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Fitbit Charge HR band
I currently have a FitBit Flex, which I love in general but I have one huge problem with it - the band. I'm sure all you other Fitbit Flex users know what I'm talking about, the bands are junk. I'm on my sixth band in two years, I think I may have now spent more on replacement bands than the device cost. I am goint to…
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Coconut oil in my coffee- making me RAVENOUS
I've been hearing and reading a lot about coconut oil lately, both for health and beauty. Since I seem to be at a plateau, I decided to try adding a tablespoon of coconut oil to my coffee in the morning to see if the MCTs would have any success in speeding up my metabolism. As I generally don't have a problem eating below…
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Heart rate monitor- chest strap vs watch?
I'm thinking its time to get an HRM and am having some trouble investigating which to buy. I'm not sure I'm understanding the differences between the chest strap and the watch, though it looks like the watches still use a chest strap? I'm not sure I want to switch my nicer watch to an HRM watch unless it does more than the…
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Adding calories burned from strength training to my diary?
This is I'm sure a silly question that has been addressed elsewhere, but how do I add (and figure out) calories burned from my strength training (mainly abs and free weights) to my food diary? I am never sure how many extra calories I have that I can eat back and if I guess, my diary just looks like I ate over my calories…
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Good YouTube channels for beginners
Can anyone recommend some good YouTube fitness channels for beginners without a lot of equipment? I tried searching by pilates (I think that sounds up my alley) but they all seem to be done by the same woman who is so insanely overly perky that after one workout with her I realized I can never do another with her,…
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MFP app gallery
I'm sure this has been asked before, but I'm having trouble finding it. I want to get a more complete picture of my daily expenditures vs. intake and am thinking of getting one of the devices that works with MFP, but am unsure what to get. For preliminaries- I want something that will track all day, not just when I am…
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Coffee drink discrepencies
Maybe I'm being an idiot and someone can explain this to me, but when I go to a coffee shop's nutritional information (such as Starbucks), I am told a 12oz soy skinny mocha with no whip is 130 calories. However, if I instead just input all the ingredients into my diary (12 oz plain soy milk, 2 shots of espresso and 2 tbl…
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Eating when sick
I've been sick the last couple of days with the seasonal crud going around the office. I find that when I'm sick, I have a lot more cravings for things I don't usually eat, which usually means my body needs something in them. And of course, to make it worse, severe congestion makes exercising pretty difficult to do. What…
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Buffalo Wild Wings entries in the database are wrong
Wow. So I went to BWW's for lunch today and decided to have a splurge day. I went into the MFP database and decided I was willing to splurge up to 1000 for my meal (I almost never break 600 for a single meal and most weeks I'm WAY under my weekly net calorie goal) so from the numbers in our database I chose a cheeseburger…
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Mayan Cacao Powder
A new health food grocery store opened up here and they were selling bags of this. They seemed similar to PB2 in that they were straight cacao beans (no sugar added) cold pressed and milled into a powder, removing the oil and making them low calorie straight up chocolate. I am a huge chocolate nut, so I'm wondering if…
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Differentiating good fat vs. bad fat on MFP
Does anyone know a trick to make the MFP reports differentiate between good fat and bad fat? My diary is almost always over on my fat allotment, which I will freak out about every time I see it and then remind myself that at least 10 grams of it are GOOD fat from my 2 tbs of chia seeds, but I would really like to be able…
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Slumpping, not sure if/how I should raise my calories
The last few weeks I've not been losing any weight, just fluctuating within 1-2 pounds. I currently have my calories set for 1400 a day, but I have been having trouble making that and there are plenty of days I don't even break 1200. I feel like perhaps I need a few days at 1500-1600 calories to kick start my metabolism,…
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Random MFP question regarding quoted nutrients
This may be an utterly ridiculous question, but I haven't been able to find an answer. On my food diary, next to my calories it gives me a daily total I for fiber and carbs and fat and sodium and then on the weekly summary gives me a bunch of others as well. What I haven't figured out is if those are suggested minimums or…
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Should I eat when I'm not hungry but under my calories?
This is my second attempt at watching calories and I am having a very different experience than the first time. The first go-round, I was grumpy and starving ALL the time and had massive difficulties staying under 1400 calories a day until I finally gave up because I felt like I was making it impossible to enjoy anything…
