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You can be "reasonable" about how you satisfy a sweet craving with Snicker's bars too. Gram for gram, Snickers are healthier. My point is, people jump all over people who post "Good ways to eat Snickers" but this is actually worse.

She's all yours. I'm claiming the brunette beside her, okay?

Pshaw--when I started driving gas was $0.22 a gallon. I could fill my 20 gallon tank for under $5!

WTF is wrong with acid washed jeans? Must we all wear the same thing? Stacy and F-ing Clinton can kiss my *kitten*!

If her doctor told her that she should sue for malpractice. You just need a deficit to lose, you don't need to burn equal to or more than you eat in exercise. What you burn just maintaining your body counts too. It's just not a great idea to eat less than your BMR. Worse yet, what kind of meal is three M&Ms? It seems…

Pardon me? Sodium has negative health effects, but "keeps the weight on?" Nope.

Fruits are mostly carbs and sugar (which is another carb). Yes. And rather than religiously, I believe you mean copiously. Religiously means scrupulously or conscientiously. Copiously means in large quantities. Anything in large quantities is bad.

Fiber is a good thing. You do know that, right?

Funny they didn't teach ME that in nursing school. They did teach me to cite my sources, and they also taught that at the college I got my bachelor's degree at.

That's right below the quote I was going to take. "The strongest evidence for causation between artificial sweetener use and either adverse or beneficial health effects comes from randomized controlled trials. The few small, randomized controlled trials conducted in children did not find an association between artificial…

Go for it.

Damn right, girl!

This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of exactly what addiction is. I's also silly to suggest people won't be healthy and/or won't lose weight if they treat themselves occasionally. They demonstrably can and do.

I suspect only the Java is blocked, not the site. Your work's IT department is smart--blocking scripting is wise.

But in determining what you set your base at, sedentary, lightly active, etc., you're asked to determine by activity LEVEL, not how "usual" activities are--even for you. While sedentary does not mean comatose, unless you are actually comatose, "sitting on the couch and never getting up except to go to the bathroom" also is…

LOL If "raising my heart rate" determines burning calories, the MFP forums are my best exercise!

The "points" system always struck me as bizarre. As easy as it is to get calorie information, why needlessly complicate it using a non-standard measure?

The synvisc they are talking about doesn't work anything like cortisone. Synvisc replaces the cushioning liquid that used to be in your joint and isn't now, and it may provide relief--maybe for as much as six months. In the end, you're gonna need knee replacement at some point. Remember, the life of a replacement joint…

Yeah, but I prefer Snickers bars, and Snickers bars have the advantage of being very slightly healthier for me than Nutella. I think that puts in perspective--per gram, Snickers is exactly equal to Nutella in everything but sugar and calories. Snickers has 11% less sugar per gram, and 12% fewer calories, than Nutella. As…

I can only go by what MFP SAYS it means. And they say it means "spend most of the day sitting." It only makes sense to base this on what the people who designed the site say they based it on. And it's not "doing nothing." I t's "spending most of the day sitting."

No, it doesn't bother me since that's what I want it to do. I've got a deficit already built in so I'll lose at a sustainable speed, even if i never exercise--or clean. When I exercise, I eat those calories, because the deficit is already there, you following? So I lose that pound a week no matter what.

Yes. But the point is, regardless of if my FitBit adds them for me or I manually add them, I do burn calories when I clean. That was the OPs question, and the answer is yes. Yes, you can count cleaning as exercise because it burns more calories than if tyou were what MFP as set sedentary to account for--you getting out of…

Sedentary ISN'T BMR. BMR would be what you burn when you're comatose. You're spouting nonsense. Whatever you "understand" it to mean, MFP says sedentary means "mostly sitting."

On what do you base that they've added for that. MFP certainly doesn't say that. It says "spends most of the day sitting." Do people who pay other people to clean their houses and care for their kids, etc have to deduct those calories, since they didn't burn them? Do they have negative cardio? If MFP adds calories for…

There is no exercise world. Calories are burned in the real world, where the laws of physics apply. If you required gym tools to burn calories, BMR would be 0 for everyone. I can walk up my stairs for an hour and burn the same number of calories as a stair stepper, without any "tools." You don't need any tools or a gym to…

Now you're just making up stuff. MFP says the sedentary setting is based on "spends most of the day sitting" so I'd think that would mean vacuuming, folding laundry, or even standing at the stove wouldn't be included. As to how much you burn, she didn't suggest, nor did anyone else, including me, that cleaning would burn…

Actually, it adjusts long before you reach the number you set. It estimates where you should be vs where you are and adjusts, both up AND down, all day. AT least mine does.

That's what you HAD to do until a few months ago. This linking thing is new. You can set your net wherever you want it on MFP. FitBit will adjust your calories to eat to keep you at the net you set. If you want a deficit you have to set your net the right number under your TDEE at sedentary (500/day for one pound/week,…

Calories burned are calories burned no matter HOW they are burned. YES, they DO count as calories burned. What scientific reason could there be that they didn't count?

Newbie or not, you CAN count anything you do in your life as a way to burn calories, provided ONLY that it burn calories. You can't count them twice, so if you're set for an activity level that already takes them into account you can't count them again (but only because you already counted them) but if your settings don't…