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I thought the implication of the comments above were more that the original post sounds like it were penned by a poorly trained bot, rather than that the OP is a "skeezy marketer." Which if the OP is human has a different unkindness issue, admittedly. It would be nice if everyone were universally kind in their comments and…

You are still bearing your body weight when you use crutches or a walker -- you're just bearing it on your arms/shoulders instead of your legs/hips.

It might help if you describe exactly what is happening. Can you see your recipe list and click to log, and nothing happens, or is not letting you see your recipe list at all? In any case, my first suggestions would be (1) to log out and log back in; (2) turn your phone or computer off and reboot; (3) try using a different…

I'm assuming "go out for what I should be eating" is a typo or autocorrect error for "go over what I should be eating." Just eating less than previous binge calories is no guarantee that you're in a deficit. You need to be under maintenance, and after 38 days (and not being of an age where you would have reproductive…

Foods should stay in your my food list until another user edits it (if you made it usable by other MFP users) or theoretically forever (if you did not make it usable by other MFP users). Foods should stay on your "recent" list until there are enough unique more recent foods in your diary to knock it off the list (which is…

These community discussions are part of the free version. In fact, there really isn't a free "version" and a paid "version," just paid features and perks that overlay the paid version, as I understand it. both "versions" use the same food database, the same community boards, etc. Could you be more specific about the issue…

No, I haven't found that.

The calorie calculator is to give you a number of calories to consume every day. You already have that number from your doctor and should not substitute a number from MFP's calculator. Just use the diary to be sure you're eating 3000 calories a day. Wishing you success!

A more personalized recommendation (rather than a broad recommendation for all women) by the National Academy of Sciences is to consume 14 g of fiber per 1000 kcal.

8 mg is the RDA for adult men and post-menopausal women (or women post 50 years, which I assume is meant as a default for post-menopausal women, possibly because the people making these recommendations think women are too stupid to know if they're post-menopausal but can figure out how old they are).

Best of luck on your fitness journey and retirement adventure.

Douse your veggies, proteins, and starches in olive oil? Butter and/or olive oil in your coffee?

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Have you only logged recipes so far? You will have to search the database to add foods. Click on "add food" in your diary, type the name of the food you want to log (with the brand name if what you ate was a packaged food) in the search field and click search.

No -- there are only four people eating. The number of eggs they are sharing is immaterial to the logging of the butter used to cook them. OP should log 0.25 tbsp of butter.

Realized I left out quite a few things I normally or frequently have on hand, like cheese (both for cooking, such as mozzarella and Parmesan, and for snacking -- a charcuterie plate, with cheese, any suitable meat I have on hand, fresh or dried fruit, nuts, picked veg or crudites, crackers/bread/rolls, mustard, jam or…

It's going to depend on what you like, what your goals are, how much time and effort you want to put into food prep, whether you are shopping preparing meals for other people and what their preferences are ... I'm generally shopping just for me and like to do a mix of scratch cooking and easy, low to no prep meals. I…

Just log your food in your diary under "today." If your diary says "yesterday," just click on the arrow to the right of the word "yesterday." There's also a calendar icon you can click on to select a specific date, instead of having to page through a day at a time.

It's good to have a plan and to be flexible when things get in the way of your plans. Maybe you can be active with the kids -- take them for a walk, play outside, etc.

I believe you see that they posted, but not the content of their post. Unless somebody else quotes them.

If we're talking about packaged/manufactured food (e.g., bread, cold cereal, canned soup, frozen burrito), I have the package I got the food out of so that I can compare the label to the database entry to be sure it's accurate. I'll use an accurate entry where the user selected the volume measure rather than one where they…

Just eat the egg shells too. 😜

You've been logging your calories consumed and you haven't lost any weight for at least two weeks. Eat less than you have been. Try 500 calories less per day than your average intake over the past two weeks.

I have never seen predefined number of servings in the recipe calculator. Are you using the recipe importer instead of the where you enter each ingredient yourself? Anyway, if those are your only choices, I would choose one of the options, divide the total grams by the number of servings I chose, which would be the number…

I agree with Ann that it's individual. I'm 5'4", female, around 167 pounds, and I'd lose a pound a week on a flat 1800 calories, without any intentional calories and a borderline sedentary/lightly active lifestyle. Maintenance is between 2300 and 2400. Like Ann, I'm outside the average for my demographic. We don't know…

Sure you can. Go to goals.

Logging exercise is at the bottom of the diary page in the (Android) app, and on its own tab on the website. If you can't find a particular exercise when you search for it, you can create it. A METS database might help you pin down calories burned from a given activity. Personally, I wouldn't worry about calories burned…

And buckle your seat belt. And limit your alcohol consumption. And protect yourself from the sun. And don't get addicted to heroin. Not sure how to rank order all these and other risks, but "anything is better than being obese" seems false.

There used to be a button for adding method (instructions), but it was for some contemplated future feature that apparently was never implemented. After discovering I couldn't retrieve the method I had spent time inputting, I never used it again, and I haven't seen that option lately, so I assume it's been abandoned. The…

I agree with you on using supplements if needed and in general getting blood work done to identify an actual deficiency before supplementing, but just wanted to point out that nutritional yeast only has B12 if it has been added to it (supplemented/fortified) -- it's not a natural source of B12. OP, if you're going to…