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Most ice cream (and food containers) will list the net weight of the container on the front as well. You can use this information and divide by servings in the container to determine grams per serving. Works for salad dressings, etc.

If it's something that you drain, it would be more accurate to drain it, then weigh the total can drained and divide that by the number of servings on the can. What you drain away usually has very few of the calories because it's mostly water (like with corn, peas, beans, etc), so if you weigh 100 grams drained, you could…

Yeah, I think I'd be much more likely to trust someone with a Bachelors and Masters of Science in Nutrition and who also is an educator in the nutrition field (means they are probably more up to date with current nutrition studies than someone who graduated from medical school 20 years ago), than an endocrinologist. To the…

In your case, you would not want to eat more calories. The best way to determine if you need to eat more or not is to add up the calories eaten based on macros provided - 319*4 + 28*9 + 85*4 = 1868 - you are actually over your calories for the day. You will want to pay attention to the food entries you are using and make…

I've just started making extras of my regular meals and freezing them. I currently have chicken enchiladas, chili, chicken taco soup, enchiladas verdes, chicken and dumplings, loose meat "cheeseburgers" with buns, tikka sauce, and black beans frozen. I usually use one or two of these a week for lunches, maybe more if it's…

This it's very popular when I make it. It goes with any frosting, but I'm currently obsessed with chocolate chip cookie dough frosting. I made this cake with that frosting and also made it with a Swiss meringue buttercream that I mixed crushed Oreos into and both versions were great.

I like the taste of full fat a bit better, but for the protein, fat free is the best. For 130 calories, I can have 1 measured cup of fat free with 24 grams protein, or for 220 calories I can have 1 measured cup full fat Fage with 20 grams protein. It's also much cheaper for fat free because I can get a 32oz container at…

I'm pretty basic - I generally prefer vanilla w/ a simple fruit combination and I always add about 2 C of baby spinach or baby spinach/kale mixture. I have a really good blender and although the color can be a bit odd, I don't notice any taste. I even add it to the coffee drink. One C of baby spinach only adds about 7…

As long as you have negative adjustments enabled, it really doesn't matter. You would probably fall at active with the MFP/Fitbit adjustments.

I don't have the link to the groups, but there is a 5:2 group and an IF group here on MFP. Some people are very against it, some people really like it. I'm in the like it camp. The article posted previously really has no bearing on 5:2 or any other form of IF. For me, it supports IF because it said it boils down to the…

While I would agree with that, I think OP would benefit from logging her exercise on MFP because it would give her a much lower calorie burn than her Fitbit HRM gave her. If she didn't have the HRM, there probably wouldn't be such a big discrepency. I don't think anyone on here would agree that a 223 pound person would…

Yes, but you will also see a downward adjustment from Fitbit so that your MFP calorie burn for the day matches up with Fitbit, which does the TDEE calculation instead of NEAT. Any time I log exercise, my Fitbit adjustment for the day adjusts down from what it was prior to logging and not just in the amount equal to the…

For walking, the formulas for calculating calories burned are actually pretty accurate because walking has been fairly extensively studied. In this case, I would be more likely to trust the MFP burned calories than the Fitbit HRM. Your heartrate can be an indicator of calories burned, however it's not completely accurate…

LOL, yes, it's fast for 16 hours and eat for 8. A lot of people do this naturally. My stepfather eats breakfast at 6 am, lunch around noon, and dinner at 4 pm and rarely snacks after that. He naturally follows this type of approach. Many people (myself included) seem to have gotten away from this type of eating that was…

The Fitbit calculates your TDEE based on your activity level and then it assumes that level of activity for the entire day. For me, I'm set at lightly active and it seems to base my TDEE on me getting approx. 265 steps per hour, or around 6300 steps per day. When I wake up in the morning, I'll see a negative adjustment…

Steps from Fitbit will not carry over to MFP. IF you have allowed the negative and positive calorie adjustments, you will see calorie adjustments throughout the day, but not steps.

You might want to check what your weight is recorded as. Your ticker says you have 622 kg to go...isn't that somewhere in the vicinity of 1300 pounds? I'm guessing it thinks you weigh about 600 times what you do weigh, which is why your burn is so far off.

This seems to be a common glitch with the app. Try going in to the recipe like you are going to edit it and re-saving it. When it appears on your recipes list, it should then show up with the correct calorie count. You will then have to re-log the recipe under what you've eaten, but it should fix the problem. For some…

Well, I would say to first make sure your logging is accurate. Weigh abd log every morsel you're eating. From your post, it doesn't sound like you are being completely accurate. If you are being accurate, I would say that it should be relatively safe to eat more calories. On thing to keep in mind is that if you gained a…

I would say don't worry so much about the potassium, but it does sound like you need it. Try googling foods high in potassium. There are plenty of options that are lower in calories and some that also provide a decent amount of protein. http://www.healthaliciousness.com/articles/food-sources-of-potassium.php On this…

Sounds like you've got it down fine and it looks like you are on the right track. After long enough of being conscious of your food and weighing it, it does get much easier to estimate portion sizes. I don't fear eating out because I'm very good at judging food amounts because I've weighed portions enough times. I can pull…

OP, Intermittent Fasting might be good for you, but please be careful because it can set off disordered eating habits in those prone to it. I've personally found it to be wonderful and a great way to keep my disordered eating habits in check. Also, examine why you feel the need to feel so very full - there are volume…

I think there were some system glitches yesterday that caused double posts, so that may be the case with the triple posting for your exercise. Definitely check your MFP and tracking app settings. It sounds like you are set to "active" and not "sedentary" because I've noticed that MFP seems to start making positive…

The grams and oz should match, but grams is slightly more accurate because there are roughly 28 grams in one ounce, or 7 grams in each quarter ounce so you might be over or under by a few grams compared to the ounce measurement. No, consumed calories generally match the nutrition label based on the product as packaged, so…

What type do you have? Some are supposed to count stairs. The Flex does not. It also doesn't count big honking hills as any better than walking the same speed on level ground. That's my one issue with the flex, however it has been fairly accurate and everything seems to be matching up. If I were to do a stair workout I…

Great points! I've seen similar articles and stats and even people who are keeping a food diary can be off by 30%! The whole "slow metabolism" thing has been repeated over and over so often and people believe it. They feel like they aren't eating a lot, they record their food and it justifies their belief, so they must…

Your online calculations appear to be correct. Assuming you mantain your LBM, 190-197 would be a good range for you. A goal of 19-22% is fairly low for a woman in her mid 30s. It's considered athletic or lean. You could be a couple % points higher and still be in the fit or ideal range, so even if you lose a few pounds of…