How can I change the way I think about food?

For as long as I can remember I've had a strained relationship with food. I've struggled with being chubby my entire life. I've lost weight and have gained it all back. My family says my eating habits are not normal and I'm starting to agree with them, but I don't know how to fix it. I've been asking my parents for professional help for awhile now, but I know they're never going to get around to it now that I'm going to college in a few weeks.I'm really tired of living this way. I'm young, I should be enjoying life, but I feel like my weight and relationship with food is squashing my happiness.I constantly find myself in the kitchen wondering how I got there, because I'm on autoautopilot. I look for things with sugar and I eat what I can find. The thoughts that go through my mind when I see something high in salt, sugar, or fat:"Eat it, what if you never get to eat it again?""Keep eating it, don't let it sit there.""Don't let it go to waste."I like to exercise, I love it, even, but I can't just rely on exercise alone. How can I change the way I view and think about food?

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Here's what I've been sayin to myself when I can eat and see tastes foods, "don't eat just because you CAN eat" only eat when you are hungry and resist shoving foods down your mouth because you're not full. You don't want to be full all or most of the time. So don't eat just because you can eat

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• Every time you take a bite pinch your stomach fat and shake it. Helps.

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Is it true that it takes years to see weightlifting results?

Is it true that you don't see good muscle until 2 years of weightlifting? I'm talking about good decent visible muscle. Beach body type, not big body builder type like Dwayne Johnson.

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Depends on your body type when you begin lifting! (From personal experience and noticing my friends at least) Me and a friend started weightlifting 1 year ago. He played/s soccer and wass skinny and lean. I play/ed/ lacrosse and was bulkier with more meat (and fat) on my bones haha. Our diets were also different. My family eats a lot and his didn't. I started eating healthier Nd working out regularly and saw good results quicker than him. Fat was being burned off of the muscle that I was gaining. The reason I think I was gaining muscle faster was that I was eating more (more nutrition) and he was eating less than me. He gained muscle but not significant. In about 2 months I saw good change in my body and he only saw a little. So basically what I'm trying to say (I know that that was probably confusing) is that to gain muscle faster you need to have a diet that is filled with nutrition like protein and calories. These things are the fundamentals to muscle gain. In good time you will see improvement and get that beach body you want! I say if you eat good and workout 3-4 times a week you will see good improvement in 2-3 months. I'm talking real good improvement. But you have to work hard! Hope this answered your question.

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• It depends on SEVERAL factors.If you're the skinny guy with no muscles, the beach body type you could potentially see within 2 years like you said - Male or Female. That's enough to put on ~30 - 40 pounds of muscle with the right diet and exercise. If the skinny guy is around 140 - 150 pounds ~5-10% body fat, that's enough to put your weight at 160 or 170 with ~>10% body fat, giving you the beach body look.If you're the average guy who has body fat everywhere, it'll take less time as you already had muscle to begin with. A keto diet, exercise, and or regular dieting will do the trick to lose the fat, retain a good percentage of the muscle you already have, and build more on top of it.This is the person who's at maybe 170 or 180 pounds ~20-25% body fat. It could take less than 8 months to see the beach body.You generally build more muscle if you're within the age of 18-24. Instead of the average 1 - 1.5 pounds of muscle a month, you could build around double that. You can also have genes that allow for optimal muscle growth granting faster results by months or years. Females also build muscle at a lesser rate than males.
• No, it varies from person to person. Some people are more well-disposed for a beach-body/ripped than others. For some people you can see visible results within a month, for others a year. You just gotta work hard, and find out.
• 6 months to a year for slight results. A year to two, you should see visible changes, look bigger. 3 years in, you should be bigger. By your 4th year, your lifts should be synanymous to your size. After a season of cutting, you'll have a very nice, ripped, lean, beach body type.But overall weightlifting is much better than none at all, or just cardio.Cardio just makes you burn cals, lose weight. It won't build muscle so you'll just look thinner, skinnier, or just a smaller version of yourself.Use both for optimal results.

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Is This Grounds to file a harassment suit?

My fiance had a great job at Petsmart. Then an assistant manager was hired. She is Satan incarnate. She constantly makes employees feel like crap, she yells at my fiance for no reason, she makes up stories about her, she made fun of the condition of her van, and told her the van disgusted her, she gets my fiance in trouble for things that are not her fault, she started rumours about the weight loss pills my fiance has been taking (my fiance is very sensitive about her weight), she humiliates her in front of customers, and she started rumours about my fiance being pregnant, among many other things. Is this grounds to sue? Please tell me what I can do. She is making my fiance's life a living hell.@Alan, This is not a case of an employee wanting to be lazy. They had a wonderfully productive workforce. They got things done and they got along. This woman is a narcissistic sociopath who enjoys drama and having people beneath her.@Goober, You really should research your facts, or have any clue what you're talking about in general before you attept to answer a question. She's not fat, she's beautiful, But I wouldn't expect a judgemental, pseudo-intellectual prick like you to know what beauty is. Jerking off in your mom's basement doesn't really give you any taste as to what beauty is.

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In some areas, your fiance could get a peace order for harassment. However, evidence might be needed. The problem with that is that there are also strictly enforced laws against making an audio recording of someone's speech without their knowledge. I suggest that your fiance consult with a lawyer about this matter to find out exactly what she CAN do to protect herself.

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• The assistant manager may be creating a hostile work environment. This is grounds for an employment discrimination suit. Talk to your state EEOC office.
• Yeah sure. According to your fiance - he gets yelled at for no reason.Perhaps it hasn't occurred to you that the reason they hired a new assistant manager was because all employees were doing exactly what they wanted on company time, and now, it's all different - isn't it.And No,.. You cannot sue. Your only recourse is to quit the what once was the cushy job, and find another.
• BF...all you have to do is contact the Employment Labor Board. They will investigate and they can tell you if you have a case or not. Another way is get an attorney and file papers against the employer. That's the last thing they want is a law suit. Why don't your gf tape the things her manager sayTo her and other employees? This way she'll have proof.
• I do not see any grounds for a lawsuit. Being Satan is not illegal and all lawsuits must show a financial loss. Being humiliated because your fat isn't a financial loss.
• First you need to understand that there is nothing *you* can do. It's the gf's (or bf) job and they are the ones that need to take steps if they're being harassed.NOT you.

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Does sensa work or no?

I've seen it in tv, you just sprinkle sensa on what ever you eat and u loose weight, along with proper exercise...does it work? I have a little belly flab and I want to slim my stomach down, would sensa work?

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I'm done with my weight loss journey and completely happy with how I feel and how I look right now however losing weight is a challenge for anyone and even losing 5 pounds and keeping it off isn't an easy task. Also I bet you didn't know that 5 pounds of fat is about the size of 8 cheese burgers? That alone should be enough to make anyone want to get on the ball and start a change for the better. Weight loss can be really easy to learn but the problem is nobody wants to put the required effort that is needed to actually do it, instead people continually look for (easy) ways to do it. If there was an easy way to lose weight I don't think 35% of Americans would be obese. There was a time when I also wanted to lose weight and was tired of starting diets only to lose motivation and give up just a few weeks later after seeing no results. However, let me tell you it is literally one of the easiest things you will ever learn once you find a good and reputable place to learn it from and I say that only because the world is filled with magic diet pills, liquid flush diets and a thousand other quick fixes that promise xx pounds of weight loss in the first week and even though it is impossible they know you're going to do it because your desperate. I have probably tried every diet pill, liquid flush diet, and ab rocket machine known to man and have had no success with any of them nor do I know anyone that has ever had any success with them. I have also tried starving myself which works very well for the first few weeks' right before your metabolism comes to a complete stop and eating just the tiny bit makes you gain weight and you end up weighing more than you did before you started starving yourself. Companies promote weight loss to make money not to get people healthy again and that's because they know you're not going to be a customer and buy their products if you're no longer fat. http://fatloossfactor.com is a site I want you to go to when you have 10 or 20 minutes to spare and I want you to sit down and watch his video on weight loss. He helps people every day to lose weight I have never seen someone as committed as him and that will go so far out of his way to help someone. His weight loss program is one of the best I have ever had the enjoyment of doing and it is without doubt the best success I have ever had with any weight loss program. I also couldn't be happier with my body right now and I have never felt this wonderful in my whole life. In the end you just got to remember to stick with it and stay confident in yourself and in no time you can achieve the results you have always wanted. It's not hard to lose weight but most people have a hard time staying motivated and 9 times out of 10 it was because they weren't really committed from the beginning. Anyways I hope I helped you and I hope you make the commitment to change your body and life. Remember it's not easy to take the first step but you did, you're here right now taking it and the rest of the steps will fall into place. Have a wonderful day.

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What does plain greek yogurt taste like? Would it be good for my smoothie?

http://www.fitsugar.com/Flat-Belly-Smoothie-28343926^^this is the recipe I want to use.3 ounces vanilla nonfat Greek yogurt1 tablespoon almond butter1/2 cup frozen blueberries1/2 cup frozen pineapple1 cup kale3/4 cup water <<How to Lose Gained Weight After Bariatric Surgery

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Plain Greek yogurt does have a sour or tangy taste, but when combined with all that other stuff you won't notice that. It will merely make a slight counterpoint to the sweetness of the fruit. And there isn't much yogurt in there, compared to all the other things.

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• My mom said it tastes like sour cream and some people who are dieting use it in like baked potatoes in place of sour cream... But it might taste differently in your smoothie with everything else :)
• I eat fat free fage plain greek yogurt. It is tangy, something to get used to. To make it sweet I either add vanilla and cinnamon or a fruit perseve.

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