The Comfort Eating Solution For Permament Weight Loss
By succumbing to emotional 'comfort' eating, many women are wrecking their diet and weight loss efforts and in so doing are unable to achieve permanent weight loss.
With a new alternative, which focuses on the cause of the problem and psychology behind why we overeat, it is possible to end emotional eating habits and lose weight for good.
The multi-million dollar weight loss industry each year continues to provide us with new and improved diet products all claiming great success.
However, only about 5% of individuals who embark on a diet enjoy permanent success.
Unfortunately most dieters remain on a roller coaster, enduring the dieting highs and lows only to find that any hard earned weight loss never stays off.
If food was the only reason why people are overweight then conventional diet products would work for everyone.
Many women wrongly focus only on the food they're eating rather than the underlying cause of their weight problem.
We are all emotional eaters to some extent, using food and comfort eating to cope with a wide variety of emotional problems, such as stress, anxiety, anger, depression and loneliness.
We comfort eat so often that eating in this way becomes a habit, a coping strategy for dealing with pressure and stress.
The comfort food makes us feel better...
we do it more and more...
we do it subconsciously without realising it...
forming a habit that becomes very hard to break.
The problem is when comfort eating gets out of control and eating becomes the preferred way of handling our emotions, weight gain becomes inevitable.
7 easy ways to cope with emotional eating include the following: a) Discover whether you are either physically or emotionally hungry...
pause...
and then decide how hungry you really are.
b) Be one step ahead of yourself by identifying potential problem situations.
Then when you find yourself heading to the fridge or cupboard for your favourite snack, give yourself a choice by putting a healthier alternative next to it.
It will make you think before you dive in.
c) Give yourself time for your cravings to subside by diverting yourself away from your comfort food.
Freezing your treats so that you have to wait for them to defrost will buy you some time.
d) Have alternative strategies in place, which don't involve food to help deal with your stress e.
g.
physical activities, exercise, expressing yourself.
e) Speak to a supportive partner so that you don't find yourself in an emotional void.
f) Try to keep everything in perspective.
Think before and after you have eaten.
Give yourself time to digest and taste the food.
g) If you have a weaker day, see it for what it is, one day and move on positively to the next better day.
Once someone understands why they are over-eating, and whether they are physically or emotionally hungry, they can begin to change their relationship with food.
The key is learning how to manage emotions without relying on food by rewiring the brain to provide comfort without eating food.
Permanent weight loss then becomes easy and automatic because over-eating is no longer linked with emotional wellbeing.
With a new alternative, which focuses on the cause of the problem and psychology behind why we overeat, it is possible to end emotional eating habits and lose weight for good.
The multi-million dollar weight loss industry each year continues to provide us with new and improved diet products all claiming great success.
However, only about 5% of individuals who embark on a diet enjoy permanent success.
Unfortunately most dieters remain on a roller coaster, enduring the dieting highs and lows only to find that any hard earned weight loss never stays off.
If food was the only reason why people are overweight then conventional diet products would work for everyone.
Many women wrongly focus only on the food they're eating rather than the underlying cause of their weight problem.
We are all emotional eaters to some extent, using food and comfort eating to cope with a wide variety of emotional problems, such as stress, anxiety, anger, depression and loneliness.
We comfort eat so often that eating in this way becomes a habit, a coping strategy for dealing with pressure and stress.
The comfort food makes us feel better...
we do it more and more...
we do it subconsciously without realising it...
forming a habit that becomes very hard to break.
The problem is when comfort eating gets out of control and eating becomes the preferred way of handling our emotions, weight gain becomes inevitable.
7 easy ways to cope with emotional eating include the following: a) Discover whether you are either physically or emotionally hungry...
pause...
and then decide how hungry you really are.
b) Be one step ahead of yourself by identifying potential problem situations.
Then when you find yourself heading to the fridge or cupboard for your favourite snack, give yourself a choice by putting a healthier alternative next to it.
It will make you think before you dive in.
c) Give yourself time for your cravings to subside by diverting yourself away from your comfort food.
Freezing your treats so that you have to wait for them to defrost will buy you some time.
d) Have alternative strategies in place, which don't involve food to help deal with your stress e.
g.
physical activities, exercise, expressing yourself.
e) Speak to a supportive partner so that you don't find yourself in an emotional void.
f) Try to keep everything in perspective.
Think before and after you have eaten.
Give yourself time to digest and taste the food.
g) If you have a weaker day, see it for what it is, one day and move on positively to the next better day.
Once someone understands why they are over-eating, and whether they are physically or emotionally hungry, they can begin to change their relationship with food.
The key is learning how to manage emotions without relying on food by rewiring the brain to provide comfort without eating food.
Permanent weight loss then becomes easy and automatic because over-eating is no longer linked with emotional wellbeing.
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