Winchester
Yep. Thanksgiving is going to be brutal. We have the churches feast on sunday (huge potluck. I am making a 20 pound turkey and corn chowder), MILs on thurs, and sat is my parents. PLUS we were given 2 turkeys. (I looovvvee turkey!)
Better no loss, no gain than a gain.Congratulations!Down 8 pounds since a week and a half ago.
Next week, Karen!Yikes I just got on the scale and I am up 4 pounds. I'm back on the wagon!
Nothing. No loss, no gain. I was down about a pound yesterday (again) and everything was going great. I did nothing wrong, ate nothing wrong, and yet it all came back today. Water fluctuations are not funny. :wife:
(And next week is Thanksgiving! :anon: )
I was thinking along those lines, too.Thanksgiving.I have to be honest and announce that there is no way I will be stepping on the scale next Friday.
Congratulations! Almost to onderland
I know if we all stick to what' works for you, we will get to our prefect goal. Good luck to everyone. I'm 205 and going strong .
I tried that site for tracking and it was just so difficult. I need to add my own recipes to it, I even make my own noodles.
Gatsunokisu - welcome. I have found myfitnesspal.com (their free account is great) to be really helpful as by watching calories it helps me with the portions - I still choose how much fat or carbs or salt I want..you can customize it re the goals you set and what you want tor max amounts of protein etc. It's real appeal for me - you can put in your own recipes and it will calculate how many carbs/calories etc. per portion, and your recipes can be kept private so only you see them when you want to add a serving of one of your recipes, to a day's meal.
Best wishes to you, this is a great little group
Oh well there you go! That's why I'm gaining weight! It's myfitnesspal pals fault!!! Hee hee hee!! Only joking but that is very interesting you should say that. I've been eating crackers and the serving says 30. It seems like an awful large serving. I'm going to check that out. Thanks for the tip.I don't find the caloric amounts to be very accurate on myfitnesspal.com. We do have nutritional scales at home, so I can weigh everything and check the calories that way. Then I just use Quick Tools to add the calories. If I didn't have the scales, though, I'd use myfitnesspal, simply because using something is better than winging it. At least with myfitnesspal, you have some idea of how you're doing.
I have recipe software at home and as I add my recipes to that, it will automatically give me nutritional information per serving. So between the software and the scales, I have a pretty good idea where I'm at from day to day.
Tip of the Day.......I love pretzels. Pretty much any kind of pretzels. Well, I've been checking the serving sizes of some of our snacks and the caloric amount is way off. For example, my favorite bag of pretzels says 1 ounce = 22 pretzels = 120 calories. Um, no. Not even close. One ounce of my pretzels is more like 17 pretzels for those 120 calories. And that is spot on....every single time I've weighed it out, it has ALWAYS been 17 pretzels, not 22. Another pretzel company says 1 ounce = 13 pretzels = 110 calories. No, again. According to my scales, 1 ounce of pretzels is more like 9 pretzels and that is 110 calories. Again, every single time it's been 9 pretzels. So don't trust the nutritional information on the packages! Not accurate at all. Sure, it will give you some idea....but it's not very accurate.
You know what I do? If I don't have a package to refer to, and am using myfitnesspal, I look at 3-4 listings for the same item and take the one that is most consistent. I too have seen widely varying calories listed, where it's apparent sometimes, they were just putting down what they wanted it to be..lol.
I don't find the caloric amounts to be very accurate on myfitnesspal.com. We do have nutritional scales at home, so I can weigh everything and check the calories that way. Then I just use Quick Tools to add the calories. If I didn't have the scales, though, I'd use myfitnesspal, simply because using something is better than winging it. At least with myfitnesspal, you have some idea of how you're doing.
I have recipe software at home and as I add my recipes to that, it will automatically give me nutritional information per serving. So between the software and the scales, I have a pretty good idea where I'm at from day to day.
Tip of the Day.......I love pretzels. Pretty much any kind of pretzels. Well, I've been checking the serving sizes of some of our snacks and the caloric amount is way off. For example, my favorite bag of pretzels says 1 ounce = 22 pretzels = 120 calories. Um, no. Not even close. One ounce of my pretzels is more like 17 pretzels for those 120 calories. And that is spot on....every single time I've weighed it out, it has ALWAYS been 17 pretzels, not 22. Another pretzel company says 1 ounce = 13 pretzels = 110 calories. No, again. According to my scales, 1 ounce of pretzels is more like 9 pretzels and that is 110 calories. Again, every single time it's been 9 pretzels. So don't trust the nutritional information on the packages! Not accurate at all. Sure, it will give you some idea....but it's not very accurate.