By Dr. Becky Gillaspy
Two things often lumped together are weight loss and emotional eating and for a good reason. If we didn't eat for emotional reasons and instead learned to listen to our body and eat only when it was hungry we wouldn't be overly concerned with weight loss because it simply wouldn't be much of an issue.
Emotional eating is a very descriptive term and we can think of it as eating our emotions, when we emotionally eat we are not using food as food we are using it as a medication to stuff down or suppress an uncomfortable feeling we have inside. And since overeating or eating carbohydrates in particular can leave us with a calming feeling, then we learn to depend on it and later identify ourselves as an emotional eater.
So when breaking free of emotional eating we want to stop focusing our attention on the foods that we should or shouldn't eat and instead learn to let go of the feelings and emotions that are driving us to the refrigerator.
One of the best ways to prevent yourself from getting too upset or emotional about the things that happen in your day-to-day life is to realize that these things are really just small things that will pass and become unimportant to you by next week or next month.
What we are inclined to do is really internalize the emotions we feel throughout our day and we can easily build the emotion stronger by trying to suppress it or trying to not feel it. Instead what we want to do is release it.
Releasing or letting go of your uncomfortable emotions that lead to emotional eating is really a very simple process and this is because of the fact that your emotions are not attached to us in any physical way, so at anytime you can make a choice to let them go.
If for instance you are feeling anxious about a meeting you have tomorrow and this uncomfortable emotion is leading you to stand in front of the frig looking for a snack, you can slow down enough in that moment to feel the emotion that is inside of you and then calmly ask yourself, could I let this uncomfortable feeling go. By simply asking yourself you will often release the feeling just like opening a window and letting it out.
You can experience effortless weight loss and emotional eating can become something that you simply choose to let go of.
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