Emotional Eating Part 2

Published: Wed, 11/23/16

Natural Health Ezine 94
www.bodytypology.com                          Sue-Anne Hickey              
info@bodytypology.com                              514-577-1963           
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Hello ,

In This Edition:
Emotional Eating
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Emotional Eating
In my last newsletter I asked you to become aware of and keep track of your emotional eating triggers.

If you haven't read last week's newsletter, take a minute to read it first.

I asked you to pay attention and keep a log. Like a food journal, but instead, writing down what was happening before you ate and how you felt.

  • The time of day
  • Where you were
  • The situation - in a meeting, at work, watching TV, etc
  • What you were feeling
  • How you felt after
  • Any other insights
What did you discover?

What kinds of feelings and emotions are you experiencing when you feel the urge to eat, over eat, or eat junk-food, when you're not hungry?

Did you identify what's driving your emotional hunger?

This exercise requires you to be honest with yourself.

Have you been depressed about something and you're using food to cope with the pain?
Is your emotional eating triggered by a certain person? Your mother, your difficult co-worker?
Or maybe your relationship is strained and you're using food to distract yourself from your unmet needs and arguments. Are you feeling there's something missing in your life and you'll only be happy when you get it?

Are your feelings triggered by events that happened when you were a child? You weren't loved for who you were. Did that caused a great deal of pain that continues now, as you still struggle to  love and accept yourself as you are?

There may be some things that come up that you've been avoiding for a very long time.
I want you to really start to think about what way your emotional eating has been able to serve you.

Are you using overeating as a protection?

In short, emotional eating protects you from feeling the feelings that you don't want to feel.
Make your own list
Look at your own list of emotional eating triggers and see what can be changed and what can't.

You may not be able to change your job right now, but maybe you can start making small steps towards changing it.

Rank the items in order of easiest to hardest to change.

Start small and start with the things you Can change:

If you notice that you are bored and tend to eat in front of the TV at night, what can you do instead? What are your interests? What did you love to do as a child? What can you do to go after your dreams?

Stress is a big problem for most people. Yesterday, in my facebook weight loss group we were coming up with stress busters that don't take too long to do. Going for a walk in nature or taking a bubble bath are not always possible in the stressful moment!

Here are some quick stress busters:
What can you do to better manage stress long term?

Do you need to communicate something to someone to improve your relationship?

The quality of your relationship is equal to the quality of your communication. Use feeling based communication.

"I feel ________________ when you _______________."

Your turn ends only when you feel completely understood. Then allow the other person to have their turn.

Are you hanging around people who bring you down and leave you feeling drained and empty? is it time to let go of them?

Can you let go of your need for perfection?

Do you need to learn to say no? Stop trying to please everyone? Set better boundaries? This week, instead of saying yes or no right away, tell them you will get back to them and give yourself 24 hours to decide.
Emotional eating is a coping strategy
When we are using food to cope it is a problem.

How can you meet the need in a more positive way?

if you consistently turn to food to deal with feeling bad, you're making things worse by:
  1. Not dealing with the problem
  2. Developing a dependence on food to help you cope with your emotions
Our emotions are there to tell us something isn't working, stuffing them down with food or alcohol, overwork, etc doesn't make them disappear, it just masks them like putting a band-aid on a deep wound.

And the cycle continues.

Next week, in part 3 we'll delve a little deeper. We'll go over some ways to learn to cope with situations that you can't change. With feelings from the past. We'll look into a proactive way of handling your emotions and finding other sources of nourishment.
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This 12 week weight loss support group includes all the key information you need to obtain optimal health and energy

  • Help with emotional eating
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To your natural health!
Sue-Anne

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