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I don't lift weights, I'm long and lanky and I've never been very concerned with having a bunch of muscles. It doesn't help that one of arms is permanently dislocated at the elbow. I do some cardio, mostly just walking on the treadmill for like an hour a few days a week. I don't look emaciated by any means but I'm not fat…

I love freeze dried fruits.

I was never severely overweight, I just steadily gained weight by eating like a pig and was like 20 pounds heavier than I had ever been before. Earlier this summer I went to a water park with my girlfriend and saw how bad all of the really overweight people looked in bathing suits so I figured I should try to do something…

You can but I wouldn't recommend going without it completely.

Theres a ton of fighting going on in this thread. Big shock! Everyone should read this article. http://www.businessinsider.com/diet-soda-may-not-be-any-better-for-you-2013-7 It basically says that people who drink a lot of diet sodas encounter the same problems as those who drink regular soda and that fake sugars can trick…

I just posted this link in response to her original post. http://www.businessinsider.com/diet-soda-may-not-be-any-better-for-you-2013-7

Just to further clarify: According to Swithers, the trouble with artificial sweeteners is the same thing that makes them so popular — they taste a lot like sugar and have few or zero calories. For example, the molecule for sucralose (found in products like Splenda), is extremely similar to the molecule for sugar. That is…

It is easy now with smartphones and the availability of information, just think of how much more difficult this would have been 10 years ago let alone 20.

Its funny that you mention the stuff about food that isn't in the journal because I'm planning on using a groupon tomorrow and treating myself to some Japanese Steakhouse food. I'm trying to figure out how to most accurately log it with the included soup, salad, rice and whatever my entree is going to be (I'm thinking the…

A lot of it can be solved with planning or a simple system of checks and balances. For instance every once in a while I will want some fast food. So if I want to eat some fast food for dinner I will decide what I want that morning and pre-log it for dinner so I know how many calories I can have the rest of the day to stay…

I would not recommend the Slim Fast diet, I tried it for a week before I started using myfitnesspal and it just leaves you feeling very hungry at the end of the day. I'm not a huge breakfast person just because I never leave myself enough time in the morning to make some food so I will drink a Slim Fast as a breakfast…

I don't really have a goal of how many calories I have left but its usually within a couple hundred.

I weigh myself once a week for the purposes of tracking my progress on MFP and I may skip this week because I am going on a trip for a week from this Friday to next Friday so it will be difficult enough to stay under calories without MFP lowering my calorie goal because I recorded a lower weight.

Just to throw a wrench into this whole topic this article written by the chair of biological anthropology at Harvard University basically says that cooking meat adds calories because it is more digestible.…

I'm in the same boat. Male, 29, 210 lbs with 25 to lose. My net calorie goal is currently 1500. Yesterday I only ate 1270 calories and walked on the treadmill for an hour and felt fine. I thought it would be tough to stay under 1500 calories but its pretty easy if you're not going out to eat.

I've heard that MFP overestimates how many calories you burn so if you eat them all back you might end up accidentally eating over your goal. I generally just eat if I'm hungry. My net calorie goal is 1500 but I only ate 1270 calories for the day and supposedly burned 400. I'm not really hungry though so I'm not worried…

Raisinets. Shortly before I started on MFP I was on Raisinets binge where I would eat not just a box but a bag of them a night. I looked it up and that bag is 1330 calories, by comparison I only ate 1270 calories today.

Male 6'3", 210 pounds Trying to lose around another 25 to get to 185 pounds. I walk for an hour on the treadmill at 3.5 mph 4 or 5 days a week. My current net calorie goal is 1500 and i'm usually a little bit under that.

It won't be cheap anymore if they get their way and get $15 an hour. Ridiculous.

I'm between 6'3" and 6'4" and 210 lbs right now. According to what I can find with a medium frame I should weigh around 185 lbs so I have 25 lbs to go.

In general people worry way too much about what each other are doing, especially if it isn't hurting anyone. It would be nice if MFP's estimates were more accurate but they're not and there doesn't even seem to be a consensus about how far off they are. I guess I'll just start eating about half of my calories burned back…

Yes a calorie is a calorie but anybody can see why eating 1500 calories of fruits and vegetables is better than eating 1500 calories of Twinkies.

Yesterday for dinner I went to Sonic and had a pretzel dog and cheese tots. I still stayed under my calorie goal for the day though.

Which brings me back to the question of how accurate are the calories burned estimates that mfp gives? I've heard it is overestimated so I don't want to exercise and have supposedly burned 300 calories and eat 300 calories back if I have in fact only burned 200 calories leaving me in actuality 100 calories over my calories…

Maybe this is a dumb question but if you're really that concerned that you're not eating back all the calories you're losing by exercising and can't figure out how to do it why not exercise less so that you don't have to eat more?

Not eating enough calories seems to be a nice problem to have. I can think of plenty of foods with plenty of calories! On a related topic I started this a couple of weeks ago. Does everybody aim to hit their net calories or do you try to eat your calorie goal regardless of exercise? If you re-eat the calories you lost by…