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I'm on 1800 kcal/day, 20% carbs, 20% protein, 60% fat. For a useful "Calculate Your Ideal Nutrient Intake" calculator, see the link at the bottom of this page: http://diabetesupdate.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/new-calculator-optimum-nutrient-balance.html

The way I cook them is as described here: http://thehousingforum.com/how-to-cook-black-beans-from-scratch/ You don't need to rinse the beans after cooking. If you cook them on their own, you'll probably want to drain the water. But it's also fine to cook them in, say, a stew, in which case the water from the beans would…

From MFP Help: We set your nutritional target in Net Calories which we define as: Calories Consumed (Food) - Calories Burned (Exercise) = Net Calories What that means is that if you exercise, you will be able to eat more for that day. For example, if your Net Calorie goal is 2000 calories, one way to meet that goal is to…

One food not mentioned on that page is quinoa. It's similar in texture to rice or cous cous, and is one of only a few vegetable complete proteins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_protein

Make sure the scales are on a hard, flat, level surface, otherwise the mechanism can deform slightly and give a misleading reading. I also find it helps to store the scales the right way up, with no weight resting on them. Even so, I sometimes find that successive readings can differ substantially, as you say! I always…

I weigh in daily (first thing every morning) and calculate a 7-day moving average to help smooth out daily fluctuations. I'd rather get the feedback sooner than later.

The abstract says: "At 120 minutes, blood glucose was significantly higher with cinnamon consumption (P<0.001)." Not too good for diabetics, then. I wonder what happened to blood glucose after 120 minutes. See http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/15877514.php (search for Cinnamon) for some details of other studies that have…

A 6 mile walk at 4 m.p.h.

It looks like it's calories for the prawn cocktail filling only. See Spud U Like - Average Potato Without Filling for the potato itself. There's also an entry for Spud U Like - Cheese Topping.

Check out the very informative website http://bloodsugar101.com/

The American Heart Association issued a scientific statement in 2009 in which they advised: A prudent upper limit of intake is half of the discretionary calorie allowance, which for most American women is no more than 100 calories per day and for most American men is no more than 150 calories per day from added sugars. See…

First thing every morning. Calculating a 7 day moving average helps to smooth out any fluctuations and show the trend.

I take a multivitamin/multimineral (Centrum Advance) once every 3 or 4 days. It's better to get the required vitamins and minerals in actual food. Hopefully I'm doing that (it's difficult to keep track of all the different nutrients!), but I just take the occasional tablet as a backup. As for fish oils, I'd much rather get…

Scrambled eggs, optionally with bacon 60-80g of muesli, with almonds, walnuts and assorted seeds, plus 1% milk Porridge, made with about 50g of oats, and water, and sometimes assorted seeds Not all on the same day, of course!

The "8 glasses of water a day" recommendation is a myth. See e.g. http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp