Oftentimes we eat even though we’re not hungry because of the feelings – both good and bad – that we anticipate are headed our way as a result.
Even when we can sense that we’re not going to like (for the how manyth time) the subsequent cascade of events if we eat when we’re not hungry, even when we’re pretty sure that we’re in for yet another self-imposed tongue lashing, we eat even when “you know you’ll wish you hadn’t!!” tries to butt in because of our hardwired desire To Be Sure We Know What Is Coming Next.
Because our survival depends on our being prepared as best we can for what’s up ahead, we feel better knowing what will happen – even if we think we won’t like it – than we feel about not knowing what will happen.
That’s why it can be useful to poke around in your story.
If you want to get comfortable responding to a situation with something other than the eating that you feel like you’re used to doing, take a look back at this past week and notice when you were bored, or stressed, or angry, or… and you weren’t eating, but you could have been.
Notice you feeling a feeling, and then note the No Eating That Came After. (Surely you can carve a few minutes for hole-punching your story out of the time you’ve normally got scheduled for tongue lashings.)
After all, isn’t it infinitely easier to not change you?
The one tip… if you’re going to be paying attention to you and food – over and over and over – pay attention – over and over and over – to the truth about you that you want more of.
When you want to poke some really big holes in your story that you’re always eating emotionally, you can poke it really hard and make some really deep holes with a pen.
Write down the feeling you were feeling, write down that you noticed that you were feeling and not eating, and write down what you noticed you were doing when you could have been eating. (Whatever it was, it more satisfying at that point than more eating, or more eating would have happened.)
Oops. Can’t go back and change that Feeling And Not Eating part of your past now. 
You’re already on track. You just aren’t noticing all of the steps that you’re taking on it.
You’ve got a hell of a true story going on right under your nose.
“The thought of being a poor excuse for a sweetfreak is disappointing to say the least. Here all these years I have lived with this only to find out I am not a sweet freak – I don’t think about sweets all the time, I don’t eat sweets for breakfast. I actually go days without something sweet. Looks like I am going to have to come up with a new description of myself. Hmmmm.” (Joanna Saunders)
Effindiets News….
The #1 Good and Important Reason why I used to eat enough to make sure I was uncomfortable with the way I looked was because the thought of being comfortable (emotionally and physically) made me uncomfortable.
The #1 reason why now more often than not, I am uncomfortable and dissatisfied eating when I’m not hungry is because I honored and respected my #1 Good and Important Reason. It was the first step of my Emotional Eating Bypass.
Coming on or before Dec 17… details and open slots available for an Emotional Eating Bypass. (Will come with a 30 day supply of Eatabate. By prescription only.)
If you know what to do about you and food, you just wish you felt like doing it… if you feel like emotional eating is holding you back and you’d like more information, stay tuned.
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