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Abs are made in the kitchen! If you’re not eating clean.. you’re not gonna lose the belly fat! There is NO such thing as spot-reduction in regard to fat loss. You cannot pick and choose where your body loses fat with any special exercise (not even thousands of crunches!). You lose fat systematically all over through proper nutrition and exercise. There are no secrets.. only hard work and smart eating <3
“In the moments before people begin to binge eat, they often feel some kind of negative emotion – from sadness to anxiety to loneliness. Does binge eating make them feel better? Why do some people have an urge to eat when they’re down while others don’t? New research released online this month investigates how the brain reacts to food when people with bulimia are experiencing negative emotion.
Researchers at UCLA gathered data on a small group of women with and without Bulimia Nervosa. They showed the women pictures of a chocolate milkshake or water and gave them tastes of both, all the while examining images of their brain using an fMRI. Women with bulimia nervosa who reported experiencing negative emotion just before the experiment exhibited greater neural activation in their brains (putamen, caudate, and palladium) in anticipation of the milkshake. In other words, when a bulimic woman is sad, for example, her brain reacts strongly to the thought of drinking a milkshake. The specific parts of the brain that were activated are associated with our “reward circuitry.”The authors suggest that a bulimic person’s brain may become conditioned to make a strong connection between experiencing a negative emotion and having a craving to binge. This means that, for women with bulimia, simply feeling sad can trigger the brain to crave food. However, the brain did not react in the same way when these women actually tasted the milkshake, only when they saw the picture of it and anticipated drinking it.
The authors suggest that this might help explain why it’s so hard for people with bulimia to resist temptation when they’re feeling down (e.g. staying away from a fast food restaurant with tempting signs). And at the same time, they aren’t satisfied with a few tastes and end up binging in an effort to feel as good as they had hoped at the first sight of the food. The study is one of the first to examine images of the brain in women with bulimia.
As a result, it’s a preliminary finding – the sample was small and nobody actually engaged in binge eating during the experiment. Nevertheless, the study sheds light on how neural activity in the brain is related to why people may crave food when they’re feeling down, be unsatisfied by the first few tastes, and end up binge eating.”
By Sumati Gupta, PhD.
Tomato and basil pizza sure beats the hell out of the standard greasy pepperoni pizza :)
I found the recipe! How great is that..
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A lot of you will be heading off to college in a few weeks. It’s a scary and exciting time. Everything around you is about to change, including your eating habits.
I’m about to be a Senior so I’ve had 3 years of experience with eating at college. It hasn’t always been easy - I’ve…
Allrecipes.com is easily one of the best recipe sites online.. but sifting through a million recipes to find yummy & healthy recipes can be hard. The healthy section has a lot of lol-worthy “healthy” options (cinnamon sugar pork rinds? are you serious? in the healthy section? ok.) & There’s a ton of great healthy recipes buried in other sections around the site. Here’s a list of some worth looking at!
PS - when you change the number of servings, it automatically scales the ingredients down for you!
Enjoy.
xo Mia
- Vegan Crepes
- Whole Wheat Pancakes
- Autumn Apple Salad
- Double Whole Grain Pancakes
- Egg White Crepes
- Fluffy Canadian Pancakes
- Dairy & Gluten Free Pancakes
- Eggy Veggie Bake
- Poached Egg Caprese
- Gluten Free Hot Breakfast Cereal
- Quinoa Pudding
- Omelet in a Mug
- Tofu Quiche with Broccoli
- Suppertime Egg Burritos
- Black Bean Breakfast Bowl
- Zucchini and Eggs
- Almond Chicken Salad
- Barbie’s Tuna Salad
- Vegetarian Sloppy Joes
- Avocado and Tomato Salad
- Black Bean Burger
- Bermuda Spinach Salad
- Avocado Egg Salad
- Vegetarian Chickpea Sandwich Filling
- Grilled Fish Tacos
- Cranberry and Cilantro Quinoa Salad
- Orzo and Shrimp Salad with Asparagus
- Vegan Falafel
- BBQ Tuna Fritters
- Asian Chicken Salad
- Simple Turkey Chili
- No Mayo Tuna Salad
- Coconut Curry Tofu
- Hawaiian Chicken Kebabs
- Garlic and Rosemary Chicken
- Fajitas
- Vegetarian “Meatloaf”
- Paprika Chicken
- Lentils and Spinach
- Vegan Taco Filling
- Vegan Lasagna
- Thai Spiced BBQ Shrimp
- Whole Wheat & Honey Pizza Crust
- Cedar Planked Salmon
- Baked Salmon
- Taco Salad
- Tofu and Veggies in Peanut Sauce
- Stuffed Peppers
- Turkey Burgers
- Crispy Eggplant with Spicy Tomato Sauce
- Spaghetti Squash
- Peppermint Meringues
- Grilled Peaches with Gingersnaps
- Pumpkin Pie for Dieters
- Pumpkin Rice Pudding
- Spiced Baked Apples
- Gluten Free Garbanzo Bean Chocolate Cake
- Honeysuckle Pineapple
- No Bake Peanut Butter Nuggets
- Chocolate Banana Tofu Pudding
- Poppy Seed Fruit Salad
- Low Sugar Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
- Orange Sponge Cake Roll
- Fresh Fruit Minty Dip
- Dark Chocolate Bark
- Banana Cookies
- “Ice Cream” Sandwiches
- Baked Stuffed Pears
- Crunchy Macaroons
- Fruit Salsa & Cinnamon Chips
- Fruity Fun Skewers
- Baked Kale Chips
- Hard Boiled Egg
- Pita Chips
- Eggplant Chips
- Hummus
- Cajun Popcorn
(Source: recoverykitty, via fitbitch101)
