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healthysexyhappy: Tips To Help Curb Compulsive Eating First, a definition: Compulsive overeaters do not attempt to compensate for their bingeing with purging behaviors such as vomiting, fasting, diet pills or laxatives. Compulsive overeating usually leads to weight gain and obesity, but not everyone who is obese is also a compulsive overeater. A person who appears to be of normal or average weight can also be affected by these behaviors. Avoid temptation. You’re much more likely to overeat if you have junk food, desserts and unhealthy snacks in the house. Remove the temptation by moving these foods to the back of your fridge and cabinets, so they are not the first foods you see.  Stop dieting. Strict dieting usually involves hunger and deprivation. This may trigger food cravings and the urge to overeat. Instead of restricting foods, focus on eating in moderation. Find nutritious foods that you enjoy and avoid labeling foods as “good” or “bad.” Try to eat more small meals throughout the day.  Exercise. Not only will exercise help you lose weight and improve your health, but it also helps depression and reduces stress. Exercise is a natural way to boost your mood and can help put a stop to emotional eating.  Reduce stress. Learn how to cope with stress in other ways that don’t involve food. Compulsive overeating has little to do with hunger. Individuals will often eat when they are not hungry or use food to fill an emotional need. Impulse eaters may take that extra bite because “it is there” and they often deprive themselves of food.  Don’t try to change your relationship with food overnight. Set small goals and give yourself some positive feedback. If you tell yourself, “I need to add more fruits and vegetables to my diet,” it will be more positive than saying, “I need to stop eating candy.”  Be kind to yourself and don’t expect to be perfect. Learn from your experiences and experiment with what works best for you. If you are suffering with compulsive overeating and feel it’s getting out of control, you should really seek professional help to stop the unhealthy, weight-gaining, self destructive behavior. - Staci Leavitt Kobren, R.D.

healthysexyhappy:

Tips To Help Curb Compulsive Eating

First, a definition: Compulsive overeaters do not attempt to compensate for their bingeing with purging behaviors such as vomiting, fasting, diet pills or laxatives. Compulsive overeating usually leads to weight gain and obesity, but not everyone who is obese is also a compulsive overeater. A person who appears to be of normal or average weight can also be affected by these behaviors.

  • Avoid temptation. You’re much more likely to overeat if you have junk food, desserts and unhealthy snacks in the house. Remove the temptation by moving these foods to the back of your fridge and cabinets, so they are not the first foods you see. 
  • Stop dieting. Strict dieting usually involves hunger and deprivation. This may trigger food cravings and the urge to overeat. Instead of restricting foods, focus on eating in moderation. Find nutritious foods that you enjoy and avoid labeling foods as “good” or “bad.” Try to eat more small meals throughout the day. 
  • Exercise. Not only will exercise help you lose weight and improve your health, but it also helps depression and reduces stress. Exercise is a natural way to boost your mood and can help put a stop to emotional eating. 
  • Reduce stress. Learn how to cope with stress in other ways that don’t involve food. Compulsive overeating has little to do with hunger. Individuals will often eat when they are not hungry or use food to fill an emotional need. Impulse eaters may take that extra bite because “it is there” and they often deprive themselves of food. 
  • Don’t try to change your relationship with food overnight. Set small goals and give yourself some positive feedback. If you tell yourself, “I need to add more fruits and vegetables to my diet,” it will be more positive than saying, “I need to stop eating candy.” 
  • Be kind to yourself and don’t expect to be perfect. Learn from your experiences and experiment with what works best for you. If you are suffering with compulsive overeating and feel it’s getting out of control, you should really seek professional help to stop the unhealthy, weight-gaining, self destructive behavior.

- Staci Leavitt Kobren, R.D.

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girlgrowingsmall: d0pest-swag: On reactions to her weight loss:I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, ‘Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous’. I’m like, ‘I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing’ -Raven Symone This quote. Exactly why I dislike before and afters. Why are you to judge a woman solely on her appearance, and deem her as ‘beautiful’ after she has lost the weight? Beauty is not defined by a low weight.  i have rebloged this 20million times and i will do it again This is why I won’t reblog self-depricating before and after pictures. It’s fine to be proud of your transformation but, to take one I just saw in my dash as an example, if you call your “before” self undesirable, unattractive, or other negatives, I won’t reblog your B&A or follow you. It shows that you don’t understand how a bigger person is just as valid, lovely, and worthy as a thinner person. I don’t need that distorted misery in my dash. You can be happy, beautiful, confident, and everything else at a bigger size. It’s your choice to be confident, and if you can’t love yourself big, you’ll never truly love yourself thin. Power to Ms. Symone for loving herself at all sizes. It just makes me respect her even more.

girlgrowingsmall:

d0pest-swag:

On reactions to her weight loss:
I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, ‘Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous’. I’m like, ‘I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing’

-Raven Symone

This quote. Exactly why I dislike before and afters. Why are you to judge a woman solely on her appearance, and deem her as ‘beautiful’ after she has lost the weight? Beauty is not defined by a low weight.

 i have rebloged this 20million times and i will do it again

This is why I won’t reblog self-depricating before and after pictures. It’s fine to be proud of your transformation but, to take one I just saw in my dash as an example, if you call your “before” self undesirable, unattractive, or other negatives, I won’t reblog your B&A or follow you. It shows that you don’t understand how a bigger person is just as valid, lovely, and worthy as a thinner person. I don’t need that distorted misery in my dash. You can be happy, beautiful, confident, and everything else at a bigger size. It’s your choice to be confident, and if you can’t love yourself big, you’ll never truly love yourself thin. Power to Ms. Symone for loving herself at all sizes. It just makes me respect her even more.

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girlgrowingsmall: stopdropandlose: girlgrowingsmall: inspiremethin: Jumping jacks are an awesome cardiovascular exercise! They’re easy, so anyone can do them. They get the heart rate up pretty fast and are good for increasing cardiovascular health. Not to mention they pack a serious calorie burn! But doing only 100 at a time or 500 jumping jacks spread out throughout the day isn’t really helping you. The key is to sustain an elevated heart rate for an extended amount of time. So here’s a challenge I’ve come up with. Build your endurance until you can do 20min of jumping jacks (not including rest time). By the time you’re done, you will have killer calves! That’s a promise! Good luck and happy jumping!  Use this stopwatch to track your progress. I really struggle with jumping jacks because of how my excess skin pulls when I jump but I do try to push myself. I’d love to be able to do a solid 20 minutes of jumping jacks. I was reading the comments and was like, “OMG! SOMEONE HAS THE SAME PROBLEM AS ME!” Then I looked up to see who wrote it… and it was me. I guess I forgot I reblogged this ages ago. *facedesk*

girlgrowingsmall:

stopdropandlose:

girlgrowingsmall:

inspiremethin:

Jumping jacks are an awesome cardiovascular exercise! They’re easy, so anyone can do them. They get the heart rate up pretty fast and are good for increasing cardiovascular health. Not to mention they pack a serious calorie burn! But doing only 100 at a time or 500 jumping jacks spread out throughout the day isn’t really helping you. The key is to sustain an elevated heart rate for an extended amount of time. So here’s a challenge I’ve come up with. Build your endurance until you can do 20min of jumping jacks (not including rest time). By the time you’re done, you will have killer calves! That’s a promise! Good luck and happy jumping! 

Use this stopwatch to track your progress.

I really struggle with jumping jacks because of how my excess skin pulls when I jump but I do try to push myself.

I’d love to be able to do a solid 20 minutes of jumping jacks.

I was reading the comments and was like, “OMG! SOMEONE HAS THE SAME PROBLEM AS ME!” Then I looked up to see who wrote it… and it was me. I guess I forgot I reblogged this ages ago. *facedesk*