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Exactly. Sources that tell you that there is such a thing as GMO wheat, for instance. There are no strains of GMO wheat on the market. The big genetic modification in wheat happened about 8,000 years ago, when several strains of diploid or tetraploid wheat crossed themselves in some stone-age farmer's field.

I log it all, but I don't weigh salad greens (or greens in general, actually). I eyeball those and use a generous estimate. The difference that even a cup of baby spinach or even kale makes is so small, compared to the difference a tablespoon vs. two tablespoons of oil makes. Fruit is almost all worth logging, because it…

You created milk out of protein, fat, and carbs inside your own body and used it to nourish another living thing. I feel like that is kind of the definition of "earning it." You're exclusively breastfeeding? Look at the formula serving amounts for a baby the same age and weight as yours and do the calorie count. Your baby…

Many kids get "rounder" in the beginning and middle of puberty. It is natural and part of the big growth spurts that kids are going hrough. Girls also are going to have their shapes change - they're going to fill out and their hips are going to widen and that, again, is natural. IT's a time to be very, very, cautious about…

Just out of curiosity, what would you do if your wife stopped cooking, because she was no longer able to, didn't have time to, or was no longer with you? I cook 95% of my family's food out of necessity. Doing that IN ADDITION TO my full-time job and raising my kids and participating in community life is a BIG time suck. I…

My partner was diagnosed with T2. We eat pretty well, but we do enjoy our breads and grains and some sugar. He was just told he's on his way to being taken off his meds. How? Daily exercise, moderate weight loss, and being more careful about - but not eliminating - some of his bread intake.

Be careful. Some places make their baba "Creamy" with MAYONNAISE.

Pick something you like that is low sugar. It doesn't have to be breakfast food. My mom used to eat hamburgers for breakfast because she needed high protein and didn't want eggs.

How are you defining "Success with those?" Because your waist isn't a child or animal to be trained, and your waist isn't a plant that you can train up a trellis. And your waist also doesn't have any bones in it that you can force to bend in a certain way as they grow (and even if it did, you're an adult so its too late…

Well, what was your weight last time you went to the doctor? Was it the same doctor? The same scale? If you weigh less than you did on your last visit, then you have lost that much weight since your last visit. You may have lost it earlier though. If your home scale hasn't shown a loss in weeks, but it changes when you get…

Its simple: Scales need to be calibrated to be accurate, and many scales that you can buy to keep at home aren't particularly accurate. Think about a fabric measuring tape like dressmakers use. They actually warn that over time, the fabric can stretch out and make a difference in measurements. LIkewise, a fabric measuring…

https://www.playersmoney.com/optavia/ It's a multi-level marketing program. Started by the people behind "Medifast." Enough said. It's an expensive rebranding of previous programs with a "Greenwashing" front that goes on about natural shakes and refusing GMOS https://www.dietpillswatchdog.com/take-shape-for-life/

MFPs database is notoriously full of weird and inaccurate entries. People add their own entries, and they're trying to personalize what THEY do with it, or they just get the math wrong when they divide down to "one serving," or they do weird things with units of measurement. If you really ate 4 ounces of part-skim…

You need to know, when you use the calculators online (like the one that gave you 2200 to work with) that women with PCOS have been found in some studies to have lower BMRs than women without PCOS. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18678372 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028213025727?via%3Dihub…

You count your calories, you see how much wine you can fit in. WHEN YOU DO THAT: Measure a pour. The calorie counts for a "Glass" are for a 5-oz pour, generally. Sometimes 6oz. If you have big fashionable balloon glasses, you're probably drinking a lot more per glass. If you start not eating meals so you can fit in the…

There's no requirement that you eat expensive "diet foods" to lose weight. "Healthy" foods aren't inherently more expensive (unless, I suppose, you define "healthy" as "organic free range paleo." I'm feeding my family of 4 (including 2 teens) on less than the USDA Thrifty Plan cost per week, and I think we eat "healthy."…

Have you eaten pine nuts recently? There's a wierd condition where some crops of pine nuts cause wierd taste/mouthfeel after eating....

As everyone else said: Of course it works. Reducing calories is how EVERY effective diet works, even the ones that claim you don't have to count anythign at all. However: You have to commit to being absolutely honest while doing it, because it only works if you actually count everything. You can undermine your success in a…

"people" suggest eating back only half your exercise calories because the calorie counts for exercise are notoriously inaccurate for many people. MFP suggests eating them all back, because you are aiming to create a certain deficit. The reasons not to just create an enormous deficit by calling yourself "Sedentary" and then…

Here's my observation, as someone who is older and works at a university (though not in food service) and watches a new batch of student employees come through my office every year... Over the past decade or more, Universities have been pushed to treat students like customers rather than as kids in their care. As a result,…

It looks shapely, proportional, and like a regular, strong, calf muscle. Many women don't stash a lot of fat in their calves. Since its probably mostly muscle, the only way *I* can think of to get those calves smaller smaller would be to contract some kind of wasting disease. But don't do that.

Weigh the potato, weigh the beans, count the calories, stay below your goal. If you add anything else (butter, other sauces, etc) be sure to count them. The potato is full of vitamins and fiber, the beans have protein, vitamins, and fiber. If you're trying to hit a specific protein goal, you might want to add meat instead…

I eat a serving of full-fat cottage cheese for breakfast almost every day. It keeps me satisfied until lunch.

Upon looking at some other threads, I'm putting my money on malnutrition now.

If you're 100 pounds at 5'5", you're already underweight. Are you sure you are actually bloated, or are you dealing with an unrealistic idea of what a normal belly looks like? Is this an issue of bloat, or dysmorphia? Alternatively, how low is your intake? Is this the bloating of malnutrition?

I think bottled lemon juice is standardized to a particular acidity, just like ACV and white vinegar. Most ACV brands that I've seen are standard 5% just like white vinegar. (Knowledge gained from years of canning according to safe, tested recipes).

People aren't saying you have to start eating carbs in order to start counting calories. You just need to be cognizant of how many calories you eat, even on keto diets. It's possible to eat more calories than you burn, even when you're not eating any carbs, and its possible to maintain or even gain on keto. It's not a…

Where I live, the plastic tubs of half and half also get called "creamers" - as in "I put two creamers in my coffee this morning." So half and half is not "creamer" but the little tubs sometimes are. Even though they're not cream OR creamer. ALthough they also sell non-dairy flavored coffee whitener as a liquid in little…

For some reason Americans got into having cream (or half-and-half) in their coffee instead of milk. You can get little tubs that are a couple of tablespoons of cream, and restaurants tend to use thiose. There's also the abomination that is powdered creamer. It actually gets called "coffee whitener" because its often…

yeah, people of the far north ate reindeer stomach contents, so - they ate grass. And also sought out lichens and other non-meat foods. And the plains Indians also ate plenty of parts of animals that we just don't anymore - not just livers and kidneys (which provide essential nutrients) but brains, blood, and marrow. They…