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I had a laparoscopic hysterectomy in September. Best freaking day of my life and I'm still salty I had to wait until my 50's for it to be approved. I'm happier, healthier, and my quality of live is indescribably better in just about every way now that my life isn't consumed with symptoms. Take all the recovery time you can…

I'd check the restaurant website first and create a food for what I ate. If there isn't nutritional information on the website, I usually just pick a similar item from a chain restaurant already in the database and call it good enough. Alternatively, you can try to back out of a calorie count by estimating how much of each…

Yep, all me.

How many calories are you consuming a day? Height/weight? Fasting is fine if that's what you're into, but being in an overall calorie deficit is what you need for weight loss.

I leave mine in the skin and with the pit, take a few drops of oil and rub all over the exposed parts, especially around the pit. Then I wrap tightly in plastic wrap when I’m ready to use it, I just gently wipe the oil off the top with a paper towel or clean dishcloth.

I think it's Home Chef that has heat up meals at my grocery store. They just need a final cook in the air fryer and many are a good size for about two meals for me. I've done the mail order Factor meals that come fresh and just need to be heated up. Those weren't too bad, but the order quantities never quite worked out for…

It tracks all three macros- protein, fat, and carbs.

If I cook a single serving, it’s mostly frozen ingredients because I can just scoop a handful. This week I made gnocchi with roasted Brussels sprouts and blistered tomatoes and I’m on day 4 and probably just throwing away what’s left. Same with the sheet pan pancakes I found a recipe for. Both recipes I like, but just…

I’d sign up for this in a heartbeat. To get varied, fresh meals every day would be fantastic. The grossest part about cooking for one is that anything you actually cook you have to eat for a hundred years or send down the drain because you’re so sick of it. Something fresh every day or two that required no shopping, prep,…

You might try some dumbbell flyes as well. Either a set before you bench to activate your pecs or as a replacement for a while. You don't necessarily need to use dumbbells specifically. You can either hold the weights for your barbell in your hands or even just use a couple of vegetable cans if you have those around. When…

Meal prep isn't the only way to go. Personally, there's nothing I despise more than forcing myself to spend half a day cooking food that I'll probably get tired of long before it's gone. So I stock a lot of "ingredients" that can be thrown together with absolute minimum effort. I keep things like salad kits, frozen…

The only way to post something like that would be to just make a new post, ideally on the Fitness and Exercise board, and reply to yourself for any subsequent entries you want to make. There used to be a newsfeed option where you could post things like workouts and your friends could see it, but that was disabled a while…

It's easy to forget that a message board like this is just another form of social media. You have to use the same precautions you use for creepers on Facebook or Instagram. The only thing the "friend" function does is let you send private messages back and forth and to see someone's diary if they have it set to "friends…

I’d use the USDA for something like that. Honestly, I just created my own foods for just about everything I ate while I was losing. It was easier to just look it up once and know it was correct.

Yep. Been that way for a few days now. I just figured it’s a new “quirk” to work around. I have noticed if someone has posted recently it shows the correct timestamp, so I’ve only been checking boards with a correct timestamp and ignoring the rest.

Recovery from GP absolutely is possible, I’m proof of that too! I think you have a strong plan, my only advice would be to minimize fat and fiber in your solid meal. It’s been years now and I’m still sensitive to too much of those. But I can eat salad and popcorn again, which I’m not sure I ever expected to be able to do…

Even if you aren't using the "fried eggs" or "beef lasagna" generic entries, this is still a crowdsourced database. Every entry that you use should be checked and cross referenced with an outside source. The USDA database is good for whole foods, otherwise the manufacturer of the food is a good start. Once you've verified…

If you want to be able to select a choice from things you scan, why not just use the search bar if you’re going to have to scroll through and verify choices anyway? That said, I don’t think there’s any way to tie a barcode to more than one entry. It doesn’t make sense to.

This isn’t a website for people under 18 and I seriously doubt posters on an adult weight loss site know much about safe training for growing kids. You’d probably find his pediatrician or a coach at his school a safer source of information.

Nope. Not a freaking millimeter of cup loss. I thought that was an automatic benefit. That's apparently what I get for thinking! :D I lost a lot in the band size, so my cup size actually went up since I never lost any meaningful volume. I went from a 40DD to a 38 DDD (aka E depending on the manufacturer) and then a 36F.…

I had the same problem, especially when perimenopause hit. Apparently plantar fasciitis is one of those things that can pop up at that time. My best results have been using a posture board. The boards have a slant to them that gives a great stretch from your glutes to your heels. You just put it up against a wall and stand…

I can't imagine how miserable it must have been to not have solid food for three months! An emotional roller coaster for sure! I had gastroparesis for about a year and a half and could only occasionally feel well enough to digest solid food, so I completely sympathize with how much you can miss actually chewing your fuel…

How is this still here?

MFP doesn’t allow you to add a recipe to a recipe. You have to either calculate the amounts of ingredients from the original recipe you’d use in the recipe you’re trying to make or else create the new recipe without any of the old recipe elements and then add the quantity of the original recipe as a separate entry. So…

I think crazy diet stuff is more integrated into yoga than people think. I used to do a hot yoga class at a chain studio that said you needed to do a 24 hour fast to optimize the class results. Water if you must, but dry fasting was better. Multiple instructors gave that instruction at the end of class. I ignored that…

I get you on the genetics. I gain muscle relatively easily up to a point. There have been a lot of years of easy gains, but once I got serious and settled into a powerlifting program, there were a LOT of times I would work for weeks to add just a single pound to my bench. I wouldn’t say a point of diminishing returns,…

Bret Contreras and his Strong Curves program is what’s generally the go-to for glute development. And no need to worry about being “muscly”. As a woman, you have to GRIND for every ounce of muscle you build. I promise you that you won’t suddenly wake up bulky!

My grandmother had one of those. It was the most popular toy in the house for me and my cousins!

To get calories credited for your work out, use the strength training entry under cardio. Enter the entire duration of your workout, the entry has rest time factored into it.

I like all of the chocolate Fairlife and Fairlife Core Power shakes. Nonweight loss secret to them though, I still work them into my calories. They work with a handful of crudités if I decide to eat lunch.