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How are these cookbooks? I need to see if my library has the Korean one you'd also mentioned, also, but I don't love the Iranian cookbook I have and am always looking for others.

How long have you been doing this for? As another poster said, you need to have realistic expectations. This is not a quick process and if you go in with a mind-set that you'll be at your goal weight in a matter or weeks or, often, even months, you're setting yourself up for failure, psychologically speaking. 3 weigh-ins…

Definitely nerdy - comic books, comic book movies/shows (will they just come out with the Preacher tv show already? I need to know if I will love or hate it), fantasy sci-fi novels and shows, video games (man, it's hard to balance Fallout with fitness, lol), board games, etc, etc, etc. I'm not crafty but my hobby is…

Short answer, yes, depending on where in the nutrition section you're looking. You can see a bar graph of your daily calorie intake for the week, and the final black bar is your average net calories per day (so, for example, I eat less M-Th so that I know I have more calories to play with on Fri-Sun, so I pay more…

Yuuup. Really the only thing that has worked for me is switching to diet mixers, and just fitting things into my weekly calorie goal. I've pretty much cut back to drinking on the weekends, because it's the only realistic way that I can drink as much as I want on a given night but still have a weekly deficit. Which, you…

I'm 1500/day during the week and tend to do my own cooking so feel free to creep for meal ideas (my actual goal is to average about 1800-1900 per week, but I know from previous experience that I'm going to eat a lot more on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, so I compensate with a deeper cut on Monday-Thursday).

Mmmmm, samoas. And tagalongs. And thin mints. I am waiting for my six boxes to show up, but I have to wait til February. I second the suggestions of putting them in the freezer. They tend to be delicious frozen, especially the peanut butter ones, and they last longer for me that way. But you might also want to consider…

I used to joke years ago about how I needed something like this. Now that it's actually for sale, meh. I don't need or want it. I guess my mindset, self-control and relationship to food has changed over the last few years. But if some people find it helpful as a tool, why not?

Andrea Nguyen's "Asian Dumplings" (I can't get enough of dumplings. I would live on dumplings if I had the time to make nothing but dumplings) David Thompson's "Thai Food" "Sky High: Irresistible Triple-Layer Cakes" (baking, cooking, whatever!) "Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi" (because sometimes…

^^^This - having a strong core is great and can reduce the likelihood of lower back injuries, but between the core work I get doing compound lifts during my strength training and some pretty minimal core work in a self-defense/fitness class I take, I feel like have a strong core without having to do a lot of isolation work…

Feel free to add me. My goals are to continue to gain strength and lose body fat, so I lift 3x week (currently doing a variation on SL 5x5 but thinking of switching to Wender 5/3/1 soon, especially if I need to cut back to only lifting 2x/week). I also do cardio in the form of trail running and just started krav maga. I'm…

^^^ This

I do 99.9% of my own cooking and find your weight loss coach to be entirely incorrect. Frankly, it is much easier to count calories doing your own cooking because you have a more accurate idea of how many calories you're actually eating, since you know what is in your food. And since I do my own cooking and baking and am…

Pozole rojo and cornbread. Maybe wilted kale on the side. It's cold and snowy, so what can be better?

I pre-ordered six boxes from an in-law's daughter, but this thread is just rubbing it in my face that I have to wait another month or so before they arrive. Hrmph. I did buy some Keebler Grasshoppers today to help tide me over.

It's not a premium feature, but as mentioned, it's only available in the app, under nutrition; "Daily" will be highlighted in blue, and to the right in hard-to-read white text on a grey background it will say "weekly." Has the same pie chart, bar graph, and breakdown of nutrient details that you can get per day. To my…

Haha, well, yes, that obnoxious aspect aside.

I just edit the entry in the recipe builder with the new brand or ingredient.

IF is my natural eating pattern, and I strongly prefer not to eat before 3 or 4pm. I find I get hungrier if I eat breakfast and I enjoy being able to have fewer but larger/more calorie-dense meals. However, like others have said it's not a magic weight loss tool - it simply helps some people adhere to an overall deficit,…

I've never done any research on this so I can't speak scientifically, but just anecdotally I've never noticed any changes in acne based on my IFing.

I can't imagine why IF would cause acne breakouts. It would seem more likely to be due to what you're eating, rather than when.

I've pretty much always been an intermittent faster; it's my natural eating pattern, I just didn't know there was a name for it until I joined MFP a few years ago. I don't eat, aside from coffee, until I get home from work at 4 or 5pm, so I have a roughly ~18:6 window. This works well for me, as long as I have a decent…

Yeah, I don't have any suggestions on an actual book, but I do 99.9% of my cooking from scratch, and I use the USDA food database religiously: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods And since I also use my food scale for just about everything, I also find the King Arthur ingredient weight chart incredibly handy for figuring…

Sweets. I spent a couple really unsatisfying years of trying substitutes like sugar-free this and low-fat that and black bean "brownies" and chickpea "blondies" and banana "pancakes" and artic zero "ice cream" and yadda yadda yadda. In the end none of the pseudo desserts could satisfying a craving in the way that the real…

How many calories are in a family-sized bag of reese's peanut butter cups?

Best. username. ever. And I love peanut butter, but as long as I'm not drunk I do fine with moderation. If I know I'm going to be doing a lot of drinking over a given period, I don't buy peanut butter, cookies, candy, ice cream, or other food that has a real risk of drunk me going all cookie-monster on its *kitten*.

Feel free to add me - I have my diary set to 1500, but that's because I am well aware of my own tendency to eat ~200 calories above whatever I set my diary to, and also because I like to run a higher deficit during the week to compensate for weekend indulgences. My TDEE is roughly 2300-2400, so I lose quite happily at…

I like it raw in salads, in a vinegar-based slaw, roasted in olive oil with salt, sauteed with peppers, onion and/other other veggies, and stir-fried with other veggies and chili garlic paste, dark soy sauce, and either hoisin or oyster sauce.

This will not be particularly helpful with something like stuffed mushrooms - for something like that I agree with previous posters to try to estimate the calorie content, which I typically do by taking an average of the similar items in the food database - but for actual cuts of meats and things of that nature I find the…

Black coffee, but then I do a roughly 18:8 intermittent fasting window. When I do break fast, it's nearly always iced coffee with whole milk with either full-fat plain Fage greek yogurt with peach or other jam stirred in, peanut butter and banana toast, cottage cheese, sometimes with cocoa and honey or sometimes with tuna…