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Emotional Eating Can Ruin Your Life
Yet, when you know how to manage emotions and deal with them effectively, emotional eating can be managed and excess pounds dissolved. The first thing to know is that there are three types of excess eating. First there is habitual eating, the second is emotional eating, and the third is self defeative eating. How the process works. The first step is to assume the temptation is habit related. Eating out of habit is being at a certain place at a certain time--like stopping at the bagel shop every morning. The most effective means of handling habitual eating is awareness. An example would be a cognition such as asking yourself if it's really important to stop." You either say "Yes, I want to stop, " or, "No, let's skip it." If the answer is "No," you pass by and it was habitual eating that you eliminated. If the answer, is "Yes," and you stop for the bagel, then you are dealing with emotional eating. Handling emotional eating is to acknowledge the predominate emotion of the moment when you had the temptation of eating. You isolate that emotion and choose to feel it instead of diluting it with food. Because emotions themselves are stressful for most emotionsl over eaters, it's important to learn more about them before expecting success. Once you've mastered the art of emotions, if it's emotional eating, you then leave food out of your life for the moment and have freed yourself of emotional eating. However if after applying your emotional skills you still eat, then you're dealing with self destructive eating. Self defeative eating is actually a fear of being thin because you might not live up to your expectations of yourself. In other words, the excess pounds becomes an excuse for not achieving success, friends, skills... Overcoming self defeative eating is to focus on your fears concerning the future. Listen to self improvement cds, take adult education classes, read self help books, build self confidence and self esteem... Of course these are great things to do anyway, emotional over eater or not. An effective approach to losing weight involves asking important questions "What is missing? Why are you not getting the results you've been promised from the books you've been reading and the experts you've consulted?" It's clearly counter productive to keep applying the same old recycled advice for the diet era when the results are non existent. It's more important to gain a grasp on eating emotional stress--how to handle emotional eating 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 teacher, you'll be a better teacher. If you're an a policeman, you'll be a better policeman; 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. Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E., NGH certified, an expert in the area of hypnosis with his top selling hypnosis and stress management cds at www.DStressDoc.com and www.PanicBusters.com He aims to raise awareness in using hypnosis for self curing emotional eating. To learn more about emotional eating please go to www.dstressdoc.com/BingeEatingEbook.htm |
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