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Vegetable heavy meals using only a stove top?
Hi everyone! So due to some health problems I've been having, I've been recommended to go on an anti-inflammatory diet. Here's the problem though....anti-inflammatory diets are very vegetable heavy and low on carbs. The main ingredients in my meals are usually some form of carb (pasta, potoatoes, rice) with some meat and…
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How to lose body fat without losing weight
I know this one sounds kind of weird but hear me out. I'm already at a low weight due to genetics (114 lbs at 5'5) and I guess I can lose up to 5-10 pounds max but I really don't want to lose much weight because I would become underweight. However I do have a relatively high body fat percentage of 25%. Considering my…
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Ovenless chicken breast recipes?
Does anyone know any healthy, delicious recipes which involve no oven?
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How many grams in 1 cup of cooked brown rice?
Is it 100 grams?
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How can I change food measurements on MFP?
I don't know why as it seems that everyone else seems to see their listing of food in the food search engine in standard system (cups, quarts etc) but all the food that shows up in my search engine is in metric (grams, mililiters) and it's really frustrating as I'd rather see it in the standard system. Is there any way to…
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Calories in giant sweet potato?
Could anyone help me estimate the calories in a giant sweet potato (7 inches long, 3 inches wide) cooked? I havent gotten a measuring set again so its hard to tell and it doesnt help that the database tends to measure by grams or cups.
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Drinking more water makes me thirsty?
So I was never an avid water drinker. Well...I would drink lots of water at meal times only but throughout the rest of the day I never really drank water. If I had to guess, I would think I maybe had 5 glasses of water a day. Recently however I decided to up my water consumption to 8-12 glasses. Since then, I realized I'm…
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I debloat directly after exercise
So whenever I'm feeling really flabby/bloaty I exercise and directly after the exercise, the bloat goes away. Not that i'm complaining of course ;) . Just curious about what the scientific reason is behind this and if anyone else experiences such a thing?
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500 calories in 3/4 cup of brown rice?!
So this is my first time having brown rice, as I usually eat white. I measured out 3/4 cup of cooked brown rice and then logged it into my food diary. It came out to a whopping 500 calories. Is this normal?! Is brown rice usually this high in calories? I'm having a pretty hard time swallowing this fact. I really want to…
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Exercise is making me irritable?
It's so strange because I know most people feel really good after workouts. On the first day, I felt good after my workout but every day after that I noticed I'm becoming increasingly in a bad mood. I know it's not a lack of energy or nutrients. I'm on a 1300 cal diet but I gain 200 cal from exercise and eat it back, so I…
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Can I substitute insanity for strength training?
Because I know Insanity has resistance workouts in there but I also know a lot of it is intense cardio. I really need to do strength training as I'm looking to shed the last few pounds and tummy flab. I also don't have the money to afford the entire insanity package right now so I decided to just work with one video: the…
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Is "grilled" the same thing as "pan seared"
I mean what exactly is "grilled chicken"? this whole time I just thought it was kind of the same thing as pan-seared chicken breast since I don't think anyone actually goes out to grill a chicken breast on their fire grill daily. But other websites are saying differently, saying that grilled chicken is actually not the…
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Has anyone tried Blogilate's 90 day food challenge?
Were you successful? How were the results? Did you stick to it the whole 90 days or did you slip up and have some cheat foods in between? I decided to try this out as a last ditch effort to lose the fat on my tummy and cut out all non-clean foods from my diet. I'm kind of hesitant though since the diet looks very…
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Gained back all my weight :(
So I went off my diet and exercise regime about 2 weeks ago I was dealing with moving out of my place to a new place and it took about a week for everything to get settled and in that time, I didn't have a place to cook so I was just eating out all the time.So I guess it makes sense that in 2 weeks I gained back all the…
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Girls--do you wash your hair everyday after workouts?
So the thing that puts me off about working up a sweat everyday is that I have to wash my hair everyday. Washing hair daily dries out and damages the hair. It's recommended to shampoo it every other day instead of everyday, which was my usual routine until I started working out. Because I felt gross if I didn't wash my…
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Skinny-fat what to do???
So I'm a "skinnyfat" person and I would like to lower my BF% especially arounds my abdominal region. So I've been told I need to do strength training/weight lifting. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a gym at the time and don't have weights at home. So I was wondering if I could still lose belly fat if I did cardio+ab…
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Losing weight everywhere else but my waist?
Initially my purpose to dieting and doing cardio was just because I wanted to lose the fat on my belly and make my waist smaller. So far I've lost about 2 pounds but I realized that fat came off from my breasts and my legs, but my waist size has stayed the same and the fat on my belly is still there. I know you can't…
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How does strength training burn build abdominal muscles?
It seems like strength training and weight lifting seems to target the arms and legs. So how is it that it also leans out your abdominal area? I'm new to all this, so I'm just really confused by it all.
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300 calorie recipes?
Can anyone recommend me any simple 300 calorie meal recipes? Preferably no salad recipes. Thanks!
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Eating Less Than BMR: is it okay?
Is it okay to eat less than your BMR? My BMR is 1297 and MFP recommends that I eat 1200 to lose 1 lb a week under sedentary. I'm not completely sedentary but I also don't rigorously work out. I do some light exercise minimum 3x a week but just for now let's assume that I'm sedentary. So given that I'm sedentary, would it…
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How to tell what your true weight is?
My weight fluctuates so much all throughout the day that I'm having a hard time telling what my true weight is. I'll start from 51.2 kg in the morning, then up to 51.6 by early afternoon, then somehow drop to 50 kg in the late afternoon. Then up to 52 kg by night time. How do I know what my weight is?
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Confused about MFP calorie recommendation
So MFP recommended that I eat at 1200 calories a day to lose 1 lb a week. but so far, after 2 weeks I haven't been losing anything. So I calculated my TDEE on the scooby calculator which told me that if I wanted to cut 15% of calories from my TDEE I should actually be eating at 1500 calories per day and my BMR is 1279…
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Confused about MFP calorie recommendation
So MFP recommended that I eat at 1200 calories a day to lose 1 lb a week. but so far, after 2 weeks I haven't been losing anything. So I calculated my TDEE on the scooby calculator which told me that if I wanted to cut 15% of calories from my TDEE I should actually be eating at 1500 calories per day and my BMR is 1279…
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I've been under eating but my weight stays the same?
So MFP says my recommend calorie goal in order to lose 1 lb a week is 1200. I've been eating at or under this amount for the last 2 weeks. Now granted, I know you can't expect major changes in such a short amount of time but I thought I would've at least lost 1 lb. But no such luck. My weight has stayed constant. Why is…
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What technically counts as calories for "today"?
Now we all know our recommended calorie amounts. And eating beyond this amount will count as excess. But how do we know what exactly counts as calories for "today"? As far as time goes, as soon as the clock strikes midnight, it's considered to be the next day. But I don't think our bodies suddenly go "oh, hey it's the next…
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Why does MFP say I will lose X lbs in 5 weeks?
After you enter in your food diary, it says "if everyday is like today you will lose X lbs in 5 weeks" So for example, my starting weight is at 115 lbs. And it says I will be down to 114 lbs in 5 weeks. Isn't the calorie goal set so you would lose 1 (or 2) lbs within 1 week? So by 5 weeks I should already be at 110 lbs not…
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How can I do weight training without weights?
Some back story: I'm at a low weight but completely out of shape and flabby. I don't want to drop any weight but I want to lower bf% and gain muscle. Therefore,I need to do weight training but I have no access to a gym at the moment and no weights at home. So I looked up some exercises I could do at home instead. Would…
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Absolute beginner here! I need help!
Okay guys, I'm an absolute beginner when it comes to weight loss and exercise so please no mean comments. The things which may be obvious to you, isn't obvious to me. That said, I weigh 115 pounds at 5'5 and a half. With a BF % of 25% I would like to lose anywhere from 5-10 pounds but general weight loss isn't my main…
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Why do I feel hungry after workouts?
Sorry if this is a stupid question but why do I feel hungry right after a workout even though I've eaten way past the recommended amount of calories? Today was a pretty bad day for calories and I exceeded the amount recommended by 400 calories :( So you would think that the energy used in working out would be taken out of…
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low calorie SIMPLE recipes?
Whenever I see diet plans on the internet it always sounds like it came out of some gourmet restaurant. You know things like "roasted cod with tomato, orange and capers with garlic-cashew broccoli and brown rice" While I would love to have recipes like that for dinner every night, as a college student I don't have the time…
