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I have a sentence from page 39-108 of Lake and Ura's _Learn to Read in
Japanese_.

> 食べてばかりいないで少し運動したほうがいいですよ

The book gives a somewhat inscrutable:

> Eating only not being, it would be better to do a little exercise, for sure.

Google Translate gives the translation as:

> You do not have to eat, you had better exercise a little

The second half of the sentence (運動したほうがいいですよ) is pretty straightforward; as I
understand it from
[here](http://maggiesensei.com/2013/07/02/%E3%81%B0%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8A-bakari/),
the first half of the sentence describes habitual eating. I don't know how it
interacts with いないで.
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て-form particle-ばかり
Translating て-form + ばかりいないで
[～て + ばかりいる](http://learnjapanesedaily.com/japanese-
grammar-%E3%81%B0%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8A%E3%81%84%E3%82%8B-bakariiru.html) A verb
in ～て form or a noun followed by ばかり means to do only that action or thing, or
continuously do it, or to always (verb). This phrase is often used to
disapprove of something.

```

    勉強してばかりいる To do nothing but study.
    走ってばかりいる To do nothing but run.
    
```

[ないで](https://japanesetest4you.com/flashcard/learn-
jlpt-n4-grammar-%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E3%81%A7-naide/) means please do not
(verb).

To combine both meanings:

勉強してばかりいる + ないで => 食べてばかりいないで

Which means, "please don't always just eat" or "please don't eat constantly."

For the record, ばかり could also be written
[ばっかり](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E3%81%B0%E3%81%A3%E3%81%8B%E3%82%8A-602309)
which means the same thing (but with more emphasis), and if it follows a verb
in past tense, then it means that you have just finished doing that action.

食べたばかり・食べたばっかり = I just ate. (I just got done eating)
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