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Chicken Breast serving size
I am now try to cook things for myself. From what I have know, one serving size of chicken breast is 3 Oz. Does that means that in any recipe that list the ingredients such as 2 boneless skinless chicken breast = 2 of 3 Oz of chicken breast-I have to cut them up, or 2 whole piece of chicken breasts - as in one breast is…
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Calorie and Nutrition info of Greek Yogurt ?
I am in Asia now and most of the time, they don't have nutrition label on their product. Here the only way I can get Greek Yogurt is to get it from Grocer store that sell imports goods and they are mostly expensive. I finally manage to find a local store that sell local made Greek yogurt a few days a go and bought a big…
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Calories and nutrition infor of Plain Greek Yogurt
I am in Asia now and most place here doesn't provide nutritional information for people to look at. Usually when I buy Greek Yogurt here, I bought them from a store that sell imports item and they are quite expensive per tub. A few days a go I manage to fine a local place that sell their homemade Greek Yogurt. The problem…
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Going over when it's almost midnight
Has it ever happens to you? Will it affect me if I count it as the food I have on the next day instead, especially with this week when I went over for multiple days. I am just concern about this issues but I really have no choices-sister just got married and I have to join several family gathering to get to know the in law…
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Side Salad calories
Do you count it ? What is the estimate calories for a cup or a cup a cup and a half of side salad? There is a mom and pop style japanese place that I have to go there to eat often, they food menu comes with side salad. Usually I just tried to calculate it from pieces of vegetable but when it comes to shredded lettuce and…
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Trying to figure out cal of restaurant food
Tomorrow I have to eat out with people at a steak place in town. They have low carb menu there, which is either grilled Barramundi or Grilled Pork chop. The restaurant doesn't have any nutritional information provided. They just list the weight of the food serving size, and weight of macronutrient. Anybody know how to…
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Green Tea help with the sodium issue?
I have heard mixed answer about this issues, some says it help because it is duretic some say it is not due to caffeine. So does it help the body when we had too much sodium or not?
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Chilli Pepper and Oil?
If I stir fry something and put 4-5 chilli pepper in there to spice the food but did not eat it, should I log in their calories? So does oil...If I add 3-4 tablespoons of oil for frying things like eggs-I like mine crispy, but did not eat all of the oil, should I log it as 3-4 tablespoons of oil? And how should I log the…
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Maintaining question?
After reaching goal weight and slowly raise your calories intake, it is natural to gain a bit right? How long again when the weight drop back to normal after raising calories? Also is there anything that differentiate water weight fat and fat? I reached my goal weight a week ago and I am not trying to slowly my cals but…
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Fat and Sugar
I keep going over on these two, either one of them are over or I am way under my calories goal. I tried to keep it low-not exceed 20 gram of them but it always over a little bit almost everyday. My question is that if it goes on like this-going over a bit but going over everyday, will it affect my weight ? I just reach my…
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Measuring Popcorn
I got plain popcorn kernel today. Does anybody know how much of uncooked kernel to be equal to 1 cup of cooked popcorn?
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Is it OK if I go over my TDEE calories several days.....?
If I am more active than usual for example 5-6 days in one specific week, is it OK if I go over my usual TDEE calories? :ohwell:
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Never eat Spinach with Tofu?
Today while I was eating out, my family told me that I shouldn't mix those two together. Personally I don't believe that but they are insist on this. I have google it and only found a few sites on this subject. It is a myth, right?
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Bloating from having TOM
I knows it happens, I never keep track of it when it starts before the first day of me having TOM though. Actually I never notice it before until I start trying losing weight. How many days for you for the bloating to start before you are having TOM? I know it depends on each person, I just curious-just to differentiate it…
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Throwing away food?
I bought a carton of Lime Sherbet today because it is printed in the box that it is 110cals per one serving. After I ate it, I found out that it contain 230 gram carb. :noway: Just a scoop makes me go over on carb already. I want to throw it away so bad but I just bought it and feel like I am wasting money doing that.…
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Lose 3lb after wk5 of reset, am I on the right track?
Hello people, it's me again. Have you all get annoying with my question of the week yet? =P Anyway, my main question is as my topic stated. I am not sure I'm doing things right or not. Since September 11th until this Thursday, my schedule has been out of whack and it forced me to be more active than usual. My TDEE spiked…
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Convert ingredient's percentage to gram-I suck at maths
Most of the food packaging here where I live is not always provide standardize nutrition label, and if they do they mostly just show the percentage of the ingredient. :explode: I know how to convert it in gram when it is dry ingredient, but what about liquid base items like oil, milk or honey, or egg? Do we have to convert…
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End of wk3 (wk7) and so tempted to lower my cal a bit..again
Sorry for the ramble people but I don't know what to do and just need to vent out. :frown: As some of you may know I start doing reset from August, 1st. However, 3 weeks later after eating based from scooby's sites (1461 cals), I got a fitbit and found out my TDEE is around 200 calories higher than what I have been eating…
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The last meal of the day and the first meal of the day?
I know meal timing is a myth but does eating the last meal very late at night such as at 11:45PM and having breakfast very early in the next day's morning such as 7-8AM help or hinder the weight loss process? Or it doesn't mean anything? Also what do you consider as a new day to start your first meal, start from after…
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Can anybody told me how many calories this dish is....?
I had to eat out today and had this for lunch. I am trying to figure out how many calories I was over today....*had a bad day and binge eating to the point it goes over calories intake so much, I don't know how many though* It's Poach Sea Bass, with like a cupful of spinach or so and 4 small scoops of potato about the same…
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Underestimate TDEE....should I up my cal again?
Hello, I post this in the metabolic reset thread already but seeing it is quite quiet there, so I figure I'd create another thread here too. I finally got Fitbit this week and have been using it since Monday, it's Thursday afternoon where I am now. Fitbit usually give me 200kcal higher than the result scooby sites shows.…
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When you want to check your macro...
This might be stupid question but..... When you check your macro, you check them from the pie chart or from the Nutrient Details that summarize your food intake in gram? I usually check the pie chart until today, I tried to filled up the protein and saw that in Nutrient Details I am already over Protein and Fat already-it…
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Question about consistency, calories intake and macro.
Currently, I am now struggle to fit in my calories and my macro right. Yet it is either I got my macro right but I still have a whole lot calories to fill up or when I filled up my calories right, my macro just got all wrong. I have problem with too much fat and carb. I try to add more protein then it'd turn out to be that…
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Cereal Nutritional Label
I just bought All Bran and just wondering, does the amount of its calories per serving include calories of Milk or not?
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Fitbit question
Hello again, I am considering buying Fitbit so that I can get my TDEE accurately. However, I have read from amazon.com that it comes with the charger. My question is: - What kind of the charger? - Does it have to plug into the electronic socket in order to charge? Do you have any picture of the charger? I'm asking this…
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Is this OK? I binge again....
Today I ate a lot and I'm not quite sure how many calories it is. Probably around 1000 cal or so. Is it OK to eat a lot of calories before start upping cal officially with lower calories intake (900kcal)-I plan to slowly upping my cal around 50kcal per week from now. I plan to start eating 900 kcal for a week, started from…
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I am new, confused and need helps for answer :(
Hi all, I'm new here to this group and to MFP community. I am not even sure I am belong to this group or not because I am not planning to lose any more weight but to maintain or increase my weight a bit but because this past 3-4 months, I have been eating 800-900 cal per day. Now I'm scared if I eat more to increase my…
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I don't know what to do next-Is this starvation mode now?
This is long... Hi, I am now confused of what is the next step I should do. Last year, at the end of the year around November I guess, my weight went up to around 151-152 lb or so, a few pound of it and it'd be 1154-155lb-my usual weight last year was around 143lb, and I am 5"3 tall. So I started losing weight and ate food…
