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My view on carbs is this: High carbs typically = high calories. If you would typically eat 400g carbs per day, and you go on a low-carb diet that restricts you to 25 carbs, you're significantly reducing your caloric intake, which is how you're losing weight. That's the science behind it. Don't believe me? Calculate both…

A couple weeks ago, my fiance's great grandmother died. So with all the family visiting from out of town, we did a lot of eating out that week and I didn't really count calories because it was too difficult. I just ate conservatively, but I know I was going over my usual calorie intake by at least 200-400 calories per day.…

I've got the FT7. From my understanding, the quality and accuracy should be the same with all of them because they use the same algorithm to calculate calories. The biggest difference will be the features that come with the watch.

Beautiful! Good work!

Oh you'll be fine. So you ate around 600 calories for breakfast. That's not a huge deal. Even assuming your daily goal is 1,200 calories and you didn't exercise at all today, you can still eat 300 calories for lunch and dinner. Best bet though would be to go outside and go for a walk for about 30 minutes or an hour. You'll…

Woohoo! I love it as well. Next game you should get is Kinect Sports. You can burn some serious calories playing that game as well. Invest in a good Heart Rate Monitor sometime to help measure your calories. Have fun!

If you're running cross country, you shouldn't really worry about calories at all but rather getting at least 100% of all your daily vitamins and eating healthy. You want to have a lot of protein in your diet. All the exercise you're getting in cross country should more than compensate for any reasonable amount of calories…

There's generally not any harm in going over on your vitamins. I pretty regularly get 500% of my daily vitamin C intake. What your body can't absorb will just come out the other end. Sodium and Sugar are tricky for me as well, but they have less to do with weight loss and more to do with your overall health. High sodium…

You're exactly right, but it depends heavily on which HRM you're using. The Polar HRMs count every calorie from the moment you hit "Start" on the watch. If you don't trust me, test it out next time you exercise: Hit the "Start" button and then lay down on your couch for about 10 minutes. You'll find out that you've just…

Just run it under water... I don't really know what the advantage is of the cream. I guess if you have the cream, use that. The purpose for wetting it is to make sure the entire electrode is in contact with your skin.

I used Fitness Evolved for about 30 minutes last week and my legs hurt for about 3 days. First day I could hardly get up from a sitting position (all the squats it had me do). It's boring like any workout video, but the technology is just mind-blowing for this purpose. You've got to work really hard to mimick the movements…

This sounds very good! I'm going to have to give it a try. Thank you for the tip!

I started using a Polar FT7 today. Got it on Ebay for about $80 shipped... brand new in box and all. Didn't save me a ton of money... I think they're like $110 in store, but hey that's $30. I used it today for a workout and it was great. All the reviews I've read on them say that the Polar brands are the most accurate for…

Well, being more aggressive makes me swing a lot more and a lot faster. lol! I definitely get my heart rate up a lot higher when I'm having to try harder to beat the guy than when I'm just whooping him down. Yeah it looks like the Wii Boxing is 213 calories for about 25 minutes according to MFP, which sounds about right…

Welcome! I suppose I have a good story to go along with your "eating out" problem. Yesterday, a coworker and I went out for lunch a few blocks away from where we were that serves burritos... similar to Pancheros if you've ever heard of them. So I ordered up a pork burrito with black beans and rice (and all the other…

I usually don't eat them personally. As long as my net is above my daily minimum (1,500) then I normally don't eat them back. I think it's more important to eat them back if its causing you to go below your minimum (1,200 for women).

hah... the best workout I've ever gotten since I was playing football in high school is the Kinect Sports Boxing! A few times per week I'll come home from work, move the coffee table, attach 5lb weights to both hands, turn up the skill level to "Professional" and duke it out for about an hour on that game. I am ordering an…

That's one thing I have heard that artificial sweeteners are basically proven to do is induce cravings for more sweets. Now that doesn't happen to me personally... in fact when I'm craving sweets and I drink a diet soda, it generally calms my craving (thus making it a great way for me to avoid sweets actually), but that is…

Yes invest in an HRM to get the most accuracy out of Kinect gameplay. I saw a youtube video of a guy who played Kinect Sports for about 20 minutes. He did one round of boxing and some track and field stuff. Now, when he was doing the track and field stuff, he was going pretty hardcore but we're also talking about 30-second…

Everything I've read has said that whether or not aspartame has any adverse affects on you has everything to do with your own individual body. Some people can't metabolize the ingredients correctly and it causes adverse affects, but most people have little to nothing to worry about. Almost anything excessively consumed can…

That's a very valid reason for avoiding diet pops that I hadn't thought of. Thank you for that!

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1931116,00.html I did a little research on this topic because I had been wondering for a while. There was a lady who came to my work to draw blood and test everyone's biometrics (a free perk my company offered this year). That was when it was discovered that I've got high…

I've heard the negative things about artificial sweetener, but what I've learned on this forum and out in real life, the word "healthy" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For someone trying to lose weight, "healthy" usually means something that aids them in their weight loss progress, or at least…

Timely question - I have played a lot of Wii and I just got a Kinect yesterday. For exercise purposes, you're going to expel a LOT more energy with the Kinect. Heck, that river-rafting game on Kinect Adventures (the game that comes with the Kinect) caused me to break a sweat because you've got to jump several times in one…

I've got an EatRight scale and I love the thing. It's just a little $30 thing from Amazon, but it's very accurate and gets the job done. I don't know if I would be interested in the Withings one or not - on one hand it's kind of fun and "gadgety" to be able to use wifi technology on your scale, but I just post my weigh-ins…

My dad has talked to me about this (he used to spend 2 hours, seven days a week at the gym when I was younger... he was very muscular). He has never gone into a lot of detail but he said that muscles help you burn off fat. He would say that if you wanted to lose belly fat, then you should do exercises that work your abs…

Just checked out your diary (briefly - only a couple days) and just a couple suggestions: 1. As others have said, you need 1,500 calories since you are a male. Your body burns more calories naturally than a female does, so the recommended amount is 1,500. You would need to be concerned even if you were only eating 1,200…

Sometimes when people get older, they lose the desire to lose weight for any reason other than to be healthy. They don't feel like they'll ever look good in a swimsuit anymore, and they become so comfortable with their physical appearance that they don't want to go through all the work to lose weight. That's not universal…

I don't have a real good answer for that, but Iron is a vitamin I believe so I think you're okay if you have more than 100% of your DV. Kind of like Vitamin C, Calcium, etc.... MFP makes it look like you're doing something wrong by making the negative number red and all that, but if I understand how our metabolism works,…

Yeah like others have said, some people have it in their genetics to be skinny. Thus, it's likely that MFP underestimates the amount of calories that person's body actually burns in a day. The number they use is the best guess they can get (I don't think it's possible to literally measure the number of calories your body…