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Try the "traditional" uses of spices, but don't be afraid to put something "unusual" on a dish... worst that happens is you don't like that combo... towards that end I keep a white-board in the kitchen, I jot down WHAT spices I used if not the quantities, and if the combo was great I flag it for future use, otherwise if it…
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I'll do a shout out to all who have joined recently and remind y'all to keep hydrated during these hot spells (at least here it's hot) don't hurt yourself exerting too greatly in the heat. Great motivations to keep us all moving forward though. Keep at it.
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That's another thing... going to the gym for the mindless activity of lifting a weight to put it back down right where you got it, accomplishing nothing with the time... that doesn't thrill me... but going out on the property and lifting rocks from the spots we don't want them and putting them in the low spots / sinkhole…
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But liking it makes it easier to go back to it day in and day out. I gave up my gym membership as i wasn't using it anyway, that money will buy me some nice camping / hiking gear instead of going unused, and i get to do something fun as a result... gym was a chore... hiking a blast... do even more hiking . even more active…
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Even worse than them having just more than 1 serving, they sell a 284 mL (10 fl oz) can of soup and the "serving size" is 125mL or... 2.272 servings per can... be nice if they would make the serving size based on either half the can or the full can but they make you do funky math to figure out the calories in the can.
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It could say 180 if they prepared their tomato soup with milk... 1/2 cup of whole milk is roughly 80 calories. But the contributor could have read it wrong, typed it wrong... if it's user supplied it can be edited by another user... user entries are marked with * on the computer at least. Once you've selected which food to…
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Don't forget to check out the 40,000 free e-books at http://www.gutenberg.org/ classics that are out of copyright, on the Canadian one I found sequels to some "traditional" fairy tales, de la Mare, Walter **** and the Beanstalk, same problem as Moby **** gets censored but... many others depending on what you're looking…
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Depending on the quality of the pasture, and the size of the cattle breed you pick, we ran 2 calf cow pairs on 3 acres, but they were a smaller breed, you wouldn't manage even that with the larger breeds without additional feeding material
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Check out all the daily freebies that amazon has, I don't have a kindle yet but you don't have to have one either, kindle for PC is free and since they offer free books daily it's quite easy to build up a collection... now some of them may not be the most interesting but the price is right ;) Recipe guides, how to guides,…
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strength / cardio combining exercises such as P90X insanity, 30 day shred etc can be tracked as "circuit training" which is in the database.
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Grab something you know the weight of... a weight plate, see if one of them measures that accurately. But pick one scale and run with it, they're all calibrated a bit different, they're also marked not legal for trade because of the variations, getting a "truly" accurate scale costs big bucks but if you take one and use…
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when I'm experimenting in the kitchen with spice combos, I keep a white-board near the prep area, jot down what spices were used at least if not the exact amounts, if the result is a big YAY I can at least use the same combination to make it again, if it's a big no I know not to use that combo again.
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I cook a lot from home, I've stopped bothering with the logging of the tsp of oregano or summer savory that I add to the dish. Up to you how accurate you want to be but I'm not bothered by the 3 calories in a gram of savory, as the gram goes through the whole recipe... it's well within my error margin for logging the stuff…
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If you're getting 3x the default recommendation of 15% then you're getting quite a bit 45%, are you following a particular diet that has you that high for protein? I changed my % protein from the default to 35% so I would have 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight (lean body mass) as a target. Barring underlying…
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You can't just delete the %20 within MFPs link... that won't work either... you need to on PHOTOBUCKET set it up so the foldername is different... maybe WeightProgress If there are spaces on photobuckets folder and or file name then you need to get rid of them there, rename the folders, or copy the pictures to a new folder…
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you're using the right code, you are having a problem because you've got spaces in the folder name... on photobucket the folder is "Weight Loss progress" but MFP doesn't handle spaces which get replaced with %20 properly.
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To enter a food, you've stumbled on one error in the site. There are 3 required fields to create a food on MFP. Serving size (what you put on your plate) servings per container (how many servings of the serving size are in the container you have) and the calories. If you're going to share with the database please fill in…
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In the tech support forum is a stickied thread "days in a row incorrect?" within that is the link to the form to request the counter be reset if it happened in error.
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Swimming is my go-to, just being in the water and moving... laps.... water-jogging etc, the extra resistance from the water makes it quite a workout with minimal impact. ETA - walking of course, that was previously about the only exercise I did but I did it 3 or 4k a night just walking around the neighbourhood a 45 minute…
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If you have health issues that would caution limiting your protein, (kidney stones perhaps) then it may not be for you. I did have to change my macro percentages to be more realistic for "how I eat" not that I follow atkins or anything but it did take 35% protein to get to a level that works for me.
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For $2 even if you don't wind up playing it... same as the kindle books Amazon offers daily for free, sure some of them aren't necessarily of interest but when they're free or for a penny or two, when the print version is $25.... sure I'll take some freebies even if I don't think I'd normally read that.
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How far can you go without the backpack? I used to do a 7k hike every week with nothing but water for the hike and some sort of trail-snack, jerky, trailmix etc. Depending on who was along it was sometimes half as long a hike as others (duration wise) Moved out of that area so haven't been able to use that trail in ages…
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Always a laugh at the festivals when a parent will give the kid soda instead of cotton candy (due to the sugar of the cotton candy)... They don't apparently realize that the soda generally has more sugar in it than the cotton candy
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For home use just get a scale, you know, that does weight, instead of paying 3x as much for the body fat % calculator, storing multiple users info etc. The body fat % can be thrown off just by having a bit more to drink water wise from one weigh in to the next.
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Whichever you go with check your labels. I'm "tired" of the number of supposed "protein" items you pick up that have more carbs than they do protein. So I opted for whey powder from the bulk food store, just loose powder I can buy as much or as little as I want. I control how much I use of it at a time, and goes in…
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I had to after 10-15 lbs, but I've since regained the weight, but not the inches. I'm down 6" in the waist despite being heavier than my start weight. Takes a belt to even keep these pants up so I could probably go down another size. Body changes via the food and exercise.
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9 pages in to a 20 page max, and somewhere around 7.5K of the 20 million pounds lost as of June 2011. I'm not going through and calculating where a weight was surpassed and for some reason was ignored.
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IF I need dried Stevia I hang the plant to dry, or if I'm in a rush use the food dehydrator. But I'll often just grab a leaf and add it that way. Either into the tea ball or just straight into the chompers ;)
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I grow Stevia in my herb-garden, doesn't get a lot more natural than that.. If you can get Stevia itself try it, Truvia and the "spoon for spoon" replacements for sugar have a lot of filler that isn't Stevia to make them "equivalent"..
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Batteries being low can give wonky results, minor imperfections in the floor can affect "how" it reads from one weigh-in to the next... Try moving the scales to a different spot and see if they read differently. Pick a scale.. doesn't "really" matter which one and use the numbers it gives. One scale gives me enough…
