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If you're going by what MFP says you burn from exercise, I'd double check the burns if you can with another way of measuring. MFP is way off on the exercise calories for some people, because it's only basing it on height/weight/gender, not level of fitness or heart rate. A lot of people only eat maybe half of their…

You need some amount of energy to live, breathe, etc. Any burn from exercise is in addition to this energy. This is why people can lose weight without exercise. Your net calories is the amount that is going towards this survival energy. It's what's keeping you breathing and your heart beating. If your net calories are…

I like popsicles, if you get the littler ones they're only about 25 calories, and they take a bit of time to eat because they're frozen so I have to slow down and really taste them. It's also summer right now, so they help me keep cool.

$50-75 per week for me and my roommate, a bit more if we go out to eat that week but we mainly eat in. I tend to shop around a bit and there are 4 or 5 different groceries within walking distance, each with different things they have for cheaper. The only meat we eat most of the time is fish, which we get whole at the…

If it's a flavored water that's just water with lime or something added, it will hydrate you the same. I think whether it counts as "water" for dietary purposes depends on personal preference and whether it has any flavorings you're trying to avoid.

How active are you in your daily life? If you have a lot that you do in your daily activity that isn't "exercise" you might need a little more. There are a lot of people out there eating more than the 1200 calories. I tend to average 1800 a day, for 1 lb/week. If that is the right amount, try to find some food that are…

There are also chocolate bars with little bits of bacon in them, so you can choose your bacon-to-chocolate ratio. I found it weird, but my friend liked it. I prefer my bacon and chocolate separate. *shrug*

Weight loss doesn't necessarily happen consistently, because there are a lot of other factors (water, food, etc) that change your weight besides fat. For me, it seems to stay constant within 1 lb for a week or three and then drop off 4-5 lbs suddenly. But my schedule also varies a lot, so it could be environmental factors.

I tend to just get the target champion bra in the smallest size I can fit into (currently I have medium and large) and take the squishing/uniboob because I'm cheap about clothes. It works well enough for me (DD or DDD) but I'm probably going for a lower level of support than you are? I'm fine without a bra at all for…

It's a quote from the game Portal, that became an internet meme. Give it a few more years and it'll mostly disappear. Unless they make another sequel game.

The number for carbs and fat is a recommendation, not a maximum. Hitting your carbs and fat means eating that amount or only a few grams away from that amount. If you're significantly below that amount then you should change your percentage goals to have more protein and then eat that higher amount of protein. The base…

If you're asking about what the MFP database shows for it, you can edit that entry for your journal, so that it includes the fat information. Go to the nutrition data, select "No" for is the data accurate, and it should give you an edit button.

The one I've gotten comments on is my fingernails. I let them grow out long and people ask if they're real.

o.O I think I might have all the ingredients. Dangit, now I'm gonna have to try this, just out of curiosity. Edit: That was...very very strange. Not as bad as some are making it out to be, but not something I'll make again.

First: My roommate, who always has knives and lighters on her (or a rolling chair if people don't count) Second: A large plush Companion Cube I'll just hide behind this cube here....it worked against the High Energy Pellet so it should protect against zombies, right?

MFP (and all the other sites you looked at) are using estimates based on the average for people of that size/height/gender. Which means they'll all be fairly similar to each other, but that if you're not burning like the average it will be off for you. So for some people it'll be high and for others low. And for a lot of…

If you're making it from things that can be found in the database, there's a recipe option where you put all the ingredients and tell it how many servings that makes. Then you can use it every time you make that dish. If one of the ingredients doesn't appear, you can add it to the database if you know the nutrition info…

If you can get the baguette sandwiches or wraps without sauce/mayo/whatever, that's probably what I'd go for. But the salads/soups are probably good choices.

I'd definitely count the walking, especially if it's more than you'd normally do. I don't think I'd count carrying groceries as strength training because it tends to be more static than most strength training. Maybe if you were doing lifts or whatever with the grocery bags as you walk, but they tend to be less than ideal…

I've got an analog scale, and my parents had one when I was growing up. It's the type with the rotating dial on the top, not one with the adjustable weights. My experience is that they depend kind of a lot (almost 10 lbs) on where you put your feet and how you balance when you use them, tending to read higher if you lean…

Different scale can EASILY make a 15 lb difference. My own scale varies by almost 10 lbs by where I stand on it, just shifting my weight. Add in the water I lose from exercising during the summer, and I can (and did) manage a 12 lb difference in what the scale reads within a single day. My weight only changed maybe 3…

The reason exercise calories are added is because MFP doesn't assume you have very many burned by daily activity unless you set yourself to active instead of sedentary. The amount of exercise you're trying for each week isn't counted for anything until you actually do it. So if you're set to sedentary, you should probably…

I tend to use splenda for coffee and stevia for tea, because I find that stevia (at least the brand I used, dunno about Truvia) has a slight herbal taste to it that can complement teas but I find kinda weird in coffee. It did sweeten the coffee, just wasn't to my personal taste.

It's been said, but the answer is to learn to cook yourself. Me and my friends don't like the board program at college sometimes, so we make our own, and it's a useful skill to have once you are on your own. If one recipe/food isn't working, try a different one. My friend used to burn eggs all the time, but she's gotten…

Rice krispies aren't that bad (3g) and neither are the chex cereals (range from 2 to 5 g per serving by grain). Or you can do what I do when I have rice left over from the night before and just put milk on cooked rice. It works almost as well as regular cereal

I'm not looking for kudos on what I do/don't eat. I know when I've done well or poorly with my eating, and I don't want to deal with comments from people when I pull an all-nighter and thus eat something ridiculous. Or if I count cleaning as exercise when it involves sorting and moving several boxes of books for the…

I wish I was your derivative, so I could lie tangent to your curves. I was once on a bus full of geeks trying to come up with bad pick up lines, but I can't remember the rest....

NSV is a non-scale victory, any sort of sign that you are reaching your goals besides your weight.

This recipe originally called for salmon, but it works for tuna too. 12-18 oz fish (3 cans tuna) 2-3 eggs 1 sleeve saltine crackers, crushed 1 small-medium onion, chopped pretty small vegetable (recipe had 11oz can corn, but I don't like corn, so I use a bell pepper chopped pretty small) and whatever spices you want (i…

Whether or not they're the same religion wouldn't matter much to me. There are so many people out there who say they're Catholic and never go to church and don't follow the teachings, that I kinda prefer someone who is non-religious or a different religion, but is honest about it and actually believes in it. My mom's…