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Yes, I am seeing the same thing.
For Meal Plan 1 – Non Weight Days – it’s 130g protein, 120g carbs, 70g fat. This = 1630 cals, but the plan says 1590 cals.
Also, when I put my 5 meals for this day into MFP, I get 1874 calories – 128 protein, 140 carbs, 74 fat…not sure where I went wrong :/
I had a similar issue in the past, but I discovered the following:
If you save the file from the original page, and don’t make the page big, it makes it hard to read the file. However, on each page, click on the page and then make it bigger (when you get the black background and see only this page on your screen). Then, right click on the image and select “save image as”. Finally, go to the file on your computer – where you saved it – and open and print from here. The file should be large enough for you to see, now.
I hope this helps!
This was my experience with the servings of something else in a previous challenge.
But, I have a different question about the Muffins. I just added the Muffin recipe to my MFP and in doing so it is telling me that each serving is 85 calories, not 33 calories. Wondering if there is a mistake on the recipe or if I might have entered something into MFP incorrectly. THANKS!
Is anyone else having issues with weighing the food after cooking? I have found that past few days that I haven’t cooked enough food to equal the cooked amount.
How do you make sure that you are cooking enough food, when the weight changes so much during the cooking process?Well, for anyone who doesn’t check email today – because it’s crazy, they are working, out of town, etc… and they were expecting Monday…
This is the email that went out on Thursday.I don’t want to cause trouble, just want everyone to have a fair shot.
If you haven’t received an email…
I’m not admin, but if you login to your account, click on the “challenge” page, then click on the “upload pictures” at the bottom…
All the instructions are located here, also.I have two accounts. One has my name attached to it, but is set to private. The other doesn’t have my name attached, and is set to public.
I am a high school teacher, and I know that a lot of students try to search me. For previous years, I would just set my account to public and then private at the end of the challenge. But, I wanted to be more visible, more of the time. Because the one with my name is “private” – the students think that I am private, that is my account, and stop looking. And, as I said, my public one doesn’t have my actual name attached, so in searching for my name, they won’t find it.
Gotta do what you gotta do – LOL!And, to be honest, I actually don’t care what friends and family think about my “crazy fitness posts” – I even just posted something on my Instagram about it the other day! And, in time, many will begin to see your dedication and how you are changing your life, and they will begin to wonder how they can do it, too 🙂
I prep all my meals on Sunday. I cook in bulk, and measure pre-cooked (for the most part). I then separate into my containers for the week. My fridge gets a bit full of containers, but I don’t need to worry for the entire week. My week gets crazy and I just don’t have time to do anything during the week (I’m a teacher – and planning, correcting, helping students, etc. takes up A LOT of time…and me taking time out to make it to the gym, sometimes twice a day when I’m able to split my cardio, takes a lot of my planning time).
I pull put all my food into piles for each day – this means I can just grab my food in the morning, put it into my six-pack bag, add my ice packs, and go! So easy!
I also prep the same meals for the entire week. This makes it easy and helps with amount of food.
***When I was doing oats and eggs, I do those quickly in the mornings instead of prepping ahead of time.Awe, i’m On Plan 1 – was wondering where the ghee butter came in… 🙁
Sad I miss out on some of the additions in the meals (i’m 4’11”).I started prepping today and slicing open that spaghetti squash was a chore! Especially after chest/bicep day! Think I might try throwing the whole darn thing in the oven next time
Now I remember why I stopped making this evil vegetable years ago. Does anyone have any hacks for slicing one open more easily?If you slice it through the round and not through the oval (I hope this makes sense) then it’s not as hard to cut! I just found an article on it, and shows how to do it in an instant pot – can’t wait to try it tomorrow!
Thanks everyone! Probably just going to struggle through the browning. I don’t like brown bananas, but I’m also not going to throw it in a smoothie because I live 20 minutes from the gym, without traffic…so I’ll just struggle through a slightly brown banana 🙂
Sometimes you have to do things that you just don’t like to be able to reach your goals!I agree – lots of great choices! Just trying to decide what I can eat fast, as a snack, in my classroom between classes. It’s so hard to get all my meals in when I can only have a quick meal, but I will make something work!
I’ve been starting to split my cardio and lifting. On my cardio days I’m up at 5, out at 5:30, gym at 6 – trying to do spin classes as much as possible because I really HATE cardio.
Then I get to work by 7:30 and work until 4. After work I am back at the gym to lift and then I finally get home after that.
Correcting, planning, and other teacher stuff after I get home – repack my gym bags, clean out my meal bag, make sure all my food is organized for the next day so all I need to do is pull it out of the fridge and add to my bag with my ice packs…
And then do it all over again!I’ve never really been a morning workout person, but I’ve actually felt better doing the double workouts. It’s also nice to not be in the gym all night trying to do both lifting and cardio.
Today’s rest day has been killing me!
Pay attention to the focus of the challenge, too! This first phase is not meant to be for weight loss – it’s a build phase. Build the muscle first and then burn the fat in the next stage.
You got this – just keep with the program!My gym has a standing calf raise machine…but I’m too short for it :/
So, I used a step with the Smith Machine. It gave me a place to “balance” also, instead of trying to balance using the dumbbells and falling off the step 😀
I was thinking the same as Wendy – 30g times the number of days. Then divide equally with the amount you have cooked.
On a side note – anyone have any suggestions on how many days the oatmeal will stay good once cooked. I’ve always just cooked every morning, but I’m trying to streamline my morning routine and would like to try to precook. I’ve always been worried that it would get very gummy sitting in the fridge too long.
Thanks!
I was worried about the other end of things – in the past i’ve lifted heavy and eaten closer to 1700 kcals (i’m 4’11” and 120 lbs). Those cals brought me down to about 105 lbs. But, i’m going to trust the process and see how it goes!
I had the same issue with meal 1 – but, I took my time and finished it. I ate meal 2 over time, also. I’m a teacher, and I only have 5 minutes between classes to hit the bathroom and snack. So, I got what I could and then waited til the next break.
I ended up finishing my meal two just before my meal 3…and then by the time meal four came around, I was starving from my workout, so I had no troubles with that!
