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Good advice in both of the posts above. Check that his goal is listed as losing weight, not gaining weight. Check that height and weight are listed in the units he intended -- cms v. inches, lbs v. kgs.

Also, I support addition of carrots and mushrooms — bell peppers, mung bean sprouts, and/or mature (yellow) onions, too, if you like. Leaving out the rice will help with the reheating — I'm assuming from your phrasing that the rice was actually in the same dish with the chicken and veggies. If you want rice, I would cook…

Stir-fry would not be my choice for meal prep, unless you're just going to chop all the ingredients and maybe make a sauce ahead of time, and then just do the cooking the night you're eating it. It will hardly take any more time to stir-fry from prepped ingredients as it would to reheat a previously cooked stir fry, and it…

It would help if you told us what platform you're using-- the website, iOS app, Android app? But in general, you go to your food diary and click on "add food" below the meal you want to log. Since it sounds like you're just starting, you won't have any foods in your recent, frequent, or "your" foods list, so you'll have to…

Thinking this is something you may want to do gradually, to avoid potential digestive discomfort. Kefir, yogurt, kombucha, sauerkraut, kimchi, and pickles are my main sources.

It's hard. Pretty much any method of weight loss is going to fail for the majority of people after a year or more. That said, I had tried many times, many diets, over decades before I arrived here and tried tracking calories with a voluminous database and a foodscale. Twelve years later, I'm still more than 45 lbs lighter…

Have you seen a doctor? Did they prescribe medication? Are you taking it? Exercise and weight loss, if you're overweight, can help. Don't hump into anything strenuous, and build up speed/intensity/distance/duration gradually. Check with your doctor if you have been inactive in recent years. Ask your doctor whether you…

If your body needs to burn protein for fuel because it can't keep up with your calorie deficit by burning fat, it will have to sacrifice proper healing or proper maintenance of muscles like your heart. Eat at maintenance, or even a little above.

I (meaning you) am absolutely worth getting healthier/losing weight (whatever your goal is).

Habits beat motivation.

Best of luck to you both.

I don't think MFP enables people to search for strangers based on where they live. They've never asked for my consent to make my location known to other users (who, if you'll recall, don't go through any kind of vetting process), and I certainly hope they never will (they're very good about dealing with creeps sending…

Some things to consider: Did you get your calorie goal here, or from a site that includes your planned exercise in the calorie goal? If the latter, are you logging exercise and thus double counting it? How are you calculating your calorie intake? Estimating and eyeballing? Not likely that's accurate enough. Volume measures…

Basically any non-animal whole food (plants, fungi) will have at least some fiber — whole food means it hasn't been juiced or had the hull/husk removed in the milling process or been subjected to some other process that eliminates the fiber. So, fruits and vegetables that are still pretty much as they come off the plant —…

This is happening to me to, but with all those zeros before you get to non-zero figures, any additional calories or other nutrients are insignificant. It doesn't really bother me, although I will admit I delete the extra decimal places when they catch my eye.

When __what__ says your meal portion is 1 1/2 servings? If you're logging your meals, that's for you to decide, not be told by whoever is telling you that. If you're cooking multi-serving dishes, it might be best to use the recipe feature, where you can also decide what you want to be a serving. I'm really not sure what…

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.

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.