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This is the one I have. It goes negative and has a capacity up to 22lb. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S6F6LHQ It's my birthday and I've officially hit the -69lb mark! Reaching that nice round 70 by the end of the month feels extremely doable. My sister sent me a Lularoe dress with a really cute ladybug print that is…

@sargemarcori @DeterminedKins +1 Your Body Is Not A Garbage Can, Stop Treating It Like One. I am also prone to thoughts like "I'd better eat this or else it will go to waste." Here's the thing, though - it is just as wasteful for me to take in calories that my body does not need as it is for me to chuck those calories in…

Add 1tbsp oil to your diary, log it as though you ate the whole amount, move on with your life. You'll have a slightly larger deficit today (or a slightly smaller overage, if you're trying to gain) - have a little snack to balance it out.

Hello ladies! I'm a little late to the party this month, LOL. First, the update - Age: 30 Height: 5'3" SW: 252.8 (11/13/2020) CW: 185.0 (6/4/2022) 6/4: 185 6/11: 6/18: 6/25: GW for June: 182.8, exactly 70lb down GW for 2022: 155 My birthday is coming up next week (6/8), so I know I need to be a little more strategic and…

I'll chime in on the side of "slow and steady." Some background: there is a very clear mathematical relationship, which holds true for all human bodies (and all living bodies tbh, but I'm pretty certain we're all human here), between the amount of energy one takes in and the amount of energy one expends within a given…

(pedant) The treadmill also pushes your feet back, helping you overcome some inertia. It helps more at higher speeds, but it is also another important difference from walking on the ground. (/pedant) Anyway OP, any movement is better than no movement! Walking is an endurance sport, you have to start where you are and build…

Yeah...400 calories' worth of milk is around 3 cups depending on the fat content of the milk. How much coffee were you drinking, bro? I'll gladly welcome you to the dark (coffee) side, but you know, maybe cut back some?

If you prep a whole weeks worth of meals, how many days worth do you freeze? When I'm prepping lunches for the week, I don't freeze any of them and they are all still fine by Friday. I've been doing this for several years and have yet to get sick. If you're prepping for someone who is more vulnerable to foodborne illness,…

You've gotten a lot of really good advice already, but I'll also say this: if, to you, canned fruits and veggies taste "right" and their fresh or frozen counterparts taste "wrong," that is 100% okay. This is primal stuff, and if your Platonic ideal concept of "green beans" involves a can with a big green man on it, that is…

Sounds like you want to be using the "create a food" feature. It's already a thing, tap Add a Food and then My Foods, the rightmost tab at the top (on Android app, IDK about iOS), then tap Create a Food. On desktop, go to the Foods tab, then My Foods, Create a Food is the green button in the upper-right.

@CupcakeCrusoe thank you for the good vibes! and the salad WAS amazing, look:

Why did you make three different threads??

You can't spot-reduce or choose where fat comes off of your body. If you have recently started exercising and did a lot of lower-body-focused movement, you may also be retaining water in that area to repair those muscles, especially if your legs feel sore or stiff - so to a certain degree, yes, it could be from working…

Make the next right choice. Next time you have the opportunity to make a choice, choose the option that better serves your goals. Progress over perfection; you are what you repeatedly do.

Age: 30 Height: 5'3" SW: 252.8 lb (11/13/2020) CW: 185.8 lb (4/30/2022) 5/7: 184.6 lb 5/14: 185.4 5/21: 185.8 5/28: 184.6 GW for May: 180 GW for 2022: 155 Welp. Chalking that up to stress, period, and a general lack of discipline this month, because I have definitely not been as disciplined as I need to be vis-a-vis my…

For weight loss, the important thing is taking in fewer calories from food than your body burns in the course of going about your daily life (whether that includes exercise or not). The best macro split for achieving that goal is the one that makes it easiest for you to do that. Broadly, fat is almost twice as…

Hello Isaac! So, the thing about weight loss is that you cannot spot reduce - doing ab exercises is not going to make you lose belly fat, for instance. In the same vein, strength training really isn't for fat loss. Any movement will increase your daily calories burned, but if you're trying to lose fat, the most important…

Grilled chicken, dried cranberries, sunflower seeds, and mandarin orange slices over baby spinach with raspberry vinaigrette dressing is a delicious salad. Bonus points for marinating the chicken in some of the vinaigrette before cooking it (with the caveat of course to not use the marinade for your salad dressing - I…

A pint is half a quart or two cups. What's hard about that?

Age: 30 Height: 5'3" SW: 252.8 lb (11/13/2020) CW: 185.8 lb (4/30/2022) 5/7: 184.6 lb 5/14: 185.4 5/21: 185.8 5/28: GW for May: 180 GW for 2022: 155 Ughhh. I think I'm hormonal - I remained ravenous this week (even knowing Tuesday was MIL's birthday and trying to plan around that), and I cried listening to the most…

Missed my check-in yesterday, so here it is: Age: 30 Height: 5'3" SW: 252.8 lb (11/13/2020) CW: 185.8 lb (4/30/2022) 5/7: 184.6 lb 5/14: 185.4 5/21: 5/28: GW for May: 180 GW for 2022: 155 I know that's water and food in transit, because I saw 184.6 on the scale the very day before. So, this has been an unintentional…

The workouts on Darebee are okay - I like their illustrations - but as with most fitness websites, the sorting/leveling is really hit-or-miss. It's really hard to find true "beginner"-level exercise routines; the vast majority of workouts labeled as being for beginners assume a base level of fitness that for many of us is…

This is physically impossible unless you meant grams - an ounce is 28 grams, they're not equivalent. The label boasts that the Kool-Aid contains less sugar compared to soda - however, if you look at the actual nutrition label, "a serving" of Kool-Aid powder is still almost 100% sugar. Per the label, one serving of powder…

If you're at the point where a ±25-calorie irregularity is going to make or break you, maybe you need to take a step back from counting for a bit.

Age: 30 Height: 5'3" SW: 252.8 lb (11/13/2020) CW: 185.8 lb (4/30/2022) 5/7: 184.6 lb 5/14: 5/21: 5/28: GW for May: 180 GW for 2022: 155 Ayy, you love to see it. I banged out 20 of the 25 miles of walking I intended to do today (1 mile is about 2000 steps, maybe a little more than that with my stride length - ya girl got…

Anyone have any plans this weekend? I know Mother's Day can be pretty fraught for some people - this is permission from an internet stranger to do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself, if the second Sunday in May is a hard day for you, no matter your reason. Tomorrow (Saturday) is the LoseIt Challenge…

One bell pepper isn't even 500 grams of bell pepper (unless it's the size of your head). Find a different entry.

@biohazardinc I'm not who you were talking to but on the subject of your calorie allotment and exercise: If you're using MFP as intended, you eat the number of calories that it tells you to - they've already accounted for your current stats (age, height, current weight, sex, activity level outside of purposeful exercise,…

I'm 5'3", SW 250ish, similar activity level (desk job but daily intentional exercise - walking/running, strength training, yoga), and I've lost almost 70lb in 18 months eating way more than that (average about 1900-2100 cal/day).

It's all just data. Now you know something you didn't know a week ago. If you don't know there's a problem, how in the world would you know where to even start fixing it?