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I mostly do a combination of "pre-logging" (not really planning what I'll eat for specific meals -- it's mostly for keeping my focus on food that needs to be eaten because it's perishable and to find a good database entry for foods that aren't in my regular rotation that I've bought, so I don't have to worry about that in…

Some of them seem to have had errors introduced when they ran a database-wide "fix" to add metric-unit servings to entries that only had imperial units, and ended up with the values for 1 gram being 100X what they should be. Or the infamous (but I think finally fixed) clove of garlic with more than a thousand calories (the…

Also not a trainer. Agree with Ann on viewing your client's diary. You could log a meal in your own diary and message your client to copy it (you can copy a meal from a friend's diary with a couple of clicks -- it's not a manual process of copying each food.

You're not "practically" starving yourself. On 700 kcals per day, you are starving yourself. As others have recommended, you should adjust your expectations and not try to lose 40 pounds "fast."

I agree with you about the brewed coffee at Starbucks, which I do not understand, because I can make a decent pour-over or French press cup at home using Starbucks beans, so it's not the roast. And given the amount of business they do, it's hard to believe the coffee is sitting on a burner long enough to go bad. So it…

When I had an office to go to, I didn't drive. I took public transportation. And you were subject to arrest if you consumed food or drink on the subway, or even in the station. (Never heard of it actually happening to anybody who stopped or threw it away when asked, but it did happen.) So it was either drink really bad…

My point (responding to somebody else) is that it's not "extremely rare" to be able to eat frozen food and lose weight/maintain loss, while getting tasty, reasonably healthy food.

Do they make puppy carriers like Baby Bjorn carriers? You could go for a run and use the puppy as a weight vest (I'm assuming we're not talking about a 40 lb puppy).

I love to cook, but I don't have the time/energy/incentive (cooking for one) as often as I'd like. I had a frozen chicken and cheese chimichanga for breakfast, smothered in plain greek yogurt (in lieu of sour cream/crema), and instant black coffee. Very satisfying and tasty and within my calorie allotment for breakfast.…

The defaults MFP gave you are generally a reasonable place to start, especially if you aren't on a steep deficit of calories (if you are, you might want to push the protein up a bit). If you share your goals, stats, activity level, etc., people might be able to give you some more tailored advice.

And just for clarity, the rounding up is for display purposes. The unrounded number (at least as far as one digit past the decimal point) is still there behind the scenes. So occasionally it might look like it's not adding correctly when you compare daily totals to individual entries. At least that's what I've found.

Sounds like a good plan.

"Acceptance" doesn't eliminate health consequences. Overweight people don't need to berate themselves or get stink eye and nasty remarks from others to have "accountability."

I think for the most part, it works best to use meals for meals -- a collection of foods you typically eat together but may vary the amount of the individual foods each time you have it, or maybe you change up some of the individual foods -- so maybe you have a meal named Sandwich and the meal includes the two different…

Absolutely -- specific changes that work for you instead of tracking is perfectly fine, if that works. I just think the person running the class in the OP is saying "weighing is an inaccurate to track calorie. Here, try this even less accurate way of tracking calories."

I don't know. I do know that cyclamates are banned in food and drink in the U.S.

She cautioned against weighing and measuring because it's too diet-focused and "we can't ever truly know" what calories are in our food (? - something about the calories it takes to digest certain foods). Calories in, calories out is oversimplified. "Tracking calories is difficult and most often inaccurate." The fact that…

You can't control what other people say and do, just what you say and do. (1) You can decide ahead of time that when you've said, "no, thank you," to some offer of food once, you don't have to respond to any subsequent attempts to push food on you. (2) You can decide that if people get so pushy that you can't stand it,…

Apparently you're part of OP's extended family. You could have just saved these "I know better than you what's good for you" and "you should eat what I think you should eat" remarks for the reunion.

I use something called partially defatted peanut flour, which is pretty much the same thing except nothing in it but peanuts (minus some of the fat). Last time I bought it, it seemed cheaper than PB2 and similar products -- probably because they don't seem to advertise and offer it like a commodity, maybe for baking? It's…

Smucker's Natural PB is just peanuts (including the oil in the peanuts) and salt. I buy it because I don't like sugar in my PB and I don't think PB with other oils tastes as peanutty (other oils are added because they are more solid at room temp, hence the PB doesn't separate and have to be stirred up). I believe Crazy…

Ditto, except I didn't have a fitness tracker. Mostly just time and perceived intensity and a METS list. ETA Obviously everyone will have their own experience. As Lietchi suggests, tracking for a month or two and using your own data and results is very helpful. I did this after my first couple of months and again a year…

... you might want to get a second opinion (stupid app wouldn't let me access the end of my post to keep typing). Third, you need to engage in progressive resistance training. You're not going to build muscle unless you challenge the ones you have.

Consume energy at a small surplus over your non-muscle-building needs (200 to 300 calories, a little more if you're young, male, and new to strength training) -- your body can only build so much muscle, so any extra calories are going to just add fat, which I assume is not what you want. Get plenty of protein, because that…

I don't consider it cheating. I'm leery of new drugs, especially if you're considering them for a condition that is not near-term life-threatening or likely to cause major, irreversible damage (like organ failure). So for people with Type 2 diabetes or morbid obesity, it might make sense to take a chance on something still…

That's interesting, but if I had a reason for wanting to change arms, I don't think I'd be overly swayed by a single study that only measured immune cells two weeks out. Also, I'd want some data on whether the lower number found with using opposite arms was insufficient -- no point in trying to boost the immune response if…

In Vegas, I find it very easy to stay on target by going to the buffets. There's no law that says just because you paid for an all-you-can-eat meal that you have to fill your plate three times with high-calorie, low-nutrition foods, followed by seven different desserts. There are always plenty of plain veggies, clear…

I have noticed that some people take the raw mg shown on the label and plug those in the database entry when they create it. 11 mg is about 1% of the U.S. RDA for calcium.

"Incomplete" doesn't mean the food doesn't have all the essential amino acids. It just means the essential amino acids are not in the food in the perfect proportions that would allow your body to use all of them to build proteins if that food were your sole source of amino acids. It sounds like you're getting a good…

go to your exercise diary (on the web) or the exercise section at the bottom of your diary (in the app), click add exercise, click cardio, and search for yoga. You should find several entries, including specific entries for hatha yoga, chair yoga, and bikram yoga.