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If you have a scale at home, try making similar things so you get a sense of how many grams/oz in a meatball, how much in a piece of meat, how much for 6 rings of fried calamari. This works well if you know the restaurant menu in advance. Also, restaurants, big and small, keep tight control over portion sizes for budget…

If you go on reddit.com you will find a subreddit called ABraThatFits. It is a wide ranging discussion about brands, sizes shapes of breast, how to deal with size charts. Many of the women have bust/band size configurations that are outliers and therefore it is a good source of product information for things you can't get…

I just remembered something that may help. Sodexo is a very large industrial catering company.They have downloaded their foods through , I think, a Canadian university or food service- I see their name pop up when I am searching for prepared foods occasionally. If you are stumped, try entering , for example, Chicken curry…

I belong to a group that has monthly pot luck suppers with different spices and cuisines. This is what I have been doing. I keep an idea of the quantity I am taking (portion) and ask someone what it is called. Even the lunch ladies will know the general name, but if not, you can recognize that something is a stew, or…

I feel guilty answering this on MFP, but Vanillekipferl are an almond meal/flour cookie which uses 3 egg yolks in the recipe. I make egg custard with 2 cups of milk, sweetener ( or just 2 cups of egg nog from the grocery store), 4 whole eggs and 2 extra yolks and some vanilla. I also do chocolate ganache truffles using…

Take a look at the Rishi website. I have sampled a few of their teas and been very pleased.They are a bit pricey but well worth it in my opinion. http://www.rishi-tea.com/

Red Zinger for me, please although the Christmas (peppermint) Tea is a treat.

I have been drinking Celestial Seasonings' Red Zinger since it first came out in the mid 1960's when I was in college. These days I add some TruLemon ( dehydrated lemon) and a bit of Stevia. I also drink Tazo's Passion and Rishi's Tropical Hibiscus. All of them are rosehip and hibiscus based with other herbs added…

Although it was designed initially for older people there is a great deal of knowledge and work on cardiac rehab. Talk to your cardiologist and get a referral to someone who is skilled and knowledgeable in the area and work under the direction of the cardiologist.

If you want to calibrate your scale, Cooks Illustrated says that one US nickel is 5 grams and that 4 US quarters +1 US nickel is 1 ounce

Sometimes weight comes off more from one place than another. I have lost about20 lbs since August. The pants that fit hips and thighs slide down uncomfortably on my belly. If I could find high waisted pants other than front pleats fro the thrift shops, I would grab them. To answer your question, change in body shape is not…

Not me, but a very close buddy. He has wrestled with weight for almost as long as I have known him (16-17 years). Much of that time he has also wrestled with alcohol and , from a variety of sources, I know that alcohol has been an issue for him sporadically for many many years. This last summer he was diagnosed with…

In August ,the New York Times had an article about the ways we can get our daily water allowance. I am attaching the link. In specific answer to your question, tea would count. CityRuss's list is pretty comprehensive. I keep a pitcher of rosehip/hibiscus herb tea with stevia in the fridge to drink casually. No calories and…

Does your friend has a fluid ounce/metric measuring cup? Use that to measure out your own serving , then approximate components at home. I know how much my usual coffee mugs hold and use them as rough measures to estimate serving sizes when I am out. For example, 1 cup chicken broth Rachel Ray, 2 oz boiled chicken, 2 oz…

I am 5' 3 1/2" and 65 . In late August at the doctor's office, in light clothes I was 153. I am now hovering around 134 in my underwear , at home. My nominal goal is 125, but the real goal is getting into a particular size 6 Armani dress that I found on a tremendously good sale ($50 f you can believe it!) and not look like…

Thanks for all the support and information so far. The bar code scan thing never occurred to me. I haven't used the add cal function , but that is also a good one. I need to adapt my diet to my eating pattern or I won't stick to a regimen, meaning foregoing nibbling and noshing (BLT's- I love that one!) is not realistic. I…

A long time ago , so long I can hardly remember ( well actually it was 1979), a friend who was a competition ballroom dancer told me that if my clothes felt looser when I had been (running , working out, dancing etc) vigorously 3 days a week, I needed to remember that muscle weighs more than fat. I expect dietetics and…

Thanks. That never occurred to me

I try to research products before I buy them. I try to rely on Consumer Reports or Cooks Illustrated ( America's Test Kitchen) because they do not carry advertising. Being an old fashioned person, I like to tough and hold a product before I buy, too. Consumer Reports has not rated digital food scales. Cools Illustrated has…