Eating Disorders

If you want to be healthy, eat a variety of foods, stop when you aren't hungry anymore, lay off junk foods (including anything you can find in a vending machine) and drink alcohol in moderation.

Avoid frozen foods and try your hand at cooking.

If you want to step it up a notch, use organic ingredients and don't buy anything made from concentrate.

Drink mainly water and avoid caffeinated beverages.

Eating healthily is a much better fix than going on a diet or picking up brand name "health food." Expensive diet foods are merely expensive.

They are frequently frozen, which means you are missing important nutritional elements, ingesting too many preservatives, and probably getting too much sodium.

I am a 21-year-old who is 5'6" and 150 pounds.

For the most part I eat healthily.

I do not get nearly enough exercise and I drink too much caffeine, but any extra pounds I have are not due to my diet and should not be cured that way.

If I wanted to lose weight, I would need to exercise more.

Eating less or "better" (with the exception of my pop addiction) would simply not be a healthy choice.

I don't want to lose weight.

I don't need to lose weight.

If I exercised more, I would hope to gain at least part of my weight back in muscle.

Hearing very thin women talk about their calorie-counting is frustrating.

I am not fat, but I don't look like them.

I want to shake these women and tell them to grow up.

Ladies, if you are 5'5" and weigh 120 pounds or less (or are equivalent...

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