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I don't think that's true: https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/child-nutrition-programs/national-school-lunch-program/#:~:text=The%20National%20School%20Lunch%20Program,and%20residential%20child%20care%20institutions.

Cook chicken and any of the veggies that prefer to eat cooked. Dump all of the ingredients listed above except for the olive oil in a bowl. Combine olive oil with vinegar of choice to taste, salt, pepper, and a little Dijon mustard as an emulsifier. Pour over ingredients in bowl. Enjoy.

Ask the waitress to only give you a half portion of chips, or to serve the sandwich open-faced (no top slice of bread), or whatever it is you think you shouldn't be eating. Your family can't force you to clear your plate of food that's not on the plate. Although I will say that if you're actually skiing for several hours,…

Ask your coach how you're supposed to consume those macros (which total 2850 cals) and yet only consume 2000 calories.

It sounds like you own a restaurant and want to add your menu to the MFP database? I've never seen anything on MFP like you describe (a drop down menu for all the items at a particular chain), but if you have, maybe try reaching out to MFP employees, not users, which is who you'll find on the community discussion boards? I…

Actually, OP lost 15 pounds (from 255 to 240) in two weeks (been doing this for a month and been stalled at 240 for two weeks), but that just makes the case for the advice for the advice in your second paragraph even stronger. It's quite possible stress hormones kicked in after two weeks at what might be 2500-calorie or…

You can change the units in MFP from kilojoules to (kilo)calories (the calories ordinary folks talk about in food are really kilocalories, but labels and MFP and recipes that come with nutritional info nearly always refer to them as calories). I'm not sure if the kilojoule units are what are confusing you. If it's not,…

Also, I think if you turn your phone so it rotates to landscape display, you can see the nutrients in your diary without going to the nutrients page, but you get so few rows in one screen that I have never found it useful, but your experience might differ.

If you told us what version you're using (web browser, Android app, iOS app), you might get more detailed, specific answers, but in general, go to your food diary, click to add food to a specific meal, and type the name of the food you want to add (include a brand name if commercially prepared; include "raw" or "cooked" if…

Best of luck! There can be a bit of a learning curve. A food scale for stuff prepared at home can be a big help. If you go that route, finding one with a tare button (to reset to zero after you put a dish or container on it) and a decent capacity (mine weighs up to 11 pounds I think) if you do much large batch cooking (a…

Based on the numbers you've given us (a half kilo loss per week and your strict adherence to 2000 cal per day), your maintenance calorie intake is approximately 2550 per day. Of course, that doesn't account for water weight loss. If your loss was significantly more at the beginning of the six week period, your maintenance…

The OP sounds Ike it might have been meant as a response to an existing thread.

Because the app reflects actual science and what words really mean, not what your nutritionist tells you because they don't trust you to be able to understand the complete, real explanation.

Carbohydrates include both complex and simple sugars -- perhaps you meant carbohydrates include complex sugars, but the way you phrased it makes it sound like carbohydrates are only complex sugars.

Ideal for what? Running a marathon? Pursuing a career as an NFL linebacker? As a runway model? Depends on your height, age, gender, bone structure, your general health, your potential health concerns, and what you want your body to be able to do. And for some people, what they want to look like. You determine your ideal…

Thanks so much for coming back with that great update. What a plot twist!

Depending on how much extra weight you're carrying, losing some should help make getting around on your travels easier. I started on MFP in my early 50s and the weight loss helped with a lot of functional things like bending to tie shoes and stooping to get things on the floor and standing back up without needing something…

A small surplus (200 to 500 calories a day) and exercise, preferably including progressive resistance training.

Or you could just drink your coffee black, the way God intended 😉

Continuing because stupid screen wouldn't let me get to end of my post to continue typing. For lunch I had soft corn tortillas spread with vegan refried beans (meaning they aren't made with lard or other animal fat -- I used a canned brand called, I think, Siete, or maybe Siente), heated in the oven for a few minutes, and…

Maybe if you clarified where you're finding the difficulty? Is it that you don't know what foods are vegetarian or vegan, don't where to find those foods, don't know to combine those foods into meals? Something else? Also, if you gave us some idea of what you're eating now, it would also help, as we could suggest…

In a hunter-gather society, if there was no food around, they moved on to somewhere that had a food supply, dug deeper (literally, for grubs and tubers), or starved. It wasn't some natural, idyllic, weight-control mechanism.

I have two French presses. The first one I bought claimed to have a three-cup capacity, and with the typical modern excess-packaging, that didn't seem absurd based on the size of the box. But it turned out they were 4 ounce "cups." So I bought a six-cup French press, which translates to two of the mugs I use for coffee.…

Maybe change out salads for soups, especially in winter when you say salads don't appeal. To limit calories, stick with clear or tomato-based broths (rather than cream-based). You can find plenty of canned soups at less than 100 calories a serving, and if you'd rather make your own from scratch, a few minutes browsing the…

For me, what works is to continue to log just as I did during weight-loss phase. Most days I naturally have a small deficit, so I don't worry on days when I want to eat something that puts me above maintenance. I definitely do not eat like a rabbit. I have never eaten like a rabbit. Rabbits eat their own droppings because…

Log or pre-log your food to see if you are in a deficit. If you are not, look to see what you can reduce, swap, or eliminate to get into a deficit.

Unless you've changed the defaults, MFP displays your macro counts in your diary (and even if you have changed the defaults, you can still see your macros under nutrition). Can you be more specific about what the difficulty is?

Are you looking at the website or an app? If an app, which one (iOS or Android)?

Sure, but the app won't understand that. It will still turn your calories red to show you went over for the day, and if you click complete diary or have certain friend notifications enabled, they all only look at a single day. But who's in charge, you or the app?

What a wise looking kitty! The frother looks like a french press -- is there some difference I'm not seeing? I do my frothing by putting my milk in a jar (typically I re-use a peanut butter jar, but one with a good deal of extra volume compared to the milk), putting the lid on, and shaking for a while until it's frothy…