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Emotional Eating vs Habit Eating To conquer emotional eating it's important to understand the difference
between eating out of habit and emotional eating. The easiest way to understand eating out of habit is to relate
with the person who stops at the bagel shop every morning on his/her way
to work. It's a habit. Or the person who comes home in the afternoon,
walks through the living room into the kitchen, and opens the
refrigerator door. It's a habit.
Break the habit and break the behavior. Take a different route to work.
Find another activity in the afternoon to replace coming home. Or, if
you do come home, climb in the back window instead of walking through
the front door.
Emotional eating is not so easy to identify for most of us have more
training in ignoring our feelings that we do in acknowledging them.
The best techniques to handle emotional eating are awareness techniques
such as:
Diets which makes one very aware of the specific foods
Behavioral modification such as putting the fork down between bites,
eating slowly...
Calorie counting.
Food Equivalents.
Weighing Food.
Stop thinking techniques.
Any of these techniques are effective in breaking the eating habit.
Weight comes off until... The "until" is an emotional stress at which
point all the effort "goes out the door."
There are two factors that end the diet or whatever awareness technique
that's being used:
1. To self berate: The individual gets very upset with oneself and
begins to wonder if they have a "mental problem." They call themselves
stupid, dumb, asinine... They believe that this one incursion has
completely ruined all their past successes and may even gorge themselves
to get even with themselves. In other words, they have become their own
worst enemy through their own thinking mechanisms.
2. They are totally ill equipped to handle the stressful emotion. The
disappointment or success that led to the emotion yields a stressful
situation in handling the emotion. This is because most of us have been
trained to avoid emotions, control them, or pretend they don't exist.
Even success leads to emotion? Yes, the emotion is happiness, yet it's
amazing how many of us don't allow ourselves to feel happy. "Don't be
too happy, you'll set yourself up for the big let down," is just one of
several beliefs we've acquired towards happiness.
We could write a book about all the other emotions such as upset,
boredom, confusion, anger, frustration, depression... In fact I did--see
the resource box.
All the good work achieved to lose weight is for naught. When we learn
to treat ourselves lovingly instead of self put-downs and embrace
emotion instead of denying them, losing weight is a natural process.
A progressive approach to losing weight involves asking important
questions "What is missing here? Why are you not getting the results
you've been promised?" It is clearly insane to keep dieting when the
results are so poor. It's more important to gain a grasp on how to stop
emotional eating--eating emotional stress than it is to read the scale.
Besides focusing on the scale doesn't empower you to be a better more
enlightened person, whereas learning how to overcome emotional eating
empowers you in all aspects of your life. If you're a sales person,
you'll be a better sales person. If you're an assembly line worker,
you'll be a better assembly line worker; a mother, a better mother...
Overall, you'll build self worth and find that what you really want to
eat is far more nutritious and less in quantity than you ever before
imagined possible. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Resource Box: Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E. NGH certified, a prominent figure in the personal development field. His goal is to provide all the tools one needs to successfully deal with emotional eating.
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