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Journals, Letters and Conversations
Journals, Letters and Conversations is the rather wordy title of a group I've just started. The idea is to have a space where you can keep a journal, where you can respond to journals with supportive letters, and where you can have conversations about anything and everything that might arise from those journals. Yes, I…
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True or Woo?
Just read this in a different thread and wondered if it's true (or woo). I read so many things here from different folk (all whom I know are trying to help and which I appreciate!) but sometimes I think ... hmm. Can the body only burn so much fat each day? And if so ... how much? Thx!
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Hunger Scale
Took this out of a book I read recently which focuses on mindful eating - a hunger scale which I've stuck to my fridge door. Number 3 and 4 is when it's time to eat. Number 6 and 7 is when it's time to stop eating. Easier said than done! But I've found it helpful for tackling daytime snacking. 1. Physically faint 2.…
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Weigh everything.
I like to think that I'm pretty accurate with my calorie counting. I've been following the advice about using a scale, double checking entries in the database for accuracy and using the recipe builder. One area I've been lax about is when the food is processed, rather than home made, a nice calorie total and weight already…
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Help with cup measurements pls!
I found this recipe for rather lovely looking banana granola bars that I would like to try out ... but the measurements are all in cups. Which is fine but I'm european and I'm more used to weighing ingredients than measuring their volume. I would really appreciate some help in understanding how cups work. Surely a straight…
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Poor advice given by a friend's friend - what would you do?
So browsing through your newsfeed, you see one your friends ask for advice from all and someone from their friend list is giving really poor advice based on diet mythology from over the years. What do you do? Jump in to correct, pass by with a sigh, something else?
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What do you do with your egg yolks?
Asking just out of curiosity really. I sometimes read in people's diaries that they use egg whites. If this is you, what do you do with the egg yolk? Do you throw it away?
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MFP exercise calories, gross or net?
Does anyone know for certain whether the exercise calories estimated by MFP are done so gross or net? I'm aware of the recommendation to only eat back a portion of exercise calories to mitigate MFP's general over-estimation of exercise calories.
