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jaimie___o

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  • Well, I just tried to run getting a scale by my mom... didn't really work. She doesn't really understand the whole measuring thing and told me that I can look online for comparisons for portion sizes (you know, serving of meat equals a deck of cards, etc). I think my sister mentioned that she might have one that I can have…
  • The majority of the time (I'd say about 85% of the time), I use measuring cups. Green beans, spinach, liquids, cereals, I measure it all out. The rest i just have no way of measuring without a scale so I divide or eyeball (which I hate doing because I don't always trust myself)
  • Yeah I don't have a scale and don't know if I could convince my mom to let me get one - I guess I can look into that The chicken breast is lunch meat though, and with a half a pound I can make 4 sandwiches, so that's what I based that on.. But yes, you are right, for a lot of it is estimations. But that is what I've always…
  • Well it's been about three weeks since I made any changes to my exercise/eating habits. I upped my calories to 1700 right before I started C25K, and today will be my first day of week 4 for that. My total calories for the day is 1700; I'm never really sure about how many I'm netting. I don't eat back exercise calories due…
  • Well when I first started MFP (which you can't see because I had to make a new account) it had me eating around 1500 calories a day. That worked great for about two months, and then I just stopped losing weight at the start of June. I recently practically doubled my level of physical activity, and I decided to increase my…
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