Today, I’m sharing my personal story about emotional eating.
It’s not easy for me to do this because it reminds me of sadness in my life that never goes away completely. But as a way to help you understand emotional eating, I’m opening my heart to show you my own struggles toward a healthier relationship with food.
My journey began after nine years of silence, a time in which I never spoke of my personal pain, and instead used food to push my feelings far away. [Read more…]
Don was not making any progress with losing weight. It seemed that food always filled in for what was missing in his life.
He told me, “On Friday night, I planned to go to a movie, but when I got to the theater, the show was sold out. So I stopped at the video store on the way home and rented a movie instead.
It turned out to be horrible– not the slightest bit entertaining or enjoyable. But the evening wasn’t a total loss. I had my pint of Häagen-Dazs, so that became my fun.” [Read more…]
It starts innocently enough.
You open a box of Girl Scout cookies, planning to eat just a couple. An hour later, you realize you’ve finished off half the box.
Or perhaps at a party, you reach into a bowl of peanuts or M&M’s and quickly lose track of how many times you grab another handful. [Read more…]
On the way home from work, Kathy stopped to visit her mother.
She’d planned to stay only a few minutes, but then she noticed the plate of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
They smelled wonderful!
“I’ll have just one,” she thought. And she did. It tasted so good that soon she reached for another, then several more. [Read more…]
You may not realize it, but the first two bites of any food always have the most flavor.
If you keep eating after that, you’re just “feeding.” [Read more…]
You’re probably familiar with the old game “He loves me, he loves me not.”
Using a flower such as a daisy, you pull off one petal at a time. As you remove each petal, you alternate saying the phrases, “He (or she) loves me, he (or she) loves me not.”
Whichever one you say as you pull off the last petal will answer the question, “Does he (or she) love me?” [Read more…]
Natalie rushed into my office and sank into my client chair. “Sorry I’m late,” she began. “I had a terrible week, and almost didn’t come in to see you today!”
“You look pretty stressed,” I responded. “So what’s going on with your weight-loss efforts?” [Read more…]
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It’s so easy to grab food that shows up in front of us.
Food triggers are everywhere, from the cookies on the counter to the TV ads for pizza. Before you know it, what started as the “thought” of food is now going into your mouth. [Read more…]
Helen was back!
Her discouragement was obvious as she described her struggles over the past year.
“I don’t know what went wrong!” she said. “I worked so hard to lose weight, and I was thrilled when I finally hit my goal. [Read more…]