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Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole are only made for Thanksgiving in my home.

Glad you had a good time. Sounds like you were in NYC the same time my family and I were...I love NYC! I hear you on Sedona for sure. Beautiful surroundings, but it's way too busy these days for my taste...I love to hike and it's really hard to find a trail there that isn't packed with people on it. I used to love it about…

Uhhhh...no. 1200 calories is your weight loss target. You burn calories 24/7. Most of your calorie burn is you merely existing, breathing, heart pumping blood, etc.

You need to use the recipe builder to build your own or just enter everything individually. The entries in the database for "stir fry" are some other random users recipe and you have no idea what they actually put in it. Don't use generic entries. Also, I wouldn't call that a stir fry. You sautéed vegetables in olive oil.…

It's just one day of many days and tomorrow is a new one. This is one of the reasons I pre-logged my days to the best of my ability when I was keeping a calorie diary. Failure to have a plan is a plan to fail

Good nutrition is important, but being at a healthy weight and regular exercise have a far more material impact blood serum cholesterol and other blood work. Cholesterol in particular is primarily made by the liver and more and more research shows there really isn't much of a direct link to dietary cholesterol or saturated…

You can't really build much meaningful muscle in a calorie deficit to lose weight because you are in a catabolic state and building muscle is an anabolic process

You've been losing weight, so I don't see why you're finding some kind of need to change whatever it is you're doing. Going up on the scale a little bit in a day isn't fat, it's normal bodyweight fluctuations at work. Also, with this calculator or any TDEE calculator, the outputs are only going to be as good as your…

I'm confused...you need to lose 1Kg?

You reduce fat with a calorie deficit...you can't target fat with any particular exercise. As for building muscle and toning up the glutes, if donkey kicks are the only tool in your toolbox, it's going to take awhile. In general, building meaningful muscle is a pretty long process even when on a quality program and changes…

I had very high cholesterol once upon at time as well as triglycerides so high (over 500) that my LDL couldn't be read. In my experience, the following was the most helpful in lowering in order: 1. Losing weight 2. Being active on a daily basis 3. Started consuming a diet of mostly whole foods/minimally processed foods and…

That would be for basically constant movement. I did Jiu Jitsu for a time, and there was a fair amount of time spent watching, or stretching, or warming up, etc.

Eating too few calories can have lots of nasty consequences...holding onto fat isn't one of them, but it can get pretty gnarly from a health standpoint. You are correct in your presumptions of how MFP works, but I'd also say your calorie burns are likely inflated. I've done my fair share of rucking and hiking and 900…

Your macros don't really matter for weight loss directly...calories (energy) are what matter. Macros can potentially have an indirect effect in regards to what kind of macro ratio provides for satiation and what makes you more hungry. This would have to be an experiment on your part as there is no universal answer here.…

It's going to just be your best guess. The nutritional value for most foods is for raw/uncooked. I'd probably just find a "cooked" or "grilled" entry for whatever % of fat your ground beef is. Also, none of this is some kind of exact science so don't try to make it be so. Also, if you erred on the side of caution and…

Focus on calories. MFP's default macro ratios are just that...a default...there is nothing "magic" about them. There is no "magic" macro ratio for losing weight. Also, macros are carbs, protein, fat. These make up your calories...4 calories per gram of carbohydrate, 4 calories per gram of protein, and 9 calories per gram…

For most people it's the rapid introduction of far more fiber than they are used to consuming where things like legumes and lentils are concerned. Introduce slowly.

245g of protein is overkill. I mean it's pretty trendy right now to have super high protein targets, but at some point you're just making expensive glucose and pee. Even stage bodybuilders and physique competitors I know keep it around 1 gram per Lb of LBM

Yes...I would recommend regular exercise for overall health, but exercise really doesn't burn the kind of calories that people tend think. For most people, merely existing and going about their day to day is the majority of their daily calorie expenditure...exercise is generally a pretty small piece of that pie. Weight…

The rep ranges in the illustration are for those objectives noted (though overly simplified)...it doesn't matter if you are beginner, intermediate, or an advanced lifter. You would do best to just start working with an established, off the shelf program than trying to make up your own. Also, losing fat happens when you are…

The healthcare system in the US is horrible, but it would be pretty irresponsible of me to not have insurance given that I have a family to look after which includes two boys who play sports and just in general play pretty rough. I also have a couple of health conditions which require me to see a Dr. a couple of times…

It depends on your training objectives.

Regardless of device, website, or app, it's all an estimate. IMO, being conservative is good policy.

If you select an entry from the database "chorizo with black beans", you have to understand that's just some random users entry that they uploaded to the database...you have zero clue as to what's in it and how much. The accuracy of that entry could be hugely variable. I have used them in the past, but with the…

Interesting, but I also find this kind of odd...and I'm not sure how they can really individualize something that has always been geared to the population at large. Personally I don't have any issue with the food pyramid as a general guideline for a population...I don't really think there's anything wrong with it and the…

Room at the Hilton Brooklyn for 4 nights before Thanksgiving which we will be spending with my BIL and SIL and niece and nephew in Connecticut.

Not that I can talk, but "they" were always full of crap and "they" were just marketing their product. The actual science doesn't back it up. And yeah, a full bottle every night is quite a lot.

If you're eating a breakfast burrito with lots of cheese and a couple of eggs, you aren't remotely eating zero saturated fat and 2 grams of dietary fat overall.

I don't log anymore, but when I did I usually pre-logged the day. Sometimes it would change...like if we decided to do something else for dinner or an extra snack or something but logging ahead of time just laid out the framework for the day and there wasn't any of this, "oh noes...it's 4 PM and I've used all of my…

In response to the swim question: I'd definitely recommend getting on the wait list for lessons if this is something you want to pursue or looking around to see if anyone else does lessons. Not sure what you have available...I live in a medium sized city and we have everything from the Red Cross to lessons at the local…