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I hear you, I know that it can feel like other people are deliberately trying to sabotage you. But, ultimately it's only you who can do this. I just tell myself these things are Not Food, stick to my plan, and stay away. It helps me to enter my food into my diary in the morning, or to at least finish it by dinner time.…

There is such a wide range of healthy for short girls, it depends on how much muscle you carry and the size of your frame. I'm 5 feet even, and at 142 lbs I wear a size 8, sometimes a 6 depending on cut. I look my best at about 130 and a size 6/4, below that my body starts to rebel and I get a little pinched in and weird…

You keep saying "goal is just to lose 10 pounds," but why? To look better? Then I would say your goal is to look better, in which case as others have noted weight is really just one way of measuring progress toward that goal, and probably not the best one. I'm pretty close to my original weight goal right now, but what I'm…

I don't see any clean eating propaganda, it's an illustration of portion sizes.

I run and I lift. The great thing about lifting is that it really takes very very little time. It shouldn't feel like this huge chore. If you concentrate on the major compound lifts and do one or two a day, switching between them from day to day, you can easily spend less than 10 minutes on weights and the rest of your…

Eh. I am 5 feet tall and 150 lbs and there is no amount of exercise that will move that scale if my diet isn't right. I feel the OP's pain. Some of us short girls are built for packing on the pounds whilst exercising. My concern for the OP is that even if he moves out with her tomorrow, he's still going to be arguing with…

I agree with what others have said, mainly: - where is the food in your food? Eat some fruits and veggies and don't try to starve yourself. Watch your sodium. If you keep eating out every meal you will always be at least 1000 mg over the RDA. - Weighing yourself only once a week isn't going to give you the best…

See now? That is a totally acceptable way to handle that. We have gotten some very strange things in the trick or treat bags over the years. A camo-covered bible, a full-sized can of diet coke. Then there's the guy who goes to great lengths to post laminated signs saying "No candy" all over his property, but leaves his…

Wow, it's a slow news day I guess. This is what she thinks she's going to do, I'd like to see the reaction if she actually tried it. Personally, I would not let her give a letter to a single other child.

Yes, I used to also. But now that I am 15 pounds away from goal it's no donuts for me, most of the time, unless I give up something else. (Like say, wine. No way.) Looking forward to maintenance calories. Anyway, donuts, yum. Wish they fit my macros because I would totally hit that.

I love it when men who can easily eat 2500+ cals a day and still make their goals argue about who is morally superior re: eating donuts. Y'all can come over and eat the donuts on my kitchen counter, I can hear them laughing at me while I type.

Does your school really not have a salad bar? I used to live on turkey sandwiches in college. I know you can't do bread, but it should be possible to build yourself a chef's salad. Are you including your drinks in your food diary? Alcohol especially counts, but coffee drinks can really do you in too, if you don't track…

Is she overweight herself? She might be feeling insecure about that, and wondering why you are working so hard on your appearance. Have you tried to talk with her about it? Women can be a little bit dense about this sometimes because we're very negatively self centered about our bodies.

I'm not sure what all of your acronyms mean, but if you are serious about weight training you'd be better off investing in a barbell set, rack and bench, or joining a gym.

Again, 23. She's 23. Honestly some people here are acting like she's a 50 year old deadbeat heroin addict fresh out of her 5th rehab or something. Give her some space to change, I see people her age growing and changing every day. (And I see plenty of middle aged fat girls working their butts off every day in the gym,…

She's 23. 23 year olds don't have much of a history of anything. But anybody can change, whenever they decide to. OP: you can totally do this and you don't need his approval. I know it sucks that you don't have it. My husband is always a butthead like this in the beginning, but once I get 15 pounds down or so he's totally…

Stevia is a leaf which has been processed into the form of a sweetener, some people find it tastes a little bit bitter. It makes my husband violently ill. But yes, it's natural, as much as any processed product that originally came from a plant can be said to be natural.

MFP is a great tool for food and exercise logging, and community. Its recommended calories for short women, however, blows. Feel free to use any other reasonable system to calculate your recommended caloric intake and change your goals accordingly. (Which MFP will let you do.) There's a great post that's a sticky somewhere…

What is your body fat %? I've had difficulty getting down below 130 in the past and I've finally realized this is because my lean body mass is something like 115 pounds! Rather than drive yourself crazy worrying about other people our height who might get down to 100 pounds, you might want to have your body fat tested and…

I had always been told the stomach shrinking thing, but according to the interwebs you are right. Well, I'm pretty sure I manage to stretch mine out when I lose focus and start eating like a linebacker, because I definitely can't eat the same amount of food when I'm on a calorie restriction. I wonder if they've actually…

One ounce of cheese has about the same number of calories but takes up much less space and doesn't feed the impulse to want to sit around and pop salty snacks in your mouth all day. Your mileage may vary, but I find that when I stay away from high volume low calorie snacks I'm not as hungry.

Stay away from popcorn while you are getting used to a calorie reduction, it's a trap! Very low calorie but it will fill up your stomach preventing it from shrinking as you eat less. (A smaller stomach will reduce some of those hunger pangs.) Also, bananas, popcorn, oatmeal and granola bars are all examples of…

Right, but it was alleged that natural living kept the Native Americans healthy, as opposed to a lack of circulating viruses.

SMH. History is cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics

Honestly. My parents were just a bit older than the baby boomers, so were not vaccinated against many of the childhood diseases they have vaccines for today. My mother barely survived the measles, and my dad and his sister had polio when they were children. They were very lucky because they "only" experienced a splitting…

Most people qualify for subsidies when they buy health care on the exchange. Have you checked?

He has to want to change, for himself. That having been said you can and should let him know how much it bothers you when he brings crap food into the house, and how much you'd like him to come do some things outside with you. These are things that are affecting *you."

Don't drive yourself crazy worrying about what other women your height weigh. At our height (I'm 5'0") there is so much variation on what is healthy, depending on body fat percentage. I have weighed under 100 pounds, but was so unhealthy I could barely walk up a flight of stairs. I have felt best at about 130 pounds in the…

Now, now. Don't we have anything better to do than harassing a 19 year old? Most people between the ages of 18 and 24 know everything. Let her be, at this point it's just unkind. OP: I agree with the general sentiment that no one particularly looks at magazines anymore and when they did it was still kind of understood that…

Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do to target one particular area for fat loss. The good news is that it will come off your hips eventually if you keep working at it. It sounds like you are seeing some success, keep at it. Adding in some real strength training for your lower body can improve your shape as the weight…