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  • Emotional Eating: I'm Hooked On A Feeling - For many people, food does more than fill our stomachs - it also satisfies feelings. But when you quench those feelings with comfort food when you're not experiencing true hunger - that's emotional eating. And emotional eating is one of the leading causes of weight gain. What are the telltale signs of false hunger and how can they be overcome? The first step is awareness. We need to understand and observe how and why we eat. The best way to do this is to keep a food journal, listing what you eat and when as well as how you were feeling at the time. Don't make a conscious effort to change your patterns, just record what you eat.
  • Conquer Emotional Overeating - Snow White And Other Fairy Tales - So how emotional are you over food? Some people regard food just as a source of fuel. They skip meals because they literally forget to eat and it will only be that gnawing hunger in their stomach that drives them to food. Lucky them, you might think. Actually, that's not that case. People who are VERY food unaware can easily make poor food choices because they are just not paying attention to what they eat. They won't overeat, but nor will they choose good quality nosh.
  • Are You Eating Your Emotions? - When you eat when you aren't hungry, have you ever stopped to question who it is you're feeding? Many of us feed ourselves based on an emotional need, even when the emotions are negative or positive.
  • "The dog ate my homework" won't help you lose weight - One of my children (who shall be nameless to protect the guilty) has tried everything to get out of handing in homework. Actually, they've all gone through that phase, so much for my brilliant parenting. And as a lecturer I know that I've heard all the excuses before! Over the past few weeks I have heard all sorts of excuses from my clients: I was celebrating and it had to be chocolate. It snowed and I couldn't exercise (some allowance here - the weather has been weird. But when the snow went, what did you do then?) It snowed and I didn't feel like it. (Strange logic here - snow = winter = comfort food) I forgot (forgot to diet?
  • Independence Day From Emotional Eating - We celebrate our country's independence every year. As we celebrate that July 4th Independence Day, celebrate your own. As we have changed our habits and lifestyle, we have also changed our relationship and dependence with food.
  • Emotional Medication of Food - We take over-the-counter pain relief medications when we have a headache. What do you do if you experience an uncomfortable emotion or situation that arises? Many of us that struggle with weight and emotional eating, we self-medicate with food. Medicating with food is an attempt to change the way we feel. We try to alter our mood or emotions by eating. Diet programs are effective temporarily. How many times have you joined a diet program to lose weight only to regain, possibly a few bonus pounds added in the process?
  • Conquer Emotional Eating - Start with Spring Cleaning! - Emotional eating can sabotage any diet or cause people to pile the pounds back on when they've reached their target weight. Does that donut have your name written on it? Is that last chocolate in the box the one that tastes the best? (And you'd know that because you've eaten all the others).
  • Wellness Coaching For Obesity, Emotional Eating, Food Addictions, And Overeating - In recent years, it has become very evident that obesity is a battle for many people. While we can document infinite research supporting scientific reasons for emotional eating, food addictions, and overeating, for those of us who look at science from a holistic perspective we can not deny the spiritual reasons for obesity.
  • Your Psychological Food Relationship and Your Health - Your physical food relationship is based on your eating habits and food preference, while your psychological food relationship is related to how you think about food and its effect on your weight and body image.

  • Food Cravings And What They Mean (Part 2) - What is it about food that offers us a sense of comfort? Why do we have the term comfort food? Well, as I mentioned last time, when my grandfather died, my grandmother became a sort of recluse and turned to food in a time of depression. You might be surprised to find out that eating is a very emotional process!
  • Weight Loss Tips ~ How Losing Weight Is A Bit Like Visiting An Ancient Palace - When were in Spain we decided to visit the Alhambra. This sounds as if it ought to be a bingo hall in Whitley Bay (US readers - for Whitley Bay think Atlantic City only smaller and colder). The Alhambra is, of course, an ancient palace originally built by the Arabs in Spain and then occupied by Ferdinand and Isabella the same year that they sent Cristoforo Colombo on his great overseas trip. We asked Younger Son if he wanted to come. He declined. Was it the thought of the 8-hour bus ride? Spending a day with his parents? No, this is what he said about visiting places: "You go into the first room, it's old and interesting.
  • What is Emotional Eating - Are any of these scenarios familiar to you? You are working on a big project for your job and it is coming together nicely. You are pleased with your progress and confident that your boss will be too. All of a sudden, you want to eat...perhaps something sweet, salty and crunchy. The bakery down the street is only a couple of minutes away. You ate lunch less than an hour ago so you aren't really hungry. You can't stop thinking of eating your favorite baked items. Why?
  • Food Addiction: Are You Overeating To Self-Medicate? - I can't tell you how many people have protested to me ". . . but, Carol . . . nothing 'works' like food!" That is a true sign of food addiction and that you are overeating and using food to self medicate.
  • Inspriation for Weight Loss - It's Not the End of the World - News is a strange thing. Until a couple of weeks ago I had never heard the term "hockey mom" or even heard of a Large Hadron Collider, but it can, apparently, reveal the secrets of the universe. When driving to school the other day my son asked "Is this the day the world ends?" Don't let your mind become a black hole of excuses.
  • Binge Eating - A Component of All Eating Disorders! - Binge eating is a critical component is all eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia. Understanding binging is the key to resolving all weight-related disorders. What is binge eating? Do we all binge occasionally? Is binging synonymous with love of food? Binge eating is uncontrolled eating, often accompanied by shame and guilt. In other words, it is an act with full awareness as well as helplessness.
  • Compulsive Overeating Disorder – Six Tips On How To Overcome Compulsive Overeating Disorder - Are you wondering if you simply like to eat, or have compulsive overeating disorder? Here are some symptoms of compulsive overeating disorder: - Do you keep thinking about food all day long? - Do you turn to food when you are sad, happy, stressed, or bored? - Do you feel that food has taken control of your life?
  • Identifying The Two Common Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia - Millions of teenage girls and women all around the world are recorded to have eating disorders. As defined in medical terminology, an eating disorder is a disturbing drive or obsession to eat or not eat that greatly affects one’s mental as well as physical health and condition. Today, eating disorders, particularly anorexia and bulimia, are commonly associated to Hollywood female celebrities, for it has somehow became a trend among stars that a thin physique is sexier and more attractive. Famous female celebrities who are rumored to have eating disorders are Nicole Richie, Mary Kate Olsen, and Britney Spears. There are different types of eating disorders, and anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are two of the most common cases.
  • Compulsive Eaters - Did Cinderella Have A Good Press Officer? - Cinderella was never one of my favourite fairy tales! Mainly because I have large feet and would never have fitted into that glass slipper. But also because I feel that if she were treated that badly by her sisters she should have left home and done something a bit more enterprising than sit in the cinders. She was obviously a girl who, once she got into the posh frock, simpered a lot, played on her looks and got the man. Of course being that petite, her bone mass would have been at risk of slow decline after the menopause, but the fairy story doesn't go that far.
  • Bulimia: From Binging To Purging - You eat a tuna sandwich. Then a milkshake. Your meal tastes good at first, but soon you feel disgusting, like you over ate. Its not a new feeling.
  • Could You Be A Compulsive Overeater? - Compulsive overeaters are individuals who suffer from an obsession with food and a compulsion to eat despite the resulting negative effects on their physical and emotional health and well being. They eat to satisfy an emotional hunger, whether this hunger is for love, for comfort or for a sense of control over something in their life. Compulsive overeaters may be a few pounds overweight, or over a hundred pounds overweight. The defining factor is not how much they weigh, but the underlying reasons that they eat. Compulsive overeating is one of three major eating disorders, the other two being anorexia and bulimia.
  • Dieting vs. Non Dieting: 5 Myths Designed to Keep You Chained To Emotional Eating - Diets don't work for most people. If you're a gal who's been struggling with trying to watch your weight, you know that it's very difficult to stick to a diet.
  • Successful Weight Loss - The 39 Steps - Altough I read The Thirty-Nine Steps when I was younger, I much preferred the movie version. Hitchcock writes a good introduction to his suspense-building technique - calamity follows adventure with a series of unlikely escapes. Being handcuffed to a villain would be inconvenient but the heroine must have used up a few extra calories trying to keep up with her companion. With all the helter-skelter action in the movie it would be like being attached to a hyperactive toddler all day, rushing everywhere and never resting. Imagine having the activity level of the most active person you know. How many more calories a day would you use?
  • Relaxation/Meditation Helps Curb Cravings - Eating better and losing weight has a lot to do with what you put into your body. But it also has to do with your emotions and state of mind when you are eating. In fact, your level of relaxation when you are eating may be one of the biggest contributors to whether or not you have food cravings and are able to lose weight at all.
  • Binge Eating Or Just Greed? - Most people have heard of anorexia nervosa and recognize the damage it can cause to a sufferer's life. The fact that in extreme cases it can be fatal leads most people to accept that it is in fact a real illness and that sufferers need and deserve proper medical treatment. Unfortunately, the same can't always be said of other less well known eating disorders.
  • Food is Not Your Friend - Food is not your friend. Stop saying it is. Stop saying that you eat to be comforted by a dependable friend. Food is not, I repeat, not your friend. Food is fuel for your physical body. Food can taste delicious. Food can satisfy physical hunger. Food is a reason to get together with friends, but food is not one of the friends. Here is a definition of friend: Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more humans. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, and affection. Friends will welcome each other's company and exhibit loyalty towards each other, often to the point of altruism. Their tastes will usually be similar and may converge, and they will share enjoyable activities.
  • 9 Myths About People With Eating Disorders - 1. Myth: - Only females, especially teenage girls, have eating disorders. Eating disorders begin during teenage years and as such are more common amongst teenage girls. However, they do occur in males also, and can occur at any time in a boy or man’s life. 2. Myth: - A person can not suffer from more than one eating disorder at any given time. This is completely untrue. It is common for a person to suffer from more than one eating disorder at the same time. 3. Myth: - Excessive eating or bingeing is not considered a real eating disorder. Excessive eating or bingeing is very much considered an eating disorder. It is considered a serious condition, on par with bulimia or even anorexia.
  • 3 Healthy Ways To Cope With Emotional Eating - Can you remember a time when you finished a distressing phone call and then went straight for the fridge like a blindfolded bandit going after whatever you could get your hands on? Emotional triggers seem to set off what can feel like an almost uncontrollable eating frenzy for many of us. And as if the emotional stress and sensitivity weren’t enough, the stimulus-response buttons go wild for many of us around certain events and special occasions. What is a movie without popcorn? A dinner date without cheesecake? Christmas without mashed potatoes?
  • Why EFT Will Take Care Of Any Issue - EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques, and is the fastest growing self-help tool on the planet.
  • Setting Boundaries: 5 Tips for Women to Reclaim Their Lives and Break the Stress Eating Cycle - Chances are that if you're a gal who is an emotional eater, there is at least one recess or area of your life where you are having trouble with boundaries. Boundaries can be physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. They define your limits and enable you to have more self respect, enjoy win win relationships and put you in charge of living a juicy life. If you notice that you're often running to the fridge because you're overcommitted and stressed and can't say "No," don't beat yourself up over it. It's not your fault. As children, we learn how to set boundaries by what we are taught by our parents and they learned from their parents, and so the endless cycle continues. This is called your programming and it affects you unconsciously by keeping you stuck in old habits.
  • Spiritual Psychology - There are a multitude of emotional traumas that can occur in early childhood that can affect a child's emotional health all the way through to adulthood. With the right kind of therapy or intervention though, a child can live a relatively normal, happy and productive life.
  • 10 Weight Loss Tips for Permanent Weight Loss - 1. Eat only when you are hungry. This means stop eating the minute you are full.
  • Weight Loss Tips - Diet Difficulties, Excuses, and How To Tackle Them - You can find all sorts of creative reasons to overeat, but really they're nothing more than excuses! That said, we can sometimes find ourselves in a situation where it is difficult for us to eat healthily. Here are some practical tips for dealing with common dieting difficulties: Diet Difficulty #1 - I have to go away on business Work out the meals where you can be good and the meals where it is not worth trying. If you are having a celebration meal at the end of a course or project that's not the evening to go on your lettuce-leaf-only fast. But when it comes to the hotel breakfast you really don't need a huge fry up (complete with fried bread and black pudding) every day.
  • Self-Hypnosis - Can It Really Make You Lose Weight? - Self-Hypnosis, thanks to TV shows and the movies, the very word conjures up the likeness of a hawlk-eyed hypnotherapist swinging a gold watch repeating the words, "You are getting sleepy." Do an Internet search and you will find thousands of web pages devoted to the subject. Unfortunately, many websites that sell hypnosis tapes make crazy, unsubstantiated claims. I've been in the industry since 1978. So I think that I'm more than qualified to set the record straight on weight loss hypnosis. First of all, hypnotism is a tool, just like a scalpel is a tool. Just as all surgeons have varying skill levels in the use of a scalpel, different hypnotherapists have varying skill levels in the use of hypnotism. And to complicate the matter, there are many different methods of hypnotism.
  • Food For Thought Affirmations! - There are certain aspects in our life that we can use positive affirmations to totally redirect our negative associations. Eating, however, is a necessity of life in order for us to exist, therefore the use of positive eating affirmations are used for redirecting the negative eating habits that we have formed over many years for many different reasons. The initial step is to identify what unhealthy eating practices we have adopted into our behavior in order for us to set the proper positive eating affirmations.
  • It Is About Why You Eat, Not What You Eat - One of the problems with weight loss surgery and diet programs is our belief that they hold the answer. If only we can follow them, they will work for us. Unfortunately for many of us, we didn't experience long-term weight loss success. Did we fail? No. Absolutely not! The diets failed because they are not the answer. As effective of a tool as weight loss surgery and diet programs can be, they aren't the answer. What??
  • ‘help, I’m Trapped In The Body Of A Fat Teen’ - When you are in middle school or high school, being different may not seem like a good thing. Especially if what makes you different is that you can’t wear cute short skirts or skinny jeans because you are overweight.
  • Psychological Obesity Treatments Are The Key To Improving Gastric Bypass Surgery Success Rates - For a lot of severely obese individuals weight loss surgery is the solution to shedding excess weight when a program of exercise and diet has not been successful, despite the fact that it is definitely not an easy choice and results in a wide variety of outcomes in different patients. There are many different surgical procedures used nowadays from gastric bypass surgery which involves the reduction of the size of the stomach and the bypassing of a section of the intestine to limit the quantity of food eaten and the ability to absorb calories from that food to lap banding which merely decreases the size of the stomach to once again limit the quantity of food which can be consumed.
  • Eating Healthy Food Guide - 1lb A Day - A healthy eating guide is really something that should be tailor made for each specific person. In this article we will give you a few guidelines to follow in developing a plan to eat healthy Healthy Eating Guide Guidelines 1. Instead of eating 3 bigger meals break it up and eat 5-6 smaller meals and snacks throughout the day. Eating more meals makes your metabolism work more efficiently 2. Eat slower. Eating too fast can lead to being full before your body has time to tell you. Slow down to allow your body to tell you when it's full. This is a big cause of unnecessary overeating. 3.
  • How EFT Helps You Polevault Weight Problems - With the alarming issue of obesity on the rise, more and more people are turning to alternative therapies to help them combat the battle against the bulge. Gary Craig, a Stanford engineer, has formulated a new technique that makes it easier for overweight individuals to overcome their attachment to food, and in the process start losing weight.
  • Are You Hungry? - People who struggle with weight often have difficulty identifying the difference between true physical hunger and head hunger. To lose weight, it is necessary to be aware of the differences. Sometimes this is a challenge because head hunger can be so convincing (loud) and persistent that we believe it is physical hunger. We need a strategy to be able to recognize them and respond accordingly in a healthy way.
  • What is Compulsive Eating? - Simply defined, compulsive eating is addiction to food. But more than just overeating, it has some psychological effects on a person, making them feel guilty and shameful of eating too much. Compulsive eating is an eating disorder that makes a person overweight, while going through a series of complications both physically and mentally.
  • Eating Well For You During Your Pregnancy - Eating healthy throughout your pregnancy is the greatest gift you could give your unborn baby, but there are also a lot of rewards in it for you to. It's common for many moms to be to forget that they also benefit in eating healthy through out their pregnancy. What you eat has a direct effect as to how well your body copes and recovers from all the physical changes it goes through. It also helps with the physical and emotional challenge of carrying and delivering a baby.
  • Saving Energy For Ourselves - Everyone knows we are experiencing an energy crisis.
  • What Does Blushing Mean? - When we blush, we tend to think that we are doing so for a reason. Well, there is a reason - in fact there are many reasons. But what does blushing mean to you?
  • Closet Eating: Emotional Freedom Technique Ends Fears and Phobias In Minutes - Are you a woman who lives with a secret shame called Closet Eating? A closet eater is a person with a complex about eating in full view and in front of others. For a closet eater, the idea of eating food in public creates an excessively uncomfortable feeling in their body generating fears and beliefs that people are always watching them and judging what they eat. Most people speak to themselves over 10,000 times a day and according to research done, studies show that the majority of what we tell ourselves is based on criticism and negative input. If you are a woman who’
  • A Binge Eating Disorder Is Treatable - If you overeat on a regular basis in order to cope with stress or negative feelings then it is quite possible that you suffer from a binge eating disorder. In addition, the over eater feels even worse after they have finished their binge. An important point to note is that this condition is treatable.
  • Use the 80/20 Guidelines for Weight Loss Success - It's very important that you begin your healthier lifestyle with an understanding that there will be days when you will stray from healthy eating and exercising. You will not be perfect in your diet and exercise program, nor should you be. Try this experiment: Being rigid is similar to holding your breath, keep holding it, don't blow it out yet, hold it, okay, now blow it out. You probably blew it out with a lot of force because you held it for longer than you felt comfortable. Rigid dieting and exercise are like a tightly wound spring that eventually has to release.
  • Stress And Cravings: The Connection - It wasn't long ago that the cause of food cravings was believed to be rooted in emotional problems and in the overweight individual's practice of "looking for love in food". So-called weight-loss gurus would write books and give lectures, telling overweight people how they needed to look for love elsewhere in life and stop believing that food could fill their emotional void. Today science knows better.
  • Superior Instructions That Take Care Of Weight Loss Utilizing Eft - EFT(Emotional Freedom Techniques) is the new, self-applied acupressure technique changing lives. Although a new technique, EFT works on the same meridian channels of the body’s energy system mapped thousands of years ago by the Chinese. By tapping on key stress relief points with focussed thought, relief is found for emotional and physical ailments of all varieties.
  • Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Weight Problems - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a psychological treatment that is evidenced to be effective at helping people overcome and manage difficulties such as anxiety, depression, OCD, agoraphobia, and other such problems. Cognitive behaviour therapy is a short-term talking therapy, meaning that you will not require input for long periods of time.

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