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  • I found a book that helped not only to put things in perspective but also gives assignments to help discover what drives emotional eating call Shrink Yourself: Break Free From Emotional Eating Forever by Roger Gould. I have been an emotional eater almost my entire life. After seeing a therapist for the past year or so, the…
  • I completely agree with all of these tips. This is exactly what I've been doing the past couple of months and have yet to "fall off the wagon" because, simply, that wagon doesn't exist any more. Binges don't come because I literally have a bit of ice cream every day and exercise isn't a problem because I only make myself…
  • Processed foods will have a lot of ingredients listed that you can't pronounce. Foods that are clean will generally include just a few ingredients and you'll usually recognize all of them. I'm in college too and struggle with the same issues regarding time and money. I try to set aside one evening to prepare a nutritious…
  • I have spent so much money on WW -- it's phenomenal. I wish I'd discovered MFP sooner. One of my problems while being on WW is that I always felt like I not only needed to conserve my points but also eat to the full extent that the point allowed (for example 1 TB of Cool Whip may be the same point value as 4 TB, so why not…
  • I moved to Paris for a couple of years (it's not only true that French women don't get fat, but the men too) and had two different doctors try to explain to me in broken English that I was "ugghh too grosse. I mean... fat!" I'd never had an American doctor address my weight before, so this was disconcerting. While there, I…
  • I tried this last night. So delicious and so filling! I had trouble finishing the whole thing!
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