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- Compulsive Overeating - Are You a Compulsive Overeater?
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] If you binge eat, overeat and can't help yourself you are not alone. Lots of people binge, overeat, put on weight and feel endlessly guilty about it. They can't understand why they don't have control, so hopefully this article will give you some insight.
- Overcoming Overeating - How to Overcome Overeating For Good
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Overeating and cravings are common in the Western world and are often not given the proper attention they deserve. They are seen as something that individuals really should be able to control and if you can't control them then apparently you don't have enough willpower and are weak. Overeating can stem from two things cravings and emotional eating.
- Addicted to Chocolate? How to Stop Eating Chocolate
[Self-Improvement:Addictions] Chocolate is an addictive food and targets the same area of your brain as heroin does. According to Dr Neal Barnard, in Breaking the Food Seduction, Researchers at the University of Michigan discovered that chocolate's appeal was dramatically reduced when volunteers were given an opiate blocker called naxolone. Researchers gave volunteers naxolone and then presented them with a snack tray.
- Are You an Emotional Eater? 6 Signs of Emotional Eating
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Lots of people are emotional eaters but have no clue that they are. When we first start realizing that we have an issue with our food, there are two things that we must acknowledge: physical cravings and emotional cravings. For emotional cravings, we can observe ourselves and see which food cravings are triggered by emotion - but starting out, what do we need to look for and how do we know we really are an emotional eater?
- Overcoming Emotional Eating - How to Stop Emotional Eating For Good
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] We all partake in emotional eating. Whether we are celebrating someone's birthday or mourning the loss of a loved one - food is rarely ever uninvolved. Comfort foods remind us of when we were young and even just the smell can make us feel safe and secure because it is a reminder of our childhood. We often crave these comfort foods most when life gets challenging or stressful.
- The Only Way You Will Ever Lose Weight For Good
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss can be hard because there are so many things that work against us. If it isn't our fixed learned behavioral patterns, then it is the way food makes us feel that controls us.
- How to Be Successful at Losing Weight - The Only Thing You Need to Know For Success
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] If you want to lose weight then you are going to have to start getting serious. No floating around thinking that just saying it will make you slim, no yo-yoing and no excuses as to why one little chocolate bar isn't going to hurt you. It is!
- Lose Weight Now - The Best Start to Effective Long Lasting Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] When it comes to weight loss we need to get realistic. We can know everything there is to know about weight loss but unless we implement it we will get no where. We can't just decide we are going to live a healthy lifestyle we have to plan.
- Natural Weight Loss Remedies - How to Be Successful in Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss is rarely something you can decide to do and just be successful at. You have spent many months or years building up a specific way of eating that has become almost automatic to you. On top of this, the foods you eat and the types of foods you eat, many have addictive properties. For example salt is very addictive and damages your taste buds by being overpowering. Many people feel that without salt food is tasteless!
- Weight Loss Motivation Tips
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] A big motivational tool for me in losing weight has always been to take "before" pictures and track my progress every 6 weeks or so. When I see visible differences by comparing before and afters it motivates me to move further on and lose more weight. This is very helpful in times when I just don't feel like exercising but know I must and will feel ten times better afterwards.
- Natural Yeast Infection Treatment - Treat Your Yeast Infection With Natural Treatments
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] The majority of women these days turn to natural treatments for their yeast infections because the medical model fails them. When you go to a Doctor you are prescribed drugs and ointment that will help eliminate the symptoms of your yeast infection but do not actually cure the cause. This is why many women know that their first visit to the Doctors about a yeast infection won't be their last.
- Post Pregnancy Weight Loss - How to Lose the Last of Your Baby Fat
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Being a mother is a beautiful experience. From the moment you feel the first kick in your stomach, to when your little bundle arrives into the world, pregnancy is truly beautiful. Yes there is the morning sickness, the aches and pains but no one will ever forget the feeling of that beautiful baby growing inside of them and once they are out, missing the ability to protect them from the world in such an intimate way.
- Lose Pregnancy Weight Fast - Things to Help You Reach Your Goals
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Gaining weight is a normal part of pregnancy. A lot of women take pregnancy as an opportunity to eat what they want and not worry so much about their weight. However, once baby is out and into the world, women start to panic and desire losing pregnancy weight fast!
- Losing Baby Weight - How to Lose Weight After Having a Baby
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Having a baby is life changing. Not only will it change your world when the baby arrives, but it also changes your body. It can be quite hard to adapt to your new body shape when pregnant, but can have a much bigger impact on you once the baby is born.
- How to Lose Post Pregnancy Weight Fast
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] To lose post pregnancy weight fast is possible and can be safe with the right information. If you follow a healthy simple diet and exercise plan, you can lose post pregnancy weight quickly and with ease and keep it off.
- Losing Weight After a Baby - Post Baby Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Many women are quick to jump on the scale after they have given birth. They want to know how much weight they lost from the birth and how much excess they are still carrying. This often leads to shock and disappointment, when they discover they have a little more than they thought they would.
- 3 Tips to Be Successful With Post Pregnancy Weight Loss
[Home-and-Family:Pregnancy] Every woman has an issue with post pregnancy weight loss! We have become so used to slowly growing bigger and bigger, then when our babies finally come out of hiding we are left with a bigger version than our smaller pre-pregnancy selves.
- How to Lose Baby Weight Fast, Safely & For Good
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] One of the most common questions women will ask after delivering a baby is 'How can I lose my baby weight fast?' However, the problem is that losing baby weight (as well as any weight) fast is not the safest or best method. Usually, women who turn to crash diets end up piling the pounds back on again and very quickly.
- Losing Weight After Pregnancy - How to Diet After Pregnancy
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] You have your new bundle of joy, you are settled in your role as Mommy and now you feel ready to shift the excess weight you put on while pregnant. But how do you tackle this? How to diet after pregnancy depends on your determination to lose weight and how you incorporate weight loss (diet and exercise) into your life.
- Breastfeeding and Diet - Losing the Last Few Pounds That Won't Seem to Budge
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] So, you have your beautiful new baby and have managed to get the hang of breastfeeding. You feel comfortable in your new role as Mommy (although it is hard work!) and have seen yourself lose weight quite easily. But unlike some mothers who breastfeed, you just can't seem to lose the last 5-10lbs. You seem stuck.
- After Pregnancy Diet - How to Lose Weight After Pregnancy
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] The majority of women who have recently given birth have concerns about their extra weight that they have put on as a result of pregnancy. As a result women look for reliable after pregnancy diets that are safe for breastfeeding and easy to incorporate into their busy daily lives with their newborn.
- Dieting While Breastfeeding - Not Losing Weight While Breastfeeding Alone
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss after birth is one of the main problems and stressors women experience. Most want to lose baby weight quickly, but find it a struggle adding a diet into their daily regime with a newborn. There is also the added worry that you are affecting your milk supply or the quality of the breast milk you are feeding your baby.
- Stop Eating Junk Food - Stop Being Bored
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] You can stop eating junk food and in this article I was to talk about one specific issue you can clear up right now that will help you overcome some of your junk food cravings. The worse time for junk food cravings tend to be in the evening and leading up towards bedtime.
- Beat Sugar Cravings - Why Do I Crave Sugar?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Sugar is in pretty much everything we eat and the sugar we find in most foods is nutritionally scarce and refined. Refined sugar = empty calories. It may therefore seem as though craving for sugar has no nutritional basis but it does, we just choose to go for the wrong type of sugar and within this is an emotional or addictive property - not a nutritional one.
- Overcoming Binge Eating - The First Steps to End Binge Eating
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Binge eating is something many of us face - yes MANY of us. Whether we binge out of intense physical or emotional cravings depends on the individual, but I wouldn't be surprised if we had all binged once in our life.
- Craving Junk Foods - How to Stop Cravings For Junk Foods
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Craving for junk food and fast food are a common problem in the Western world. Not only are there advertisements everywhere and popular chain stores around every corner, junk food meals target our very instinctual, primal diet - our sweet and meat tooths, making it that much harder to resist.
- I Crave Cheese - Is Cheese Addictive?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Cheese addiction is fairly common in the Western world but most people don't realize they are addicted to it. It seems crazy but a lot of the foods we eat have physically addictive properties and keep us hooked and coming back for more time and time again. Not only do we have to battle with the physical addiction of these foods but also the emotional addiction. We are a society of comfort eaters.
- Curb Sugar Cravings - 4 Tips to Curb Sugar Cravings
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] When one merely tastes sugar impulses are sent through our nerves lading to the base of our brain. Along the way our pleasure center is activated causing a release of natural opiates. This is all quite natural. Mother's milk is naturally sweet to comfort and soothe a baby.
- Craving Sugary Foods - 4 Tips to Stop Sugar Cravings
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] We all have a sweet tooth. It is natural. A baby's taste buds are set for the slight sweetness of mother's milk - it soothes and comforts. When one merely tastes sugar s impulses are sent through our nerves leading to the base of the brain and along the way the pleasure center is activated causing the release of natural opiates. It is all quite natural to have a sweet tooth and to feel pleasure from it.
- Chocolate Craving - How to Stop Craving For Chocolate
[Food-and-Drink:Chocolate] Chocolate craving is a common occurrence among women. It can consume us especially when our period is about due. Most women simply give in to their craving and don't think that it is that big a deal, but for others the cravings are so intense that it becomes almost life consuming. If you are turning your house upside down to find chocolate or going out late to specifically get chocolate you are not alone! 90% of women experience chocolate cravings but often it is not taken seriously enough.
- Cravings For Chocolate - How to Stop Chocolate Cravings
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Chocolate is an addiction many people suffer with, especially women. I once too had a crazy chocolate addiction where I was eating a large bar daily and would go out especially to get chocolate, even late at night. I always wonder how to stop chocolate cravings so I could leave a more balanced life, because chocolate was making me grumpy, tired and carrying excess weight.
- Cure For Overeating - How to Stop Yourself From Eating (3 Tips)
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Do you feel utterly helpless around food and just don't know how to stop yourself from eating or even buying your favorite junk foods? Do you eat too much or simply overindulge in the evenings and are desperate to get your overeating resolved?
- How to Stop Food Cravings - An Introduction to Combating Food Cravings For Good
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Food cravings are one of the subtle, cultured forms of addiction and compulsive behavior that are very difficult to discern. It is pretty much acceptable to have an addiction when it comes to food. We all have them and we all treat people with this particular addiction (addiction to food) entirely different to someone who is addicted to alcohol or other drugs.
- How to Stop Cravings - What to Do in the Midst of a Craving
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Cravings can be so strong that it can be hard to overcome them - I know I have been at the end of quite a few and have given in, only to find myself a little more than miserable. So I have put together a quick article here about what you should do when you are in the middle of a strong craving and are very VERY tempted to give in and feel like you are quickly losing the battle! First of all you need to prepare for this in advance.
- Overeating Help - 5 Tips to Help You Overcome Overeating
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Overeating is something we all do once in a while. Usually we blame it on the holiday season or the fact that we are on vacation and in these times we don't see it as such a big deal. Other times of overeating are when our emotional needs are not met and we are trying to suppress emotions.
- Fight Food Cravings - How to Beat Food Cravings For Good
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Cravings can be the hardest problem to solve when you are trying to eat healthier to feel better about yourself and lose weight. They can literally make or break your weight loss goals and make you spiral out of control. Most people do not think cravings are serious and feel that their lack of will power is to blame in preventing themselves from overcoming cravings and staying on a healthy diet.
- Fight Food Cravings - Craving Fatty Foods
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] Craving fatty foods is somewhat natural in the world we live in. The majority of the Western world eats a high fat diet and it can typically be over 50% fat! Your body becomes accustomed to it! Our diets in the Western world are high in fat for many reasons but the number one reason being stress.
- The No Salt Diet - Why You Should Stop Eating Salt
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Salt is toxic, irritating and potentially a deadly poison to our bodies. If you have ever gotten salt in an open wound, you will know first hand how destructive it can be. Eating even a low salt diet is damaging to our health.
- The Truth About Cellulite & What Causes It
[Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] Cellulite is just the visibility of subcutaneous fat cells. It is as simple as that. It isn't caused by having too much fat (this is evident by the amount of skinny people who have cellulite too), it isn't a build up of trapped toxins and it isn't inflammation of the fat cells. It just simply is their visibility.
- The Perfect Weight Loss Mindset - 3 Beliefs You Must Have For Weight Loss
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] In order to be successful with your weight loss goals, you must have a weight loss mindset. This mindset must include include 3 crucial beliefs.
- Healthy Way to Lose Weight - The Best Way to Lose Belly Fat
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There are many diets online and about that suggest unhealthy ways to lose weight. Many people are fine with taking this route on a short term basis if it leads to belly loss or fat loss, but unfortunately that is exactly what it is: a short term solution. It seems quite pointless to follow something, not only unhealthy but short lived, when you can follow something much more applicable long term and beneficial to your health and well-being.
- A Healthy Way to Lose Weight - How to Lose Your Belly Fat Without Compromising Your Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There are many advocates online for healthy ways to lose weight, but many will try to sell you things that they SWEAR are healthy but in fact are not. Some of these things are diet programs. Diet programs that help you lose weight, yes, but aren't in fact healthy at all. They hide themselves behind junk science and false claims.
- Superfoods Diet - Green Superfood Supplements Not So Super
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] Superfoods are a hot topic in the world of health and are increasing touted as being among the healthiest food sources available. Superfoods include berries, leafy greens, sprouts, bee pollen, aloe vera, raw cacao, gogji berries, flax seeds and many others. I don't have a problem really with berries or leafy greens. In fact I really feel that we all need to be consuming lots of leafy greens in our diet and plenty of fruits. So if you desire berries, go for it and eat lots of them (I currently have a major love for blueberries!). When we take those superfoods and ground them down into a powder or a pill form, that's when I have an issue.
- What is Emotional Eating - An Introduction to Emotional Eating
[Health-and-Fitness:Eating-Disorders] For many people, simply following a balanced diet and exercising is not enough to lose weight. Many find it impossible to stick to a diet and to control what they are eating, despite their best efforts. Maybe you are one of these people?
- Calorie Counting to Lose Weight - How to Work Out How Many Calories You Need
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] There are lots of programs advocating calorie counting to lose weight - some even have point systems with their own brand foods. Although I don't agree with counting calories for weight loss, I think it can be a useful exercise to begin with and while you get used to listening to your body in determining whether you are truly hungry or just craving.
- Nutritious Snacks - Healthy Snack Foods For Everyone
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] I am forever seeing people ask and have been asked many times myself, what are some healthy snack foods/nutritious snacks one can have without ruining their diet or preventing weight loss. The answer to this is very simple, but it seems to often be overlooked as a food that, although provides nutrition, is not "filling". Unfortunately this is because our minds have been limited to the amount we need everyday in order to be healthy.
- The Dangers of Low Carb Diet Plans - An Overview
[Health-and-Fitness:Popular-Diets] Low Carb Diets appear to be all the rage these days, with diets such as the Atkins Diet and the Scarsdale Diet. The question is, if low carb diets are so great and they work so well, why are we all still struggling to lose weight? (Approximately 2 out of 3 of Americans are either overweight or obese, according to the United States Department of Health and Human Services).
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