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How can I convince myself to stop eating so much? LONG STORY PLEASE HELP?

Question by anonymous: How can I convince myself to stop eating so much? LONG STORY PLEASE HELP?
I eat literally all day. It would be a different story if it was small portions of healthy food, but it’s not. In fact, it’s the complete opposite. I’m a skinny girl, a little over 100 pounds and I’m 5’0 so that’s normal. But I eat SO MUCH. Let me give you an example of what I eat throughout the day. (It’s not my daily meals, sometimes I eat more, sometimes a little less. I change things up, but it’s all unhealthy.)
I wake up at 6 in the morning to get ready for my day. I eat something like really buttery toast, chocolate chip waffles drenched in syrup, chocolate chip muffins, coffee cake, or something like that. I go to school, and lunch time is at 12:10. I eat the same thing for my lunch everyday because I don’t like school food and they sell brand things. I eat a small bag of cheetos, a capri sun, and a string cheese stick. Then, at 3:00 I get home from school, and immediately eat a snack. Something like chips, cookies, a cupcake, or something, and usually I have more then one snack. Today what I ate is a small bowl of macaroni salad, then about 10 minutes later I ate 3 mini chocolate donuts (the small ones you get in a pack at the grocery store) and then 2 valentine cakes. (they were chocolate cakes with a cream filling.) At about 4-5 I’ll get another small snack while my moms cooking dinner. I only eat usually one or two parts of the meal she makes because I’m a vegetarian and don’t eat meat. Usually it’ll be something like macaroni and cheese, with mashed potatoes. Sometimes if I don’t eat anything she makes I’ll make a hot pocket or pizza rolls/pizza bagels. Then, I get a snack such as ice cream or popcorn or something. Right before bed I’ll either eat nothing, or just a small snack again. I go to bed at about 12-1 am and then repeat my day. Also, with those meals, I only drink soda. That’s it. No water, no juice, no anything. Just soda. I always knew I ate unhealthy, but I didn’t realize it until the other day. I stayed home from school, and got a “snack.” More like a meal made of junk food! I got 5 oreo cookies, a pudding cup, and an icecream sandwich all at one time. Please help! It’s like I have an addiction to food or something. I might look skinny but I’m so out of shape and unhealthy it’s not even funny anymore. What do I do?!

Best answer:

Answer by Connor
If you don’t buy junk, you can’t eat it.
Make the decision to stop eating, and stick to it.

-Connor

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The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History

The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History

In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected--that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall.  Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions, however, and he knew little about real estate or how to wager against housing.  He had spent a career as an also-ran on Wall Street. But Paulson was convinced this was his chance to make his mark. He just wasn't sure how to do it.  Colleagues at investment banks scoffed at him and investors dismissed him.  Even pros skeptical about housing shied away from the complicated derivative investments that Paulson was just learning about.  But Paulson and a handful of renegade investors such as Jeffrey Greene and Michael Burry began to bet heavily against risky mortgages and precarious financial companies. Timing is everything, though. Initially, Paulson and the others lost tens of millions of dollars as real estate and stocks continued to soar. Rather than back down, however, Paulson redoubled his bets, putting his hedge fund and his reputation on the line.
     In the summer of 2007, the markets began to implode, bringing Paulson early profits, but also sparking efforts to rescue real estate and derail him. By year's end, though, John Paulson had pulled off the greatest trade in financial history, earning more than $15 billion for his firm--a figure that dwarfed George Soros's billion-dollar currency trade in 1992.  Paulson made billions more in 2008 by transforming his gutsy move.  Some of the underdog investors who attempted the daring trade also reaped fortunes. But others who got the timing wrong met devastating failure, discovering that being early and right wasn't nearly enough.
     Written by the prizewinning reporter who broke the story in The Wall Street Journal, The Greatest Trade Ever is a superbly written, fast-paced, behind-the-scenes narrative of how a contrarian foresaw an escalating financial crisis--that outwitted Chuck Prince, Stanley O'Neal, Richard Fuld, and Wall Street's titans--to make financial history.

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Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House (Vintage)

In this laugh-out-loud personal journey, acclaimed author Meghan Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing that only a house can make you whole. From her teenage apartment fantasies and her mother’s decorating manias to her own “hidden room” dreams and the bungalow she eventually buys on her own, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House is the true story of one woman’s quest for the four perfect walls to call home.

Questions for Meghan Daum on Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House

Q: In Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House, you detail your lifelong obsession with real estate and your quest for a place to call home. What does "home" mean to you? How has that meaning evolved over the years?
A: Asking what "home" means is like asking what "love" means. And, as I say in the book, I have a pet peeve about people referring to houses as homes, especially if they’re talking in terms of real estate or about properties as physical, purchasable entities. "I just bought a new home," someone will say. Really? What does that mean? You bought a feeling, a mélange of smells, a history? No, you bought a house! In my mind, you buy a house but you make a home.

Q: In your book you say, "I wanted to live on another block, in another part of town, in New York, in Paris, on the moon." Why the constant desire to move around?
A: The open houses my parents took me to as a child probably were a factor. We didn’t do sports or play games or relax much on weekends, but my mother was always up for open houses and, moreover, the idea of moving to a new house. I definitely inherited my restlessness from her. I’ve also found that moving functions as something of a stimulant for me. During the process of moving out of an old place and getting settled in a new place I find I become more energetic, more excited about my surroundings and more motivated about my life trajectory. And being in a new place just naturally makes you more observant. It’s like I can feel a set of antennas rising from my skull as I pull into a new town or neighborhood. And that’s a rush; I can’t deny it.

Q: After several years in New York, you moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. What attracted you to such a different place? How much of a factor was the high price of real estate in New York in your decision to relocate?
A: The reason I give most often for moving to Nebraska is, yes, the less expensive cost of living (it’s the most easily explained.) I rented a large apartment with beautiful woodwork in Lincoln for about a sixth of what it would have cost me in Manhattan. I was in a lot of debt from student loans and various other things, so I framed my decision around my financial picture. But that belied a deeper, less tangible and infinitely more pressing reason that I went to Nebraska, which is that I felt an almost chemical urge to radically change my surroundings. As enamored as I’d been in my teens and 20s of New York City, I always nursed a constant, low-grade crush on the idea of rural life and, specifically, the aesthetics of the prairie. Some of that, I’ll admit, came from having watched the Little House on the Prairie series on television and reading the books as a kid. I was consumed with the idea of homesteading, so much so that I made my mother sew me a sunbonnet so I could run around like Laura Ingalls. She also put an extra box spring under my bed and leaned a step ladder against it so I could climb up to it as though it were Laura and her sister’s loft bed. Even as I grew older and outgrew Laura Ingalls I remained enthralled with the aura surrounding the high plains. I loved--and still love--the starkness of that geography, the huge sky, the scarcity of the trees, the drama of the weather. But because it’s easier to tell yourself and others that you’re uprooting your life and moving to the central plains in order to save money rather than to watch a hail storm through the window of a rattling farmhouse, I basically went with that story. Not that the money part isn’t true; I desperately needed to get out of debt. But there are ways to do that that don’t involve hailstorms, so clearly something else was at work.

Q: When you eventually moved to L.A., you had a hard time letting go of life in Nebraska, and nearly bought a farmhouse there as a vacation home. Why do you think you had such a hard time leaving Lincoln for good? Does the allure of a farmhouse still call to you?
A: The farmhouse definitely still calls to me! When I moved to L.A. I missed Nebraska terribly, not just for the obvious reason of missing the friends I’d made there but also for (again this is intangible and a bit tricky to explain) the entire mood of the place. I could describe that mood as "laid back" but that doesn’t quite get to it. It’s more like I detected in Nebraska a sort of peaceful coexistence with reality. That sounds kind of sophomoric and pretentious, I know, but I guess what I’m saying is that I noticed a greater acceptance there of the messiness and absurdity of life. That acceptance can be difficult to find in places where the financial stakes are higher and people tend to be harder driving in the conventional sense and more invested in achieving some notion of perfection. As a former New Yorker, that kind of mentality was, alas, quite a novelty to me. And after soaking it up for nearly four years I landed in a canyon north of Los Angeles surrounded by a lot of wealthy people who wore their "laid backness" like designer jeans while they were in fact so anxious that their pets were on Xanax (true.) So in the midst of that I found myself craving that stark geography again. And every time I go back to Nebraska, which is at least once a year, I feel just so exhilarated when that plane touches down.

Q: After taking the big real-estate plunge, you met, dated, and eventually married your now husband. Do you think there’s any sort of karmic connection between the two?
A: I’d like to say yes but I’d probably be lying. I was in that house for two years before I met or even really tried to meet someone (because in my mind it wasn’t enough to own a house; it had to be totally fixed up.) And I wasn’t even finished when I met my now-husband, since I made him shop for antique kitchen drawer pulls on our first date. I think it was mostly luck--and the fact that he called me for a second date even after I dragged him to an architectural salvage yard.

Q: What is it about real estate that draws such a following? Why are so many Americans so obsessed with the size, location, and style of their home? Do you think there’s a deeper meaning to this fixation?
A: The essence of this book is really an examination of the emotions that inform these obsessions. Yes, it’s a book about houses. But it’s also about how we see ourselves in the world vis-à-vis our family, our social class, our aspirations, and our fears. The way I’ve always thought of it, a house is ultimate metaphor. It’s more than just shelter for ourselves and for our loved ones, more than just "the biggest purchase you’ll ever make." It’s like a really expensive, high-maintenance, inanimate version of ourselves. It’s a repository for every piece of baggage we’ve ever carried. Our homes protect us from the outside world, show our off taste, and accommodate our stuff. Perhaps above all, they prove to ourselves and to the world that we’ve truly moved out of our childhood bedrooms. You don’t have to be a real estate junkie, I think, to feel this way.

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Bank of America Horror Story

My personal frustration dealing in real estate short sales and loan modifications with Bank of America.

Cheating Cheaters of Cheatery: The Amazing Story of Brazil’s Cotton War with the US

Pizza Shirt: dftba.com Planet Money: dft.ba In which John Green discusses the insane story of how the United States of America ended up subsidizing the cotton industry in Brazil so that America could continue its own illegal subsidies of its cotton farmers. This year and every year until we end our illegal cotton subsidies, the US federal government will pay 7 million of American tax dollars to Brazilian cotton farmers to make up for our illegal subsidies, which amount to more than billion most years. There’s no question that American cotton subsidies create jobs, but there’s ample evidence that the same billion could be used to create MORE jobs, either through more efficient direct government stimulus or through just not spending that billion and allowing private industry to create jobs with that 3 billion in capital. This is (one of the reasons) why economists generally hate industry-specific subsidies.
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The Miz Maze: Or The Winkworth Puzzle: A Story In Letters

The Miz Maze: Or The Winkworth Puzzle: A Story In Letters

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All the Right Moves: The Najee McGreen Story – Touchdown Edition (Future Stars) (Dream: Touchdown Edition) Reviews

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Meet 18-year-old Najee McGreen, born and raised in Brooklyn, in New York City. Najee has dreams of doing big things in the world ... BIG things. Is he a chart-topping rapper, a famous athlete, or a movie star? Nope. But he is living proof that with education, determination, and a willingness to work hard, dreams can come true.

Najee is an inspirational figure and a worthy role model. He's been a chess champion, a web designer, a business owner, and an award winner...all before completing high school! All the Right Moves traces the fascinating progression from small child to accomplished teenaged business leader. Along the way, the worthwhile life lessons Najee has learned are offered up to the reader.

Najee McGreen is currently a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, where he hopes to integrate medicine and technology to tackle some of the most difficult and important challenges of the new millennium. He has dreams of changing the world, and he challenges all young people to work hard and shoot for the stars.

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The Miz Maze, or the Winkworth Puzzle. A story in letters, by nine authors (F. Awdry, M. Bramston, C. R. Coleridge, … C. M. Yonge, etc.).

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Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

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Awdry, Frances; Bramston, M.; Coleridge, Christabel Rose;
1883.
xv. 358 p. ; 8º.
12624.i.10.

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