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Weighing meat, before and after cooking
I know to weigh dry things like pasta and rice etc. before cooking, as the post-cooking gain in those is just water, but it just occurred to me that I'm not really sure about meat! Weighing after cooking usually shows a fairly significant difference, for example I buy a peppered grill steak that weighs about 170g before…
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Potato calorie estimate?
My local shop had lovely-looking big fresh potatoes today, so I bought one to have a baked potato for dinner. Since the potatoes were fresh and not in a branded bag with nutritional info, I'm not sure of the calories, and generic database entries seem to vary. It's a standard white baking potato weighing 445g (it's a big…
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Older pics can be shocking!
I was browsing some older photos this evening for nostalgia's sake, and I can't believe the difference in me now, it was really quite a shock; obviously we usually see our own weight loss as fairly gradual but when you suddenly see yourself in a picture as you were, it's both horrifying and delightful, haha. The first pic…
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Logging vegetable/cooking oil
This leaves me a bit confused. I always log it, I just wonder if I'm over-logging with it, because I'm not actually eating that much of it on the rare occasions I do use it. Today is a prime example: I'm making a bit of frying steak for dinner. I put one tablespoon of the oil into the frying pan, which is 124 calories.…
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30lbs down after 190 days
I've been aiming to lose 1lb a week, so I think I'm fairly on-target. It's not remotly as impressive as some of the successes I see on here but I'm quite proud of myself, it's the first time ever that I've managed to lose weight whilst actually trying to. I was 200lbs at my biggest, I'm only 5'5''. I've always had a…
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Satisfying a sweet craving without sky-high calories
I really want to cut back on the junk food I eat, I know that if I'm within my daily calories it's technically Ok to have them (I'm not a 'sugar hater' and I am still losing weight at the predicted rate despite my poorer food choices) but I find I keep snacking on sweet things that are high in calories but have little…
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Arm toning
If what I've been reading is correct, working out a lot before you've lost a lot of the fat you want to lose can result in muscle building under fat, is that correct or have I totally misinterpreted the (conflicting) opinions online? I ask because I have very podgy upper arms which I hate, and I really want to tone them up…
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Exercises for the very unfit?
I'm in a bit of a vicious circle, I need to exercise to get fit, but I'm not fit enough to exercise! I can happily walk for a fairly long time at a leisurely or moderate pace (this has been the majority of my exercising so far) but as soon as I step up the intensity, I quickly become exhausted. I attempted jogging on the…
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Logging homemade food?
Hi all, I'm pretty new to the site, doing fairly well so far keeping within my daily calories and remembering to log everything I eat, but I had a query about homemade food; I was in the mood to make a wee batch of pancakes earlier, which I know aren't exactly a healthy food but I had used up very little of my sugar points…
