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android4 to be released……..

Topic: General Discussion / Android update

I don’t use the app function, but I do create my own recipes and search for the ingredients and can get a good calorie breakdown that way.

Topic: General Discussion / App Issues

Hey everyone!
Today I made my own soymilk and later on I will be making tofu (organic not GMO beans) and I was wondering if the nutritional information I enter into the new recipe I created is accurate. Soymilk is simply soybeans and water but you strain out the solid parts of the beans so that must change the nutritional information right? How would i account for that?
Sidenote, homemade soymilk is awesome! Can’t wait for the tofu tonight!

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / Homemade soymilk and Tofu

I totally agree with you asyalieberman and Tryst. I function best on 6 hours. If I sleep 8 hours a night I spend the first 4-5 hours of the day groggy and unable to function but when I wake up after 6 hours (which my body does naturally most days without an alarm) I feel perfectly rested and ready to start the day.
I believe that as with everything else in life (diet, exercise, health) you need to find what works for you as an individual and the most important thing is to learn to listen to your body and then messages that it sends you. Your body is smarter than most people give it credit.

Topic: General Health / Sleep for health ?

So I think I have an answer to my own question. I did some testing and entered the exercise ‘Dumbbell Curl – Standing’ as a test with… Set 1: 10 × 20 lbs. When I looked at My Exercise Log for the day it showed… 8 cals burned, 0 mi traveled, 200 lbs lifted

So it seems DB only keeps track of one arms’ worth of weights when entering dumbbell exercises (10 reps x 20 lbs = 200 lbs lifted). So in order to accurately keep track of weight lifted you will need to enter 1 rep per arm for dumbbells. Which would actually be… (2x 10 reps x 20 lbs = 400 lbs lifted).

Hope this helps anyone else that was wondering the same thing.

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / Question on entering dumbbell exercises

I function great on five or six hours! I am not buying into the eight hour hype, its a waste of life for me. Also I think the rule creates an unrealistic expectation for those of us who nature has programmed to sleep less.

Topic: General Health / Sleep for health ?

Lately when I am in the middle of recording my app on my phone, I get a pop up telling me that an error has occurred and is asking me to report it. I’m not getting an error.

Then there are some foods I am eating that I have scanned and it doesn’t match up, like the calories or carbs for instance.

Also, there are times I can’t record my food since I have made homemade bean soup (like last night) and it doesn’t match up to anything on the app. Something else comes up, so I use that just so I can keep some sort of tab.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Topic: General Discussion / App Issues

I was just planning what I’m going to order later since I’ll be out with some friends.

Building my pizza here using nutritionix calculator and realized that Pizza can be healthyt without fatty meats and with tons of healthy vegetable toppings.

Here’s a healthy pizza

Best Lunch/Dinner Choices
-Fit’N Delicious Carb Tracker Pizza Pepperoni & Mushrooms: 490 calories, 25g fat, 39g carbs, 26g protein
*Note: This is for the entire pizza

-Fit’N Delicious Lower Fat Pizzas Tomatoes Mushrooms & Jalapeno peppers: 140 calories, 4g fat, 21g carbs, 6g protein
*Note: This is for one large slice out of a 14” pizza

Best Snack Choices:
If you have a sweet tooth and are looking for something in Pizza Hut, why not try some cinnamon sticks?
-Cinnamon Sticks (2): 97 calories, 2.9g fat, 15.4g carbs, 2.3g protein

*Warning: Avoid the white icing dipping cup

ref: http://www.nutritionix.com/m/9w8684

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / Surprisingly healthy meals from Pizza Hut

@Garnislitton – keep working at it and you will one day!

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / Have a weight loss story to share?

I wish the 8-hour blanket statements would stop.

Topic: General Health / Sleep for health ?

No but I want to have one…. :(

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / Have a weight loss story to share?

Everyone must get sleep for 8 hours. It provide you energy for entire day. Cutting your sleeping hours for you work can harm your health.

Topic: General Health / Sleep for health ?

I have XBox360 and This is mine favorite Gaming Console….I like to play Angry Bird and This is mine all time favorite game ever…

Topic: Just For Fun / What's your favorite game system and game?

As a general rule of thumb, adding 500 kcals is sufficient for accounting for breastfeeding. -EK

Topic: General Discussion / Accounting for Breastfeeding

^^Completely untrue. All of the reserach indicates that whey alone PWO is absorbed too quickly to be of any use unless you plan on taking whey every 20 minutes for like 3-4 hours after you train. A casein and whey blend prevents this from happening because it is slow enough to keep protein synthesis high for long enough to actually get some results from what you’re taking. -EK

Topic: Supplements / When to take whey and casein protein?

What is the best way to account for breastfeeding? Ideally, it would be to have the option to include it in your daily activities total, and then have your daily calories adjusted accordingly. It’s not something that I want to track daily as an extra activity.

Also, I’m not sure if I’m eating too much or too little while breastfeeding. Some more guidance/information on this would be appreciated. I seem to be one of those mothers who holds onto weight while breastfeeding… I’m really trying to be careful with what I eat. Uping calories doesn’t make me lose weight, but neither does cutting….

Topic: General Discussion / Accounting for Breastfeeding

There is no need for taking casein protein. Your body is way to adaptive to need to worry about the digestion rate of one protein over the other. The only benefit to casein is that it coagulates in the stomach which can make you have a feeling of being full longer which can be helpful to people cutting calories.
To the person that was getting tired during your workout try using citrulline or beta alanine. Both are fantastic for endurance and actually delay the lactic acid build up in muscle.

Topic: Supplements / When to take whey and casein protein?

Daisy, I too prefer restaurants where the information is available. Unfortunately, most of the restaurants are chains and aren’t that exciting.

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / How do you track the unknown?

True, true… I, unfortunately, am “forced” to go places I do not prefer to please the mother-in-law (Mother’s day, her birthday, and other various dates). If I get a heads up on the place I do research but sometimes there is no website. Smaller (not chain) restaurants don’t generally have the nutrition information on their website if they even have one! Those are the times I do my very best to order well and estimate what I’ve had.

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / How do you track the unknown?

If I understand correctly, you lost a pound when you were eating 1500 and burning 400 (1100 net). If so, now that you’ve doubled your workout I’d say you should increase your calories to 1900 and see how it goes. You have to have that net amount where you can lose slowly (experts say 1 pound a week is about right) but not trigger your body to conserve energy. It may take a week or two for your body to recalibrate. On the other hand, you could cut your excercise back down again. I think that is just a personal choice. Good luck.

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / More exercise, more food?

How did this happen? Have you been sent for physical therapy?

Topic: General Discussion / Nerve damage

Go to restaurants websites, many of them have nutrition information available there. I usually will only go to a restaurant if their menu and nutrition information is online so I can plan ahead.

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / How do you track the unknown?

I was recently prescribed with damage to my long thoracic nerve palsy, affecting my serratus anterior.

I was wondering if anyone has faced this issue before and/or has some solid advice to make my recovery quicker and smoother.

I do not experience pain, but I have alot of weakness stabilizing over my left shoulder at different angles

Topic: General Discussion / Nerve damage

I generally do the best I can with the estimate erring on the plus side… Adding oil to the count is a must when you see you veggies swimming in it. I hate that!!!

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / How do you track the unknown?

Breakfast is taken after a long night’s sleep – in your case "long day’s sleep. And Erinicus is right. Eat before you head for work and before your work out.

I also agree that it’s just another meal…“breakfast” is just a name.

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / When to eat Breakfast?