8 Ways To Overcome Emotional Overeating
1 - Write Down Your Craving – The next time you get a craving for a particular write it down, and include the time of day and what you are doing at the time of the craving.
This helps for these 3 reasons,
- You can spot which food is causing the problem and avoid having it in your home or workplace.
- You may notice a pattern between what you’re doing at that moment and the craving…this way you can either avoid doing the particular thing or do something else till the craving passes.
- And it can help take the urge of the craving away!
2 - Limited Your Intake – If your craving is soooo bad and you can’t avoid it then limit your intake to only 2 bites. This way, you get your fix without the extra calories you don’t really need.
3 - Food Won’t Make The World A Better Place – Is there a link between your emotional over eating and a crisis at home, money worries, kids playing up?
While your craving may make the world a better place for a few moments, unfortunately it can’t turn your life around. It’s better to go for a healthier option to coping with stress, because you can over come your stress without the added guilt or overindulging yourself as well.
4 - How Is Food Limiting Your Life – A good way to take the power away from a craving/emotional over eating is to write a list of things you can’t do, because of that extra weight.
- Is your weight preventing you getting out and about?
- Does it limit what activities you can do – like not being able to play with your kids?
- Is it causing other health problems?
- Is it affecting your social life, meeting members of the opposite sex, etc?
Now keep that list at hand and refer to it when your cravings start, and think does that piece of chocolate cake really mean more to me that these reasons?
5 - Stop Eating Alone – To overcome a pattern of overeating, make a promise to stop eating alone. This way you can share your treat and eat less and also make you more conscious of your eating habits.
6 - Record Your Successes – Buy yourself a diary and at the end of the day record those successes/small achievements you’ve had that day.
It mightn’t seem much but it’s a great way of looking bad on your days/weeks/months and seeing how your eating habits have improved and how you’re becoming more like that healthy slimmer person you want to be.
7 - Don’t Feel Guilty about Wasting Food – If you’re one of those people who feels guilty and cleans everyone’s plate rather than throwing food in the garbage can, you need to stop thinking like this. Its not doing your health and waistline any good and over eating food is more waste that your body has to cope with.
Remember its better in the bin than on your hips!
8 - Set Small Goals – Rome wasn’t built in a day and you can’t expect to become a brand new person overnight. Pick some smaller goals and aim to achieve those first when you can easily do these then move on to the bigger ones.
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