How to Overcome Emotional Eating
By admin on Mar 25, 2009 in Diet and Nutrition
The problem of emotional eating may end with the scale but it begins in the mind. Stress takes its toll on your life. When your defenses are compromised your health takes a hit and so do your emotions.
Emotional eaters use food to relieve stress. They hide behind the food instead of seeking solutions to the problems. But, how do you know you are using food in this way? The first sign is obvious. You will gain weight if you eat too much. In light of the weight gain, examine other areas of your life:
* Have you been under stress lately at work or at home?
* Has anything traumatic happened in the last year?
* Are you dealing with a problem but haven’t found a solution?
Answering “yes” to any of these questions could mean that you are an emotional eater. You eat but you are not necessarily hungry at the time. Do you typically choose comfort foods like these?
* High fat foods like French fries, fried foods
* High carb foods like macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes
* Sugary foods like ice cream, donuts, cookies, cake
There is help for emotional eaters. The first step is recognizing that you have a problem. You’ll experience feelings of helplessness and guilt. The guilt is over potentially ruining your health and the helplessness lies in the fact that you don’t see a way out.
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Addiction Substitution
I've always followed the problems of over eating as an addiction because for me, over eating is like sex addiction.
What do I mean by that?
Conventional Wisdom in substance abuse remedial thought is that you have to stop using before you can 'get better'
bullsh**
I'm of the opinion that all that's going to get you is substituting addictions:
- Methadone for Heroin
- AA 12 step groups for Alchohol (that's right there are people who get addicted to meetings as if that's all there is to thier lives)
What if you're addicted to sex? What are you gonna do... be celibate?
You first mother f****er
What if you're addicted to.. food? What are you gonna do then sherlock?
Both of those addictions require that you ACTUALLY heal from addiction!
There is no substitution for food (sustanence)
What passes for conventional substance abuse recovery is treating the symptom and not going after the root cause... which leads me to admire overeaters annonymous
There is a Yahoo email list that I've spent some time on and recommend it highly.
(so what's an 'email list'? both Google and Yahoo call thier lists - groups. It is.. an online message board where each post is also emailed to the 'group' or 'list'. You *post* a question, the whole group see's it online AND they get it in an email)
You're going to have to have a Yahoo email address to do this, that also means you're going to have a Yahoo account. email me if you get stuck, my helping is me doing the 12th step, go out and help somebody else
till next time
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