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- Stop Struggling With Food and Weight Obsession - Tip #2 - How to Stop Obsessing About Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are you a woman struggling with excess weight, constantly being bombarded by random thoughts of food? Can't stop thinking about what to eat next? Read on to find out how a change in habit and adopting some non diet thinking can help you restore peace of mind and get control of your runaway appetite.
- Stop Struggling With Food and Weight Obsession - Tip #1 - Break the Habit of Scale Hopping
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Are you in the habit of weighing yourself each morning? How does it make you feel? Do you feel nervous, anxious, frustrated or calm and peaceful? I'll bet your answer would depend upon the number on the scale. Isn't it time you took back your power and stopped letting that miserable piece of scrap metal tell you how you're entitled to feel? Find out how you could be sabotaging your best efforts and what to do to get out from under your food and weight obsession.
- How to Support Your Daughter to Make Peace With Food and Friends With Her Body
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Has it ever crossed your mind that your disordered relationship with food and your body hating ways is affecting your daughter? As a gal who's spent years struggling with emotional eating, I never realized as a mom, that my food binges and body sniping ways were teaching my child how to become an emotional eater who would never be okay with her body. Here in this article I share my experience with one of my clients, a concerned mom, telling her how I guided my daughter to overcome her emotional eating and love her body.
- 170 Things to Do When You Want to Eat But You're Not Really Hungry
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] If you are a woman struggling with emotional eating, take heart. Help is on the way. The following is a partial list of things to do when you want to eat but you're not physically hungry. Emotional Eating is when you use food to handle stress when you're overwhelmed. It's simply an association that your brain made in an effort to relieve stress. Try these ideas and you'll acquire some new coping methods.
- Watch Body Affirming TV Like "How to Look Good Naked" - Tip 14 - Be Curvy and Confident at Any Size
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] For a plus size woman, it's not easy living in our fast fix, thin is in media driven, pluck and tuck, chop and drop, diet obsessed society. Most women struggling with excess weight find themselves stuck in a private body war, playing body comparison games with every gal they see. Hating your body, it's way too easy to fall into the trap of falling into a carton of ice cream. Rather than wasting your time searching and praying for the diet that will redeem you, instead give yourself a break, cut yourself some slack and enjoy a 60 minute self image makeover. Isn't it time you started watching some shows that actually made you feel good about your body? "How to Look Good Naked" fits the bill.
- Body Hating - Who's That Fat, Ugly Woman in the Mirror?
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Are you a woman fighting off a fat and ugly self image? With bathing suit season coming up, would you rather die than bear your thighs? That may mean that you're really uncomfortable with your body. You're not alone. Many women struggle with a negative body image. Find out what you can do to makeover a fat and ugly self image from the inside out.
- Self Acceptance - Freedom From Weight Obsession Begins by Making Friends With Food & Your Fat Parts
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Weight Obsession is a national pastime. Most women say they hate their bodies because they are too fat. Despite the fact that up to 67% of the women in the US are a size 14 and up, studies show that four out of five women hate their bodies. As a curvy plus size gal myself, being obsessed with how I looked has certainly been a big part of my life. For years, I bought into believing that my only value was my looks. Today after making the decision to stop dieting, I've learned that body acceptance begins when you stop depriving yourself of the foods you love.
- Plus Size Women - How to Love Your Body When You Can't Stand It!
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Research shows that 4 out of 5 women hate their bodies. Are you one of them? In this article, you'll learn how to get out of the endless loop of negative thinking and hating your body. Get tips to change the way that you think and feel about your body.
- Mindful and Gentle Eating - The Value of Slowing Down and Tasting Your Food
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] If you're a woman who is an emotional eater, you're probably not entirely aware of the fact that your food preferences are based on fulfilling your psychological needs. You are really seeking to re-experience pleasurable memories that come with eating the food you crave. In this article, I share my personal experience of how I applied a technique that I created, "The Mindful and Gentle Eating Process." It's a great method to get beneath your food obsession and find out what emotions and memories are driving you to eat.
- Plus Size Women Can Love the Skin They're in - 50 Self Image Makeover Morsel Tips
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] As a plus size woman how much time have you wasted sighing over the size of your thighs, moping about your muffin top or groaning about the junk in your trunk? If you've spent more than a minute hating your body, you're wasting precious time. If you want to end the war with your body once and for all and begin to make peace with food, you have to first start by learning to accept your body as it is, with all the fat, chunky, chubby, and wobbly bits intact. Here are 50 quick self image makeover morsel tips to get you started on the road to self acceptance and lovin' the skin you're in.
- To Diet Or Not to Diet - Review of Diet Vs Non-Diet Weight Loss
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Summer's coming. Are you a woman who wants to lose some weight? This article will help you to decide if going on a diet is the right thing for you. Perhaps you're ready to try a non diet method of weight loss called Intuitive Eating. That's right. No more diets! Eat what you love and lose weight slowly and naturally. Find out which method is right for you.
- Are You Struggling With Weight and Food Obsession? - A 17 Point Checklist For Women
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] If you're a woman who has struggled for years with being overweight, feeling afraid of eating real food, caught in a cycle of binging and dieting, then you may be part of the majority of people for whom diets don't work. Read this checklist and find out if you are an emotional eater and what you can do to overcome food obsession and end body hatred once and for all.
- Diets Don't Work - 9 Reasons to Say Goodbye to Dieting
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Diets don't Work! In April of 2007, a composite study done at UCLA, demonstrated that for up to 98% of all people, diets don't work. The underlying reason why most people regain their weight after losing on a diet is because diets don't teach you how to address the emotions that push you to eat when you're not hungry. It all comes down to two things, making peace with food and stress management. This article summarizes nine reasons why diets don't work.
- Mindful and Gentle Eating Process - How to Interrupt the Pattern of Emotional Eating
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] If you're a gal struggling with emotional eating, you probably often feel like you have no control around food. Because you've probably used food for so long to medicate your emotions, it's become second nature. You don't have an accurate picture of it anymore. This is why you probably swear that you can't live without M&Ms, your favorite cheesy puffs or Mom's homemade lasagna. But it's not the food that's hitting your happy spots, it's the connection to those memories. Use this exercise to re-train your brain to become more mindful when eating.
- Intuitive Eating - Taking a Non Diet Permission-Based Approach to Overcome Emotional Eating
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Are you a plus size woman struggling with excess weight, tired of feeling ashamed and hating your body, desperate to stop dieting, but don't know how? Don't despair. Like 98% of all people who go on diets, you haven't failed at dieting; dieting has failed you. However, there is a safe, sane alternative to dieting. It's called Intuitive Eating, a permission based approach to overcome emotional eating.
- Setting Boundaries - Five Tips and Boundary Basics to Prevent Binging
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Have you ever found yourself running to the pantry to scarf down a box of chocolates after saying, "yes" to someone when you really wanted to say, "no?" Do you have a hard time being assertive and letting people know what's on your mind? Do you tend to be a people pleaser and find yourself completely overcommitted and overwhelmed? Instead of falling back into the old habit of emotional eating, and reaching for that cookie, read these 5 quick tips on setting boundaries.
- Become Aware of Your Internal Dialog - Tip 3 - How to Be a Curvy and Confident Woman at Any Size
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Are you a plus size gal struggling with excess weight and hating your body? If you're like 4 out of 5 women in the U.S., you probably hate some part of your body and have pinned all your hopes on dieting, hoping and praying that being thinner will make you happy. The cat's out of the bag--Diets don't work! You don't need to reshape your body, you need to reshape your thoughts. Find out how to get the fat out of your head and become a curvy and confident woman at any size.
- Wear Clothes That Really Fit You - Tip #15 of 50 - How to Be a Curvy and Confident Woman at Any Size
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] The truth is as plus size women, it can be really tough to find great clothes that fit our curvy bodies and shopping in the wrong stores can be a harrowing experience. If you've ever tried to squeeze into a pair of pants two sizes smaller, you know what I mean. Most national stores carry plus sizes but let's be honest, they're ugly as all holy hell. In this interview, professional plus size model, producer, and actress, Mia Amber Davis shares her tips with me on how to be a curvy and confident woman at any size.
- How to Make Intuitive Eating Work - 9 Words and Phrases to Avoid While Developing Positive Self Talk
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Are you a plus size woman struggling with excess weight and tired of hating your body? Have you gotten to the point where you can't imagine dying without ever knowing that you can trust yourself around all foods. Do you really have to live under the shadow of dieting forever? No. You don't. There is an alternative and you'll never again have to worry about dieting anymore.
- Getting Back Into Shape - A Simple 4 Step Guide to Making Activity Fun
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Are you a plus size woman looking for alternatives to get slimmer, healthier and be more active without dieting or going to the gym? Here's a quick start step by step activity guide to reclaiming your health and feeling great at any size.
- Say Goodbye to Dieting - Tip#2 of 50 - How to Be a Curvy and Confident Woman at Any Size
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Have you ever eaten half a chocolate cake, a pint of ice cream or downed a whole plate of nachos and then felt terrible about yourself? That's an experience all too common for any gal who struggles with emotional eating, eating to feed your feelings. You may find yourself craving chocolate when you're blue, nachos when you're bored, a big plate of pasta when you're disappointed, sugar when you're tired and anything crunchy when your nerves are on edge. Experts now say that diets are not the answer and in order to break the cycle and become a normal eater, you have to learn how make peace with food.
- Women's Weight Woes Outweigh Health & Well-Being - Associated Press & iVillage Poll
[Womens-Interests:Plus-Size] Are you a woman more concerned with the size of your thighs than the general state of your health? If you are, you're not alone. In a recent Associated Press/iVillage poll in which 1000 women participated, half the women surveyed were distressed by the number on the scale, even 26% of the women whose BMI (body mass index) is in the normal range. Read this article and find out how to break free of weight and food obsession and increase your health at any size.
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