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Have to have my plain greek yogurt in the fridge at all times -- I use it to top baked/jacket potatoes, or when I'm mashing potatoes; to stir a dollop into soups, stews, and chilis; to top just about anything spicy, especially with Indian or Southwest U.S. flavor profiles; as a spread in lieu of butter or cream on flavored…

MFP doesn't "calculate results" for anybody. Your scales and tape measure and pricey fat % tests and records of exercise (times, mileage, lifting volume, etc.) show your results. If you choose to share that info with MFP, it will graph it over time for you, regardless of whether you log enough calories to be alllowed to…

I'm glad you found something you like so much!

It means you'll lose about a tenth of a pound less per week than you would if you stuck to 1700 calories every day of the week, or about five pounds less in a year. That seems pretty minimal. Only you can decide whether you want to do that.

@ulmercandace you'd more likely get useful responses if you started your own thread with your question as the topic of the thread, rather than appending it to a zombie thread that people might ignore (because it's a zombie thread) and never see your specific question. I don't use Paprika so I can't help you on the…

How are you defining cheating? If you have some rigid list of acceptable foods that don't allow you to ever have any of the things you really like, you may be making it too hard for yourself. If you set your goal to "eat in a range of X to Y calories per day," it's impossible to cheat three times in one day.

Just log whatever food you eat under whatever heading(s) you want (OMAD, Breakfast, whatever). Don't bother with the fasting settings if they don't work for you.

That's very much an individual, YMMV kind of thing.

Open your diary to friends. Become each other's MFP friends. You can then copy foods, meals, and logged recipes from one diary to the other.

Best of luck!

Well, yes, but googling isn't a very good way to get accurate information, either. Check the label or the website of the restaurant chain or manufacturer. Check the USDA nutrition database.

Black, with no sweetener, iced or hot depending on the weather and my mood, because that's the way I like it. But I have no problem with milk, even whole milk (or soy milk if I weren't doing dairy), in terms of nutrition, so if I need a few on-the-go calories I might have a latte (iced or hot), or add milk in lieu of cream.

I think when the OP said they were in chat for a little while, they didn't mean 15 years.

Are you making yolks about this serious topic? I predict that won't go over easy here, but some of us may crack up.

Thanks.

I've never used any of these apps. I'm curious: Do users just self-report their weight, or is there a real-world component for weigh-ins? What keeps the users honest?

You use the recipe function to create the recipe (you can import it from a website or add ingredients manually) and when you're done you click save. Not trying to be sarcastic. Can you be any more specific about what problem you've had in saving a recipe?

Starting a new exercise routine will generally lead to water retention for muscle repair. 15 days seems to me like a long-ish time for those effects to mask fat loss, but if you're someone who has a menstrual cycle, those hormones can cause water retention during certain parts of your cycle, plus if all these changes are…

Not really. The system wouldn't automatically adjust the values for calories and nutrients if you edited the entry and just changed the serving size. You would have to calculate all those values, based on the new serving size, and manually edit all of them. It seems like you might as well start from scratch and create a…

I don't remember feeling a lot of stress at the beginning, and what stress there was quickly disappeared as I saw I really could make this work and that flexibility could be part of the process. I think your instinct to not have a scheduled big treat (cheat meal) tomorrow after indulging tonight is a reasonable one. As…

Sunburn, like any damage to body tissue, will cause water retention.

I would think MFP would at least get a cut of the ad dollars on the community website.

Is there something specific you want from Premium that you can't get from the free version? I've been on MFP for 10 years and the free version works just fine for me.

If you want to get the thread moved to fitness, you can flag your original post, click report, click other, and type in that you meant to post it in fitness and ask for it to be moved.

How are you calculating calories consumed? Are you using a food scale?

Good to know. I haven't changed them in a lot of years, and my recollection was that I had to use the website. Or maybe it was before I had a smartphone. :p

What Lietchi said, although I think you may need to do this on the website, rather than the app.

Best of luck. If you can, maybe figure out why (in terms of behaviors and mental/emotional attitudes) you gained back the weight you lost, because you don't want that to happen again.

1) Buy less. 2) Keep a list of "eat me first" foods (mentally, on paper, on your phone, whatever works for you). 3) Have backup plans for fast-spoiling foods. Maybe you bought the bananas to slice on your breakfast cereal, but they're getting riper than you like, slice a couple in a big fruit salad or put them in a PBJ…

I would think a doctor would use an A1C test (which isn't affected by what you just ate -- it's looking at markers that reflect blood sugars over several months time) to diagnose pre-diabetes, but that's just my experience. Different doctors, different countries, different health systems and standards of care .... OP, do…