ViolaLeeBlueberry Member

OK, final report! (Since it's Feb 1 for me now.) Total of 212.8 miles if I count stationary bike and treadmill. 92 miles if I only count walking. (I'm not a runner.) 80 miles if I only count "serious walking" -- hiking, multi-hour walks around town, etc. (Not walking to the store.) 12 of the 92 "walking miles" are kind of…

If you can eat only 2 or 3 LOL ... I think most of the types are over 40 calories. Not by much, but some are 45, some 70, etc. It's sad that I know that :smile:

You can take any standard salad dressing recipe and just decrease the oil in proportion to the vinegar. A lot of times, IMO, recipes include way too much oil (at least for me, because I prefer the taste of vinegar/lemons to the oil.) A little olive oil can go a long way. (I usually end up using about a tablespoon of olive…

Just FYI, I eat at 1200 calories, live in South Asia and regularly make "curry" for dinner. If you're making it with cream (or getting takeout), that's a Westernized version :smile: So first of all, don't ever put in cream. (It's hardly even available here. Seriously, I have to make a special search the few times of year I…

Just figured it out. (Ah, the advantages of having a cold and really not wanting to do anything but sit by the heater with my laptop.) So far I'm at 119 miles on the spreadsheet, of which 45 are walking miles. Which I think is pretty good, but still, to get 100 I'd need to walk 55 miles in the next 11 days ... hmmmmm ...

I've been lucky and had pretty good skin all my life, so I figure it's karmic ... it's my time to find out what it's like to have a different experience so I don't get complacent! :smile: I finally went to a dermatologist ... I thought I'd be told "daily antibiotics" which I want to avoid (since I live in a place with…

I passed 100 last Tuesday, and I'm pretty sure I was the first, so ... I WON!!! Where's my prize? Go Team Asia! (I think it's a team of one. We should have divided by country/continent ... or, in the case of US, by state or region :smile: ) Actually most of those are stationary bike "miles," since I don't want to aggravate…

Cute. Otherwise known as churning. My in-laws do it. I'd say the majority of households where I live do it. No need for electricity or fancy equipment or anything. Butter is only "not a whole food" in the sense that rice (which needs to be hulled) is not a "whole food." There's a process, of course, but not one that…

OK, great topic. (And I'm late to the party. So, bump.) Uh, I'm raising a kid in the Himalayas. (And we've even homeschooled. Yeah, should be "free of cultural brainwashing," right? :smile: Hahaha cough cough ...) Guess what's around here to eat for snacks? Oreos and Pringles. (Global brands have their tentacles…

That's exactly what I'm concerned about!!! I made my "goal weight" earlier this week. I'd set it at the very top of my "healthy range," so at this moment, as long as I don't put all the corn chips I just ate (whoops) onto my hips, I'm technically "not overweight." But I've adjusted my goals to lose a few more pounds so I…

A pressure cooker is a totally essential ingredient of my kitchen. (And it's the same way for a big chunk of the world's population, although if you're in the US, you don't encounter it as much.) I own two of them. Don't think of it as something to use to make specific recipes. Just think of it as something to make life…

Ditto ditto. Protein in breakfast, then in terms of snacks ... I'll graze over the course of the day on things like a handful of nuts (walnuts, almonds, cashews) or dried fruit. (Figs are my fave, which is partly cuz it's hard to find others where I live that don't have added sugar, but I've found they're really filling.)…

No, for me, the gym number is quite a bit under the MFP number. (By several hundred "calories burned.") So if I personally went by the MFP number, I'd get to report really cool big "calorie burns" for my news feed, but I'd also possibly be totally wrong. I think the best bet in figuring it out (assuming no heart monitor…

"Unsuspecting teenage daughter," LOL ... ah the challenges of cooking for a family with all kinds of different needs. And different opinions. And different opinions of a teenage variety. :smile: Good luck with that! It's, um, interesting. (My teenager wants to bulk up, whereas my husband and I are working to lose; plus…

Hi there, Those were pretty much my stats when I started in Sept ... they've changed! :smile: I'm 5 ft 2 or thereabouts, SW was 158, currently at 139 ... we eat what I guess you could call an accidentally semi-Paleoesque diet, in that it's heavy on protein, seasonal, from scratch, relatively low-carb, lots of nuts and…

Cap'n, that's not necessarily true. It's the same with my husband as it is with Stargazer's, and I've seen that genetic pattern across his family. They all put on weight in the belly. My husband, for instance, is only about two pounds overweight, which is exactly where I'm at. Yet I'm a "pear" (and became a pear almost…

Yeah, it's a HUGE difference. Ridiculous, really. Apparently exercise bikes are some of the most accurate gym machines, so I'd say go by the gym numbers. That's what I do. Apparently the MFP numbers do actually match up with reality for larger people with a lot to lose, particularly men, but for me (at 5 foot 2 and…

Good morning from Kathmandu, Nepal :smile:

Because it's cool. Also, well ... the reason is quite obvious, really. They weigh things in stones because they want to know who's a witch. You get on the scale, they put a lot of stones on the other side, and then you get tossed into the river to see if you sink like a stone and hence are a decent trustworthy sort (who…

Kathmandu, Nepal -- what I do depends on whether my plantar fasciitis (boo hiss) kicks up! If the old foot is OK, lots of walking around town and some hiking along with regular gym stuff (stationary bike). Actually I think it would be fun if there was a location cell in the spreadsheet. I just love how this site is so…

Sounds great! Just added in red text for km. (That's terrific if it'll adjust naturally; I'll log in km, since that's what all gym equip and google's distances etc come out as where I live, but honestly I think in miles, so that's perfect :smile: ) Thanks for doing this, it's a great idea!

LOL, hear hear! I think of a lot of what I do at the gym as an effort to duplicate, at least to a small degree, what my rural family members (like most humans throughout history) achieve naturally every day :smile: One of my goals is to have upper arms that are as wonderfully toned as my sister-in-law. Her "exercise…

Well, "junk" or "filler-up?" I don't eat out of a bag either, if you mean processed, like potato chips etc. Way too easy to go over! My filler-ups are nuts (walnut, almonds, cashews) and dried fruit like raisins, figs and apricots. I find that a few of any of those things go a long way.

I agree that the crux of the question is "why do you want to log it"? But I don't see any reason to assume it's just to eat calories back. It seems to me that one reason to have lots of different activities available for logging is that it gets you thinking about how to be more active. Not many people are really going to…

I think what she means is that you probably originally calculated an activity level (e.g. sedentary, lightly active, whatever) and regular housework is assumed in that. But I'd think you could log 1.5 hours of going mad with the steam cleaner as exercise, because presumably you don't go mad with the steam cleaner every…