lynn_glenmont Member

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  • Depending on how much extra weight you're carrying, losing some should help make getting around on your travels easier. I started on MFP in my early 50s and the weight loss helped with a lot of functional things like bending to tie shoes and stooping to get things on the floor and standing back up without needing something…
  • A small surplus (200 to 500 calories a day) and exercise, preferably including progressive resistance training.
  • Or you could just drink your coffee black, the way God intended 😉
  • Continuing because stupid screen wouldn't let me get to end of my post to continue typing. For lunch I had soft corn tortillas spread with vegan refried beans (meaning they aren't made with lard or other animal fat -- I used a canned brand called, I think, Siete, or maybe Siente), heated in the oven for a few minutes, and…
  • Maybe if you clarified where you're finding the difficulty? Is it that you don't know what foods are vegetarian or vegan, don't where to find those foods, don't know to combine those foods into meals? Something else? Also, if you gave us some idea of what you're eating now, it would also help, as we could suggest…
  • In a hunter-gather society, if there was no food around, they moved on to somewhere that had a food supply, dug deeper (literally, for grubs and tubers), or starved. It wasn't some natural, idyllic, weight-control mechanism.
  • I have two French presses. The first one I bought claimed to have a three-cup capacity, and with the typical modern excess-packaging, that didn't seem absurd based on the size of the box. But it turned out they were 4 ounce "cups." So I bought a six-cup French press, which translates to two of the mugs I use for coffee.…
  • Maybe change out salads for soups, especially in winter when you say salads don't appeal. To limit calories, stick with clear or tomato-based broths (rather than cream-based). You can find plenty of canned soups at less than 100 calories a serving, and if you'd rather make your own from scratch, a few minutes browsing the…
  • For me, what works is to continue to log just as I did during weight-loss phase. Most days I naturally have a small deficit, so I don't worry on days when I want to eat something that puts me above maintenance. I definitely do not eat like a rabbit. I have never eaten like a rabbit. Rabbits eat their own droppings because…
  • Log or pre-log your food to see if you are in a deficit. If you are not, look to see what you can reduce, swap, or eliminate to get into a deficit.
  • Unless you've changed the defaults, MFP displays your macro counts in your diary (and even if you have changed the defaults, you can still see your macros under nutrition). Can you be more specific about what the difficulty is?
  • Are you looking at the website or an app? If an app, which one (iOS or Android)?
  • Sure, but the app won't understand that. It will still turn your calories red to show you went over for the day, and if you click complete diary or have certain friend notifications enabled, they all only look at a single day. But who's in charge, you or the app?
  • What a wise looking kitty! The frother looks like a french press -- is there some difference I'm not seeing? I do my frothing by putting my milk in a jar (typically I re-use a peanut butter jar, but one with a good deal of extra volume compared to the milk), putting the lid on, and shaking for a while until it's frothy…
  • a bean and cheese burrito with sour cream and roasted green chile salsa and coffee with my proprietary blend of unsweetened cocoa powder, cinnamon, and ground cayenne (black, no sugar/sweetener)
  • On Shrove Tuesday, I usually focus on finishing off any meat/poultry in the refrigerator, since I give them up for Lent. There aren't any requirements this millennium in my church to give up fats, eggs, etc., for Lent, so I can have pancakes throughout Lent (and likely will, since it feels like a main course to replace…
  • Good answers above. You might want to keep track of how many cups of meat-only, meat & beans, chicken, and veggie chili you eat (assuming this event has that kind of variety), because those are likely to be the biggest difference makers. But if that's too much, and your main concern is calorie counts, just assume they were…
  • All these responses about not eating out when you're in a rush -- maybe I'm misreading the OP, but since it specified eating out, I assumed we were talking about a situation where you're already out and going home doesn't make sense, like you've doing errands 30 minutes or more from home, and aren't done with your errands,…
  • Generally I'll go to a quick (not table-service) SW/Mexican-influenced place like Chipotle, Taco Bell, or Cafe Rio where substitutions or omissions are welcomed and easy to do. I'll usually skip the rice, especially if I'm getting something that already comes in some kind of tortilla -- although if I'm going for a veggie…
  • Butter is not a pure fat. It has water, so the calories by weight or volume are not the same as oil (roughly 100 calories for 14 grams of butter compared to roughly 130 calories for 14 grams of oil). I suspect that effectively that doesn't matter, because if you're using it to cook in, what you need is the fat, and will…
  • Lots of people put butter on grits, and would think it was weird yuck to put sugar on it. Same deal in certain areas/cultures for oatmeal. I eat both mildly sweet and savory oatmeal. I've tried butter on it and didn't find anything wrong with it, but it didn't make much difference in the taste at the amount of calories I…
  • Go through the guided set-up to get your daily calorie goal. Log everything you eat and all drinks with calories (no need to log water, black unsweetened tea or coffee, diet soda). Read the "sticky" threads at the top of the discussion forums. Ask specific questions about specific problems in the forums. Do you mean…
  • You can click "no" where it asks you if the information is correct and you will often (on the website) or occasionally (on the app) be given the option to edit information.
  • What kind of workouts are you doing, and are you in a calorie deficit?
  • It's kind of an impossible ask, as premium uses the same crowd-sourced database as the free version, and any individual entry in the database could already be net carbs, depending on the preferences of the user and the labeling requirements in the country of the user.
  • Also, if you gave us an idea of how many calories you want to allot to a dessert or a snack, we might be able to give more specific suggestions. If I'm missing the point, and you're not asking for low-calorie desserts and snacks, please clarify.
  • Unless you're obese, a calorie deficit that allows you to lose two pounds a week probably isn't going to leave a lot of calories for snacks and desserts, unless you starve yourself at meals. Suggestions: fruit; tea or coffee (decaf if needed); low-fat cottage cheese or yogurt. I'm not advocating you punish yourself with…
  • Yes, but one of the problems is extremely unlikely to be not losing weight, especially for someone who is overweight and has only been in a calorie deficit for two weeks. Not to say there couldn't be other issues coincidentally causing maintenance despite a large calorie deficit, but the calorie deficit itself isn't the…
  • You don't need to have exactly one serving. If you give yourself 76 g of something for your portion, and the serving size is 170 g, for example, just divide 76 by 170, and put 0.45 in as the number of servings (click on 1 where it says number of servings to change it).
  • You can create a food without immediately logging it and it should show up in your foods.
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