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Noodleface_sl said:
I noticed Pizza Hut is doing something like 50% off all pizzas until Jan 10th... I wonder if that has something to do with it
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There goes my diet! I like a good stuff crust here and there..

I think a lot of people go too hard too soon. I decided to just replace a meal with 2 veggie type smoothies and drink more water. It's easier to make small adjustments and continue to tweak instead of going on some crazy restrictive diet.
 
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The big gym rush will start on Monday. Not many people are going to start up in the middle of the week.
 
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I typically slack off during the transition to cold weather combined with the holiday season. I was actually pleasantly surprised to see 188 on the scale this morning. I'm lean at about 180 now and cut up at 175ish so I'm not as far as I thought. Still need to get moving again. I've started bringing lunch, going to the gym, watching what I eat. I'd like to get to around 180-182 and then go from there.
 
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Works great when I stick with it. When I buy lunch instead of bring and eat holiday cookies and cakes, on top of not going to the gym I gain a few pounds.
 
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I started using My Fitness Pal, and I actually really like this, but I already ran into the problem of trying to track calories on something I made myself. Do any of you guys have an easy way of doing that? I ate some red beans with ham that I made myself over the weekend and I have no idea how many calories are in it. Do you just calculate calories for the whole dish and divide into portions or something?
 
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chaos_sl said:
I started using My Fitness Pal, and I actually really like this, but I already ran into the problem of trying to track calories on something I made myself. Do any of you guys have an easy way of doing that? I ate some red beans with ham that I made myself over the weekend and I have no idea how many calories are in it. Do you just calculate calories for the whole dish and divide into portions or something?
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With something like ham and beans it's a little tricky to be 100% accurate but calculating for the whole dish and dividing into portions is the easiest way. For instance, when I make sausage and peppers I cook it all together to get the flavor infusion but when I weigh it using my scale I actually weigh my plate, 0 out the scale, pick out the amount of sausage I want and weight that, 0 it out again and then weigh out my peppers. It's a little more work but it's more accurate then just weighing both together. With ham and beans you should be able to do that. With foods that you can't easily pick out and weigh individual ingredients make a recipe.

I made chili last week and created a recipe on MyFitnessPal for it as well. There is no way I could weigh all the ingredients separately after it's made so I cooked things separately and weighed them all before I threw them in the chili pot (vegetables have very differing calorie amounts based on weight between raw and cooked so this was important) then I took the total weight of the actually chili and put it, along with all the individual ingredients into MFP. Then I figured 100g would be a good "serving" size because it divides easily so I put 100g into MFP as the serving size. Now everytime I eat the leftovers all I have to do is weigh them and put serving size into MFP and it does the rest.

I'm really gung ho about the accuracy of my intake.
 
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Food scale and portions. I push calorie counting and will fully admit this can be a huge pain in the ass. You make a dish, make a recipe for it in the app, and then either weigh the whole damn thing(if that's feasible) or portion it out relatively carefully. For example, weighing a big pot of soup is not feasible since it will easily go over the weight limit of most scales. So, we take two big ladles and that is a "serving". After dinner, we make leftovers and continue counting how many ladles we got out of the whole pot. Divide by two, that's how many servings you got out of the recipe and you know finally how many calories and macros you really ate.

It's annoying to know AFTER the fact how much you ate, but you start getting a feel for recipes after a while. I know my wife's minestrone is almost always ~220 calories, no matter how bad she is at measuring stuff(she basically doesn't). Odds are you don't cook THAT many different meals, so after a month or two, you'll have most recipes in there and you'll just have to tweak servings and a few ingredients.

If you ate something you don't make much, like someone brought over a dish, I just search for something in the app and guess how many calories they were.
 
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I don't know if anyone watches The Biggest Loser, but I happened to see Biingo and his mom at a mall food court the other day. I thought it was funny because they were getting lunch at McDonalds.
 
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chaos_sl said:
I started using My Fitness Pal, and I actually really like this, but I already ran into the problem of trying to track calories on something I made myself. Do any of you guys have an easy way of doing that? I ate some red beans with ham that I made myself over the weekend and I have no idea how many calories are in it. Do you just calculate calories for the whole dish and divide into portions or something?
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You can create recipes where you can add in how much of each ingredient you used, including beans and ham and count it as like 1 big serving. Then you'll say you ate 1/4 or whatever and just enter in 1/4 serving. That's how I usally do it.
 
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Noodleface_sl said:
You can create recipes where you can add in how much of each ingredient you used, including beans and ham and count it as like 1 big serving. Then you'll say you ate 1/4 or whatever and just enter in 1/4 serving. That's how I usally do it.
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Exactly. If you eat the same amount throughout the week, whether or not you had 800 cal in one serving and 600 in another, it will all balance out at the end of the week. You don't need to be a psycho like Khane lol.
 
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That is what I do to, though it is actually a pain for me because I do cook a lot of different things. I experiment on myself constantly, repeat recipes are always things I've worked out pretty thoroughly and only happen when I have guests over. I'd rather try something new. Since I just moved I haven't gotten the house set up yet and haven't had anyone over for a meal, so I haven't made the same thing more than once in the last ~3 months.
 
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Yeah I saw that you can create recipes. I guess I was just hoping that since you can create a recipe it would tell you what a 1 cup portion of your recipe was in calories. That would make things much simpler. I guess I will have to find some way to do it, I want to really commit to tracking every meal for at least a few months to see how it works.

Other than that I really like the app. The web interface is great, the bar code scanning is great, the database of foods is great, that is really my only complaint so far.
 
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I am a super-resolutioner. I want to start getting in shape at the start of the year, but will put it off until the other dirty resolutioners give up in February.
 
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Yeah if you cook a lot of different things it sucks, but if you follow some sort of regularity it will only suck for awhile as you enter in each recipe. For me and my wife we probably have between 10 "goto" meals, and occasionally we'll throw something new in. It sucked in the beginning but now I can just click on it and add what I ate.
 
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chaos_sl said:
Yeah I saw that you can create recipes. I guess I was just hoping that since you can create a recipe it would tell you what a 1 cup portion of your recipe was in calories. That would make things much simpler. I guess I will have to find some way to do it, I want to really commit to tracking every meal for at least a few months to see how it works.

Other than that I really like the app. The web interface is great, the bar code scanning is great, the database of foods is great, that is really my only complaint so far.
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Make your food, take a cup of it, weigh the cup then figure out how many cups are in the entire thing and put that as your serving size. Now you know what 1 cup of it is.

I do wish you could put in the weight or measurement of your choice rather than just this "1 serving" stuff.
 
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You can change it to weight from what I remember... I'd have to check, but I'm positive I used to put in 8 oz of chicken, 200g of broccoli, etc. Unless it's different when you do the recipe thing (never used that).
 
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Recipes only let you put in a serving size (with no weight or measurement info) unfortunately.
 
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Weighed in another 2.8 lbs down from last week with 3 days well over 1300 (~3000 on NYE and 1600 two other days). But I'm done with this stupid experiment, gonna ramp it up to a much more reasonable 1700 calories a day for now. Started doing DDP Yoga on Friday too. Goddamn was I sore on Saturday; I'm so inflexible.

EDIT: I changed my MFP preferences from 2lbs to 1lb a week and changed from sedentary to lightly active and the suggested daily calorie intake shot all the way up to 2040 from 1320.
 
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