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If you were having issues with appetite control they help, but they will be less effective the longer you take them. If you were doing fine without them I'd stay away.

I've tried approximately 1,452 types of protein powder and PE Science is the only one that I can drink mixed only with water that tastes good. Trust me on this one

Eating protein doesn't burn any more calories than carbs or fat unless it is really overcooked chicken that you have to use a lot of energy chewing. Your activity throughout the day burns the same amount of calories regardless if it came from protein, carbs or fat. Muscle does burn calories, but you aren't going to add…

Exactly, the number it gives you is the deficit you need to lose weight not accounting for any extra burn you get through exercise. When you add a workout, it will give you extra calories to eat. Most people suggest eating back about half of those calories for a while and see how it goes because the calorie burn is just an…

They're only so good for you if you can manage to fit a decent portion in, which is sadly hardly ever for me. Eating the pitiful official serving size only makes me want about 12 more servings immediately.

so I can wear my leather pants after 6? perfect!

If you enjoy what you're eating, eat more of it. If not, don't worry about a little "garbage" here and there as long as you're staying within your calorie goal.

Don't worry about it. Macro numbers are fairly arbitrary anyways, nothing magic about being exact.. try stay in the ballpark most of the time but calories are more important.

Yeah unless you're avoiding pork in particular for religious or some other reason there's no reason to go with turkey. The nutrition difference is small, and a lot of center cut bacon has even fewer calories than turkey bacon per piece.

whether any particular food is "healthy" or not depends on everything else you incorporated into your diet that day/week and your goals. Assuming it's not poison, you can plan ahead to leave room for just about whatever you want.

Some people truly find it easier to stay in a caloric deficit with higher fat and protein and limited carbs. Most people find it torturous, but cutting out a food group works well to create a deficit so it appears to be a magic diet bullet and they stick with it until they reach their goal. This is why most people do keto…

The only thing you need to lose weight is a calorie deficit, and learning to eat foods you actually like within a calorie limit is the only way to keep it off for good. Unless you want to be low-carb forever (and I can tell you don't), you will keep having to go on low-carb diets every time you gain the weight back that…

PE Science, trust me nothing comes close in the taste category (especially My Protein :| ) even mixed with straight water, they are delicious.

The database is user created, and there are sometimes multiple entries for the same thing and mistakes as well. Unless it was a pre-packaged gevalia coffee with some sweetener or milk added, it definitely doesn't have 30 cal.

It only does that to let you know when you're getting close to (or some food uses a large percentage) of some preset macro because the app is assuming you want to stay below that limit. You can set those to whatever you want and ignore the messages if you don't care about hitting macros dead on. If you know you eat a high…

It's a very common myth that eating late at night causes weight gain. All that matter is you burn more calories than you consume over a given period. Meal timing doesn't have anything to do with that. And regardless of what anyone on TV says, you burn calories 24 hours per day, yes even when you're asleep.

adding some fat to your breakfast might help more with hunger throughout the morning than protein.

anything distilled will give you the best bang for your calorie buck.

If you're looking to fill out your micro nutrients, it's not very useful to just count "vegetable" servings, since vegetables vary wildy from one to the other.

Also like almost everything (especially frozen stuff) they are good long past the "use by" date as long as they don't have any freezer burn.

Read the nutrition info. "Healthy" is a completely relative term.. it depends on how whatever food it is fits into your diet calorie/macro wise. If you can make a bacon cheeseburger fit, there's no reason to avoid it. If a grilled chicken from Chick-fil-a puts you over because of everything else you ate that day, it's best…

Apple cider with old fashioned donut diet. I did this for most of my teen years and I GAINED weight. Definite fraud.

Egg whites, fish, chicken breast.. lots of the suggestions here are going to add a lot of carbs or fat as well. If all you need to increase is protein, stuff like cheese or nuts are going to put you way over on fat.

there's nothing wrong with the tea if you happen to like it, (or are constipated) but the detox on the label is just marketing. If you actually have something inside you that needs detoxing, you need to be in a hospital.

to be fair the OP doesn't have time to cook, but most of the suggestions and discussion refer to services that require you to cook.

I can't believe no one posted a "let me google that for you" link

Log it so you can at least make sure you're still under calories for the week. It's depressingly easy to wipe out a week's worth of effort in a day lol

If they're putting her over her calorie goal, she needs to cut them out, or she needs to cut something else out to make room. her post seems to suggest that the calories don't count if they come from "good fat"

add the ingredients by weight

They can help if you have trouble hitting your protein goal through regular food, but of course they add calories so make sure it fits in your plan. I drink them in place of meals sometimes just because I'm lazy but it's probably best to get as much as you can out of ordinary food. The best tasting I've had so far is PE…