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I restrict myself to no more than 3 drinks in a night, maybe 4 if I'm drinking for an extended period. Experimentation has shown that when I get to 5 drinks it ends poorly.

I'm fine with whatever other people want to do, but personally prefer at least panties. There's just too many orifices down there for me to be comfortable sitting down without something in between.

You do want your remaining calories for the day close to zero. It's fine to go over or under by a bit though, especially if it varies which way you go.

Your calories burned from normal daily activity are an approximation of your TDEE, and don't necessarily count what you burn through exercise. You should look at the link earlier or the "in place of a roadmap" thread to find that. Your net calories, as determined by MFP, should end up around where MFP's goal for you is.…

1. Water is also a diuretic. A diuretic is just something that makes you produce more urine, not something that pulls water out of your cells. 2. Caffeine is shown to have a greatly reduced diuretic effect in people who are accustomed to it. Even in those who aren't, it's only a mild diuretic effect. If you are having a…

I don't think the exercise calories are as large as it says, unless you're doing some very intense gardening. The problem with MFP calorie calculations, is that they include your base metabolic activity in the exercise amount (because that's what's easier to calculate). So for high intensity things like running, where…

Hmm, in a long distance relationship, and V-Day basically consisted of IMing each other. He sent me a link to a cute pony picture. I think that means I should send him a picture of a steak? Meanwhile, more pi(e)!

Pumpkin pie, and maybe some others, can be made without any crust. Just bake the filling in the pie pan, and it makes it 50 to 100 calories less per slice, depending on your crust type. You can also swap out some of the eggs for egg whites and use lower fat milk to reduce it further or if you don't want fat.

Yay, Pi Day :D Me and my roommate are making raspberry, apple and pumpkin! Just getting started now and I'll see if one's ready by 1:59 (West coast USA, so I'll get another go at it if I miss) Hmm, maybe I'll make a quiche too if I still want to bake after all that. Pie for every meal!

Fighting with flaming swords. Unfortunately, it's not exactly something I can do all that often, as I'm pretty sure it would get the cops called on me where I live. So, uh, swimming?

My, admittedly limited, understanding is that fat burn zone is where a greater percentage of your total calorie burn is coming from fat. Any sort of exercise will burn calories from both fat and carbs/protein, but the exact ratio varies depending on what/when you have eaten and the intensity. I've also heard that you can…

Grape tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries, and peanuts for me. Not really peanut butter though, just peanuts. It doesn't help that my roommate keeps bringing home 1.5 lb boxes of blueberries.

I count it as water if it's not included in whatever weight/volume I log elsewhere. So if what I log is a tea bag or mio concentrate or the ingredients for my homemade soup, I log the water I add under the water counter. If what I log is 8 oz of tea or sparkling flavored water or a bowl of soup as one unit, I don't count…

Do I log the calories in the fruit and vegetables I eat? They're healthy so I shouldn't get punished for eating them, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_standard_clothing_size clothing sizes from the 1940-50s In my experience though, target is terrible about the thighs in their pants. I've got giant thighs/butt with a significantly smaller waist, and none of their stuff fits. I actually asked if they had anything made for a significant…

I'll second what some people have been saying about MFP including BMR in the calorie burned estimate. I don't know if it does for all activities, but I've seen calorie calculations for walking (like here: http://www.runnersworld.com/weight-loss/how-many-calories-are-you-really-burning-0?page=single) that match MFP for…

I know! So many foods I thought were good are just terrible. I drank a cup of milk earlier and gained half a pound!

Because I'm not looking for advice on it? I'd open it if I was, but for now I don't see any reason to, especially given that there are people who criticize others, no matter how infrequent. That, and I track my menstrual cycle and any bowel discomfort in the notes. I don't think anyone but me needs to see that :)

Generally, exercise of some variety to get more calories, but if I'm too sore/tired/busy, either vegetable soup or a salad with balsamic vinegar instead of dressing. But if I was under yesterday, or know I will be under tomorrow, I go ahead and eat and just make sure that the whole week averages out to a deficit.

Since starting this site, I've adopted the Hobbit meal names: breakfast, second breakfast, elevensies, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, and supper, in that order and vaguely corresponding to different parts of the day. So for me, dinner is around 6, and supper would be anything after 8 or 9.

Favorite: Smarties and 3 Musketeers (and candy corn, but mainly for the shape/color) Least Favorite: Laffy Taffy, especially the banana and chocolate ones. My friends actually took all the banana Laffy Taffy no one wanted after Halloween one year and attached it to our next math homeworks when we turned it in. It didn't…

If you cook a lot, I definitely recommend the recipe builder, and most people take a bit to notice it. Enter in meals you make regularly, and it will calculate out the total and portion amounts for you, and save it for the future. The database is a great resource but because it's largely user entered, some of the entries…

I think too much dairy might be that challenge where you try to drink a gallon of milk in one go. If you're eating enough other things to get the nutrients not in dairy, and you don't have any problems digesting it, you're fine.

Individual days range from 1000 to 2500, but I average out to 1850 or so, which is what MFP gives me for 1lb/week with some exercise calories. I tried a faster rate for a while, but I was hungry and had trouble sticking to it.

If it's more than usual, I will count it, especially if I end up having to clean most of the kitchen after. If it's just 15 min, or mostly waiting on things to cook instead of chopping or mixing, I won't. I've actually mostly stopped counting it since we finally got a table and chair in the kitchen so I'm not trying to do…

If the log entry in your diary is "soup, condensed" the water counts. If the entry is for "soup, reconstituted" or "soup, with water" the water doesn't count. Seriously? 8 cups is a recommendation, and not a particularly accurate one for most people. Log it how you want. I count the water I add to things and don't count…

If you're using the MFP default goals, you don't have to worry about going over on protein. It sets that goal pretty low. Keep logging, even if you end up going over or eating junk. A lot is just being aware of what you're actually eating. If you use things already in the database, check if they've been verified by…

I go and find 3 different measuring tape calculators on the internet, enter the same exact numbers into them and get results more than 10% different from each other. Then I stare at them in confusion, average them, call that close enough, and decide that one of these days I'm going to actually go get another method done.…

Either go for a walk/jog/etc, log it as exercise, and then eat those calories if I'm still hungry after, which is not always still true. Or, if I have or can make a deficit on other days that week, I go ahead and eat and just make sure it averages out to my goal. I've had weeks where I alternate between 400 under and 400…

My max was 225 at 5'7", and I wore size L tshirts with a few size M, but they were unisex/mens tshirts, which probably make it XL in women's sizes. Button-up shirts are much more problematic, and I generally just avoid them because they don't close right over a DD chest.