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Its impossible!
To track calories and lose weight without having any semblance of a life. Please some of you seasoned MFPers tell me how you can go out to eat and accurately document your calorie intake. Especially if youre Chinese... It is effing impossible Its also unrealistic to eat 100% of your meals home cooked. Please give me some…
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Thoughts on Agave Nectar (or other sweeteners?)
I just bought a Vitamix and am looking to make smoothies and sorbets/ice creams but I see that a lot of recipes call for Agave Nectar or Honey. I'm not sure how I feel about these two products so I was wondering if you guys could provide me an alternative?? Thanks!!
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Please Give Me Recipes!!!
Hi guys I'm really trying hard to watch my caloric intake but as I have mentioned in previous threads, when I try to stick to a 1400 calorie a day limit I find myself very hungry/always thinking about food :/ I recently lost motivation and slid for two weeks but I really want to succeed. A little history is that I had…
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Been at it for 3 weeks and weight going up!
So i've really been trying hard to tracking my foods and for the most part i'm trying to be as accurate as possible. when I go out for meals i just guesstimate and I think I'm more on the high end than low end of estimates. Well for the most part my weight stayed steady, then it went down 1 lb and immediately, the…
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Logging Rice weight. Pre or post cook?
Hiya, does anyone know what is the more accurate way of logging the calories in rice? Is it the weight of the rice before it's cooked or after? Because i assume the weights change once it's absorbed the water and whatnot. Anyways please let me know your thoughts! Thanks!
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Calories not accurate?
Does anyone notice that the calories aren't accurate? For example, today it says I ate a total of 1,537 calories today 63g carbs 62g fats 78g protein Now if my math is correct, that should only be... 1122 calories. So where did the other 415 calories go? Anyone have input for me? I'm just getting back into this K kinda…
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Logging tips
Can someone tell me how they would "log" yogurt? I own a food scale and can obviously weight the nuts I put in there but the yogurt portion is put in "cups" or by "mL". My scale cannot convert those into grams which is the measurement it uses. Thanks!!
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How does one calculate calories in a "recipe"
For example? If I'm making lasagna. How am I supposed to accurately count the calories in that?
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Bananas causing weight gain?
Hi. I'm wondering if you guys ever experienced weight gain when eating 1 banana a day. I ask this because nothing else in my diet has changed besides the addition of 1 banana and about 8 strawberries each day. I noticed that I'm not losing and in fact, gaining weight so I thought that maybe this was the cause, but I'd like…
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Unexplainable Weight Gain (GRRRR)
Hi All. I'm sure you see this all the time but I really can't fathom why I am gaining weight. It's super frustrating AND discouraging! Let me give a background on my history: I usually I'm 5"5/5"6 and average 133.5-135lbs in the morning but as of lately I've been weighing in at 135.5+ the past 4 days. I work out 5 times a…
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Unexplainable Weight Gain (H2O, exercising, eating right)
Hi guys.. So I'll just give you a brief on my story. I've been going to the gym on and off depending on my school schedule. When I do go, I do weights and no cardio. In terms of eating.. I'd say I eat moderate to poor but I've been working hard to improve it. This past Tuesday, I weighed in at 133.5lbs my lowest in 6 years…
