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Vacation with Relatives Advice
I need some helpful advice please. I love my family dearly but they can be described at times as, "loud and pushy". Growing up I was considered the quiet one, still am. So anyway, I've really gotten into a groove with healthy eating, but in a few weeks we'll be going on a family reunion type vacation. I'm already kind of…
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What Do You Miss?
I'll go first. I miss opening a bag of crisps/chips and just mindlessly munching straight from the bag, while I game or watch videos/TV. Yeah, I miss that sometimes, but I know me and I know better now. Ain't no way I'll stop at a reasonable amount, so no starting unless I weigh them out first. Lol What do you miss?
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Calories Don't Match Package Weight
Has anyone else come across a food item that has calories listed per serving and per package, where the calorie total listed for the total package doesn't match the package net weight? (Reading back over that, it sounds garbled. Maybe an example would explain my question better.) Package net weight is: 70g Per serving…
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Weekly Total
This is primarily a feature for those in maintenance, but would work for those actively trying to lose also. For those that don't necessarily stick to a specific amount of calories each day, on the "Food Diary" page, if there was a field that displayed the planned weekly calorie goal. For instance, I eat 1200 calories/day.…
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What I Hate About Watching My Weight/New Lifestyle/Dieting, etc. (A Place to Vent)
First off, if you are going to post that you have no hate towards anything in the title, have embraced it all with acceptance, yada yada, this is not the place for that. (Please start your own thread.) ;) This is where we get to let off some steam about the things that secretly make us roll our eyes, curse under our…
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Disneyland
Anyone been recently? Any restaurants, kiosks you used? I want to enjoy myself, but not completely blow it. It seems there aren't any confirmed calorie listings for any of the foods served there or in California Adventure.
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Heart Rate Conundrum
When I am running for an hour, my heat rate seldom goes into the fat burning zone, no matter how slowly I run. For the past couple of days, due to health reasons, I have been walking for an hour instead, and I am in the fat burning zone almost the entire time. I don't get it. My resting heart rate is usually around 54 BPM…
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Leftovers Help
Since the MFP website recipe calculator doesn't allow directions or notes, I created 2 "foods": Recipe, Weight, Total = xxx g and Recipe, Weight, Serving = xxx g. (or ozs or whatever the measure is) Both have zero calories and macros. I enter them as ingredients in my recipes so I know how much the whole thing comes to and…
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Images
Does anyone know of a site that shows what various weight gains looks like? I understand that weight gain is individual, but there are sites that show what the average body fat percentage looks like, so I was wondering about: 5 lb gain 10 lb gain 15 lb gain etc. I tried Google, but all I could find with the keywords I used…
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Fitbit Users?
Have you noticed readjustments of historical data? Hopefully I can clearly explain my question. I have been using a Fitbit to monitor and encourage activity for about 9 months. Overall it has helped tremendously in making me more active and successful in my quest for healthy living. One caveat though. I have noticed that…
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What's The Difference Btween a Good "Bad" B Movie & A Bad "Bad" B Movie?
Some movies are so bad, they achieve cult status, and go on to become classics. Others are just plain bad, and quickly fade into obscurity. "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "Manos: The Hands of Fate" are two old school examples of movies that are so bad, they achieve cult status. A more recent one, IMO is "Jeepers Creepers".…
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Custom Goals
I am trying to remove the custom daily goals that I set up, but I can't see any place where I can just use my default daily goal. Every time I try to make all of the days the same, I get the message that the daily goal can't match the default goal. BTW: I have a premium account.
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Salad Dressings?
Help! The top shelf of my refrigerator is almost entirely taken up by zero & low calorie salad dressings. I haven't used one of them in over a month since I "discovered" volume eating. Huge salads filled with various veggies and proteins and fats (avocados, cottage cheese, or goat or feta, etc.) and herbs and spices. Oh…
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Food Search Question
Is there a way, when adding a recipe manually, to search my lists? For instance, my "Recent" or "My Foods" lists, instead of the willy-nilly way that MFP searches? It seems that the MFP search just brings back the first hit it gets. :# I get so tired of entering "Milk" and it comes back with "chocolate milk". Or I enter…
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Work Vent
The owners are on site. This means everything is disrupted, nothing is on schedule, and very little is getting done. Nice people, well meaning, but every time they are here, the whole day is pretty much shot. Can't get anything accomplished with all this interference. Luckily it is infrequent. Usually it is just one day…
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Website vs. Package Info?
Hate to say it, but MFP does not have a great search engine for its forums, so sorry if this has been done to death. When logging food to my diary, I was going to use the package nutritional information, but it seems that some people use the package and some use the food manufacturer's website based on what comes up when I…
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Motivation?
I can't remember which thread I read it on, but someone posted about how when they were in uni, grades motivated them to get their writing assignments in on time. They went on to say that they used that memory to get their current writing assignments done, and how that mentality transferred to fitness. It got me thinking…
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Favorite YouTube Dance-Cardio Fitness Videos?
I'm trying to broaden my fitness repertoire and I find that I like to get cardio in by moving around to Dance-Cardio on Pandora. It occurred to me I could try the YouTube route also. Any suggestions?
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Just Venting
I am bummed. I have to stop hiking for the next few months and I love hiking. It is my time. But, yesterday I was miserable before I even began. It was 95°F at 5am. The sun wasn't even fully up yet, just light peeking at the horizon. That is the earliest I can safely go (gotta be able to see snakes, coyotes, and possible…
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TDEE Calculator
Is there an online TDEE calculator that will take decimals? Those 10ths of a pound were hard won (lost?) and I don't want to do any rounding up, or down, to be able to use the calculator.
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App to Track Measurements?
I am trying to find an Android app to track measurements. More than just hips, waist and chest. Arms, thighs, calves also show changes so I would like to be able to track those also. I guess I could just record it in the notes section of my MFP diary but then no visuals available. Any suggestions?
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Surviving Burnout?
Well, as some of you predicted, after slamming it hard for 4 months, I realized today, I may have reached burnout. I am at the point where I am trying to gear down the activity level to a more sustainable long-term lifetime level. But. I feel like I am slacking off. So on the one hand I know I need to ratchet it down, but…
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Weight Loss IS NOT Linear!
At least not for me. You may have already heard or read that weight loss is not linear, but here is a little supporting evidence. I weigh myself monthly - this might not work for everyone, but it works for me. Anywho, as weigh in day approached, I decided to try to anticipate the number I would see on the scale by…
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MFP Net Calories
I am confused about how MFP determines net calories. I thought it was calories in (food/beverages consumed) minus calories out (energy burned). But, if my BMR is higher than what I have eaten that day (illness), why would my net be the amount of calories I ate, since just being alive (no matter how close to death I thought…
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Interesting Phenomenon
I have always been envious of people that lost their appetite when ill or under stress. I always became a bottomless pit. But, as recently as last month, when I became sick for several days, I lost my appetite. I was concerned I would do my usual, but it didn't happen. Now, I am under a great deal of stress, and again, I…
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Splurge?
I was sitting here, having my morning coffee, laughing to myself because I splurged! I had two (count them; 2!) packets of Splenda in my cup, and considered it splurging. "Hey! That's 8 calories right there." Then, I started thinking about what "splurging" meant to me now, and realized that prior to changing my lifestyle…
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Turkey Wrap Disappointment
So, I wanted a turkey wrap for lunch. But if I wanted my end of day treat AND the dinner I had planned, I was going to have to do some skimping somewhere. What to do; what to do? Oh well, the flour tortilla is too small for a wrap :/ I guess I will just fold it over. Not enough calories for mayo :/ Oh well, the tomato…
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Halo Top Rant
Ugh! I don't see how people can eat that stuff. I kept reading about it on these forums. So I tried it. I tried three different flavors, trying to be fair. To me, they all tasted the same. Like gritty sadness. Maybe it's because they are non-dairy, but I found them disgusting. There are so many really tasty low fat, low…
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When Your "Best Friend" is Also Your Worst "Enemy"
I am just being a whiner now I know it, but, My legs! I try to remind myself of the words from the Shakira song: "Lucky I have strong legs like my mother" and they are strong, and one of my best features when I am at my best. But oh, when I have let myself go, not taken care of the gifts given to me, they are the bane of…
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Question For Those Who Advance Log Meals
What happens if you decide you want something different last minute? I try to plan my meals by the week because it has worked well for me so far. But, I worry (probably too strong a word) that I will eat my first and second meal, and then by third meal time, either the group will decide to go out to eat, or I will decide I…
