Alatariel75 Member

Hi and welcome :) I recommend that you get involved with some of the ongoing threads and groups here on MFP, where you will find lots of people willing to chat nutrition! I'm part of a challenge group and it's amazingly supportive - have a look around this section for one that appeals: Generally, the "friend" function on…

Steps update: 14 Aug - 19477 15 Aug - 16834 16 Aug - 32143 17 Aug - 18801 18 Aug - 14203 19 Aug - 13238 Last night I had a no wine night for the first time in weeks. I slept better and feel good for doing it and hope I have broken that little shameful streak! I wasn't getting hammered every night or anything, but it really…

Thank you everyone for such wonderful support and lovely thoughts. I'm happy to report that yesterday was AF, I slept well and I'm feeling good for it today. @WestCoastGirl_7 I'm so sorry for your loss. I lost my little girl Gracie only a couple of months ago, mere weeks after losing my husband, and it broke my heart. We…

I sometimes amuse myself by accepting their request then telling them that I am a surgeon on the Gaza strip caring for the wounded and soldiers, with a child at home in boarding school, and a deadbeat partner and that when I get home from the war I'm going to retire and start a small hospital for needy people, then I ask…

You can do this on desktop, just log it with a - in front of the number of serves

Hi all, confession here - today will be - WILL BE - my first AF day this month. Which is terrible. I had cut back to literally once or twice a month until the last few weeks and I just went through a mental health black spot and just… yeah. It's ironic because I had all but given up because of what I went through with my…

Honestly, I spent the weekend with a friend of mine and her 2 boys, 10 and 8. They ate more than either of us, and burned it off. So many kids use up a ton of energy, a lot more than many smaller, sedentary adults.

Oh this is cool! I would totally participate in this if it was in my city.

Interesting how serving your country involves using stolen photos of military personnel to join social media sites.

I more suspect there will be bigger changes, that diary update they rolled out to screams of outrage and then rolled back was only temporarily taken away.

This is so so spot on. And I honestly find more now with the push that whole foods are so healthy for you (yes, they are) bleeding over to "how could I note be losing weight, I eat all whole foods" (snacking on dates stuffed with peanut butter) it's so important for people to realise that nutritionally beneficial doesn't…

You can make your diary public and he can access if he has an MFP account, or you can make your diary friends only and friend him, or put a password on your diary and give it to him. In all events, he will need an MFP account.

How do you stay "motivated" to go to work? To clean your house? To wash your clothes? To do your dishes? To take out your trash? For me, it all changed when I stopped looking at a healthier lifestyle as an option that I needed to be positively motivated to do, and just put it on the list of things I had to do because I'm a…

Mine is off to the left now too, has been for a few days. It's not an individual user setting thing, something's changed.

I either try to break it down into its components (for a pre-made roll, example, I log the bread, an estimate of butter and the fillings), or I try to find something similar on a menu from a restaurant that does have calories listed - the big chains all do and I can usually find something "close enough"

I genuinely don't see how AI looking at a photo could make a better guess at what's on the plate than me, the actual human who has the fork. AI wouldn't even know whether the white component is cream, sour cream or yogurt, but I will. AI may or may not be able to identify the type of meat, but I'll know. This to me seems…

Can you be any more specific about why you're nauseous? A calorie deficit shouldn't be doing that - are you restricting severely? How many calories are you eating? are you eating things you usually wouldn't? If you're feeling like this daily, you need to identify and treat the cause, not just the symptom.

I have lost almost 100lbs in the last 12 months, through reducing calories, prioritising whole foods, and walking/hiking/a bit of running and some other exercise regimes which I continue to try out. My whys are how miserable I was overweight, and the fact that I have MS and while I'm currently in very good shape in that…

Steps for the month, I might be too late for it to count! 1 Aug - 14278 2 Aug - 27136 3 Aug - 13365 4 Aug - 14165 5 Aug - 17348 6 Aug - 9899 7 Aug - 12048 8 Aug - 16023 9 Aug - 16805 10 Aug - 10642 11 Aug - 15489 12 Aug - 18332 13 Aug - 20262 Weigh in PW 81.5 CW 81.4 I guess I'm happy that I'm at least maintaining, but I…

I actually paid for the subscription for the Calm app and use that with my phone, it has so many different white noise options, as well as meditations, sleep stories etc, even ones specifically for when you wake up in the middle of the night and are struggling to get back to sleep.

He thought it was hilarious and was more than willing to help! …. for science, you understand ;)

LOL About 4.5lbs, as far as we could tell! I was an F cup at the time 😂

I just had my husband stand behind me and hold them up LOL Please don't get me wrong, I have explored curiosity in weighing in so many ways, before and after walks, bathroom breaks, meals, workouts, sweaty activities iykwim… My comments to OP in this thread are very much in response to the tone of her post which indicated…

A lot of what you have said has really resonated with me, because I have been (and sometimes still am) that obsessive, but I recognise now that it's causing me issues, which I'm exploring in therapy. I used to not drink water from 7pm the night before a WW weigh in, no matter what, because what that scale said was SO…

LOL, sorry but that's funny. ChatGPT for the win!

For me, I just go by weight. I have a list in my phone of the weights of all my most used post/pans/casseroles/trays etc, so I can put the whole dish on the scale, deduct the weight of what the food is in, then work out a serving from there. For example, if I made a recipe which has 4 servings, and the finished dish is…

I get that, but I still think it's a spend of energy that's totally unneeded. You might be 2lbs from 'goal' right this minute, but in an hour you might be 1.5lbs from goal, or 2.5lbs from goal, or 1lb closer, or 1 lb further away. It might be hair extensions, or water retention, or 50g more carbs consumed today compared to…

Given the way that a body can vary over the course of the day, it really isn't significant at all. Your weight will fluctuate by multiple pounds depending on hormones, digestion, intake, sodium, weather, medication etc etc. I "lost" a lb (400g) going for a half hour walk this morning and using the bathroom. Stressing over…

That will be very individual to your tastes, but it's a reasonably high goal, so I would be aiming to include a decent amount of healthy fats such as avocado, olive oil, nuts and seeds, pesto etc for the nutritionally dense hit.

May very well just have been different quality. Good haloumi is excellent, not good haloumi is very average.