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Not for nothing, but maybe don't spend your energy thinking too much about and judging what other people record for their burns? Yes, I have a few people on my feed who are fooling themselves {shrug}. I used to fool myself, too. I feel much better about everything now that I do a TDEE minus method instead of trying to…

For produce ALWAYS use the USDA entries (no asterisk and they currently say "generic"). And those entries always have an option for logging in grams.

Both Person A and Person B would lose weight at about the same rate, it's really primarily just calories. Making "healthier" choices is really a matter of overall health and wellbeing. Getting proper nutrition fuels your body better, so that person MIGHT have more energy and better digestion, for example. But that being…

^^^THIS. Accurate logging is essential, and harder than it sounds for many people. The database is so full of other people's recipes, but they're mostly nonsense and you really shouldn't use them. Use the USDA entries for the foods you cook with and use MFP's recipe builder for things you make a lot. Use restaurant entries…

Oh, we're playing THAT game? Duelling tickers? The one with the highest weight loss is right and everybody should do what that person says I guess. I eat the same amount of calories every damn day. I don't plateau. I have lost 130 pounds so I win obviously. How do you like that research? The post quoted above is NONSENSE…

My old scale was like that -- I needed to replace the lithium battery 3X a year, which just seems way too often for a lithium battery -- those things aren't cheap, and it can sometimes be hard to find the one you want. It was a good scale otherwise though. I ended up just buying a scale that I knew took AAAs so at least…

"Dinosaur egg" is a brand name for a particular cultivar of pluot produced by a specific grower, I think. Occasionally the term is extended to all pluots. A pluot is a kind of hybrid of a plum and an apricot, that's all. Pluots are generally delicious, though there's a WIDE variety of flavor by different cultivar. Not all…

I workout every day, and 2 days a week that's swimming. I only wash my hair 1X per week, and that's on one of my swim days. The other swim day I just rinse with conditioner. But even though I get really sweaty and the hair close to my scalp gets pretty wet when I workout, I don't wash it. Once a week I'll rinse it with…

I sometimes have issues with my video player so here's my low-tech solution for doing my favorite streaming exercise vids. 1. I write down the different exercises from the favorite vid on index cards. For example, the first card might say "kettlebell swings 50 seconds," the second card might say "kettlebell clean and…

When people say "eat less than you burn" the "burn" in this case refers to your TOTAL caloric burn for the day, generally referred to around here as your TDEE. Your exercise burn (like the 300 calorie example above) is only a small part of that. Your total caloric burn for the day -- your TDEE -- is the sum total of: BMR…

You're eating too few calories, which means even though you think you're eating "healthier than you've ever" eaten before, you're not getting enough nutrients. Not just micronutrients (maybe them too, of course) but particularly macronutrients like protein and fat. Period. You need an absolute minimum of nutrients, and at…

Actually this is a great point. It's fun for us "successful losers" to point our fingers at the people who haven't figured it out yet and blame them for not being willing to put in the work and "wanting" to overcomplicate it. But the truth is it's very difficult for many people to understand why their previous attempts…

1. Do you think you're earning "virtue points" or something, and that -- even though you SAY you know that it's about calories -- you "deserve" more weight loss than someone else based on them making choices that YOU judge as less virtuous? 2. Does judging other people for eating less clean than you burn hella calories or…

This is pretty common, actually. So many people have been conditioned to hear that you've done it with {name of fad diet plan or nutritional system here}. I get the same thing. It usually ends with a puzzled ... "so, you've done it all on your own?" Yes, I just eat sensibly, track my calories carefully, and exercise a lot.…

Can I take a middle ground / pendantic route and say somewhere in the middle? "Happy" and "Unhappy" are pretty subjective. Being obese (full disclosure: being super obese) was not fun, and I knew it. As you say, worrying about fitting into chairs, trying to find clothes that fit, the aches and pains, the difficulty with…

Anything that "works fast" will, at best, make you lose pounds of stuff OTHER THAN FAT. A lot of the crazy advice you're seeing in this thread is stuff that will make the scale tell you you've "lost weight," but won't be particularly helpful in losing body fat. Things like concoctions to make you poop more (great -- lose…

Depending on what you expect on the outcomes, sure you can do them at 425, or even just 400. (When in doubt, I err on the side of getting the meat right, because undercooked meat is BAD, and meat that is overcooked on the outside but undercooked on the inside is also BAD). Your veggies will turn out less brown and…

Out of curiosity, what are the consequences of when a new day "starts"? Is this about maintaining a streak? But yeah, time zone sounds like a good solution!

Well, it's really about: 1. When eating or cooking with INGREDIENTS (meat; fresh fruit and veg; unprepared grains or dry beans), look for the USDA entries. They DON'T HAVE AN ASTERISK next to their name. Lately, the MFP people ::seem:: to have modified all those entries to include the word "generic." But be careful:…

I don't really get night "cravings" because I PLAN on eating a treat sometime between dinner and bedtime. I know me well enough to know that if I don't wrap up the day with a treat I'll just go to be cranky. So I have it to look forward to all day. In the winter it tends to be whole grain toast with a little nut butter and…

If you are basing your belief that you're not getting enough potassium on your MFP nutritional report, you can almost certainly RELAX. User-submitted entries (i.e., MOST of the entries) in the MFP database do not include a potassium measurement, even though most foods include SOME potassium. It took me a year of logging,…

Before I finally bit the bullet and BOUGHT A BETTER FOOD SCALE (my old one only went to 5 lbs, my new one goes to 7.5 lbs and was still very cheap), I used to count ladlesful when the soup was done. That is, as I'd spoon the soup out of the cooking pot and into the storage pot, I'd count out each ladle. Then I'd know…

I started at 335 and am now down to 212 so far w/o surgery. My diary is also open if you are looking for ideas.

They're YOUR priorities, you pick 'em. Then accept the consequences of 'em. How about: YOU do YOU, and maybe worry less about what other people you've labelled "gym bunnies" do? Because I honestly can't tell from your post how much of this comment is frustration that you want to do more than you're doing, versus how much…

Actually those are great tips. I'm sensitive to everything. I also tend to use sunscreen marked for babies and children, I've just noticed that always seems to be the highest SPF stuff available. Somebody above said that SPF 70 is "too much" and I'm like "how can there be TOO MUCH sun protection? What does that even mean?"…

Bump to see the responses! I've been using the Safeway store brand spray-on, and it definitely DOES stain.

When I was more obese I felt I had the opposite problem. Like, when I went to the farmers' market, all the food truck people selling pastries and fancy sausages and cheese would seriously ramp up their patter or just directly address me ("Hey, ma'am? Ma'am! FREE SAMPLES!") when I started walking by, like they were thinking…

I feel the same way you do. Bumping for replies. FYI, change your IMG to lowercase to embed the pics! :smile:

I think I've seen a lot of stuff lately that generally says that "ANY exercise isn't particularly helpful for weightloss" and these recent studies just suggest that people who exercise ::sporadically:: tend to overestimate how hard they worked and overestimate how many extra calories they can eat. I've never heard anything…

When I started with exercise a year ago I used fitnessblender.com exercise vids. They are free, they rate their exercise videos by difficulty so as a beginner you know right where to start, you can search their site by type of exercise and what equipment needed (and mostly their stuff requires no equipment, so you can…