There is no point in starting a new diet or a new exercise
programme if you know that you will continue to overeat or eat the wrong
foods when you become stressed. Once you can stop stress eating you
will have a very good chance of finally discovering how to lose weight.
Stress eating is just a habit that you have developed over your life. As a child it's most likely that you were given treat food as a reward and had it withheld as a punishment. If you eat your vegetables you will get dessert, if your are good you will get a treat at the shops. In the old days if you were bad you could be sent to bed without dinner and so on.
This is a very strong conditioning. Usually food was given or taken at a moment of heightened emotion, then repeated over and over during your early life.
As an adult when you feel bad you reach for certain foods. Usually sweet or fatty foods which give comfort for a short time. Because the stress hormone cortisol is reduced in your blood by eating carbohydrate, this conditioned response becomes even stronger.
The key to stopping stress eating is to separate feelings of stress and food. There are several important thing to do.
1. The first thing to do is to acknowledge that you are a stress eater. This may sound obvious but many people just do things automatically without thinking about it.
2. Make a commitment to yourself that you want to stop stress eating and that you really want to lose weight.
3. Identify the times in your life when you are most likely to do this. e.g you may be stressed at work but you don't stress eat until you are driving home, or in the evening to try and wash away the stress of the day. You may be worse sitting watching television in the evening. Make a list of your core stress eating times.
This is simple if you are eating to de-stress from the day. It's a little more complex if you have an argument on the phone and then dive into the pantry for the cookies to cheer yourself up.
4. Decide on and create an alternative strategy to manage these core eating times. E.g. Don't drive past the shops on the way home from work, or when you get home immediately go for a walk or do some exercise.
Join a relaxation group, or yoga, Tai Chi or Qigong class.
5. Use ideal weight hypnosis to quickly break the connections between stress and eating. This will make a huge difference to you as this one action will significantly reduce your calorie intake.
By using these methods you will feel great, you will sleep better, feel healthier and importantly you will lose weight.
Stress eating is just a habit that you have developed over your life. As a child it's most likely that you were given treat food as a reward and had it withheld as a punishment. If you eat your vegetables you will get dessert, if your are good you will get a treat at the shops. In the old days if you were bad you could be sent to bed without dinner and so on.
This is a very strong conditioning. Usually food was given or taken at a moment of heightened emotion, then repeated over and over during your early life.
As an adult when you feel bad you reach for certain foods. Usually sweet or fatty foods which give comfort for a short time. Because the stress hormone cortisol is reduced in your blood by eating carbohydrate, this conditioned response becomes even stronger.
The key to stopping stress eating is to separate feelings of stress and food. There are several important thing to do.
1. The first thing to do is to acknowledge that you are a stress eater. This may sound obvious but many people just do things automatically without thinking about it.
2. Make a commitment to yourself that you want to stop stress eating and that you really want to lose weight.
3. Identify the times in your life when you are most likely to do this. e.g you may be stressed at work but you don't stress eat until you are driving home, or in the evening to try and wash away the stress of the day. You may be worse sitting watching television in the evening. Make a list of your core stress eating times.
This is simple if you are eating to de-stress from the day. It's a little more complex if you have an argument on the phone and then dive into the pantry for the cookies to cheer yourself up.
4. Decide on and create an alternative strategy to manage these core eating times. E.g. Don't drive past the shops on the way home from work, or when you get home immediately go for a walk or do some exercise.
Join a relaxation group, or yoga, Tai Chi or Qigong class.
5. Use ideal weight hypnosis to quickly break the connections between stress and eating. This will make a huge difference to you as this one action will significantly reduce your calorie intake.
By using these methods you will feel great, you will sleep better, feel healthier and importantly you will lose weight.
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