Here you will find resources on dealing with the emotional aspects of weight loss, such as emotional eating and gaining support from friends. Plus, tips on staying motivated and changing your behavior on everything from portion control to coping with cravings.
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Learn about the five most common emotional eating cues.
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Learn about the five most common emotional eating cues.
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Learn how to gain your friends' and family's support during your weight loss journey. Plus, find tips on staying motivated.
Emotional eating is problem for many of us. Learn how to cope with your feelings and daily stress without turning to food.
Your friends and family can be a big help -- or a big hindrance -- when you're trying to lose weight. From food pushers to saboteurs, friends and relatives can take on new identities that can directly and indirectly affect your efforts to lose weight and your ultimate success. And many social situations make weight loss even harder than it already is. Here is some helpful advice on dealing wit…
Learn how to best say no to friends and family who regularly tempt you to eat foods that aren't on your diet.
Learn how to identify your emotional eating triggers.
Learn to recognize hunger signals in order to prevent emotional eating.
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When the scale just won't budge and you don't know why, give these tips a try.
Check out these easy ways to keep portion sizes in check.
A simple print-out for recording your food intake and then reflecting on your tendencies to eat from emotion, stress, or habit.
Learn how getting enough sleep can aid your weight loss efforts and get tips on how to sleep better.
Our community members share the small changes that have added up to big results over their weight journeys.
Learn why taming tension can help you trim your waistline!
Learn how stress affects women's weight loss efforts with "Stress and Weight Gain ... What's a Girl to Do?".
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Learn how and why setting realistic weight loss goals is so important.
Learning how to handle cravings is an important part of successful weight loss and maintenance.
Weight loss should be attempted only when you are truly ready to make the necessary lifestyle changes.
Before you give up on your weight loss efforts, make this reality check to be sure your goals are in line.
Learn how to cope when friends and family seem to want you to fail in your efforts to lose weight.
Our community members share the weight loss tips that always get them through.
When I can't be bothered to follow a diet, these are the weight loss skills that keep the scale in check.
Learn more about what emotional eating is and find out if you possess characteristics of an emotional eater.
Whether you want to lose weight or maintain the goal weight you are currently at, keeping a regular, honest food diary can be the key to identifying and dealing with the eating habits that lead to long-term weight-management success. These resources will help you learn why, and how to start keeping an effective food diary today.
Before you can understand how to cope with emotional eating, you must first learn why it is a problem in the first place.
Sometimes even your most well-meaning friends can do your dieting efforts more harm than good. Learn how to deal. Plus, brush up on the basics of buddying-up.