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it's only based on what you ate that day. so if you ate nothing it'd say you'd lose ~20lbs in 5 weeks. chances are you're not going to eat the exact same amount every day, and even then their estimates are only that ... estimates. I think mfp expects people to be more active in general than they are. if I eat the amount…

my partner wears a 32 and they're 6'1.5 and 175lbs but that's with pretty low bf%. if you've got more body fat, you'll have a larger waist.

coat mushrooms with a bit of oil, garlic, salt and pepper. put them on a skewer, brush with tikka paste and roast in the oven on 245°C/475°F for 30 minutes (turn once half-way through). serve with rice and naan/poppadoms :----) I'm vegan and eat so many mushrooms dishes. this is what I'm having tomorrow night.

I actually don't take off any calories for exercise. I log the time I spent doing it to record the workout but turn the estimated burn down to 1 (it doesn't let you put zero). I do yoga for 15-45 minutes every morning and weights 2 times a week for 45 minutes, neither of which burn that many calories compared to, say,…

here's an example: I weighed myself 12 of the last 14 days and I'm not discouraged by the gains or overly encouraged by the losses because the trend paints a better picture of how I'm doing.

see this isn't a good attitude to have! you can have a "perfect" day and still gain because of normal fluctuations so getting down about it is only going to cause problems. it can lead to restricting your intake even more when you were doing fine already, and make it more likely that you'll stop because you aren't getting…

this is the kind of thing that I'm always reminding people! like, to put on 6lbs you'd have to eat 21,000 calories over your maintenance. I'm not saying it's impossible, if you literally ate pure sugar for the 24hrs you might be able to do it, but then it wouldn't be a shock. bodies are funny like that - there's a lot…

yeh, I weigh daily and plot the trend too. personally, if I weighed myself once a week and it hadn't changed/had gone up then I'd get discouraged, but weighing myself daily means I know what my daily fluctuations are like. so even if the scale does go up, I know it's just water retention or needing a BM lmao. it's all…

I don't understand the issue with weighing everything, as if it takes a million hours to do? When I'm cooking, I weigh out everything before I add it to the dish and either use the recipe builder or just add the foods under the correct meal. If I'm cooking for more than one person, I make their meal in one pan and mine in…

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you can get them on amazon! search for "walden farms" and "da vinci gourmet". walden farms do lots of syrups and sauces that are virtually calorie free, but I haven't tried those. I own like 6 different sugar-free, dairy free syrups from da vinci though! the ones I've tried are all lovely! I add them to protein shakes,…

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thanks everyone. I'll see if there's a scale in the gym to check the weight of the bars. hopefully the women's or ez-curl bars will be ok and I'll start to see the ~gainzzzz~ everyone talks about lmao

at a gym, yeh. they have ez-curl bars but they don't say how much they weigh on them and the staff are pretty useless. I asked a few different people about the regular bar and they couldn't remember if it was 15 or 20kg. it's gonna be hard to make any progress without knowing what I'm lifting. doing less reps seems like a…

I completely agree. I'm vegan and prepare all my food from scratch, and I just had a look at my sodium (I don't usually track it) and mine is usually between 500-700mg. one day it was 1639 thanks to some really good bean enchiladas and another at 1172 after some fresh supermarket soup, so pre-packaged meals/sauces really…

I haven't read the book and I don't personally follow 80:10:10 - but I am vegan and you can get rid of animal products and still get enough protein and fibre. there are tons of plant-based protein sources (all sorts of beans/legumes/pulses/soy products). you can healthily follow the eat to thrive/80:10:10 diet and I know…

oh, I figured this meant like when using the recipe builder. for example, I have a recipe for mushroom risotto that I make for me and my partner a lot and I make it all in the same pot, so when I'm dishing it out I give them slightly more so I know I'm eating <half the recipe. I don't think it meant like... just not eating…

idk, I'm vegan and I don't? eating lots of veggies should help because of the fiber but honestly it's going to differ between everyone :--) OP you mentioned being in pain from stomach cramps so I take back what I said before; you should go to the doctor.

people always say coffee helps but that's actually a common misconception. caffeine dehydrates you and the major cause for constipation is dehydration... drink lots of water, keep getting enough fiber, and don't worry about it if you don't have stomach cramps or anything. I ~go every 7 days, sometimes longer, and it used…

all yoghurt/milk/etc tends to say "drink/eat within 5 days of opening". as long as it smells/tastes ok, it isn't an issue. companies always overestimate best-before dates etc so that they can't be held liable if you don't keep it cool enough and it does go off after a few days. I drink long-life soy or almond milk and that…

close enough, I guess! 21 :--)

donnysoule - 40?

120lbs at 5'4 isn't bordering on underweight though. Underweight would be <108lbs i.e. almost a stone under that. 120lbs is a perfectly reasonable goal.

I spend £30-40 a week for 2 people (and a cat) on the regular shop (sainsburys), plus an extra £40 once a month at costco for any bulk things so basically £40-£50 a week for 2 people :--) I'm vegan and my partner eats meat which people think would mean buying 2 completely different shopping carts but we eat a lot of the…

my maintenance is 1500, and I'm a couple of inches taller than you so 1400 sounds about right for when you're an average weight. obviously when you're carrying more weight, your energy expenditure will be higher though. if you're eating lots of plant-based foods, 1400 really isn't a small amount of food... but, as…

yeh, also, if you're eating 1600 calories and then burning off 500 that takes your intake down to 1100 - which isn't great. It's not a problem if it's a one-off but if you do 500-calorie runs multiple times a week without fuelling your body enough, you're probably going to get tired and give up. whether you eat back ALL of…

there are lots of different methods (measurements, calipers, water displacement, etc) and they vary a lot re: reliability. measuring is cheap but inaccurate, although the more accurate methods are super expensive. if you're not bothered by being 1-2% out then it's not important... at 175lbs you'll just barely be in the…