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Okay, thank you. I changed to "Aerobics, Low Impact" and the calorie count sounded much more reasonable.

I did. I chose "Group Fitness Classes" because that's how it seemed to me. I'll experiment with what I get if I change. Thank you.

I have learned a decent balance - eat lightly and make sure to drink in advance. I have had workouts where I was nauseous and I have had others where I got dizzy/light-headed/faint (once I even had to stop and sit down). So you don't want to err to either side. And then more hydration and protein afterwards.

Yes, Leslie Sansone, and the pace is 4mph with arm movements to increase the heartbeat. It really is low impact aerobics, but MFP is only giving me a calorie count as if it were Yoga or Pilates. (I log it as a group fitness class - maybe I'm choosing wrong, but that is what it is!)

Stuff like that, yes. But not lemon juice or spices.

I love them! (Just searched for and found this old thread because I'm so excited about what I did today.) I usually make the dark chocolate ones with 1/2 c chopped pecans in it - a batch makes 8 pancakes, 2 of which are a meal (so you have 2 tbsp pecans, which is a serving). About 280 calories per serving. Today I upped my…

Along with all the platitudes I've always been told about breakfast is the simple realization that breakfast is by far my favorite meal! Everything else is salads and roasted vegetables and such. Breakfast is a variety of healthy foods - fiber, carbs, protein, fruit! I love it. It would be far easier to skip lunch or…

I made a lovely dinner with eggplant, ancient grains, mushrooms, garlic, half an onion, and some tomato. I don't think I even did any special seasoning because it was so flavorful already.

Thank you. I do agree that, for the purpose of conservatism, it's not horrible to have it underestimated, just that if the calculator I used says 240 calories and it estimates only 122 calories, that's quite low. By half. Buggy and not just me! Good to know. I'm forever getting error messages and "not available" messages…

I went searching for "exercise" and "seniors" and found this thread. It's very discouraging when you go to a video and it says, "If a little old lady can do 10 reps of this, it isn't good enough for you." I am almost 72 myself and do what I can. I found many of the videos above - Leslie Sansone and also Jenny McClendon's…

I did some searching and stumbled across this thread today. My daily protein goal is about 100 grams. I've input for the day and am at 77 grams, but right up to the limit with fat, sugar, and calories. I'm a sometime pescetarian (as in, "Hmmm, it's been a month or so; maybe I should have some fish!), which I could step up,…

I take a calcium-magnesium supplement because my research showed that they need to be balanced. I do feel that they help with anxiety especially the kind that feels 'jittery' (physical manifestations).

They have Quark at Wegmans, but it's the full-fat Vermont Creamery kind. 35 calories per oz/8 oz in a container. So you'd have to be much more sparing, but it's creamier.

Here's a Pad Thai knockoff from Eating Well: Ingredients • o 1¼ pounds zucchini (2-3 medium) o 1¼ pounds yellow summer squash (2-3 medium) o 3 tablespoons rice vinegar o 2 tablespoons fish sauce (I use Golden Mountain sauce or just soy sauce to keep it vegetarian) o 1 tablespoon honey o 2 teaspoons chile-garlic sauce o 1…

I use this site and it works well enough for what interests me: https://www.verywellfit.com/recipe-nutrition-analyzer-4157076

I do a cooked cereal that's half steel-cut oats and half bulgur. I put a mixture of dried berries & nuts on top (measured carefully, of course!), cinnamon, and enough almond milk to moisten. Sometimes this is what I mix my ground flaxseed and chia seeds into.

Trail mix (just the kind that's unsalted dried fruits and nuts). Sounds healthy, right? At 600 calories a cup - and I used to scarf down several cups sitting around in the evening - it's exactly how I gained my weight!

I don't like being without it in the house! I mix it with fruit but also sometimes with veggies (think of it as a sour cream substitute), cook and bake with it, stir it into my morning oatmeal instead of milk (I don't keep milk in the house), etc. You can mix protein powder and cacao powder and anything else into it for a…

The salad I had for lunch today. I ordered carryout from a restaurant and they gave me a 500-calorie entree salad. I had half for lunch yesterday and half today.

I pre-log in the morning so I know which snacks I can choose for the day.

I'm 5 feet tall also, and probably a lot older than you; my TDEE is 1350-1430. I lost my weight eating at 1000-1100 calories per day and still it was very slow (35 pounds in 10 months) because so close to my TDEE. It's not an unhealthy calorie ceiling for weight loss for people our size. The recommended 64 ounces of water…

You've had a lot of excellent advice here, and I haven't much new to add. Basically, you WILL be moving, just in different ways (beach volleyball, riding a bike, running on the sand, etc, depending on where you're going). Watching the calories and particularly from alcohol will matter most for this brief period of time.…

First of all, losing one pound per week is a very safe and healthy pace. You're trying to build muscle and just target your stored fat, after all, and you want it to stay off in the long run. After you've seen how it goes for a bit longer period of time, you might rebalance - that is, perhaps cut your calories a smidgen…

Well, I don't know if these are habits or just daily recurring behaviors that I assign to myself, but I have to read a certain text every day, I have to meditate every day, I have to work out every day, etc. And I make myself do them first thing in the morning - as in, "You can't eat breakfast until you..." Getting them…

Your breakfast sounds just like mine, tgillies003, although I put dried fruit and nuts in depending on the muesli (some of them don't have enough for me). I haven't heard of your preferred brand and will go look it up! I'm not crazy about most of those that I've tried. I often just go back to half-and-half cooked bulgur…

I have ASICS as well and have loved them. My first pair is going into its third year and I have another in reserve for when the time comes. Maybe you just got a defective pair or not the best model.

I didn't count nonstarchy veggies on the reducing part of my plan (although I did exclude things like tomatoes and carrots), but I do now on maintenance. On the other hand, I stayed under 1100 calories that whole time to allow a little leeway. Now I'm more serious about monitoring my TDEE.

MFP won't go below 1200, BUT you can log as low as 1000 before getting a nastygram, not having it count as a day, etc. So I've been eating 1000-1100 (for the most part, closer to the low end) and balancing nutrients and calling myself done. When I occasionally get below 1000, it's easy to add a small healthy snack to the…

I'm very serious about the portion sizes mentioned on commercial packaging and the calories for those portions. They do look small when you're just starting out, but they can be amazingly filling and you get used to it. If you want a cup instead of 1/2 cup, you get to decide that, but then you need to log calories for 1…