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Congrats on your 40 so far. It seems to be harder and harder as we get older.

I've seen improvements with acid reflux, blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Everyone is different, though.

I do. It just makes sense to me that I should avoid eating places that don't include nutritional information. It's not that I feel lazy and I'm avoiding work. It's more like I'm willing to do EXTRA work to find things that I can get accurate information for.

This just seems impossible. I'm 70 lbs more than you and I get 1420 calories/day. Are you talking about after cycling? If I ride an hour or more I get credit for an extra thousand or so calories (according to MapMyRide).

You need to pick one or the other and only look at that one. The problem is that Fitbit and MFP track calories differently. Fitbit's number includes your base metabolic rate...so you are burning calories right now sitting at your computer. MFP just shows the number you should eat to lose at your chosen rate, adjusted for…

The negative adjustments will take care of your lower activity level. Focus on getting better, good luck!

Lately, fast food for me is to walk into a grocery store. An apple, a banana, and a greek yogurt is less than 2 dollars. But there are certainly arguments for fast food. Convenience, availability, maybe you have kids in car seats screaming for food... Just log it and move on. There are usually menu choices at most places…

I think it really depends on where you are in the grand scheme of things. There is a huge difference between where I started, 280lbs and couldn't do a flight of stairs without resting, and someone who is trying to get rid of that last 2 pounds before the body building competition next month.

That sounds about right. I'm at 230lbs and it gives me 1420cal/day to lose 2lb/wk.

Yeah, like it's even possible to get a 1/4 sec spray from the can. Most people probably use 3 or 4 seconds...which is 64 calories.

I almost got the surge, but when I tried it on it just seemed so big that I wouldn't want to wear it all the time. I ended up getting the Charge HR, which I really like. It's basic black and fairly small, so you can wear it all the time with any clothes. I don't run. I cycle a lot and have my phone on my bike. If you like…

For the mobile app, touch the big plus sign at the bottom, and then "weight" and enter your current weight. You can update it as often as you like, but most people recommend no more than weekly to avoid being frustrated by normal daily fluctuations. On the website, under the "My Home" tab click on "Check-in" and enter…

MFP plans your entire day ahead of time, expecting you to burn the amount of calories that correspond to your selected activity level. It's sort of like MFP gives you the credit at the beginning of the day, and you need to make the payments. Fitbit keeps a running total as you go through the day. You don't get any credit…

I would not log it as an exercise at all. Drawing the bow is just a tiny amount of resistance training. Track the steps.

As I see it, there are 2 benefits of exercise: 1. Better fitness. This leads to more energy, fewer aches and pains, more sex, overall better life. 2. More Food! You get to eat more. You're not always hungry. And you can usually eat more and be happy without eating all of the exercise calories, maybe 50%. So it gives you a…

I just bought a couple shirts from Old Navy for $5 each. They are the exact same as Under Armor, just a different symbol on the tag.

If you went to bed with a 1,000 calorie deficit every day for 6 months, and you were less than 1% body fat, then you might go into "starvation mode". If nobody mistakes you for a POW from the Hanoi Hilton, you are NOT in starvation mode.

Have you ever seen the Viagra commercials where they say "use only if you are healthy enough to have sex"? The same applies to any exercise program. Eliptical, or running, or cycling, etcetera. If you have been living a sedentary and overweight lifestyle and have any health issues that come from that, then discuss it with…

I don't think I've seen that word used here before your post.

I think you're right for things like pasta or dried beans or legumes. I was thinking of things like Hamburger Helper or Mac-n-cheese where they have you add other ingredients that aren't in the package. Those usually include two numbers, one for what in the package and one for what's in the final result.

Yes, always read the label carefully. Especially the serving size. They try to make themselves look better. Like a "100 cal breakfast bar" on the front label, and you read the nutrition label on the back and they are calling it 2 1/2 servings per bar. The good news is that it's only hard for the first couple weeks. After…

It's almost always cooked. As prepared per the instructions. Sometimes the package will have two different numbers for dry and cooked, so read the nutrition label carefully. If it doesn't say which it is, you can probably use servings per container to tell which it is. ETA: For rice sticks, it looks like the standard…

There is no such thing as a cheat day, or a cheat meal. It all goes into the total calories in - calories out equation. Every calorie counts. Your body doesn't care what you call the day. If you are eating a 500 calorie deficit, your 10,000 calorie day will take you 3 weeks to work off.

I like to do it if I'm going out to eat. I try to look up the menu online and pre-select things that will be within my calorie budget.

How do I tell if my thyroid is sluggish??

That's 9 1/2 hrs sleep. You can easily spend an hour a day preparing your meals.

I try to hit an exercise goal of at least a thousand calories a day. But your "great results" depends on what your goals are and how many calories you eat and what sort of exercise you are doing.

I've never swam with it on purpose. However, I have accidentally swam with it when I forgot to take it off and went kayaking. Maybe 10 minutes submerged, plus lots of splashes. I've also forgotten to take it off before going into the shower. It hasn't been affected.

oh...I read your question again. Do you have a pedometer that does not sync automatically? So you want to know how many miles of walking are assumed in the sedentary number, right? And then you would enter the amount above that many miles as a workout for the day. I'm sure it depends a lot on gender and weight and other…

Most people will say set it for sedentary and at the end of the day if you got a few hundred calories from your tracker then maybe have a snack. But if you are consistently over then you could figure out the average and increase the activity until it came out even most days. That might be easier for meal planning. It would…