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Do your emotions affect your diet?
You may turn to food for comfort — consciously or unconsciously — when facing a difficult problem, feeling stressed or even feeling bored. Emotional eating can sabotage your weight-loss efforts. It often leads to eating too much — especially too much of high-calorie, sweet and fatty foods.
How can you change your eating habits to increase your level of fitness?
Here are some ways to make healthy changes in your eating habits:
- Keep more fruits, low-fat dairy products (low-fat milk and low-fat yogurt), vegetables, and whole-grain foods at home and at work.
- Try to eat a family meal every day at the kitchen or dining table.
- Buy a healthy-recipe book, and cook for yourself.
Is it OK to tell a friend she needs to lose weight?
The results suggest that agreeing with a friend that she needs to lose weight or avoiding talking about her weight concerns aren’t helpful reactions when she says, “I’m so fat.” The only messages that actually had positive effects on participants’ well-being and BMI were weight-acceptance messages.
Why do people look at me like I’m Fat?
I get why people look at me and think: “Mellisa, how could you be that fat?” The answer is simple – a lack of control, a lack of confidence and of love for myself. If I really think about it, I can’t really value myself if I allowed it to get to this point.
Is it rude to tell a fat girl to go sleeveless?
A fat girl going sleeveless is a truly radical act. Whatever your intentions, the following four comments are pretty rude things to say to or in front of your fat friends. Many, many people in the world are fat, so it’s likely that you know a fat person or two.
What is it like being the only fat girl in the room?
Being the only fat girl in the room with a bunch of thin 20-somethings can be interesting. From diet talk to body hate, the conversations tend to run the Awkward for Fat People gamut. Even friends with whom I am extremely close will occasionally make very hurtful remarks about fat people that I am supposed to chime in and agree with.