lynn_glenmont Member

Mostly what ninerbuff said. But also, just put down your phone or other device right now and go to the gym if you belong to one. If you don't, or only have a few minutes, go walk around the block as many times as you can or do some bodyweight exercise right now wherever you are.

That's great. Congratulations.

Protein is a nutrient used to build and repair muscle, including your heart.

It's not "scientifically inaccurate." Do you expect a weather graph of local temperatures over the course of the year to use absolute zero as its baseline, and to range up to lightning-strike temps? The choice of values displayed on the axes should be determined by what is useful in displaying the information. What bothers…

What Ann described is probably the easiest way to deal with this, since it doesn't require a system for keeping track of how many grams you have defined as a serving. Sometimes I prefer to have the nutritional information for a serving (when browsing recipes) reflect an amount I would normally eat. When I do that (say,…

When you're using the recipe creation feature, it should treat any ingredients as being the amount for the whole recipe, not for each serving. Did you actually put "7" in the recipe's field for number of servings?

Yes, but the process differs across platforms. On the web, click the "minus" button to the right of the food in the log to delete and just click on the food to edit the amount. In the Android app, press and hold to delete, and click on the food to edit the amount. In the iOS app, I believe you swipe on the food to delete,…

I'm wonder how this will help OP, since the responses to her question are what she can't see.

Yes, this^^ should help you. On the web version, after you click add food, right under the field for typing into search you should see "or add your favorites for all meals" — click on "all meals" to get a drop down menu to switch to get just recent foods from the meal you're currently trying to add to. So instead of this:…

Some years back (best guess 5+ years) things I had logged frequently -- consistently in my top five most frequent -- disappeared from most frequent over night, and I had to page back through the recent list to log them (I was still using the web site almost exclusively in those days). It's always something with MFP.

I have been noticing this, but it's limited to the app (recently logged foods still show up in the web platorm) and it's very … specific. Most foods are still showing up even in the app, but every so often something that I Iogged for the first time recently won't show up in the app. I think that it's happening with foods…

Welcome to MFP! Best of luck!

I believe the reference is to what the Android app calls the dashboard. Towards the upper right there is an "Edit" button, and after you click on that, you can click on edit goals — instead of going to goals in the long list of "more" items.

I would think that if you eat a late breakfast that is more calories than usual, you wouldn't need to eat as much for lunch.

It's always helpful when you're asking how to do something to tell us what platform you're using (web? iOS app? Android app?). Maybe they've finally gotten rid of this useless function that seems to do nothing but confuse some people and make others needlessly anxious.

I think if you're responding to a lot of first-time posts, they're going to reflect the reality that the percentage of people who stick with an intention to pursue a particular approach to losing weight for more than a day or two is pretty small.

It's been about 12 years, so it's not easy to remember exactly. I do remember making a many-ingredient dish about five or six weeks in and feeling like the prepping and cooking were a bit of work, but the logging wasn't.

I feel pretty confident in betting on the apple pie, as it has a greater variety of nutrients.

If your choice is between walking and the gym because you're not in shape to jog or run instead of walk, you're probably not in shape to burn a lot more calories at the gym. Plus, you can start walking the minute you step out the door, whereas there's probably some time lost in getting to and from the gym, so walking may…

I think what irritates me about it is that it seems to be completely cosmetic, so somebody thought it was worth wasting coding resources for a cosmetic change when there seem to be a lot of functional issues that bother users, some of them for years, and there's nothing done about them. (Other than problems with syncing,…

Yeah, when I read "invest" in the OP, I thought they were talking about buying a franchise from the company.

Did you check how many servings the recipe you created is for? I believe it defaults to 1, so if you didn't change it, it's including all the calories in the entire recipe in one serving.

If you're using the app, you can search your recipes by clicking on "add food" under a meal in your diary and then under the "recipe" tab, just start typing the name of the recipe. It doesn't have to be the beginning of the name. If you know it was a stew but you're not certain whether you called it beef stew or meat and…

Hi. You can use the app without being "social" with it (just log and don't post) but there are lot of community members who are happy to answer questions if you have them.

You're at a normal BMI (a function of your height and weight). Do you have a goal beyond just hitting a lower number on the scale? It's a shame for you to have such negative feelings about a number that is in a normal range for your height. Is it possible you're getting unrealistic ideas of what a healthy body looks like…

I recommend getting a kitchen food scale for more accuracy at home and to make you a better estimator when you eat away from home. I also recommend checking the database entries you use for accuracy, since it's a crowd-sourced database, plus maufacturers' recipes can vary across time and geographic borders. Best of luck.

Just spitballing here, but if the data is available on the web version, I would try uninstalling and reinstalling the app on my phone.

Goals in MFP are based on RDA recommendations and the like, which don't exist for PUFAs and MUFAs. I shoot for 50 grams of fat overall as a minimum from a variety of sources, including PUFA rich sources, since the essential fatty acids are PUFAs. I find that MFP database entries frequently don't have MUFA and PUFA…

Add fats to your diet: cook with oil; dress salads, veggies, pretty much any savory food with oil, butter, sour cream, etc; use full-fat dairy or nondairy substitutes in coffee, tea, or cereal. Some people also find it easier to drink calories without feeling stuffed. Milk and smoothies can add nutrition, but if you're…

You can do it yourself. You're the one who knows which entry you want fixed and how. You're just talking to other users here — we don't possess any magical updating powers that you don't have yourself.