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Why it is ok for a corporation to tell you what you can use your health care benefit for, but not ok to tell you what you can use your $ benefit for. If they're going to give me $, and not prevent me from buying birth control with it, why do they care what I use their health care plan for?

It's very logical. Part of your employment benefit includes health care, which they (apparently) have the right to tell you what you can use it for. You can use your health care benefit for X but not Y. In addition they give you $, and therefore also have the right to tell you what you can and cannot use it for.

But the catch is that they monitor and regulate how you can spend your $14.50. They have the right as an employer to stop you from spending it on things they disagree with.

The data was great (I am a professional geek) but what it was missing for me was some analysis. For example: - Is the estimated calories per day in MFP on target? - Is the MFP estimation for calories burned in exercise on target? - Did how much you eat per day or week change your results? For example, does it make a…

Because unfortunately, sex is not the same as a long term relationship. What men look for in a woman for one is often opposed for what they look for in another. (NOTE: Female birds do the same thing.) But a guy will *rarely* stay with a girl he considers high maintenance for long. The best you can hope for is that he…

It's not irrelevant. There are of course plenty of people who stay thin without counting calories, and stay out of debt without counting what they spend. But if someone is heavier than they want to be (or spends more than they want to spend) there is no way to longterm success without tracking. The amazing thing to me is…

You can stop counting the calories you eat without getting fat, when you can stop counting the money you spend without going broke.

I try to rely on MFP to calculate goals (.5lbs/week, 2lbs/week, etc). From Jan-May you were going at 4lbs/week which is huge! Now it may "level off" but even with the plateau you are at over 2lbs/week. Unless you are setting MFP to more than 2lbs/week my opinion is that this is normal.

The comments had nothing to do with me leaving the relationship. There were many other issues we had as a couple. But I hated the "how did you get her?" or "she's out of your league" comments, because I wasn't happy in the relationship.

It's a very superficial comment. Several times I heard this they were referring to my girlfriend's appearance, while inside I was wincing. There was so much I was having issues with in the relationship, that I was moments away from leaving this girl who was supposedly "better" than I.

to make a proper recommendation we are going to have to see them in motion :devil:

I don't want to belabor the point, but that's the problem. If I have a chicken that weighs 10oz with the bone, neither MFP nor the package indicate if the weights they are giving also include the bone, or do I have to subtract the bone weight prior to entering. Or maybe bones aren't that heavy and I'm splitting hairs.

The problem was if package weighed (for example) 40 oz and had 4 pieces, I didn't know if each piece was 10 oz of meat, or less than that. I also couldn't find an MFP entry that helped either, did the weight of "chicken w/ bone" include the bone.

I never found a way to measure this accurately if the breast has bones. The database (and packaging) is unclear if the weight includes the bones or not. I guess I should weigh the thing before and after eating and then subtract...

That is certainly one theory...one I'd like to be true. But it's also possible that it's more like: [Normal Human ****wad] - [Anonymity] = [False Normal] After reading comments below any article, and some of the most vile things ever written to people who have never met in person, I wonder if that is the real "us" and what…

Is 41 very young? The whole point of my thread is based on the two articles I sited. IMO after reading these, if someone is going to try and lose weight without somehow keeping track of everything they eat , they are poised for a very small chance of success longterm.

Please stop misstating what I wrote. I am not saying you can't maintain a healthy weight without a diary. You can be skinny or fat or any weight without a food diary. But by the time we are past age 20 we have established a food baseline, based on what we like to eat and how much. As we get older, maintaining this same…

I can't imagine anyone having longterm success without keeping a food diary. Yes, some people are naturally thin, or are naturally less hungry. But as special as they may be, or as "not fat" as they are... I would bet that they would not be able to lose x amount of weight longterm without a food diary.

I read a similar article why counting calories "doesn't work" and they say things like "a calorie isn't always a calorie" and "3500 calories does not equal a pound of fat"...so what? Counting calories isn't perfect. I sat on the couch on Saturday and stacked firewood on Sunday. I could never accurately calculate my calorie…

The most poignant segments to me: and If these are representative of human nature, there is simply no way to lose weight without a calculator such as MFP....not that it has to be MFP exactly, but something that relieves the eater from calculating/remembering what they ate.

So 16 ounces does not necessarily = 16 fluid ounces...unless of course if it is a fluid :-/ I guess if the "fluid" is more of a chunky dressing, then problems start to occur. I get into trouble because I try to estimate how many ounces something looks like (from a restaurant, for example) when it really won't be correct in…