I have been tracking some of my eating habits with myfitnesspal.com. It is good for the unknown items purely due to the crowdsourced data that is already input by other users. Arguably, the data may not be the best or you may not have the exact thing listed, but there is generally something close that can help you get the data approximately close.
Weight Loss Thread
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Now that I'm not actively trying to lose a large amount of weight (I'm 195, I'd like to be 180, but I'm also fairly content at this weight compared to when I hit 240) That's basically all I do.
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Yeah, I weigh my stuff. But eating balanced or counting, you should be weighing your food either way. How was the sweet potato off? Did you just go looking for "1 large baked sweet potato"? And the entry had the wrong amount of calories, etc? Not surprising if you're going to do it in vague sizes and such. I personally don't find weighing all my food that annoying. I'm an engineer and I like being in control, weighing gives me that. Plus, while I was decent at estimating after eating a food for a while, it wasn't exact. I was underestimating my foods by about 5-10% and it caused some unintended weight loss after a while.
Elurin, you know you can make recipes in a lot of the apps? Annoying at first, but most people have varied but ultimately cyclical diets. I rarely have to add recipes anymore, maybe 1 a week?
Khane
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The amount of effort some of you put into figuring out your exact calorie intakes is dizzying. It's commendable that you try so hard to keep yourselves from eating like shit but goddamn, eating right isn't as difficult as some of you make it out to be.
McCheese
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I think calorie counting and weighing food is great to do a for a while because it makes you aware of how many calories are in things you eat frequently. However, I can't imagine doing that for a lifetime. Then again, I've never been a "data" kind of guy, but I know lots of people who workout and keep meticulous logs of weights, reps, body fat trends, weight trends, calories, macros, etc. Different strokes for different folks. As long as something works for you, more power to you!
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Understandable. Former fat kid, so I always have the specter motivating me from gaining extra weight. But I honestly don't think it's that much work.
Noodleface
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Oh Himeo, I wasn't arguing. Seriously if it works for you, keep doing it. I was merely trying to make a funny about your ingestion of garlic sauce.
Khane
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Fucked up my other shoulder at the gym last night. It hurts the worst when I just leave my arm hanging straight down or when I reach across my body and the bone is really tender. Overhead hurts a bit too but not as bad as when I leave it hanging at my side. All that ice hockey, baseball and football is starting to catch up to me I guess. I'm really hoping rest and physical therapy exercises work this time, I do not want to have surgery again.
Itlan
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So Deathwing, do you even track shit like salad? I have a salad every night, and when I'm just thinking about numbers I really only care about the avocado and the oil... those are the only two things with substantial calories. Tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and peppers are the other ingredients, btw, generally.
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EVERYTHING! I'm a meticulous asshole like that. Accurate record keeping means more dessert. Also, the other ingredients might have vitamins(which I don't care about meeting daily), protein, and fiber.
Itlan
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Yeah cucumber, tomato and onion don't have many calories but they do have a lot of nutrients and shit but I don't have time to keep fucking track of that. All I care about are macros and calories, and if I'm 30 calories and 2g of protein or whatever fucking useless amount of shit these foods contain, well then I'll just be a fat pig in 10 years after overeating 30 calories a day.
Someone do the math, idk.
McCheese
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That would be a lot easier to eat if it were folded in half into a giant P'zone.Remember all you fat fucks talking about the different ways you ate pizza rolls? Try this...
I know what I'm eating on my next cheat day!
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Itlan
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McCheese
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You're going to have some nasty smelling piss.
It's pretty amazing how easily you can fill up on vegetables and yet not really get many calories. I LOVE veggies and I've found myself undereating on occasion because I'll stuff myself with vegetables which, although insanely filling, don't actually provide many calories. Sometimes I'll grill a chicken breast and along with it I'll eat an entire large onion, an entire green pepper, and an entire red bell pepper. I'm absolutely stuffed afterwards but in terms of calories it's barely anything at all.
