapest there is, I guess they get raw salt wholesale.

Most people get more than enough iodized salt from junk food. For years on a mainly whole foods diet rarely adding a little sea salt, I got concerned tracking for more exercise (sweat and hydration) this year, and have switched to iodized table salt. Online search says an ordinary healthy sodium intake will provide more…

I agree about glute bridges, recently switched to single-leg with other leg in the air, or they can also be loaded with a dumbbell, etc. set on the lower abdomen. (I've also found bodyweight single-leg squats, in my case holding onto a doorframe for balance, provide a heck of a bun burn without taxing the back like…

Same here: Android 8.1 (Oreo) tablet, worked before the update and everything else is there, Community shows a "loading" spiral then settles on pure white blank.