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Dry vs cooked ingredients - help.
I've entered a recipe into My Fitness Pal and the calorie count is too low. I added 250g of dry lentils to the pot - thus I entered 250g red lentils to the recipe on My Fitness Pal (showing as being a mere 290 calories) so does the 250g red lentils in My Fitness Pal database mean 250g COOKED lentils? I wasn't able to…
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How do I stop feeling so self-conscious at the gym?
New to the gym, and anxious about being there. I feel absolutely ridiculous using an Olympic bar with just little 2.5kg plates (but the set bar weights available are too light) and using light weights when doing exercises like deadlift or barbel rows - I'm doing StrongLifts 5x5 and really weak so have to start light as…
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Dry rice/cooked rice
I'm sure it's been discussed before but I'm still struggling. At the moment I'm measuring out around 200g dry brown rice - cooking, and only eating half (keeping the other half for the next day) - how do I put that into my food diary? I'm not sure I'm entering it correctly so how many calories and carbs should that amount…
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How do you determine macros?
I want to lose weight and gain muscle/tone-up. I'm currently 164lbs and would like to get down to 126lbs - although it's less about weight, more about my appearance as I've a podgy tummy and 'spare tire' thing going on that I want rid of - I'm sedentary in general as I don't work, but I've just started going to the gym…
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New dieter - what should I aim for?
I'm a new dieter who has never tried to lose weight before. I'm 29 years old, 5'10 and I'd say medium build, not sure of my body type so here is a (bad) photo of me to get an idea of build and body type - http://www.flickr.com/photos/48666913@N07/7469965686 I weigh 164 lbs Measurements; Bust 37 inches Waist 34 inches Hips…
