Emotional Eating Part One
The bullets below are from a list of questions asked to determine your level of Emotional eating. Have a look but if you are an Emotional eater you don’t need this list if you are You Know It. The imprtant lesson is to spot it when it rears it’s fattening haed and deal with it mindfully. Just the same for a reminder of just some of the hundreds of potential emotional eating triggers
- I feel lonely a lot.
- When I go to a get together, I tend to put too much food on my plate or hover near the food table.
- I tend to carry extra fat on my thighs and/or calves.
- I tend to have extra fat on my lower stomach (below my navel).
- I would rather have food than have sex.
- Whenever I have extra moneyand time, the first thing I buy is food.
- I have too much fat on my upper abdomen (between the bottom of my ribs and my navel)
- I have food to procrastinate.
- I often feel criticized for my weight or eating style.
- I am a woman or man with large breasts.
- I eat too much because I’m afraid to hurt someone else’s feelings by saying No to food.
- Food makes me feel better when I feel sad ,lonely,angry, hurt.
- I carry some extra fat on my neck or under my chin.
- I feel like people never listen to me never hear what I am really saying.
- I wish that I could be myself much more often.
- I often feel emotionally numb empty.
- I haven’t forgiven people who have hurt me in the past and I can’t.
- I have trouble admitting when I’m wrong about things large and small.
- I worry about money a lot, all the time in fact.
With the holidays right around the corner I wanted to talk about an old favorite of the Fat is Pain blog, Emotional Eating.
Imagine something I always recommend you imagine you at your goal weight. Your success in maintenance of your hard earned victory over the pain of fat requires you to take control of your tendency to eat responsively to the wrong stimuli. Eating in response to feelings versus real hunger. Some examples of the wrong stimuli to eating often characterized by a certain mindlessness about the eating include
- guilt
- being afraid of a variety of events
-the pain of fat
-anger or rage about past events
-disappointment in yourself, in others, in life, in the congress in God
-a dispute at work or with a family member
- a lover’s quarrel
- loneliness this is a tough one food becomes companion, friend
- boredom
- business challenges
- money troubles
You understand the idea the list could go on. You are stuffing yourself due to feelings some from deep inside some triggered by life events. Importantly these feelings have nothing to do with hunger as in a need for physical nourishment. You may have a need for nourishment but not the food kind. So don’t, please don’t feed it with food. Easier to say than do. Before you can be victorious in the skirmishes with emotional stimuli to eating you have to bring to full blown consciousness these triggers. You must get better at knowing what type of hunger you are experiencing.
So for the next 10 days every meal you have try to identify the stimuli. Keep a record of this because you will need to see it coming to beat the response. Your heightened awareness will be the key to your success. Keep a record. We’ll talk soon about what to do when you see a bout of emotional eating coming.For more visit FatPain.com
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Back soon…Liz Lowry
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