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fightblr: i-choose-fit: OMFG THIS. You don’t know what someone’s going through. Try not to be a prick. What she said.Life is hard enough without making it harder for each other.
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COUNSELLING BLOG: How to Support and be There for a Friend

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1) Encourage them to talk; ask them what’s on their mind - If you think your friend’s depressed or has something on their mind then ask if you can help, or something’s bothering them. And unless you get the feeling that they don’t want to talk, be persistent and keep asking in a gentle,…

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thehealthycook: Calorie counting is common within the weight-loss community, but it doesn’t mean you should do it. Here are 10 reasons why counting calories doesn’t always work: Counting calories over-simplifies healthy eating. Eating a healthy diet is complicated and nutrition labels over-simplify it. We are led to believe that low calorie foods are good and high calorie foods are bad. But it is a lot more complicated than that. This way of thinking can lead to eating disorders, infertility, illness, and depression because it encourages the consumption of processed foods instead of nourishing foods.  Counting calories prevents a positive, healthy relationship with food. Always being calorie-conscious changes your focus from how you eat to how much you eat. This can prevent you from having a positive relationship with food. Instead of thinking of food as life-giving nourishment, counting calories can make you feel apprehensive toward food, or even make you think of food as being bad for you as if it is the enemy. Counting calories creates a stressful relationship with food that can interfere with digestion.Feeling stressed while eating is bad for you because it can interfere with digestion. The sympathetic nervous system triggers responses in the body that can shut down the digestive system so the body can deal with the stressful situation. Counting calories can also increase your feelings of depression. You may feel depressed when you feel you’ve eaten too many calories because you ate that burger and chocolate shake you feel you shouldn’t have. The constant pressure from tracking calories and feeling like you’ve let yourself down when you go over your daily caloric intake can increase feelings of depression. Counting calories is extremely inaccurate. Not only is it wrong to think calories from different foods are the same, but you shouldn’t always believe the numbers of calories printed on labels because they are often wrong. The calorie tables we use today are outdated. Dietitian Rick Miller says, “We’ve known for some time that the calculations for certain foods such as vegetables and high-fiber foods are inaccurate. The calorie figures you see on a food label aren’t always the amount you will ingest.” Quality of calories is more important than quantity. If you count calories, you may become obsessed with calorie counting. You may buy low-fat this and fat-free that, but these foods lack much needed vitamins and nutritional value. Can you lose fat by eating low-fat and fat-free foods? Yes, but it’s far from eating healthy because you are not getting all the nutrients your body needs. Plus, these foods often replace the fat with sugar, which then gets stored as fat in your body. Your calories should mainly come from whole, natural foods that don’t have labels—the foods that are made by Mother Nature. And, you should avoid eating processed and packaged foods as much as possible, including those that are labeled as low-fat and fat-free. In many cases, these foods are worse for you than the full-fat products. Calorie counting adds more work to your already busy life. It’s work to constantly tabulate calories for every meal, or record everything you eat in a food diary or journal. You probably don’t need to add more work to your already busy life, so forget calorie counting and focus your efforts elsewhere like exercising or cooking healthier meals for your family. Counting calories encourages calorie-restriction, which slows metabolism and makes it difficult to lose weight. The biggest problem with using linear calorie equations for fat loss is thatthe fewer calories you consume, the fewer calories your body burns. When you start a calorie-restricted diet, you will probably find that you lose a pound or so in the first week but less in subsequent weeks. This phenomenon is believed to be a metabolic adaptation to prevent starvation and keep your body balanced. But a slower metabolism means slower weight loss, and counting calories encourages this. Counting calories is not a way to guide your nutritional health. Counting calories should be used as just one tool for weight loss and should not be used as a long-term solution. It should be used as a learning tool to become more aware of how many calories are in junk foods and sodas, for instance, but it’s not a tool for guiding your nutritional health. Calorie counting interferes with “intuitive eating.” Humans are, by design, intuitive eaters. This means that if you knew nothing about calories, carbs, fats, proteins, vitamins or minerals contained in foods, you would naturally eat the foods your body needs to stay healthy. Sometimes your body may crave carbs while other times it may crave fats, and there are reasons for this. Your body intuitively knows what it needs to stay healthy and balanced, and counting calories interferes with this intuitive ability to eat healthfully. (source x)
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raybellebutterfly: g3tf1t: mirandagettingfit: beben-eleben: A Daddy’s Letter to His Little Girl (About Her Future Husband)  Dear Cutie-Pie, Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Halfway through entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top of the list was “How to keep him interested.” It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sexy and sexual, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to make him feel smart and superior. And I got angry. Little One, it is not, has never been, and never will be your job to “keep him interested.” Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul—in that unshakeable place that isn’t rattled by rejection and loss and ego—that you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that everyone else is worthy of interest also, the battle of your life will be mostly won. But that is a letter for another day.) If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in the most important sense of the word: you will attract a boy who is both capable of interest and who wants to spend his one life investing all of his interest in you. Little One, I want to tell you about the boy who doesn’t need to be kept interested, because he knows you are interesting: I don’t care if he puts his elbows on the dinner table—as long as he puts his eyes on the way your nose scrunches when you smile. And then can’t stop looking. I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me—as long as he can play with the children you give him and revel in all the glorious and frustrating ways they are just like you. I don’t care if he doesn’t follow his wallet—as long as he follows his heart and it always leads him back to you. I don’t care if he is strong—as long as he gives you the space to exercise the strength that is in your heart. I couldn’t care less how he votes—as long as he wakes up every morning and daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a place of reverence in his heart. I don’t care about the color of his skin—as long as he paints the canvas of your lives with brushstrokes of patience, and sacrifice, and vulnerability, and tenderness. I don’t care if he was raised in this religion or that religion or no religion—as long as he was raised to value the sacred and to know every moment of life, and every moment of life with you, is deeply sacred. In the end, Little One, if you stumble across a man like that and he and I have nothing else in common, we will have the most important thing in common: You. Because in the end, Little One, the only thing you should have to do to “keep him interested” is to be you. Your eternally interested guy, Daddy cries crying Beautiful.
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