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The Truth Behind Emotional Eating Emotional eating can only be conquered when you know how to handle
emotions. The problem is that we label emotions as good or bad. And even
the emotions we label as good, like happiness and joy, are often an
excuse to eat.
It's because we understand so little about emotions. Most people don't
even know where they come from. What at any moment makes one feel good
or bad?
For instance, you have a guy driving to work who gets cut off by another
driver. He gets angry and upset; his blood pressure rises and he's
thinking that most people get their driving licenses at Sears and
Roebuck. Most of his day is ruined.
Then there's another fellow who has the same thing happen to him. As he
swerves and misses the accident, he's happy.
Why is the first fellow upset and the second fellow happy when the same
thing happened to both of them?
The answer is that it's because of their expectations. The first fellow
is expecting that other drivers are supposed to stay out of his path and
it doesn't happen that way so he feels justifiably angry. The second
fellow took a defensive driving course and expects that in the event
someone pulls out in front of him, he'll avoid the accident.
It works out as he expects and he's happy.
Emotions are as a result of our expectations. When things work out as
expected, we feel happy, joyful, glee, love... and when things do not
work out as expected, we feel bored, malaise, upset, angry, frustrated,
disappointed, depressed...
Unfortunately, most of us have learned to associate food with certain
emotions because feeling them and taking them straight is taboo.
What stands in the way of feeling emotions are acquired beliefs about
them. For instance:
• "Don't let yourself feel happy because you'll set yourself up for the
big let down!"
• "Anger is beneath me."
• "Don't be depressed, no one will want to be around you"
• "You should know what you want and shouldn't be confused."
Truth is that when you allow you to simply feel the emotion it
disappears, otherwise you dilute it with food.
A progressive approach to managing weight involves asking important
questions "What is missing? Why are you not getting the results you've
been promised?" It is clearly insane to keep dieting when the results
are so poor. It's more important to gain a grasp on how to handle
emotional eating--eating emotional stress than it is to read the scale.
Besides focusing on the scale doesn't empower you to be a better more
enlightened person, whereas learning how to overcome emotional eating
empowers you in all aspects of your life. If you're a sales person,
you'll be a better sales person. If you're an assembly line worker,
you'll be a better assembly line worker; a mother, a better mother...
Overall, you'll build self worth and find that what you really want to
eat is far more nutritious and less in quantity than you ever before
imagined possible. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Resource Box: Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E. NGH certified, a prominent figure in the personal development field. His goal is to provide all the tools one needs to successfully deal with emotional eating.
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