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There are lot of great sticky posts in the "Most Helpful posts - [Forum Name] (Must Reads)" at the top of each forum. Some good ones for you might be: Great outline of the process - http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1080242/a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants/p1 A very detailed post about BMR…

If the body scan gives you a bmr estimate in kilojoules, they are pretty close. 6000 kilojoules = 1434 calories.

I use the recipe builder to do the combining. For example, last night's dinner was tater dog casserole: 1 can of baked beans 3 hot dogs, sliced, 1/2 cup of onion 2 cups of tater tots 3/4 cup grated cheddar Gather ingredients, weigh the pan, used the method above to weigh out all the ingredients individually and add them to…

I do this but take it a step further. Set the number of servings for the recipe to 1550. Then when you serve out a portion, weigh out the number of grams and enter that as the number of servings. Perfect portion, every time.

Plain Greek yogurt, 2% - 4% fage or chobani, mixed with granola, sometimes walnut, always fruit - berries, banana, peach, or some combination.

I log it like this Be honest then move on. Today is a new day.

Start right now. Log anything else you eat today. Keep it going tomorrow. Just start.

Until the page 10 derailment into woo, this has been the most reasonable and civil clean eating thread I've seen. I'd love to see it locked, but not deleted and just allowed to live in the archive. Not as a sticky. Just something that will turn up in search results. As someone mentioned many pages ago, one reason there are…

I read that as "log one meal per day....then log two meals per day...until logging/tracking food is more of a habit" Useful advice if someone is completely new to logging and weighing their food. OP - if your goal is to lose weight, then meeting your calorie goal is most important. You may not see results right away, but…

You've got it right. Just be accurate with your logging so you know where you are between those numbers.

All or nothing thinking is ingrained in people. It's instinct. The diet industry is just taking advantage of our predisposition toward classifying things as good or bad. I can't answer the OP better than this.

Try not cooking it all the way at home. If you leave it pink, the microwave can finish the cooking and it will be closer to properly cooked, maybe overlooked a little. This is what I do and it works great. Alternatively, don't heat it so much if it is already cooked all the way through. It only needs to be warm throughout.…

I've seen a similar change when entering a recipe. I don't know if I'm missing a step or it's just a bug. I enter a new recipe, see the nutrition info of each serving, and save it. Then I enter a serving in my diary and the values are different, often lower. If I go back to the recipe page and step through each part of the…

Taking it one day at a time has been critical for me. It's too easy to be overwhelmed when you start adding up how many day, weeks, months it might take. But you will be successful if you string together a lot of mostly successful days. For me, the best thing to do is to try to get today right. I might start thinking ahead…

You're right. I noticed that since I posted before. But I wish it didn't work that way. It's more meaningful, to me, if it means I've actually logged my food everyday. Since actually logging, not just opening the app on my phone, is what allows me to be successful.

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1069278/acronyms-and-terms-for-new-mfp-members-v-6/p1 This post covers a lot of different acronyms used here. I don't recognize RSV. NSV is non scale victory.

Except they are loaded with silica, the cause of the lung disease silicosis.

I feel the same way sometimes. There are days where it feels like all I did was think about food. And it can affect my productivity in other areas. Routines and minimizing how much I need to think about it are most important for me. - pre log as much as possible. I usually have 3 to 5 items that I bring for lunch. They are…

It's the not caving part that takes practice. When I'm offered something, I don't want to have a long conversation about why I don't want some nice person's homemade whatever. I've had to develop the patience to keeping saying no, and have had to practice not getting annoyed. I know what my goal is, and it doesn't include…

I've found that being comfortable saying "no" has been very helpful. In the past I would always accept offered treats, or pick at the candy jar throughout the day. And those things would put me over my goal or force me to cut out something else later. But now I can easily and comfortably say no, even if people are shoving…

Non posting lurker here. Many of the people mentioned in this thread have been important for me. Most of you are represented in my book marked posts. Not coincidently, those are the posts that contain the wisdom. Thank you all for taking the time to impart it.

The seeds contain a small amount of cyanide. And you'd need to eat a lot of them to have any impact. http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/questions/question/2737/ I don't eat apple cores because they have that inner skin around the seeds that is bitter. But I do eat orange peels. Not the entire peel usually. Maybe 25 to…

I try to set up my day so that I can stay comfortably within my calorie limit without feeling the need to go over. If I am hungry but I've used up all my calories, then I will choose to go over by one or two hundred in order to stay at a small deficit. I also try to figure out what food, activity, or lack of activity…

Well done recognizing the slide and putting a stop to it. There will be setbacks. Now you know how to deal with them. I agree with what others have said about your calories being low. I'm 5' 9" 207 and losing 1 lb/week on 1920 calories. Take a closer look at your mfp inputs to check the recommendation. There is a…

You can't target weight loss. Like maidentl said, maintain a calorie deficit and the weight will come off.

It looks like you have a downward trend again, so keep doing what you're doing. I have the same issue with eating out and estimating. I nearly always eat only half and take home the rest. Sometimes I'll even weigh the restaurant leftovers if it's something that can be separated down to its ingredients like burgers, steaks,…

It sounds like the only thing you would accept as support would be those people actively participating in the activities you are doing to achieve your health goals. If you can't drink beer, neither can they. If you want to go for walk or join gym, they have to also. This your journey and these are your goals. No one else…

Thanks. To drive the point home even further, the graph shows a 15 lb increase in 2014. Using the 1 lb = 3500 calorie convention means that my average daily intake was only 140 calories above maintenance. In 2015 I have been steadily losing 1 lb per week, or 500 calories below maintenance. 640 calories per day is the…

Works for me.

My highest one day step count came in DC. 32000. There is so much to walk to. My wife and I like Ted's Bulletin. She swears by the home made pop tarts.