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Need 40-50 g fat per meal
Hi MFPs! I'm having to start a new prescription medication that I'll need to take twice a day with a meal. In order to be properly absorbed by the body, each of those meals needs to be high calorie and high fat. It's recommended 800-1000 calories and 40-50 grams of fat per meal. Any recommendations for meals that fulfill…
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Need Friends
Hi all! I need friends to keep my accountable and motivated. I'm a lady, 28 years old. I'm about 155 lbs, which is just under the overweight BMI line for my height, but I have really bad habits and a high familial risk of diabetes, so I need to improve. My main goals are to improve my stamina, strength, and cardiovascular…
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Are smoothies worth the sugar?
I imagine this is relevant to most smoothie recipes, but the specific one I'm wondering about is the Naked Juice Green Machine. I have a hard time eating my fruits and veggies, so a smoothie seems like a good nutritional supplement. This one has apples, bananas, kiwi, mangoes, pineapples, spirulina, alfalfa, broccoli,…
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Walking really burns that much?
I spent over six hours walking around photographing a museum today, and I wanted to find out how many calories I might have burned. I put it in as Walking, 2.0 mph, slow pace, and I only calculated for 5 hours because I didn't want to overestimate. I still got 737 calories, which seems incredibly high for a 130-lb person…
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Eat even if you're not hungry?
I'm trying to lose weight slowly. According to the MFP calculator, to lose 1/2 a pound a week, I should eat 1550 calories a day. But lately I find I'm simply not hungry enough to eat even nearly that much. I'm frequently 300 to 700 calories short of the 1550 mark. Should I make myself eat even though I'm not hungry, in…
