So many of us struggle with weight and eating issues yet if you find yourself searching for help for overeating you need look no farther than within.
You don't have to feel compelled to overeat or eat the "wrong" foods, but you will often feel that you must because the underlying feelings and emotions you are experiencing in that moment are driving your need to eat.
You might not identify yourself as an emotional eater and you don't have to in order to understand how what you are feeling inside is linked to your overeating.
If you are like most people when you experience an emotions such as anger, grief, anxiety, stress or fear you suppress it or push it down inside in order to try to ignore the feeling but when you suppress a feeling it stays inside of you and begins to feel uncomfortable.
When you overeat or eat foods you know you will regret eating later you might notice a temporary lull in the emotion giving you a false sense that it relieved the discomfort- this then gets registered in your brain as an effective method to deal with bad feelings and you will repeat the behavior.
In this way, food becomes your security blanket temporarily protecting you from the uncomfortable way emotions make you feel.
But it doesn't have to be this way, you can let go of those emotions by simply making a choice.
It helps to realize that your emotions are not physically attached to you, and therefore there is no barrier to just releasing them once you make the choice to do so.
The best help for overeating is already a part of you, take a moment the next time you feel the compulsion to overeat and just step back long enough to ask yourself what emotion is present and then ask yourself if you are willing to let that go.
What you will find is that when the underlying emotion dissolves, your urge to overeat will dissolve as well.
You don't have to feel compelled to overeat or eat the "wrong" foods, but you will often feel that you must because the underlying feelings and emotions you are experiencing in that moment are driving your need to eat.
You might not identify yourself as an emotional eater and you don't have to in order to understand how what you are feeling inside is linked to your overeating.
If you are like most people when you experience an emotions such as anger, grief, anxiety, stress or fear you suppress it or push it down inside in order to try to ignore the feeling but when you suppress a feeling it stays inside of you and begins to feel uncomfortable.
When you overeat or eat foods you know you will regret eating later you might notice a temporary lull in the emotion giving you a false sense that it relieved the discomfort- this then gets registered in your brain as an effective method to deal with bad feelings and you will repeat the behavior.
In this way, food becomes your security blanket temporarily protecting you from the uncomfortable way emotions make you feel.
But it doesn't have to be this way, you can let go of those emotions by simply making a choice.
It helps to realize that your emotions are not physically attached to you, and therefore there is no barrier to just releasing them once you make the choice to do so.
The best help for overeating is already a part of you, take a moment the next time you feel the compulsion to overeat and just step back long enough to ask yourself what emotion is present and then ask yourself if you are willing to let that go.
What you will find is that when the underlying emotion dissolves, your urge to overeat will dissolve as well.