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Make May Amazing
Get back to the healthy basics!
Eat cleanwith recipes like these. Search the farmers markets for organic berries, apples, veggies, and legumes. More protein! More good carbs! There’s no need to go hungry.
Work it out with HIIT, lifting, or running.
Love yourself! Tell yourself every single day how gorgeous you are no matter the number on the scale or size of your pants because...
April 2012
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Anonymous asked: I live in an emotionally draining home that I cannot get out of due to financial & health reasons. I'm so depressed a majority of the time, I can't do anything but housework & losing hours in books & on the internet. I have no motivation to anything at all because I have no idea what to do, sometimes even the simplest things like waking up is hard because I just want the...
Anonymous asked: Pt. 1/2 // I grew up very sheltered for the first 12 years of my life & to suddenly up & move at 13 over a thousand miles away to a new place was earth shattering really. I've been riddled with depression, social anxiety, panic attacks & even culture shock till about 18 when I finally understood & grasped the fact that all of that is. not. normal. Thanks to the internet. I kid...
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Anonymous asked: Since I was able to notice other girls around me, I've hated how I looked, I've always felt fat and ugly & am thrown for a loop when someone says I just look nice. I can't see it. I've mostly given up & just going through life knowing I'll never be even remotely nice to look at. But people say that I should. I don't see the purpose, when you just want to tear...
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Anonymous asked: How do I make myself FULLY believe that I am worth something after feeling like I wasn't for 11+ years of my life? How do you break out of that kind of mentality when you were born into it & was surrounded by the negativity for so long? I feel like I take a step forward and then get stuck because I don't know how to move beyond that point because I've never known what it's...
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Anonymous asked: my gums are really sensitive so i can't eat certain fruits like apples and sometimes oranges. any recommendations for any fruits that won't hurt my gums?
Anonymous asked: Do you ask questions that are super long and need to be sent directly as a message? Because I sent one just now, and I want to make sure you read it :)
oldmanisourking asked: I just wanted to say thank you for this site, it's great! I've found so many useful things here and I feel that I'm not so alone in many of my day to day problems, which helps a lot. So, thank you! :D <3
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Anonymous asked: i play just dance games about 30 mins a day. this isn't the only exercise i do daily but do you think it's a good way to get some cardio in?
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Anonymous asked: Any tips for getting on a schedule? I can't work due to a health issue & I'm self taught in my career field so I've been stuck in one place for a while. My life has been overcome with procrastination & even laziness at some points. I want to get back onto some kind of routine that I can fill my days up again somehow til I get my life figured out. I've taken to sleeping...
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Healthy or disordered eating?
I get asked a lot of I think fitspo can be harmful. The short version is yes, absolutely. If you’re obsessive and addicted to thinspo, turning that obsession onto fit ladies/men is just as dangerous. There’s still an obsessive need to be something other than yourself and the idea that your body isn’t good enough. Addictive personalities will transfer over, like alcoholics turning...
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Anonymous asked: Should you workout once a day or twice if you have a lot of time? I want to do HIIT but I wasn't sure how many times a day I need to workout.
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Anonymous asked: to fight the temptation of eating unhealthy snacks i buy them and leave them at my boyfriend's house. so in any case i have to walk to get the snacks if i really want them. you think that's a good idea?
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Anonymous asked: I am trying to lose weight, after going to the doctor & seeing that I was the heaviest I've ever been at 200lbs. Since I started, I've lost about 12lbs & I'm so excited! But the fact that I work & have no breaks/lunches keeps me from eating enough throughout the day. For example, I eat breakfast in the morning, work from about 12pm-6pm, then have a meal when I get home....
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Anonymous asked: I want a tattoo. I have the design and wanted to have it as a reminder that I'm not worthless. I put on a temporary tattoo to assure that I won't regret anything. At work, a supervisor implied I was useless one day and I fell into a depression for about three weeks. Life wasn't worth living and I removed the temp. I put it back on recently, but wonder whether it holds meaning...
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Adopt a "take no shit" attitude in the gym
Lately I’m seeing a disturbing number of posts telling women to deal with men gawking at or harassing them in the gym because, “men just can’t help it,” because youre pretty or they arent used to women in the weight room. I’m here to remind you that that’s bullshit.
Stop making excuses for men being inappropriate. Theyre not children. They know right from wrong....
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Anonymous asked: I am constantly at a loss at how to describe who I am. Like, I cannot seem to find the right words to explain who I am as a person. I've become a bit obsessed with things like personality tests & zodiac signs just so I can understand myself. Is that weird? Obviously I don't believe everything but a lot of things are eerily true & it helps me to better understand myself but my...
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Anonymous asked: Hi Liz! I've been playing soccer forever and started playing for my school. My team also isn't very good. So basically theres some girls on my team who get really serious and think they're helping by directing and I take it as them yelling at me and getting upset while others would just say its instruction and I can get really emotional and I don't know i feel like they're...
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Anonymous asked: i have no idea about sex at all. can you explain it all from step one?
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Ending body-bashing from 10 - 100
I know that when most people think about body hate, they focus on preteens, teens, and young adults, but it doesn’t end there. The habits we make when we’re young - smoking, drinking, habitually ignoring emails, and body-hate - last long into our adult years.
Think about it, if someone starts smoking at twelve and never realizes the damage or finds the desire to stop, they’ll...
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Anonymous asked: So, last week I forgot to take the pill and took it about 15hours later. On the box there was written that to avoid pregnancy and you're in the 2nd week [I was], you can take the pill after 12 hours as well. The following day after that I forgot it, my boyfriend came as soon as he pulled out and I'm worried about the precum. I shouldn't be in danger of pregnancy if I followed the...
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Me: I'm so sick of all these commercials reinforcing gender binary.
My mother: Being a feminist and watching commercials is like being hungover and watching commercials. Instead of greasy food that makes you want to puke, it's gender stereotypes that make you want to puke.
Me: Touche.
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Anonymous asked: So when I have sex with a condom I feel like have the feeling is taken away, but if I try to have sex without a condom on with someone I know and care about, I always imagine that my pre-cum will somehow get them pregnant and always freakout and not just enjoy the moment. I seriously can't even enjoy sex anymore because of that. It annoys me sometimes how easily a condom that fits me can come...
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Anonymous asked: I'm doing all the things I normally do and more (I'm working more hours, seeing my friends, reading more, etc.) but I still feel like nothing's happening. Life feels empty.
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Anonymous asked: Can having better muscle tone help to keep up good posture? My posture is not the greatest to begin with though I have tried hard not to let it get really bad but I noticed it is progressively getting worse over the years so I'm wondering if doing back strengthening exercises would help with that?
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Anonymous asked: While alone at work, I was rehearsing what I was going to write on my suicide note as if I was trying to write an essay. It was then that I thought "maybe it's time for me to seek some help". I can't afford help and my friends are all busy with college/university. I don't want to bother them. Should I just go about this alone?
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Every time someone talks about 4/20 I get all confused about whether they mean the Columbine anniversary or Hitler’s birthday and then I sit alone in my own nerdiness and realize I still will never, ever be cool.
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Anonymous asked: My career field that I want to go into will require people interaction on a constant and daily basis. I'm near the point of going into an internship so my problem is really starting to get to me.. Now I love people but I am terrible with talking to strangers or people I just get a bad vibe from. It's drives me crazy because I want to talk, I want to speak but I clam up half the time or...
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Anonymous asked: When I read books that are supposedly really 'deep' or 'intelligent' in some way I either dislike them outright or I can't understand them. Like, I'm seeing the words but I don't understand what they're trying to tell me if that makes sense. I feel incredibly stupid because everyone else seems to get it but I don't. Even when it's explained I just...
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Healthy recipes you can't fuck up: i will make you...
I will make you eat a whole bag of spinach in one sitting. Yes, a whole bag. Yes, in one meal. Yes, without throwing up.
Hear me out. You’re living healthy. You’re pushing your workouts. You’re tired and sore and you’re like
but you’re also cutting calories and/or carbs and upping your protein. There are only so many recipes that genuinely fill you up. How does an...
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Anonymous asked: Can what you eat affect your moods? I have been doing nothing differently and I'm constantly depressed and have no want or will to do what I enjoy anymore and it's driving me nuts because I have everything I need and shouldn't be feeling this way and yet I do. I can't figure out what else it could be.
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Anonymous asked: All my life I've been overweight, and I really want to change that, because it makes me feel horrible and insecure. I have started training routines and eating healthier diets a couple of times, but I can never keep it going long enough to see any results, because I run out of motivation. Help?
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Anonymous asked: Is it unhealthy to want to lose weight despite at already being at a healthy weight and in relatively good form?
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I’ve been super sick for the past few days, which is why I haven’t been here. Thanks for being patient with me while I fought my battle with death.
I’m going to get to work so I can catch up with my asks!
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Anonymous asked: I don't get this, when I happen to do something really dumb my mom says to me "What are you 5? Grow up!" I'm like what?? I'm 20! I was goofing off & 99.9% of the time I'm the most serious person in my family & when I'm like that she tells me to 'lighten up'. What the fuck am I doing wrong?! I try to be one thing or another and she tells me the...
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Anonymous asked: Im fourteen and my best friend is too. Except shes really developed physically and is quite advanced.. I know not everyone in my grade has their first kiss, but I feel really desperate to have it. Im waiting for the right guy of course, im just worried to end up 18 and never been kissed. I know im being silly and theres plenty of time but its just how I feel. - Kate.
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Anonymous asked: hey, I need an advice. I have a boyfriend and I really love him. But he is so romantic and I'm not. So he constantly tells me that he loves me, that I'm the best, the most beautiful girl, that I'm his everything and so on. Well it's okay. At least it was okay since today. He said that he would love if I told him that stuff back. But I cant do this. It's just not me....
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Healthy recipes you can't fuck up: my favorite...
Reese’s Pieces: 1 scoop chocolate protein powder 1 teaspoon peanut butter 6-8 oz water or milk (depending on calorie limit) 10 - 12 ice cubes
Berry Good: 1 scoop vanilla protein powder handful blueberries, strawberries, raspberries (frozen or fresh) 6-8 oz water 10 - 12 ice cubes
Mean Green: 1 scoop vanilla protein powder 1/2 banana 1 cup spinach 6-8...
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Anonymous asked: i'm really hungry but if i go down to the kitchen i will eat E V E R Y T H I N G, what should i do?
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Anonymous asked: In your opinion, is it better to live on campus or off campus during college?
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Anonymous asked: Hi. I have a sex-related issue - I never want sex, I never feel turned on, I never want to do things with/to my partner, I never feel sexy/attractive, and in the past when I have done things with guys it's always been just because I wanted /them/ to enjoy the experience and knew that 20-something-year-old women were supposed to want/enjoy sex, so I did it because it was expected of me....
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Anonymous asked: If I find that I don't like giving my BF head, he shouldn't be mad at me right? I know guys like it when you do but I don't know if I will and I don't want him to be mad at me. :\
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Anonymous asked: I love my best friend to death, but she's so beautiful and smart and looks so much more mature it makes me feel... inferior, I guess, to her. We're both sixteen but she's often mistaken as even nineteen or older. She's tall, blonde, tan, and has straight white teeth and a Senior boyfriend. I, on the other hand, am a short brunette who still needs braces and has never been...
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Anonymous asked: Okay, this is really embarassing, but I'm actually concerned about this; I'm 16, female, and whenever I get... er... turned on, or think about sex, I get a REALLY painful cramping in between my hip bones. The level of pain ranges between a small tickle in the bottom of my belly to me doubling over in pain. Is this normal? Thanks :)
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Anonymous asked: to the anon about getting fingered for the first time- when I did, it hurt pretty bad since my hymen wasn't broken (I couldn't even wear tampons). but after it broke, it got alot better. if your hymen isn't broken, just expect some pain and some blood...but after a few times it won't bleed and it'll feel much better :) but if your hymen is already broken by tampons or...
setsomegoals said: Woah you are in new England??? I’m seriously considering signing up myself and my boyfriend!
Yes I am! Do it, do it, do it!
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Just registered for the Boston Color Run on July 28th! Who else is going to come get colorful with me?
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Anonymous asked: i have a question similar to one about stretch marks i saw previously... i'm 17 and about 6 months ago we found out i had a thyroid problem that made me gain some weight. since september i've lost thirty pounds (148 to 128) and according to my doctor it's completely healthy. but i'm still getting stretch marks. i'm getting them on the backs of my knees (not sure what...
