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Spending time encouraging others by responding to blogs, welcoming new members, being active on your teams and commenting on other member's blogs is even BETTER for you than for the people you reach out to. Motivating others keeps YOU motivated!
Instead of bingeing or otherwise emotionally overeating, spend some time on the Spark People message boards and reading other members' blogs. It's much harder to stuff your face when you're reading about others' successes and challenges. It helps to put eating in to perspective and of course there are always articles/blogs/posts to remind us of reasons not to and alternatives to binge eating.
Summer produce is overflowing--and cheap! Whether you grow it or buy it, it's easy to preserve your food so that you can save money and eat better long after the harvest is over.