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On android, perhaps iPhone as well, if you turn your phone to landscape mode, you can see the details per food and per meal. Might take a bit of scrolling for smaller screen sizes and/or people who use the free version with ads.

The food database is crowdsourced. It's always good to check against food labels or the USDA database to ensure you're using accurate entries.

There's a good reason: the percentage relates to calorie intake. And fat has 9 kcal per gram, as opposed to carbs and protein which have 4 kcal per gram.

Already exists actually, if you go to Discussions instead of Categories. For both links you can choose to see all or only followed categories. (you can follow or unfollow specific categories by clicking/tapping on the three dots next to each category.)

Et voilà: with some grana padano in the tomato sauce and mozzarella di bufala on top:

Your iPhone may be counting gross calories (including your BMR calories) while MFP only takes net calories (only active calories) into consideration. The longer the exercise lasts, the larger the difference between gross and net calories becomes.

20 calories is nothing in the grand scheme of things, especially considering calorie counting has a margin of error anyway.

You made me laugh out loud 😆 The cooking is 50/50 actually! (And the rest of the housework is mostly him) As it happens, I ask him to make me grilled ham and cheese sandwiches regularly, yum!

Chicken thighs with caprese salad (with heritage tomatoes) for dinner tonight, that took care of 2 of the 6 balls of mozzarella di bufala. Tomorrow: shrimp zucchini boats, with tomato sauce and grilled with mozzarella. It's BF's turn to cook, so I'm curious to discover what it's gonna be precisely 😆

FYI: this is a part of MFP I've always hated because so many people get confused about it: your fitness goals have zero influence on your calorie, they aren't taken into account at all. Only exercise logged in your diary influences your calorie goal, for that day. I'm guessing you chose a high activity level to arrive at…

Sorry for the harsh reaction then :mrgreen: What activity level and weight loss rate are you entering for MFP? Because 2700 calories sounds quite high. MFP's activity level is meant to not include exercise (only daily activity: work, commute, housework, hobbies...) - exercise should be added separately on days when you do…

I'm going to give my 2 cents: that looks like a horrible way to calculate a calorie goal. Your body needs a certain amount of energy, not a certain amount of energy from carbs and a certain amount of energy from fat and a certain amount of energy from protein. Calories determine what your weight does, so that's the…

Huge math error for fat: they multiplied 89.8gr of fat by 4 instead of 9 to calculate the calories. It's 808 calories instead of 359. Which makes the total calorie intake incorrect as well.

I'm wondering if you simply misunderstood? 360gr of carbs seems quite a lot. With 160gr of carbs, 150gr of protein en 90gr of fat, you'd arrive at 2050 calories.

You need the total cooked weight though, not the total weight of the raw ingredients, to make that work. And that's not something MFP can know without you telling them. You can use the total cooked weight as the number of portions in the recipe, that's what some people here do.

My BF is currently on a work trip in Italy and decided to buy 1kg of fresh mozzarella (to be consumed by Monday). We'll be giving a bit to our parents, but that's still a heck of a lot of cheese. Any good recipes you guys recommend that use copious amounts of mozzarella?

@Awegg05 I absolutely love having a treadmill at home. Best 1000 euros I ever spent! (that, and the television in front of it, to keep myself entertained :mrgreen: ) Enjoy it :smile:

I'm a huge fan of bags of pre-cut fresh vegetables (for example stir-fry veggies) to save time. I really can't stand frozen or canned vegetables (with a few very specific exceptions like peas). Also: I will just be lazy for some vegetables - I don't peel my carrots anymore (extra fiber :wink: ) - for oven-roast vegetables…

Three days: is that how long you've been at your current routine? If so, you need a LOT more patience. At least one, preferably two months (or menstrual cycles, if applicable). Our weight is made up of many more things than bodyfat, which means you need a longer period of time before you can determine whether or not you're…

The question is: have you gone through the goal set-up, entering your personals stats and choosing an activity level and weight loss rate? If you have: aim for the calorie goal (within 50 calories or so, no need to be exact) you got during at least 4 weeks and then reassess: if you've lost weight as expected, no need to…

You sync your fitness tracker with your MFP account, not with a specific device on which you use MFP (I'm presuming you're using the same MFP account on your iPad and iPhone).

Second-hand shops/thrift stores can be a great place to source a temporary wardrobe. Depending on the duration of the trip and available amenities (laundry services/washing machines), perhaps only a minimal wardrobe is necessary? I can imagine wearing the same pants/shorts multiple days and just changing shirts/tops daily,…

Some threads are marked as 'questions' rather than 'discussions'. Which has the annoying result that you're always taken to the replies indicated as 'best answers' (at the start of the thread) instead of the actual newest replies. Perhaps that's what's happening to you?

I'm a big fan of skyr yogurt (or non fat greek yogurt) for a protein hit in the morning. Other ideas: eggs, lean meat, fish, seafood...

It usually doesn't update automatically. You'll need to go through the guided goal set-up again (rate of loss, activity level,...) and you'll get an updated calorie goal. Once every 10lbs lost is enough.

Monitoring intake is definitely useful. It's very easy to unconsciously eat more when you're exercising a lot (the appetite increase from exercise isn't necessarily proportional to the calories burned).

BMI is a useful tool to assess entire populations, but not really for individuals except as a broad range and lacking other data. Some people are better off at the lower end, some people at the higher end. It's going to depend on muscle mass, fat mass, how broad/narrow your frame is (broad frame requires more 'meat' to…

Clothes fitting better is already a good sign that you're lowering bodyfat :smile: I don't know how long you've been at it: weeks/months? New exercise can add water weight to the scale (for muscle repair), masking fat loss on the scale. If the scale doesn't budge after 2 months/menstrual cycles, then I would say it's time…

You'll need to find your own narrative - by being consistent it's possible to achieve great things so definitely not 'too far gone' unless you let yourself believe that! I would recommend focusing on the journey, not the destination: process goals like logging regularly, gradually changing your diet into a healthier one…

Long Covid is often talked about. But it's less well known that all viruses can take a while to recover from. Chickenpox kicked my *kitten* like year, for at least a month. Google post-viral fatigue and see what comes up? I'm pretty sure pushing yourself too hard has a risk of backfiring though...