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My suggestion is to quit worrying about the wagon and a whole entire "program". Just do one thing that points you in the right direction. Do that thing for a week or so and add something else and then something else a week or so after that. When I feel my habits start to slip, I focus on adding at least one vegetable to…

90% of bald people still own a comb. They just can't part with it.

I've lost, gained, and maintained my weight while probably eating out 3+ times per week. For me, it makes no difference whatsoever where my food was prepared. I don't order individual appetizers and take only 1 piece of anything ordered for the table. I recognize that not every meal is an "occasion" and keep my choices…

MFP staff only check the Feature Suggestion and Tech Support boards. They don't read everything post by post. There are a few threads about this on Tech Support already, but probably a good idea to send an email to support so that it's "officially" on the radar.

Sorry bud, you’re just talking to other users here. MFP staff don’t read the boards other than Texh Support and Feature Suggestions. We have no way of knowing what developers might or might not be working on. That said, when this is suggested on the Feature Suggestions board, the indication from staff is that this isn’t…

MFP had an original data dump from the USDA database at the time. Since then, it's been crowdsourced. The only "verification" comes from other users editing the incorrect entries. You should verify yourself every entry that you use before you use it. Sources like the label on the food, the current USDA database, or the…

People who lose all capacity to drive once a snowflake hits their windshield.

Generally speaking, I don't care to cook and consider 10 minutes to make a meal a major investment. I stock my kitchen with pre-cooked food that I only have to heat up. You can buy frozen chicken, beef, shrimp and all kinds of other protein pre-cooked. You said no carbs, but frozen vegetables offer endless variety, can be…

“Complete your day” has nothing whatsoever to do with saving your data. It just generates the “if every day we’re like today” message. That’s it. There isn’t really any reason at all to actively close your diary.

That’s not likely to happen since those aren’t standard entries on a nutrition label. MFP is a crowdsourced database and the odds that people will conduct external research for every entry they create AND enter it accurately are slim.

Did you know 90% of bald people still own a comb? They just can’t part with it.

I weigh myself every morning after the bathroom, but I don't worry about my pajamas. First, I'm not going to strip down, weigh myself, get dressed again and then go feed the dog etc. etc. That's just too much before my eyes are all the way open :D My pajamas weigh a few ounces and I wear the same kind with the same kind of…

@jestog63 The good news is that none of that has anything to do with free or premium or how to use the various pages. The feed is completely gone for everyone. These boards are the only interactive space MFP continues to offer.

I think we’re pretty much a bunch of cats watching the water circle the drain at this point.

Alternatively, there are multiple entries for nearly everything. Just check other entries to see if they use your preferred unit of measurement and (after verifying with an outside source!) use that entry instead.

I don't dislike many vegetables, but I lost a lot of my sense of taste with Covid so most don't taste like much of anything any more and just aren't as appealing as they used to be. So my solution is to add flavor. Pile it on. Til you can't see green anymore, lol. I use hot sauces, chile (chopped, sauce, flakes), ranch,…

They said the code was too old to keep cobbling together and that the newsfeed didn't get used anyway. Yet we still see daily posts asking about it and it's been what....four months now?

I usually either have an oatmeal shake, sous-vide egg bites, or leftovers. Todays breakfast is the other half of last night’s burger and sweet potato “fries”.

If it’s hard to track through the day, then plan your day in advance, pack up all that food, or the part you need to have at work. When the food is gone, you’re done eating. It’s all already logged.

I think the question is why are you snacking and would something else fill that hole? It sounds like you're life is incredibly stressful. My chest hurts just thinking about balancing all of that. But is it making you actually physically hungry? Or do you just need the break that making, eating, and cleaning up that a snack…

I wouldn’t rely on MFP to be an accurate source of micronutrient information unless you’ve confirmed that each and every entry you use has that info entered, and entered correctly. MFP has a crowdsourced database, so entries can be old and outdated, the label might not have had all the information, or whoever originally…

I wouldn’t call those circumstances an exception for most women, at least at some point in their lives. I’m nearly a month post-hysterectomy and had to buy leggings two sizes larger and probably should have gone up another size but my vanity couldn’t take it, lol. I haven’t done measurements, but I know for sure that my…

It’s been years, but I originally switched to MFP from WW. On the one hand, it was no big deal because I was already weighing and logging “every bite, lick, and taste”—mostly. There was a bit of a mental shift from free fruits and veggies to needing to include those in my logging, but honestly once I saw how produce…

That’s not a shortcoming of MFP. A software program has no way of knowing how much sauce you prefer to eat vs leave in the pan. Just weigh the remaining sauce and deduct it from the original weight of your serving.

Legendary is the brand name. I think I’ve seen them at Target.

Poaching also has approximately one gazillion times less mess than frying. Just rinse the sieve and dump the pan when you’re done!

@DebbieLyn63 Check out Lose It or My Net Diary— several hundred newsfeed folks went to the various MFP Exodus groups on those sites.

I don’t think there’s just a random ballpark anyone can give with the info provided. . What are you breading it with? Flour? Panko? Breadcrumbs? Cornmeal? Are you using a binder? Eggs? Milk? A combo? Are you baking or frying? Are you misting with oil so the breading browns? How much oil? The way to go would be to…

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I think we often think that "meaningful change" means overhauling everything all at once. It's trite, but often true. I don't especially like cooking, so it's easy for me to get off track and start relying on takeout and "instant" meals like a protein shake and a…

Lose It and MyNetDiary both have large "MFP Exodus" groups.