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Meal variety has nothing to do with achieving your weight loss goals. Calories drive that. Are you following a low carb or keto diet, that might be helpful to mention in your OP so that you get responses that are useful. I’m another one that doesn’t have staple meals. Breakfast had the most consistency either yogurt,…
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It’s accurate if you put in accurate stats, an appropriate weight loss goal, understand the basic principles of energy balance (CICO), and use the tools provided to create the calorie deficit needed to hit that target consistently over time. Logging accurately, ideally using a food scale, is highly recommended in order to…
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I also am at 1AF day out of 1 so far.... Sundays are often a toss up for me as to whether I will drink or not. It’s a school/work night but it’s also a day when I try to get extra exercise, may have extra cals from the week to use up, and try to make a nice dinner so I often want a nice glass of wine to go along. Today was…
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Lemon danish
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Pastries this morning from the neighborhood bakery. Dinner tonight - grilled pork tenderloin and potatoes, carrots and brussel sprouts all done in the air fryer.
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Depends what I am planning to do with it. I’ve done salsa chicken quite a bit - so basically a half cup chicken broth (I use that pretty much regardless) and then a jar of red or green salsa and some cumin, salt, pepper, etc. I’ve also done more of an Italian shredded chicken with again, chicken broth, basic Italian spices…
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There are lots of good ideas on Pinterest and if you use the search button here you can see other similar threads and ideas shared. Some people are hard core and prep a full weeks worth of multiple meals on the weekends. I’ve never been able to allocate that much time or fridge space to those sorts of efforts but I do:…
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Gooey butter danish but it was more like crumb coffee cake - I had a sliver of that and the cinnamon roll in the middle on the right.
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Pastries from the neighborhood bakery this morning. I went for the cinnamon one, and a fourth of the iced peanut roll.
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I’m in! I love “March Mindness”! I haven’t talked about my Mindful Moderation in a while but it’s definitely the approach I use ever since joining this group. I’m not always successful on days I do drink, but I definitely am far more mindful than I used to be. And I’ve also noticed that not drinking doesn’t require focus…
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Ended Feb with 14 AF days, if it hadn’t been for that darn leap day I would have been right at 50%! Good month for me alcohol wise but a lot was because we battled so much sickness in late Jan that is still lingering so there hasn’t been a lot of socializing. I also had my work trip cancelled, and all are on hold for…
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Read the stickied most helpful forum posts in the top of the getting started and other sections - they have a wealth of information about how to set appropriate goals, how to log accurately, why you should eat back exercise calories, how to be successful using the site, what to do if you hit a plateau, etc. What are your…
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Sounds very sensible! So have you used MFP to log intake? What goal does it give you for a loss of 1 lb/week? How about 1.5 lb? As you know you don’t need keto to be successful, but some people do have luck with a lowish carb approach, particularly if you find that way or eating satiating as I mentioned above. That might…
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Refined carbs may trigger bad cravings for YOU but that is not universal. And there is no need to cut out white flour and sugar, in moderation sugar is completely fine and how do you know what the OP is feeling at mid day? Also... why not diet soda which is >98% water? Blanket, arbitrary advice about extreme restrictions…
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I generally am a proponent of advising people that it’s ok to eat what you still eat just a little bit less, so that the changes don’t seem so drastic. However when you’re used to a really high calorie intake (surplus) and trying to shift to a deficit, it’s going to be a pretty significant swing. I would try to make sure…
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@shorepine I keep meaning to ask you, how excited were your kids about the pony? Got any pony pix? That’s so cool!
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Husband had had some lingering jaw/tooth pain so we haven’t been eating “chewy”!foods but when he’s better I’m excited for steaks in the Air Fryer, any tips?
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Hmm. What is that? My husband’s favorite Super Bowl appetizer is what he calls “mini pizzas” which is basically cocktail rye bread baked with a topping comprised of velveeta, cooked pork sausage, and a little bit of tomato sauce all mixed together like a thick chili cheese dip. I have to say I love them too.. this looks…
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The biggest air fryer fanatic I know around here is @just_Tomek ! I got one for Christmas, unexpectedly, and love it. And I do have both a convection oven and a toaster oven. I made salmon and roasted green beans in it last night. 10 min salmon, 5 min green beans. Chicken breast the night before and I was worried it would…
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In!
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I’m sitting at 14/26 days AF which means no matter what I will have half of a normal month of February AF... ;) We traded our hockey tickets last night for two extras on Saturday so we can take the kids, that gave me an extra AF night this week I hadn’t planned on. Thought about having a glass of wine with dinner tonight…
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On the iOS App, at the bottom of the Diary page, there is a button called Nutrition. If you click that you can select weekly view of net or total cals. I look at mine Monday to Sunday but I think it defaults to a rolling 7 days.
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Yes. It’s the deficit you create over time that matters. I often bank calories through the week for more indulgent weekends. If you use the app you can look at your goal weekly rather Than daily
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If you have your FitBit synced then make sure also to enable negative calorie adjustments. This ensures on days when you are less active, it gives you less calories, sometimes even less than the original target if you don’t meet the expectation. That usually is pretty rare to finish the day in the negative, unless really…
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How much weight have you lost? Over what period of time? What calorie deficit were you striving for during loss? Have you calculated what you think your maintenance cals will be? What is your exercise like? Do you currently log your intake? Use a food scale?
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We bought into a partial season pack with some friends who have been long time season ticket holders but with the Blues winning the Stanley Cup (woot!) last year the prices were too high for them to keep the whole set for themselves. We ended up with 13 games but 5 of them are in February! Blackhawks Tuesday that should be…
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AF tonight even with some spring like temps - went for a hike, a family walk to the park, and grilled burgers for dinner and am still under cals for the week. All that would normally have me reaching for the Rose but I decided I needed to squeeze in an extra weekend AF day because I have tickets to two hockey games and…
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I agree with the above advice. With FitBit synced and negative calories enabled you can pick an activity level that reflects your typical step count (if averaging more than 10-12k then you’re active) and MFP won’t give you an adjustment until after your FitBit projects you will burn more cals in the day than MFP estimated…
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Dinner last night at a newish seafood restaurant. It was late after a movie so we just split some small plates. Crab Cake, Mussels with Thai red curry sauce, and lobster fries with herb aioli.
