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One product I saw mentioned was pettipants - sort of like a petticoat (slip) but with legs. I found them while looking for bloomers (for modesty when I wear skirts on the windy plaza near my workplace). They are thinner than regular shorts would be, since they're basically slip material, but it have the same effect. My…

One unexpected result for me was... my chin dimple came back. I hadn't even realized it was gone, to be honest. Then, I saw a dark spot on my chin. I thought it was dust and went to brush it away, only to feel the dent. ^_^ It's like seeing an old friend. I missed my little dimple.

It's such a foreign idea for me that someone might not recognize when they're hungry... For me, hunger is part mental and part physical. I have trouble focusing on one topic. I have trouble doing just one thing - my mind flits around like a butterfly. I can also get rather short tempered. Physically, my stomach will…

^This. I do this exactly. Once I know the calories of the total dish, I figure out how many servings I think it will be. I made a pizza and sliced it into 8 pieces, but I ate two of those pieces - that became 1 serving. I put it in the recipe builder as having 4 servings. Every two pieces is a serving.

My main exercise is walking - which I'm doing every day at this point. During the workweek, I walk at lunch and on my 2 fifteens. Saturday, I "powershop" - which is basically going early to the supermarket and going through the shopping list as quickly as possible. I generally get done in about half an hour (with about 5K…

I don't follow a routine, but I started walking on my breaks at work (lunch and 2 fifteens) and lost 25 pounds. Then, I joined MFP and started keeping track of my calories as well. Since joining MFP, I've lost another 12 pounds. Walking is still my primary exercise, although I'm now getting into some running and yoga as…

It really depends what sort of work you do. I do data entry and I haven't really found something I can do at my desk and work at the same time. Most of the exercises I've found, involve my hands (which are occupied when I'm wroking). However, if your job is mostly answering phones... you can do arm circles or leg lifts…

The one I found was fried chicken... The one that was 1280 kcals had grilled chicken. Yeah, it had other things with calories too, but it was grilled - not fried chicken. I'll also say this: calories are not the enemy. I need them to live. I just have to be careful how many of them I eat. Once, I might have tried to eat…

They don't have a picture for the grilled one, but... it would probably look about the same. It's still shocking for a salad to have so many calories. They're pretty big salads, but I would not be expecting it.

Maybe it's just me, but none of those pictures showed things that were surprisingly over 1000 calories. Except for the chicken tender basket. That's a lot of calories for four chicken tenders, a slice of toast and french fries. The Applebee's salad being over 1000 calories is a lot more surprising to me - just judging by…

There's a picture here. I could totally be duped by that. The description is, "Fresh Asian greens tossed in a tasty Oriental vinaigrette and topped with crispy noodles, toasted almonds and golden fried chicken." It sounds great and rather healthy too. The salad itself is rather huge. I've never managed to eat the whole…

Sorry... In case you couldn't guess we're twins and doing MFP together. This is the first time we've been in a thread at the same time, though. At least our icons are different.

They make them, but they don't come with the meal (at least not where I live). The Value Meals are the sandwich, fries and a drink.

Even before I started counting calories, I was hearing that the guideline was 600 calories per meal. It's not perfect, but it gives you something to shoot for when you go out to a place that has the nutrition information published.

The regular (medium) fries are 340 calories. I'm trying to figure out what the drink would have been.

What I eat at a fair and what I eat on a regular basis are two drastically different things. I'll get a bag of garlic butter popcorn every year at the Garlic Festival. Normally... something like that is far too heavy for me to eat. The last fair I went to, I got a Blooming Onion to share with my sister - but it was our…

One thing I've learned over the years... don't try hard boiling fresh eggs. Eggs that are a week or so old (but still within their date) peel easier than the fresh ones do. The dates are just a guideline anyway. If the egg sinks (or mostly sinks), it's still perfectly safe to eat.

The times that I've had blooming onions, I never thought they wouldn't have a lot of calories. They are quite large, covered in batter and deep-fried. I've also never eaten one by myself. When I've eaten them, I shared them with three other people. It's still a lot - 500 calories - but not quite as much. I'm not saying no…

I also wonder how many of them are still on menus. I know you can't get the Quad Stacker at most BKs anymore. They only do Double Stackers (a more reasonable 420 calories).

In fairness... at one restaurant I went to, when the appetizer was more than 1000 calories, they expected 4-6 people to split the thing. Looking at the Aussie cheese fries... that's more like 8-12 people enjoying them. I think some of these grossly huge things - like the Heart Attack Grill's Quaruple Bypass Burger - are…

I get about 15K steps a day at this point, but I only count the ones I get as a result of "deliberate excerise". I have 4-5 walks each day and I time each one and use my total steps for the walk to figure out how far I went in that time (to get my walking pace). Those are put in as "exercise". As someone else said, I put…

Coffee, with milk and sugar; vanilla yogurt and a little bit of granola.

Some things, I outright won't eat because I don't like them. I don't care how many people tell me that Greek yogurt is delicious and full of protein. It smells... really horrible to me. Y'all can have mine (I'm not sure how you eat it, to be honest). Other things, I avoid because I know they contain migraine triggers. No…

I think it's much less because she's stopped eating late in the day and going to sleep on a full stomach somehow makes all the food consumed become fat and... she's probably snacking less, because after 7PM was her time for snacks. I've never eaten after 7PM, but that's because my "snacktime" was at 3 PM - midafternoon.…

I've found this whole conversation really interesting. I'm not yet at the point where I feel like I can stop logging, as I'm still trying to lose weight. However, I've never let logging keep me from enjoying food. I went to a buffet last week. I'm going to two popluck picnics this weekend. I'm going to log what I eat at…

One thing that no one has mentioned… If you went from losing to not losing – reaching a plateau – it could because the same amount of activity burns less calories. Taking a basic thing like walking: When I was 187 pounds, I was effectively carrying that weight with me while I walked. Now that I’m 150 pounds, walking the…

I never had any problems with my weight until I was about twenty-five years old and got a desk job. Before that, I'd always been active enough to keep up with all I was eating. After that, I started gaining weight.

OP, you can probably drink your diet soda, so long as you don't get into the thinking that, "This is diet, so I can drink a whole 3-liter bottle in one sitting if I want to do that." or "I'll drink a diet soda, because that somehow makes the huge cheeseburger have less calories."

While I'm not sure if regular soda is any better for you than diet soda (I wouldn't think soda is good for you, but as long as it's not all you eat and drink, it's probably fine), the idea that diet soda is somehow worse comes from a study at Purdue University. Citation: a press release about the study

I'm certainly not hungry when I go to bed, but I generally don't eat after 7PM - two hours before bedtime most nights. I sleep more soundly, without having to get up during the night, if I don't eat too close to bedtime.