. When it's time to eat, make sure that you're away from distractions. Studies have shown that people who were distracted while eating felt less full, satisfied, and consumed more food than people who practiced mindful eating. People who have healthy weights enjoy their meals and snacks to the fullest and have limited distractions while they eat. Remember, skinny people may not be the same.  Focus on each bite that you take: What are the tastes? What is the texture like? Is it hot or cold? Make sure that you chew your food thoroughly before you swallow. Try putting your fork down in between bites and chewing 20–30 times per bite. Do not eat large portions regularly or eat until you are full; instead, listen to what your body is telling you about the appropriate amount of food to eat. This ability may come naturally for some, but may take practice and concentration for others.   Stopping when you're satisfied can be difficult. It's easy to eat until we feel "full" or have had a little too much. However, if you eat mindfully and pay attention, your body should tell you when you're satisfied. Satisfied may feel different to everyone. Typically signs include: a lack of hunger, a feeling that you will not get hungry again for 3–4 hours, or a disinterest in your food. You may feel a slight presence of food in your stomach. Many times satisfaction is a lack of a feeling.  If you feel full, you might have eaten too much. Fullness may feel like: a stretching of your stomach, bloated or uncomfortable. When you're full, you may think "that was a few bites too many." . Another hallmark of people who stay thin, rather than skinny people, is that they typically do not emotionally eat on a regular basis. Those that have trouble managing their weight may cope with stress or other emotions with food.   Come up with a list of activities that can help you de-stress, calm down or self-soothe. This could be: listening to music, taking a hot shower, reading a good book or going for a walk. Journaling may also help manage emotional eating as well. Spend some time journaling your thoughts and feelings down a few times a week.  If emotional eating is something you struggle with significantly, try seeing a life coach or behavior therapist for additional support. All skinny people avoid skipping meals. By having an eating schedule your body will be more likely to stick to your eating plans. Having three meals a day with one or two healthy snacks can help regulate your eating and make you less likely to snack throughout the day. Remember, three proper balanced meals a day should mean you don't need to snack. Don't eat a snack because it's snack time, snack if you are hungry. Eating for a healthy weight does not mean eating less food or skipping meals. You need to eat regularly and healthily so that you are able to maintain a healthy weight and metabolism.   Always eat breakfast. You might think that skipping meals would make you skinny, but many times the exact opposite is true. Also, skipping meals slows down your metabolism so you end up storing more of those calories because you're body was in "starvation mode" If you eat breakfast, it gets your metabolism going, then you eat smaller meals throughout the day.  For the two snacks it's a good idea to have higher protein (like a hard-boiled egg and an apple) to help keep your energy up. Exercising isn't eating, obviously, but it ties in very closely with it, especially if you're looking to eat like a skinny person. Exercising may help keep your appetite under control and it will help you burn those extra calories that you intake.  Studies have shown that people who are thin and easily manage their weight move more often than others.  Exercise can be anything you like: a 30-minute walk, going for a run, doing yoga or dance, doing martial arts, etc. Also try to include more lifestyle activity. These are activities that you do every day — walking to and from your car, taking the stairs at work, or mowing the lawn. Increase how much you move and walk throughout the day to help increase your calorie burn.  The important thing is that you exercise most days. Once you've incorporated that into your daily schedule, it will work with the healthy eating to make you healthy and help to shed any excess pounds you don't want.
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One-sentence summary -- Eat mindfully Stop eating when you're satisfied, not full. Track emotional eating Don't skip meals. Exercise regularly.


Talk to your doctor or medical professional about using a buccal, or cheek, swab test to confirm if he is really the child’s father. Have the test performed at a medical lab where an assistant can help you. Gently rub the inside of your cheek, the baby’s cheek, and the potential father’s cheek with the provided cotton swab. Then give them to the lab attendant and await the results.  Buccal swabs can cost up to $1000.  Consider using the buccal swab because it is the least invasive form of paternity testing for all parties. Buccal swabs have the same accuracy as blood tests. Visit your local pharmacy and ask the pharmacist about over-the-counter cheek swab DNA testing kits. Follow the package instructions and take a sample from yourself and your child. Ask the potential father(s) to provide you a sample on the prepackaged swab. Then send in the swabs to the designated lab and wait for your results. Speak to your obstetrician about testing your baby’s cord blood to tell if the child is really his. Let them you that you and the potential father will provide blood samples before you go into labor. Permit them to take a small blood sample from the umbilical cord at your baby’s birth to confirm paternity. Cord blood testing can be expensive than other types of postnatal testing. If you can’t get a cheek or blood sample, collect hairs from the potential father. Ask him to give you 5-10 hair bulbs with visible follicles so the lab can extract enough DNA to let you know if he’s the father. Be aware that hair testing is a lot less accurate than other types of DNA testing. You may only want to use this if nothing else works.
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One-sentence summary --
Use the buccal swab test. Use a commercial swab test. Collect cord blood to establish paternity. Consider hair testing.