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I also have used Paprika for many years, and was on version 2 for a long time before I finally paid for version 3 upgrade. You can actually copy out the ingredients list into MyFitnessPal and it will generally do well at finding parts for you. I don't ever put instructions in MyFitnessPal recipes, I just use it for…

It is very difficult to build muscle and lose weight. To lose weight you must be in a deficit, to gain muscle you must have a surplus. The biggest tip I would share is get a scale and use it religiously. And when I say scale I mean food scale. Weigh everything you put in your mouth and log it. People are often surprised…

Each person will need to make their own determination as to how accurate the calorie numbers on both MFP and FitBit are for them. For instance, when I follow MFP and FitBit I go up. I have gone up about 5 pounds over the last 6 months while accurately recording my meals and exercise activity. I know for me, I have to stay…

It really depends no your fitness habits. For people who use a treadmill or want step counts while shopping, it may not be very useful. I have a step counter in my watch and I wear a FitBit One. On days where I go hiking without any restricting things in my arms, the two are very close in step count. But if I go shopping…

10k is almost 5 miles of distance for the average person, 5 miles in 45 minutes is a very brisk pace and is faster than many people even complete a 5k which is just over 3 miles.

During the workweek I get about 15k to 20k steps a day because I have a treadmill desk in my office, on the weekend it is a struggle to get up to 5k steps on a day unless we have a hike planned. In the middle of winter not many hikes planned. One of my motivations though is that I wear a fitbit and I signed up for the…

I weigh in each morning, but don't pay attention to daily fluctuations. If you set your weight goal in MFP and your loss per week goal, as long as your are following that with appropriate exercise to match your activity level setting you should lose weight. It may take a couple weeks for you to start seeing number results…

This is a generalization, be careful with generalizations because they aren't true always. Eggs can actually add cholesterol to certain people and therefore without all the information such statements are lacking in foundation. For most people, eggs are healthy and will have minimal impact on cholesterol levels, and when…

I was going to post something very similar, if someone has been given a doctor's advice to lower their intake of certain foods no one here should be telling them otherwise.

The reality is I don't care where my physician has been as long as he is doing everything necessary to keep me safe. The problem with picking a location and going hyper vigilant about it is that you may be missing other important factors that could expose you to other potentially deadly things. What really needs to be…

Actually it isn't a forgone conclusion that each T of oil is going to the pancakes. If you are burning your pancakes you are probably smoking your oil. This means some of your oil is burning off. It is likely your pan is too hot. If you lower your temp, you could likely also lower the amount of oil. I typically cook…

Honestly I started out with a goal to lose 30 lbs, then I changed it to 50lbs, then it was 60lbs by vacation, then .... For me the motivation was in reaching the next horizon and then setting out a new target. Plateaus happen, and they aren't fun and they can be demotivating but remember that it is about forming a better…

If you go to the fitbit site I believe there is a way to reset a fitbit device. This will wipe the information it currently knows and will need to be resynced. It puts it essentially into a pairing mode. I believe when people on android were first getting the sync feature that several of them had to reset their device to…

I went from about 305 max down to 175 now and I have a fair amount of loose skin but that is to be expected as I did this almost all with cardio and no weight work. I am going to be working on that side more now that I have gotten into my target zone and hopefully some of this will clear up, but if not I am not all that…

Not what you are looking for but it isn't always about intensity either. I lost the weight I did by walking on a treadmill desk each day. Now this isn't exactly low impact but lower than say running. I started out at 1.5MPH over a couple hours at my desk. I now walk at 2.5mph for a few hours a day during the week. I…

While I applaud the reasoning behind this, setting out goals that are achievable and targeted does help to motivate people. So setting a goal of 25 lbs in 1 year, is a fairly good safe goal for most people, that is 2 lbs a month or .5 lbs a week on average. As long as your goal isn't to fit in the dress then go crazy the…

Um...I think you may have come out of your diet inverted ;). Great job though. (if you are wondering what I mean your tattoos are flipped because one was a photo and the other a mirror shot)

If you are trying to cut breads for lunches a little, you might consider getting a thermos and trucking soup or a large bowl for a salad. Personally I reduced my bread at lunch by using sandwich thins rather than full slices. They are 100 calories each and seem to have worked well for me. There are a lot of good portable…

If you are just trying to limit dairy you might consider a blended butter product. Something made with just oil and butter. These do not need to be hydrogenated to be solid and would limit your dairy volume. If you are trying to cut dairy and go vegan there are very few products that would really meet your needs since many…

Go to the URL they have posted. Next to their image you will see Add Friend (it looks grey but it is an active button). That is it. I just added you, but you have to accept ;).

For the person in Canada - try going to Costco and buying the Kirkland Greek, I find it very similar to Fage and has very similar protein content. I buy it all the time in the US and did see it on Costco shelves just last week when I was in Trois Rivieres. ALthough if you are looking for 2% they don't make that only a 0%.…

I can always use additional motivation. Especially now that the fitness challenge in the office has completed for the year no longer have minute targets I have to hit. My user locator: https://www.fitbit.com/user/23W8Z4

I missed the chewable item earlier...it may be hard to get that in a vegan product since many chewables are made with gelatin which is not vegan or vegetarian. As a vegetarian I ignore this little hiccup in the world and still consume things with gelatin as my issue is with many animal proteins not really the ethics of it…

While it is true you can get a lot of calcium from other sources, if your doctor is suggesting a supplement there is probably a reason. You may want to look at a solid calcium product rather than a chewable, the slower break down may cause less problems for your stomach. You may also be able to find a vegan calcium…

I have a fitbit also, and if I used the numbers it says directly I would gain weight not lose. It isn't bad but I generally do 1/2 of the bonus calories from walking. I walk about 20k steps a day during the work week and only about 5 to10k on weekends (before anyone questions I have a treadmill desk I walk at for about 4…

I owned a Zip, decided I liked it but wanted more features and bought a One which I use every single day. It does floors, sleep and has the ability to do timers which I find handy. The zip I don't think has a timer and it can't do floors or sleep. If these would be interesting to you then it is definitely worth the extra…

We are pretty close, I also have a FitBit I use every day since Christmas 2012 and I have just over 5 400 000 steps since I started. I am guessing a bunch of yours were done at a much higher pace than my slow plotting walk at my treadmill desk ;). I really like my FitBit One, it has really helped me in goal setting and…

Don't miss out on the Kohls discount racks too, I know their prices are overly inflated to start but they slash some stuff as much as 80% when they are discontinuing them and have a fair selection. I bought a lot of clothing at wholesale clubs figuring they would last a year, ended up lasting 5 months due to size changing…

They do also make 1 piece lids both plastic and metal for mason jars. You aren't really sealing these things for a week anyway so you may find them more usable than the 2 piece lid. The 1 piece metal often have a seal ring on them to provide a small amount of additional air sealing over the plastic. We store hard cheese…

The least I allowed my calories to get to before I flipped over to 1.5lb per week was 1300 calories, below that I probably would have started to eat random things without logging and defeated the purpose. 2lb per week sounds good when you want to lose fast but it can be real painful to deal with. I am now doing 1 lb per…