Emotional Eating--The Stress of Emotions
Everyday I read articles or books featuring a means
of overcoming emotional eating. At first I was excited about what new tips
I'd learn and was quickly disappointed.
Three of the top books on
amazon.com for dealing with or overcoming emotional eating are:
Taming
of the Chew by Denise Lamothe, Phy.D, H.H.D
Breaking Free from
Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth
Shrink Yourself (Break free from
emotional eating forever!) by Roger Gould, MD.
Would you believe
that not one of these resources on emotional eating has a chapter on how
to deal with emotions? Nothing about the cause of emotions? Nothing about
how to embrace them or experience them? or the importance of experiencing
emotions?
Tons of articles are dug up by google alert that deal
with emotional eating and all they provide is old recycled advice (much as
the books I mentioned) from the fad diet era.
None of the books or
articles recognize that emotional eaters don't eat because of particular
emotions, but because of the stress the emotions place upon the overeater.
Yes, emotions are themselves stressful and the old stress
management advice, i.e. take deep breadths, practice yoga, meditation, go
for a walk, count to ten... just are not effective for 95% of over eaters.
Yes, it's all good advice, but very few over eaters actually take the time
to put it into practice. And none of this advice deals directly with the
stress of the emotions.
For instance, do you like to feel upset?
down? frustrated? confused? uncertain? malaise? boredom?
anger?
How about happiness? joy? excitement? love?
Most people say "NO"
to the first group of emotions and call them negative and they say "YES"
to the second group of emotions and call them positive.
But do you
know what you've just done?
You've just voted. You determined that
there are some emotions you like and some that you dislike.
Actually emotions are nothing more than different energy levels and it's
our opinions about them that make them good or bad. It's our beliefs about
them that make them stressful.
It is this stress that contributes
to our over eating and makes us emotional eaters.
Even happiness
for instance can be stressful. "Don't be too happy, you'll set yourself up
for a big let down"
Because of beliefs of this nature--and there are
many others--that keep us from truly experiencing happiness and thus the
emotion is diluted with food.
A progressive approach to managing
weight involves asking important questions "What is missing? Why are you
not getting the results you've been promised from the books you've read
and the experts you've consulted?" It is clearly insane to keep using the
same old recycled advice from the fad dieting era when the results are so
poor. It's more important to gain a grasp on how to handle 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.
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of article
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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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