Emotional Eating - Knowledge in Knowing Our Beliefs on Food

You can learn to get a good body image. We hope that these weight loss tips prove helpful and that you are on your way toward your ideal body image.
By: Faith Sanchez
 
March 2, 2010 - PRLog -- As we continue our articles on Emotional Eating, we want to remind our readers that food is a source of fuel and most people have a deeper connection around when they eat, how much they eat and how food satisfies a need for comfort. Emotional Eating can be devastating to your weight loss progress and we hope that this series of articles proves helpful to you on your weight loss journey. Providing weight loss tips and giving you the tools to achieve your ideal body image is very important to us.

Emotional Eating is a core factor in your successful weight loss journey. If you do not tackle this psychological obstacle to healthy living, all of your other efforts will be in vein. You must develop an understanding as to why you have the feelings that you do about food. We are fickle people. It is just how we are wired. While we are remarkable creatures with greatness as our destiny, we are also frail beings that can be subjected to weak moments and behaviors that are self destructive.

Your success on this front begins with knowledge. And sometimes we have to ask ourselves the tough questions to get at the root cause. It's like peeling back an onion, you need to uncover the hidden layers and sometimes that will involve tears. It's OK. Sometimes you have to experience a breakdown in order to experience a breakthrough.

Think back to the various times where you know for certain that you were clearly engaged in emotional eating. Take care to document what you ate, how long you ate, the feelings that you had prior to this eating, the self-lies that you told yourself in order to rationalize the behavior momentarily. Equally important is the post-feelings - those that overcame you once you completed this feast.

By documenting your awareness, moods and feelings it will become clear to you exactly HOW you approach food in this particular scenario. Keep in mind that we are all complex beings and you likely have several different modes of emotional eating. It could be that you find yourself in a variety of scenarios that leave you vulnerable to the risk of emotional eating.

As you explore and uncover your feelings about food, please do not be overly concerned about logic. Emotional control may stem from logic but your weakness is based on emotion and you need to treat it as such. If you are being emotional honest with yourself you may never experience true emotional mastery. And I am not talking about suppressing emotions but rather gaining control over your emotions. Like any behavioral change it will require practice and repetition.

So once you understand your own risks, begin to look for ways to manage them. And then look for ways to control them. And be sure to reward yourself along the way. The life battles do not always have to be battles. Sometimes we can make them fun excursions. Have fun with life. Let's not take ourselves too seriously and let's get out there and lead the life we want to lead. The one that we know that we are capable of leading.

Food is not your friend nor is it your enemy. It is fuel for the body. Your body is you! Your mind may be telling you that you would 'feel better' if you ate the ice cream, drank the shake, snacked on the chocolates, but the reality is that your body suffers. So take control over your mind and be responsible TO your body.

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