Want to learn the secret to overcoming your weight issues in 2010?

One of the main reasons that people continue to keep on and pile on more excess weight is because they eat too much. Do they know what an appropriate portion is? Most people do but have a difficult time controlling the urge. What drives people to eat more than required? EMOTIONS. Estimates by experts have shown that over 75% of eating is emotional. Similar to a drug addict, the "emotional eater" uses food to sedate themselves. The brain releases neurotransmitters (serotonin) that offer a calming feeling when eating these comfort foods. Most of these foods that emotional eaters turn to are made of sugars, starches, and are processed and manufactured carbohydrates. The brain releases this serotonin and the emotional eater is conditioned to believe that these foods make them feel good. What does the body do with these processed and manufactured foods? Stores it as fat! Sediment!

So what can you do to change this?

BECOME AWARE

1. Be aware of what events or situations cause you to eat more. Do you eat more in front of the TV? At a restaurant?

2. Log the time you eat – most emotional eaters eat at night or when alone.

3. Uncover your beliefs on food. Do you reward yourself as an adult with sweets just like your mom did as a child? Is food therefore a reward?

4. Is there are particular event around food that it etched in your mind?

ANALYZE THESE ITEMS

1. What is your body telling you? Is your body aware of what you eat when in front of the TV or at a restaurant or are you focused on the show or conversation? Your attention is therefore not on what you are eating or the sense of fullness in your stomach.

2. What are your feelings telling you? Do you eat more at social gatherings because you are avoiding conversation? Are you therefore shy? Do you eat when you are depressed or anxious?

3. If there is a particular event that "bothers" you or "comforts" you. Analyze if it fits with your present life. For example, when little Jenny had her feelings hurt by the girl next door, Mom held her and brought the bucket of ice cream and warm chocolate sauce for her to enjoy. Jenny’s subconscious mind was planted a seed. Now that Jenny is 45, she looks back at that memory and realizes that Ice cream cannot really change her hurt feeling but only distract her from them and make her fat. It was Mom’s belief that Ice cream makes a little girl happy which then Jenny adopted.



DEVISE A PLAN

1. Keep "real foods" at home. Not processed or manufactured.

2. Vow not to eat in front of the TV. If you would like a healthy snack while watching a show, eat it on the kitchen table during a commercial. You will know exactly how much and what you are putting into your body.

3. Understand that comfort foods will not permanently heal your feelings. Eating these foods is a distracter and eventually you will go back to this habit until you resolve the feelings. Work on the "feelings".

4. See a Hypnotherapist. A Hypnotherapist can assist you in uncovering any subconscious beliefs and feelings that have kept you eating in the past. The Hypnotherapist can also help you to create and reinforce the positive thoughts and positive behaviours.



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