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They're just basically Tupperware containers, which you can get a stack of for a dollar at Dollar Tree, for instance. And it's not going to be accurate, anyway, especially with things like, say, rice or mashed potatoes. You can just shove it in and call it good, whereas weighing with a scale will be accurate. It's honestly…

The optimal time to weigh yourself is usually after you wake up and have gone to the bathroom but before you eat or drink anything. As for how much you do it, I'd advise against doing it every day. Your weight fluctuates due to hormones, stress, sodium intake and a whole host of other things. Once a week is more than…

Hey, I'm in a somewhat similar situation; I moved down to Memphis at the start of April and will be here about a year depending on how it goes. Feel free to add me if you'd like.

Exercise can help, yeah. Also winding down before bed. People who say EVERYONE needs to turn off the TV and stuff X hours before bed are full of you-know-what, but some people do need to relax their brain before they can sleep well.

Everything in moderation is, for many people, the easiest way to lose weight because they learn to portion-control their favorite things and don't feel like they have to cut it out completely. But if you are, for instance, lactose intolerant no one's going to force-feed you cheese unless you take a couple Lactaids and…

If you already have five columns, I'd say get rid of either sugar or sodium. Unless you have a heart problem or diabetes, you don't really need to keep an eye on either of those.

I'd say MAYBE. It depends on the person. But really, keeping a leash on your macros is just another, slightly different way of counting calories since, like the person said above, each macro has a certain calorie count per gram.

They aren't always. But if you're just starting out, seeing "500 calories" for a meal is easier than figuring out how many calories it is from the fat, carbs and protein counts.

Another thought: bacon bits? Just fill a bowl with them and eat them like cereal. Yum.

Counting macros, I imagine, can work for certain circumstances, such as weight lifting (need a lot of protein) or if you have diabetes (gotta watch those carbs) but it doesn't always tell the whole story if you're just trying to lose weight.

By default, your diary is set to private. You can change that in your settings, and many people have. You might get better luck in the General Fitness and Dieting forum just asking to see open diaries of people who've lost a significant amount of weight and/or reached and maintained their goal.

I thought the same thing. Cereal is generally some sort of grain, so by default it's going to have a pretty respectable carb count... I guess if you want something in the morning that's low on carbs but you don't have to fix, you could try no-sugar-added yogurt?

I'm going to a con in July where my cosplay is going to be Amethyst from Steven Universe, so my current weight is actually okay since she's a somewhat bigger girl- but I'd still love to do something like a Sailor Scout with the mini skirt and not worrying about how my legs look. You can friend me if you like!

Most of those diet pills/fat burners are just a ton of caffeine. It would be cheaper and tastier to drink a lot of coffee or tea if that's what you're going for.

Put in the actual brand instead of relying on a generic entry? Saves at least half the trouble. If there isn't a brand because you bought it at a farmer's market or something, then check the stats before you pick. You should do that on an entry you haven't used before anyway.

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Don't eat butter, or you'll get fat and die.

This sounds great! I'd love to join!

As opposed to acting like a know it all because they're younger?

It does sound like you're falling into the newbie mistake of thinking that you can still eat the way you did before you decided to lose weight. While it's true that you can still have ice cream, burgers etc, that serving of ice cream might be three times what the label says is 140 calories (or whatever) and going out to a…

As others have said, unless you have a reason to log sugar, you should replace it with something else (like everyone else I replaced it with fiber). Sugar is not the enemy, and if you're eating fruit and limiting things like candy bars and cake (or even go days completely without them) then it doesn't matter, anyway. But…

I think that as long as you're making sure they get what they need as far as nutrition, there's nothing wrong with making sure you know what portions they're eating. Don't give them a complex about it the same way you shouldn't give them a complex about not eating enough either, though. My family is the typical 'here have…

I'm pretty sure the ads MFP uses are based on your browsing history. Plenty of people get ads for weight loss and diet programs, or cable, or car dealerships.

In Maine but soon moving to Tennessee. Diary is open to friends. Feel free to add me!

Mine's open to friends only, because I know what I should be doing, I just don't always do it. So I don't feel the need to question why I'm not losing weight if I don't measure and weigh my foods and have no pre-existing medical conditions. Not that having it completely public is a bad thing, it's just that yeah, I don't…

Some (read a lot of) people don't understand the difference between actual caloric intake and how much you're eating. They also don't understand that weight loss still works perfectly well eating greasy potato chips or MSG-laden Chinese food instead of cutting those things out of your diet. Just ignore him. Not like he has…

I don't bake a whole lot but when I go to grab a bottle of iced tea from the fridge at the grocery store, I go for diet, with Splenda, because at least to my own taste buds, it's sweeter and I like that more. Depending on the size of the bottle, it's either five or ten calories. Even in college when I was drinking several…

Sugar-free gummy bears should have never been invented and I'd like to look into the mind of the person who needs "may contain nuts" on their huge canister of mixed nuts.