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Question about rate of weight loss
I started with MFP and I set my settings to get me 1 lb per week of weight loss. Now at almost two months in, my average is closer to 2 lb per week - I'm at 15 lb lost and will likely hit 16 by the 8 week mark. Now, I'm not complaining that it's working even faster than I planned, but I am surprised. What factors might be…
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Entering weight updates on the app versus website
Something is fishy. I was at 160 lbs with a net calorie allowance of 1700 exactly. Then I used the app to update my weight to 159 lbs today, and as a result my net calories went up to 1710. Then later I went to the desktop website and checked my settings (Home > Settings > Update diet/fitness profile). I didn't change…
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Question about updating my profile
Now that I've been doing this for a few weeks, I have a history of calorie tracking and incremental weight loss. When I go to "update profile" to enter my current weight, does MFP use my historical data to recompute my caloric needs? The reason I ask is that I have been losing weight a bit faster than my stated 1 lb per…
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Question about reports
I've been using MFP for a little over a month now, and I've been seeing a pretty steady weight loss so far, which is great! As I've lost weight, I've updated my weight in MFP. As I've done so, MFP has given me a lower daily net calorie number based on my new weight. The problem is that when I go to view the report charts,…
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Not sure I'm using my food scale right
In order to better measure what I'm eating, I got a food scale. But I'm not sure I'm using it right. 1) For example, I made a peanut butter sandwich the other day and weighted the jar before and after I made the sandwich to see how many ounces of PB I put on the bread. Fine, great. But when I go to add the food in my…
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What does changing a recipe entail?
I entered a custom recipe for a meal I created. I've logged that recipe a few times. If I change the ingredient list, does that retroactively change the previous logged entries? If I change the number of servings, does that retroactively change the calorie/nutrient count of previous entries? I tried it once and it doesn't…
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Newb at estimating calories
I feel good about tracking the meals I prepare myself because I can read the nutrition information on the packages. However, as I've just discovered, eating pretty much anything else I feel totally out of my depth in reliably estimating how many calories are in a meal made elsewhere. For example this weekend I was at a…