Health & Fitness
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Counting Calories and Cooking Help!!
Anyone know how to figure how many calories you are consuming when you cook a meal? I use to do weight watchers but when I did that I usually ate pre-packaged meals (such as frozen dinners and such) and so it was easy to count my points. Well now I would like to start weight watchers again (without having to actually pay for it 
) or at least count my calories. But I don't know how to do this with cooking! Most recipes I use do not tell me how many servings it will make or any nutritional information.
Re: Counting Calories and Cooking Help!!
Try creating a myfitness account. You can easily track your calories and there's even a section for recipes. I use it quite frequently, since I make a lot of stuff from scratch, I just go in an add whatever I used for that dinner or whatever meal I made and then it calculates the calories for me.
Good luck!
Try creating a myfitnesspal account. You can easily track your calories and there's even a section for recipes. I use it quite frequently, since I make a lot of stuff from scratch, I just go in an add whatever I used for that dinner or whatever meal I made and then it calculates the calories for me.
Good luck!
Ditto. Myfitnesspal has a recipe feature. I live by it. I lost 40 lbs with the help of myfitnesspal! I still actively use it even though I'm no longer trying to lose.
sorry-i totally missed the part of not actually joining WW.
there are a TON of blogs and online etc...that have recipies. and good for you-those prepackaged foods are so full of crap and preservatives.
My Fitness Pal is awesome because you can build your own recipes in there and it will give you total calories. Also, there are websites that you can enter ingredients and it will break out your nutrition facts on what you made. Based on the quantity you make, you should be able to create however many servings you want from the meal and then use that to determine cals/serving. (ex. I made chicken enchiladas, we will say there were 8 enchiladas total, total calories of the whole dish were 1200; thats 150/enchilada).