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What to do during dinner at friends/family's house--is it rude to bring my food scale?
Like the title says, do you think it would be rude to bring a food scale with me to weigh my food when I go over to a friend or family member's house for dinner? They're making pot roast, and I'm not sure how useful it would be to weigh the food anyway--I won't know exactly how they've prepared it or what amounts of stuff…
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the amount of calories MFP is allowing seems way too high!
I updated my activity level from being "sedentary" (unemployed) to "active" and it told me my suggested calories for each day was 2,350 calories! On sedentary I was only allowed 1700ish o.0 I'm working as a stocker (on my feet and lifting stuff from a few ounces to 70lbs+ for 20-30 hours a week) which to me sounded like…
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Tips for Accurate Scales
Today I went out and bought some scales. I've never really cared what I weighed, since I'm more interested in size loss than an arbitrary weight number, but I figured using scales would be the best way to track loss, in addition to body measurements. I got the scales home and they were very inaccurate. I put a 4lb weight…
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Cutting out High-Fructose Corn Syrup--has anyone?
I've heard of a lot of the risks of consuming too much HFCS (I guess everyone probably has) and I thought about cutting it out of my life. This was brought on by looking at a tomato soup can label and realizing they'd even added it to that. It's added to the bread in our house, our ketchup, our jelly. So I was thinking…
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having trouble eating enough
I have almost 900 calories left on my daily goal and I'm just not hungry -_- (about to head to bed soon) I don't want to slow my metabolism down by not eating enough but it just feels wrong to make my body eat when it doesn't want to. I've been burning more calories than usual in the past couple days so it seems…
