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It also depends on the country. Even where countries share the same sizing numbers, the size itself is different. I'm 5'0", 135 and wear an 8, a 12 or a 46 dress, a 9, 11, 13 or 34 bottom or a S, M, L or XL outerwear depending on the label. In some stores I can buy off the kids rack. In the US I'm a small but in Bangladesh…

Any soup is filling. Anything high fibre.

What could possibly be wrong with an entry claiming pizza has 13 calories per slice?

It would save a lot of wasted time and database bloat if the form for creating food entries required more mandatory information, starting with weight in grams or milliliters.

There's a group for us smaller women, and many are also older. It's a good place for info tailored to our special stats. http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/109137-petites-in-maintenance

When in doubt, crowdsource the data. Go to Google and type "[name of food] calories." This will return the manufacturer info (if relevant), MFP, and four or five other calorie counting site's database entries.

This. You have two problems here. 1) Your tracker is wrong. I'm about your size (5'0", 137) also with an active job where I seldom sit. I carry an old-school pedometer and I average 6000-8000 steps in eight hours. If you're walking to exhaustion for twelve hours you should be seeing double that. 2) Even if your tracker is…

If his nana is like my nana, you don't get away from the table with less than three plates of penne and meat sauce. Any less is a mortal indictment of her cooking.

Cibo: La parola italiana per amore. :D (Food: The Italian word for love.) The most idiotic bit of advice I got was from a customer who warned me that I really shouldn't be putting cream in my coffee because it was so fatty. Down seventy-five pounds while drinking about two litres of it a week. Hmm.

Tropicana is produced by Pepsi. Its main website, tropicana.com, touts the product's health benefits but doesn't actually list nutritional information anywhere that I could find. I find that extremely telling. This is a big question though. A good choice of what? If you're questioning calorie count only, it's a better…

QFT. 1200 per day is for women (A) losing more than 30 lbs, (B) over age 40, and/or (C) under 5'3". Preferably a combination of above. Otherwise it's unsustainable and borderline unhealthy chasing of instant gratification. Trimming a few pounds and keeping them off calls for cultivating a lifelong habit of moderation, not…

Barring severe constipation, intestinal contents don't make as big a difference as some might think. Having been booked for a routine colonoscopy back in the spring, morbid curiosity drove me to monitor my weight before, during and after the "big purge." After a 18 hour solid and liquid fast and with an empty gut, I…

Amazing how people think that someone who's lost 65 lbs or more needs advice.

Next time that conversation comes up, do this: sister: You're doing really well! Nice job! me: Thanks! Then ask her to pass the sprouts. Rinse repeat as needed. Feed a person enough one-word answers and they'll figure out you don't want to talk about it. Alternatively, if you're the bull-by-the-horns sort of person, say "I…

The problem with "woo" is not just that it's subjective (and as pointed out earlier, not always correct in the case of vindicated folk knowledge) but that it's invariably used as a sneer word. It's a passive-aggressive way to denigrate someone without ending up with jail bars on your avatar. It's not productive either,…

I don't work out per se. I find it easier to incorporate mini-workouts into my regular routine. I have a 40lb dumbbell set that sits outside my kitchen door convenient to a full-length mirror. When I'm cooking, instead of putting water on and daydreaming while it comes to a boil, I grab the weights and do a three minute…

Thanks! I ask because I usually walk two or three miles a day at work. I think maybe I'll do like exercise calories and add all intentional walking and maybe half of work walking.

I'm up for this. I do a lot of walking but don't log it all the time. Does this include just recreational and exercise walking or does walking at work count as well?

Some airlines charge a fee for the extender now. Also, while airlines have posted policies re double seats, the actual application and enforcement of those policies is frequently at the discretion of the flight crew. Be nice, bring cash, cross your fingers and hope you don't get a rules diva or weight crusader at check-in.

Life is bad for your health. So is clickbait.

Your results may vary depending on where the extra weight is carried. I'm down 68 lbs and so far have dropped from 42DD to 38D. It's less drastic a change than others who have lost as much or less, but I'm barrel-chested and carried proportionally much less weight in the upper body. I'm 20 lbs from goal and I'll be…

Thanks for the clarification.

If it helps, millilitres and grams are freely convertable: 1ml = 1g. So 237ml is 237g. The "verified" entries are riddled with errors. When in doubt, search multiple entries on MFP or double-check against other calorie databases altogether. MFP's database is huge, but the noise-to-signal ratio is so high that it's…

It's so true about body composition. I cannot underscore enough to people how much difference height makes. Have you tried browsing the kid's sections yet? There's some great deals there for petite basics.

@PeachyCarol I know that I'm the same weight as you +/- 2lbs, the same age and 2 inches shorter, and I wear a 12/14 or a medium/large in pretty much every brand with the better brands trending smaller. I've bought clothes mail-order as well as in-store, and clothing made for the American market trends a size larger than…

Are you taking any kind of codeine-based medication? Constipation is a common side effect. Yes, take a stool softener as well as a laxative -- you don't want bleeding hemorrhoids. Prunes are old-fashioned but surprisingly effective. Double yes -- see a doctor. If chronic or untreated, this can lead to diverticulitis. If…

You don't have to be faster than the walkers. You only need to be faster than the slowest person they're chasing. Hm, I think I have a problem... :#

Good job! And I love your style sense!

I'm 5'0" and my walking speeds are identical. I'm guessing you're a fellow super-petite.

This was my first reaction as well. Playing the blame game is unproductive in general, but in this case there's more than enough to go around for everyone to share it. Someone who got to 800 lbs has a serious eating disorder and should have been in a strictly institutionalised environment to monitor intake. I can…