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If you find it satiating (i.e., you're not looking for your next meal in a couple of hours) and you get enough protein and fat throughout the day, don't worry what other people say about it. ETA -- I generally add fresh or dried fruit and thick (Greek) yogurt, but I generally have my oats cooked or if cold in a shorter…
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That sounds like it might be what you're looking. I'm not familiar with it. Just going to point out that you can go into the nutrition tab in MFP and change the view from daily to weekly and the date range you're looking at. To me it just sounds like a pain to plan out meals in another app and then have to relog them (look…
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Are there other areas of your life where you decided to change something and you did it? If so, do it that way.
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what are some vegetables that you swear by because of the health benefits?? For health, I focus on getting a variety of veggies, from different categories (e.g., leafy greens, brassicas, squashes, beans/legumes) and different colors (white, yellow/orange, green, red -- for blues, I think you have to go to fruits).
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Yes, but the good news is that you've found out that you can maintain (for four months or so, anyway) without logging. +/- 5 lbs is a perfectly normal maintenance weight range. Best of luck!
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Is there some reason you can't do that in the diary? Move things around and change them until you've got them the way you want them? There's no commitment from logging them. MFP isn't going to send someone to arrest you if you make changes after you log some.
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I think you're confusing meals and recipes. I don't think there's any way to save a meal as public. The only way to search for a recipe someone else has save as public would be if you knew what they called it.
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I would think after the filter your diet would be clean, so you must be losing weight. Maybe change the batteries in your scale?
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Same here. My first thought was someone had hacked sollyn's account.
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No, because 10,000+ steps is neither sedentary nor lightly active.
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The good news if you're willing to eat the same thing every day, you can more easily get by without a food scale. Yes, there will be variations between the size of one chicken thigh and another, but it's a lot less variation than people who are just eyeballing a half doze or more different new foods every day. Also,…
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Are you a healthy weight? If not, use the guided setup to determine how many calories you should be eating. A food scale will help you be accurate in tracking. Try to find some form of exercise you enjoy and gradually build up to where you are getting at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise most days. As for nutrition,…
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Larger deficit = compromising on muscle retention.
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Ah, yes, definitely a problem with lots of protein powders.
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Tabasco for most stuff (eggs, pizza, Cajun, etc.) For East Asian cuisines, I tend to build the heat while cooking (la you or hot oil, garlic sauce, infusing the cooking oil with dried peppers before cooking the food, etc.). For southwestern/Tex-Mex, I use hot sauces made for those cuisines, like Cholula. I tend to prefer…
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Since the optimum approach to muscle maintenance while in a deficit is pretty much the same as the optimum advice for muscle gain while in a deficit (other than factors you can't control, like being a newbie lifter, young, and male), I'm not really sure what the practical result of concentrating on fat loss and maintenance…
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Denaturing doesn't affect the nutritional value of protein. If it did, we'd get no benefit from a cooked egg, steak, chop, etc.
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Because of course once you've decided on an 800+ calorie meal, it would be silly not to to add another 200 or so calories. I don't see the irony. Why not make a rule that if you have a big mac and fries, you must order an extra large milk shake and a couple of fried apple pies to go with it? Because it's ironic not to.…
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I don't know, but I can see any reason why the default macros on MFP wouldn't work. Probably more important to ensure you're getting extra water/liquid, rather than some specific macro balance. ETA: seems like a good question for your pediatrician or OB/GYN, or something they could refer you to a dietician for information…
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When I started, I found that focusing on protein and fiber helped keep me satiated so that at least I wasn't hungry, even if I still occasionally craved things I didn't have room for that day in my calorie budget (I dealt with that most of the time by promising myself to make room another day -- but sometimes I just ate…
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When you run, you lift your body off the ground into the air. When you walk, you always have one foot on the ground. You are doing more work when you run to cover the same distance, because you are moving vertically as well as horizontally. Running is less efficient than walking, but sometimes (such as when chasing prey or…
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Sodium is only important for weight loss in terms of water weight fluctuations. It doesn't stop fat loss, but a sudden high sodium intake can increase water retention and mask fat loss on the scale for a while.
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After you take a look at those, if you still have questions, I'm sure people on the boards would be happy to help. But those are definitely a good place to start. If the threads above overwhelm you, maybe you could try to be a little more specific in just what the problem is that you're having?
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Seconding protein in grams, not %.
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Just FYI, they're probably not on this thread. I think they just troll for new female members, or just female members in general. I believe you can block them individually. Or report them if they cross a line (personally I think asking for pictures from a stranger is crossing a line, but I can't say I've checked the user…
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Yes, and this is what I was getting at when I said nobody's really wrong here and that most people aren't thinking about NEAT when they talk about screwing up their metabolism -- they seem to be thinking about having damaged the underlying chemical processes in a way that's causing them to use a lot less energy to fuel…
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OK, so you're disagreeing with Anne, but you choose to keep quoting me as though you're disagreeing with me (nothing in any of your posts quoting me substantively contradicts me, yet you keep phrasing your responses quoting me as though I said something different from what you're saying).
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I usually hit Save after every two or three ingredients, and then Edit to add more.
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Sure. It's OK to arrange your calories as you please. There's a certain logic to a large breakfast, given that you've been fasting for at least as long as you've been asleep, and are now about to become more active. But, really, whatever works for you, whether it's avoiding or minimizing digestive issues, managing satiety,…
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You seem to be saying you disagree with me, but I don't see how. I said NEAT is "funded" by your metabolism (i.e., that's how you get the energy represented by NEAT). Not quite sure what your point is.
