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I usually prefer to use the self checkout because it's less interaction close to another person and less handling of the food by another person. In addition, due to having to go frequently due to half of my food being fresh fruits and veggies and only shopping for myself, I usually only have a small hand basket of items to…

When picking up a prescription for my cat from my vet, the current protocol is to call and pay over the phone when you park, and they leave it outside the door on the table. Similarly, for vet appointments, I call upon arrival and give them the space number. They come out and pick up the animal, and the vet calls as you…

Apparently I keep my house pretty frigid, because the energy report I get from my gas company shows I use less than even the typical energy efficient home in my area despite having an old home built in the 1960's with zero insulation in the walls and the original single pane aluminum frame windows. I keep it around 66-67…

Even better, they took the search algorithm that was working pretty well and made it worse. Looking at the examples shown for picture logging, it looks similar to Google Lens. Wonder if they are tapping into that API?

I'm having to make the same hard decision. It really sucks because like you I am alone. My family is all in another state, and my partner is stuck across the country.

More good news on the front to combat this from Pfizer's vaccine development effort. Updated final results indicate 95% effectiveness. I know there are many that are concerned about the potential adverse effects with the protracted development, but at this time I think the cost benefit analysis is heavily in favor of the…

In some tentative good news against the coronavirus, a second vaccine trial by Moderns using a similar method to the Pfizer vaccine but without the need to keep extremely cold is also showing high effectiveness. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/16/935239294/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-shines-in-clinical-trial

From the information I've read, an independent assessor checks progress at a set number of cases in the group. From there, they can compare the number of cases in those individuals given the placebo vs. the vaccine. It seems they are actually reaching the goals earlier than expected because the spread of the coronavirus…

I've been logging everything I eat for... oh dear... I'm closing in on a decade! I log similarly to janejellyroll, using my food scale when at home and estimating when out. Sometimes, I'll just take some photos or some quick notes to input estimates when I'm out or at an event.

This is why we can't have nice things... I noticed similar shenanigans on flights or in the airport. Someone had a drink in front of them and just let it sit there so they could be "drinking". I heard some airlines/attendants pushing against this and requiring the mask to remain unless you were actively eating or drinking,…

I had mine several weeks back at the pharmacy in the grocery store. I was in the middle of grocery shopping and saw it was open with no wait. Just had to fill out a form on my phone while they got it ready. While I was getting it the pharmacist asked when I had my last booster shot. I know it's been well over a decade so…

For those types of foods where small non-chain restaurants without any nutrition information dominate (e.g. Thai, Vietnamese, Indian), I usually build a recipe or log the individual ingredients. I will look to recipes that seem equivalent in preparation to what I had for guidance. Coconut milk and oil are very high…

If you know roughly how many miles per week you are running, you can use that to figure out what your average calories per day are. I eat more on my high mileage running days, but my net calories are lower, so I end up doing something in between tracking to daily net calories and eating the same amount each day. Tracking…

I also use the 2.5 calories/ounce/%ABV estimate, which is close enough if you don't have further information. I do enjoy the heavy imperial stouts, some of which come in at 13% ABV and 390 calories per 12 ounce serving. The FDA controls food labeling, but alcoholic beverages fall under a different federal agency called the…

Some additional info to add, most quality trackers with HR measurements will take into account your HR range and other physiological metrics and other measurements to provide a more a accurate calorie estimate. My Garmin watch estimates my VO2MAX and measures my HR throughout the day to determine my resting HR. I recently…

Like others stated, I do weigh myself daily at this point because more data points gives me a better idea of my fluctuations and more points for trend analysis. Even when I was doing weekly, weight fluctuations could mask progress when losing weight at a slower pace when closer to goal weight. It would take several months…

This depends on your specific tracker and the algorithms it uses to determine calories. My resting HR is in the low 40's, but my Garmin watch, which also serves as my daily activity tracker, doesn't have much issue with determining a fairly accurate calorie estimate for my activities.

The only creepy requests/messages I've received on MFP is when a large group of us all set out profile photo to match that of another member to mess with folks on who was who in the feed for fun and games. I received some random requests then... and this was back when MFP still listed gender in the profile so the creepers…

After my initial loss of 50 lbs and maintenance for several years at a BMI around 25, I similarly dropped to a BMI of ~21 to get down to "race weight" for marathon performance. Even though I was eating nearly the same number of calories, I found my hunger cues were much higher at that weight. It took a long while, many…

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Like many others, I do not wear one outside when running or biking, but I'm in an area where maintaining distance is achievable. I also tend to go out at times and places where it is less busy. When walking in public areas where it's bust and harder to maintain distance or indoors in any public place, I wear one. FWIW, I…

I use a weekly calorie goal and tend to eat more evenly across the week, but still higher on my active days. My daily calorie goal tends to range from 2500 on a light bike day to over 4000 on a long run day. I will eat more on the more active days, but tend to eat "over" on the light days and "under" on a very active day…

I will second the recomendation above. Even with running with a higher end Garmin (Fenix 5) and the Garmin Run HRM that uses the First Beat algorithm that is claimed to be better, I still use distance instead of the HRM estimated calories for my runs (for running: net calories = distance in miles * weight in lbs * 0.63)…

Garmin's analysis based on the data from Garmin Connect indicates that folks are shifting what they are doing, but overall, fitness is finding a way. There are some sports where sport specific training will suffer or team sports cannot be played, but overall people are finding a way to be active even in the most locked…

My local grocery store had absolutely no bread, cheese, milk, or beans, and almost zero soup or frozen vegetables on Monday evening. You know what they had plenty of right at the front? Lofthouse "cookies".

I've reached 100k steps in a day just once. That was on a day I did a difficult 50M race, which included 1000+ "floors" worth of ascent/decent (11,000+ ft of each) on the course. Estimated about half of those steps were running, the rest were power hiking the uphills. Other than the 5 blisters on my right foot, actually…

Temperature is only part of the equation for what gives fried foods their distinctive characteristics. You can reach 375 F at below 200 psi, but high pressure boiling would still result in soggy food. Frying in oil results in water within the outside of the food boiling off, contributing to the resulting crispy texture.

Emphasis on the above point. The algorithms used by HRMs for estimating calories burned are only valid for cardiovascular activities. The mechanisms that increase heart rate for weight training are different than the increased heart rate due to cardiovascular exercise. An MFP user in the field has a good blog post…

Over my nearly nine years of consistent tracking, the time of day I have eaten has never affected my weight loss or maintenance. Over the past couple of years I have tended to eat a larger portion of my calories later in the evening and eat a significant portion of them, a quarter to a third of my total daily calories,…

This lawsuit ties into the correlational studies that diet soda drinking doesn't lead to weight loss. But well controlled studies indicate that lack of weight loss has nothing to do with any disruption to metabolism and everything to do with behavioral changes that overcompensate the calories lost from the diet drink with…