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You can do either and it will come out the same. If you track it as an exercise, it will override the normal steps for that time period. So it only counts it once. How many calories did it give you for how many steps in what time?

Everything that you use ground beef for, use ground turkey instead. It's half the price and half the calories. One of your best investments would be a food scale if you don't have one. You can find them for $15 and they are essential to tracking your intake accurately.

You could use Fitbit alone and get the exact same results. The numbers are actually the same data, just presented in a different way. There are two big advantages to using MFP: 1. Food entry is far better. Not just the huge database, but the recipe builder. 2. The community here is very helpful and useful.

;) True stuff.

I have 2 or 3 drinks on the weekend. Just log it and keep within calorie budget.

I hope you can get back with your old trainer. Good luck! Regardless...don't go back to this guy.

I have a wii fit. It's a fun way to get some activity in on a rainy day. But the dancing games tend to burn a lot more calories, in my opinion.

I just never bother to complete my day. Why would anyone bother? All it does it tell you how much you might weigh in 5 weeks in some fantasyland.

You're a little over critical there. She ate what it said to eat for an entire year and maintained weight. That's a year long study. It's not pretending, it's fact.

Great job! I'm at 8267 right now, which means I'll take my dog for a walk later.

I got mine about a month ago. I love it and it has helped me break a plateau. Now that I have been using it for a while, I'm not upset with it but I think the HR part is over-rated. I thought I would use it to adjust my workout intensity to stay in the fat burning zone but it doesn't work for that. You can only look at…

When I'm in a hurry, I just have a greek yogurt. That's what my doctor recommended, because it has protein.

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Those seem like pretty high numbers in short times for your calories burned. Many people will say that for fat burning, longer periods of lower intensity exercise is going to burn more fat. Think....take a 30min-1hour walk. Short intense exercise is great for fitness and muscle building.

Find something that works for you. Cycling or Swimming come to mind. If you want to find excuses for not exercising...there are many. None of them really matter.

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This. You're talking about the health of your baby here. That's not the sort of thing you go to random internet people for. Also...chicken nuggets with bbq sauce is what my daughter couldn't get enough of at that age.

There are no magic diets or cleansings. Eat less than you burn, and you will lose weight.

So... A banana for breakfast. TWO POUNDS of hamburger for lunch. (that's 8 Big Mac's.) An apple and a grape for dinner. Sounds pretty idiotic. You should probably get a second opinion.

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Genius!

Here's what I did a while ago and it has worked for me. I filled my crock pot up with water to how full it normally is and then scooped it out and counted how many of the bowls I used got filled. It was six. So I just use six as the servings for a full crock pot. I put in my recipe and tell it six servings and list all the…

Yes, HR matters. So does pace. You could amble along wandering around the mall for 5000 steps and you would not burn as many calories as if you were marching to the USMC cadence album.

Don't start any named diet at all. Just log everything you eat and keep it under your calorie budget.

MFP makes an estimate of how many calories you burn during the day based on what activity level you selected (sedentary, active, etc). Fitbit measures your real activity level. Not an estimate. Fitbit tells MFP what your real activity level is, and MFP enters a "Fitbit calorie adjustment" based on the difference in these.…

You can sync MapMyRide with MFP, it will log the ride automatically for you.