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I rarely see potassium listed on food labels, a lot of the time the information is not at hand to be entered when creating a food.

Have you been recording any losses by updating your current weight? The 5 week prediction is just a gimmick, to be honest. Have you been losing weight over that time?

It's taken me a long time to really admit that I have a huge problem with sugar and once I start I can't stop til it's gone, even if I don't actually like what I'm eating, even if it is making me feel sick. It's just part of my make-up, so I have to abstain.

That's not a feature of MFP, sorry. Not unless you create a group and manually create and update the leader board.

Genetics, mostly.

Gonna wanna use a perspex cage, lightning and metal are no bueno. Some probiotics might help with the 'thunder'.

PW: 80.5 CW: 80.3 Thank you so much for the support, everyone. It really does mean so much. I'm still blah, and I keep starting off my days well and then going off track. I bought a 5 pack of choc chunk cookies today, ate 1, didn't enjoy it, ate another one anyway, BUT then I threw the other 3 in the outside bin so that's…

Group classes? Or small group Personal Trainer sessions?

My favourite tip for breakfast is to remember that the idea of "breakfast food" is a total construct. It's just the first meal of the day, eat what suits you and your goals. It doesn't have to be eggs, cereal, oats etc. Generally, I have soup. It's warming, filling, comforting, easy to heat and go, so low effort, there's…

Craig is on the money! I yo-yoed for many, many years, trying this diet and that, having great success "dieting" and then piling it back on because I "went off the diet". The truth is, the changes that you make to lose weight need to be permanent. Sure, you get to tweak once you're in maintenance to stay there, you get to…

I can gain 5-6lbs in water weight when I lift weights, because muscles retain fluid for repair. The more sore I am, the higher the scale, but I don't need to be sore for it to come up. It's temporary. Also fluctuations happen because of hormones, weather, sleep, inflammation, digestion, types of food, just because. Bodies…

If you created a recipe with the total of all the ingredients used, made 7 bites, and inputted that there were 7 serves in the recipe, you would log that you ate 4 servings if you ate 4 of the bites. 0.45 serves would indicate that you ate just under half of one bite.

Agreed. Gardening, general is soooo vague. And the calorie burn is pretty high, I garden a fair bit and I know I'm not burning anything like what I burn in an hour of treading water with moderate effort, but it says it's the same:

It is. But be wary of eating back calories from something that might be an every day thing, calorie counts for exercise are often over-estimated.

Oh honey, if I had an answer to that that worked, I'd be sitting on a private beach in the Caribbean, not hanging out on the MFP community page. There's no such thing as spot reduction. I personally, and your results may vary, do find that I lose a lot of tummy bloat, which gives the appearance of losing stomach mass, when…

Posting for accountability, and I'm once again sorry that I seem to be so "me, me me" in here and not great with interacting with others. I'm not having a good day today, I'm angry and tired and resentful and feeling hopeless and lost. I packed up some of my husband's stuff at lunch, just to feel like I'd progressed, and…

My husband was a type 3C diabetic - insulin dependant, basically the same as a type 1 in terms of results and treatment, but due to damage to the pancreas from chronic pancreatitis.

Ohhh good luck with your 5k!! Do you have a ParkRun nearby? I try and go every Saturday morning and my time has been improving just because of habit and competitiveness :)

I've felt a bit out of control this week, I have been weaning off the heavier medication I've been on for sleep and while that's going well, it seems to have sapped my willpower a bit and so the evenings have involved wine, and eating more snacks and treats than I should. I've still been hitting my steps and going to the…

That entry is for fried eggs and will include oil from the frying, you're better to track the eggs separate to any fat used for cooking. And in the absence of anything saying "non-" or "low fat" greek yogurt, I just went with how it comes naturally, which is about the same fat as eggs.

Oh true, if you're going for reduced fat. I always buy full fat and went off that.

PW: 81.3 CW: 80.5 So I've committed to going to the gym at lunch on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So far, so good but I'm sooooore haha. I need an epsom salt bath, I think that's on the cards tonight.

It's really frustrating and I've stopped responding to the one liner intros. If someone can't be bothered to open with at least a little bit of thought and effort, I can't imagine they're going to come back and engage. I think a lot of newer, younger users aren't familiar with the old school forum communities and treat it…

Egg whites have no fat. Whole eggs are no higher in fat than Greek yogurt.

1lb a week is good, steady, healthy progress! Don't buy into the "lose 5lbs a week" stuff. You have health challenges, and you don't want to stress your body too much. If the scale is going down, keep doing what you're doing!

Probably not. It unlocks features and takes away the ads. Unless the ads are causing it to be buggy, it's going to be the same experience, the underlying platform is the same one.

Welcome :) I'm a former WWer too. Just remember that on MFP, everything has calories, there's no zero foods ;)

Woo, it feels good to be back on track :) I had a bittersweet NSV yesterday, I have these 2 really cute skirts that I've been holding onto, waiting to fit back into them and… I missed it haha. I missed window and they're too big, and they're not worth having altered. BOO!

I admit, for all that I get frustrated with the "sugar is as addictive as cocaine and is poison!!" rhetoric, I have to avoid straight up sugary foods, or I will just binge them til they're gone. It won't matter how sick I feel or if I don't really enjoy them, if they're there, they get eaten. But on the flip, I've got no…

Not to be dismissive of the good stuff MFP offers, but it's just not that smart. What it is is customisable. You can adjust your calorie and macro goals, your step goals etc in line with your needs but unless your needs are those of the average person, you're going to have to source that information from elsewhere and plug…