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Sickness and Weight
Is it just me or does everyone burn lots of extra calories when sick? I'm on my 3rd bout* of COVID (3/2020, 8/2021, 7/2022) and every time I've lost a bunch of weight even though I'm eating at or above maintenance. Ugh, I see my doctor for my yearly checkup in August and she was adamant last year that I needed to maintain…
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Could I get stronger by end of July?
I'm 57, 5'3", 114 lbs, in maintenance. At the end of July we will be helping our adult child and spouse move states. This weekend, we were helping them prep their house for selling and I'm a lot less strong than I was 7 years ago when we last moved houses. 😟 Could I build strength in 5.5 months? Right now I have access to…
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Maintenance and blood product donations
When I searched older posts on blood donation, most responses recommended not counting it because it's just a small amount of extra calories to replace donated blood over 4-6 weeks. I feel like that is probably reasonable advice for people losing weight. However, for maintenance, I'm trying to keep an accurate record of…
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Experience using measurements for progress
I'm asking for a friend who I want to support. She is very obese, although, being a good friend, I don't know specific numbers. At this point, she prefers to not own or use a person scale and wants to use body measurements to track her progress. She recently had a doctor's appointment, so she has a starting weight to enter…
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New Recipe Challenge
Looking for a small, laid-back group that will encourage you to try a new recipe (or two) each week? Recipes are completely decided by you! We are a 3 month old group with a small number of friendly regulars. All WOE are welcome. All levels of cooking ability are welcome. Come join to discuss recipes, recipe websites,…
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Fitbit Adjustment with User Entered Calorie Goal
If I increase my calories goal from what MFP calculates, will that change the Fitbit adjustment? MFP gives me 1410 to maintain and my average Fitbit adjustment is about 250. That's the average, but it really varies day to day. For 2 reasons, I want to increase my base calories. One is that I believe, based on calculations,…
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New Nutrition Labels - Cereal Serving Size
This is really a question for my spouse who doesn't count calories. The new nutrition labels now reflect "typical" servings rather than servings from a dietician standpoint. Because of this change, the serving size for cereal has increased. My question is how much? I can't seem to find an answer via Google. My husband has…
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Restaurant Pancakes?
Does the nutrition information that a restaurant provides include butter and syrup? In my case, I am interested in Original Pancake House. The small order (3?) of buckwheat pancakes is listed as 670 calories. When I got it before, I would use just a tiny amount of the provided butter and ask for sugar free syrup (~20 cal…
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Flavored ground coffee for a gift?
I'd like to get my husband a couple of flavored coffee packages as part of a gift this year (along with the mini skinny syrups Christmas flavors kit). Looking for suggestions. Additional info: He prefers less bitter(?) coffee. He mostly drinks Dunkin at home. He isn't a big fan of Starbucks. He likes the brand his office…
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Raising kids with healthy relationships to food
What strategies do you think work? Are there specific things to avoid? I clearly failed at this since my kid is already grown, but I'm wondering what insight the community has!
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Do You Care about Exercises or Just Adjustment?
I'm trying out an old Fitbit (Alta) that has some issues - it turns off for no reason - but I'm using it to decide if I want to get a new one. One concern I have is that before I linked the Fitbit to MFP I had a record every day of my exercises, so I could see a history of what I'd done. With the Fitbit, I just get a…
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Lower Calorie Granola (not homemade)?
I like occasionally to add granola to my yogurt. To keep the total snack to 250 or less, the granola needs to be 130 calories or less. I would like to use 25-30 grams of granola. I've been eating a Bear Naked granola that met this criteria (130 calories for 27 grams) but it is running out and I'd like more choices. Do you…
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Disappointed by Caulipower Crust
Am I the only one? Taste was fine. Size was much smaller than I expected from the box. About the size of a large tortilla. It's very thin. More like pizza on a cracker than a pizza crust. The calories seem high. This one, not that big, very thin crust has 510 calories! That seems incredible. Even on sale, the price is…
