Overcoming Failure to Lose Weight

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again more intelligently--Henry Ford

Someone also said you can only fail when you refuse to learn from your mistakes. The point is that when we miss our mark or target, we can take another shot. Unfortunately, when it comes to losing weight many go into despair instead of simply looking at it as an opportunity to do it differently. And that may be because we often don't know what we are doing. I mean if we think we have an eating or a food problem or a weight problem then we keep trying to do it the same nonproductive way. And strangely that's the definition of insanity--doing the same thing the same way expecting different results. But when we stop looking at it as a weight problem or a food problem, or a weight problem and look at it as an emotional stress related problem, then we will be tackling the real problem instead of a lie.



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Re Liting Your Candle to Lose Weight

Sometimes our candle goes out, but is blown into flame by an encounter with another human being.~Albert Schweitzer

How true is this? You can be in despair, depressed, and over weight and if you're open to possibilities, you can encounter someone who will cause your candle to light. Some people find this in religion, others in special people that they meet or even in books that they read.

And it doesn't have to be someone who is better off health or wealth wise than you are.

It goes back to the last quote which is about dancing in the rain. If you're not
"dancing in the rain" you may never meet that person.

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Are You Eating Your Job?

What do you do when you discover that you're eating your job, your loss of income, and being where you don't want to be? How do you learn to change things?

First there are many others who have job problems, have lost income and are not where they want to be and they are not all over weight or using food. What I'm saying is that it's totally possible to have all these problems and be thin. To get rid of the weight which might be limiting many of your options it's important to notice that what you are eating in excess looks like food, tastes like food but is your job, not being where you want to be and lack of income.

See the question is, "how much time do you spend berating and putting yourself down because you over eat food? Now you can stop that because you are not eating food--you're eating your job and so on. You can now focus on dealing with your job and be open to opportunity. I bet there are opportunities that you don't even notice because you've been too busy putting yourself down.

The most important question is, "Does eating your problem do anything to solve them?" Of course the answer is "No" meaning that there are more effective ways of dealing with these problems.

This means that in time you will become "fed up" (pun intended) handling the same problems the same nonproductive way--eating them.

Now if you have opportunities and are somehow messing them up, i.e. not focused, forgetting and so on, then you need to focus on why you are sabotaging your opportunities. There may be a fear of success. Afraid that if you were able to move to where you want to move, have a better job, and be thin, life still might not be so great. In which case you're eating fear of the future. Make sense?

Again, fear of the future is something every human being experiences and there are more productive ways of handling it than eating the fear.

Now all this is a lot to deal with at one time and all that we are really doing is to open the unconscious mind to the creativity to solve life's problem while we switch the focus from food to dealing with the problems.

How about emotions, you might ask? Well, you get them everyday from things that do and don't work out. You even get them from reminders of things that didn't work out the day before. If you can not let it be that something did or didn't work out, you'll have an emotion and if you can't let it be that you have an emotion, you'll eat.

Ultimately you'll embrace the emotion and take it straight. If you have the cd's you also have the e-book. I'd suggest that you reread the chapters on emotions and self defeative eating and keep using the cds in rotation. In the meantime you'll be eating your problems until you're totally fed up with handling the same problems the same nonproductive ways and then you'll say to yourself, "That's it, I've stopped eating my problems, I may be uncertain as how to solve my problems, one thing I know is that I've stopped eating them."

And you do this one day at a time. This gives you the best opportunity to separate your stressors from eating and also move towards solving your problems.

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What are You Really Eating?

One blog reader wrote me to tell me that after a week there's been no change. She's been visualizing the food she eats as being the particular stressor.
Now I must ask how long does change take? Let's put this in perspective. If you're about a hundred pounds over weight and you've been telling yourself that you're overweight because you've been eating too much food for the last ten or so years, it may take a bit of time for the brain to catch up to reality.
As I shared before in previous posts, I had been depressed for about two years because of some bad business decisions that resulted in near bankruptcy. I gained about twenty pounds and even though I knew I wasn't eating food--I was eating the stressors that led to my depression it didn't make much difference--I still gained the weight. But at least I wasn't lying to myself about it being a food problem or a weight problem.

And yes, before I got through the depression, I stopped eating my stressors and dropped fifteen of the twenty pounds. The point is that rather than focus on food, I focused on dealing with my life circumstances which began with me be totally at the effect of other events to gaining a sense of mastery in my life situations.

The goal is to focus on what you're really eating. Not what it tastes like or looks like.

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Advice Runs Like Water

Advice on how to reduce or control emotional eating runs like water. Click here for an interesting article and after you read it--interesting captivating photos--ask yourself what it has to do with dealing with the emotions that result in emotional eating. Sure the advice is fine as general advice but this article is about emotional eating so wouldn't you expect some direction to handle the emotions associated with emotional eating?

I wonder how the person who is eating Florida is doing? What are you eating? Remember it looks like food, tastes like food, but has nothing to do with food.

Example, this week-end my fiancee and I visited friends. I noticed that on our vacation a week ago that we were free of eating the vacation and did a great job of planning our eating. But with our friends, it was too easy to be influenced by their suggestiveness and we ate our visit for a day and a half. But rather than look at it as food, I looked at it as eating the visit. I acknowledged that I was eating the visit with our friends and that I'd like to get beyond eating the visit and forget about food. Fortunately the visit was for only two days and now it's back to life as it was.

What are you eating? Does this make sense to you? Can you see how this different approach can make a big difference?

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Vacation Eating

I'm back from the sun and fun of Aruba--a much smaller island than I expected. Sometimes I get caught in the "all you can eat buffets" and eat my happiness of being on vacation--in other words, the vacation--for several pounds. Yes we did one buffet and enjoyed gluttony for one evening although I was hoping for some chocolate deserts that weren't there, but I didn't let that stop me.

Overall we planned our meals, had a great time and forgot about food in general. On the next to the last day, we found a local restaurant instead of the hotel and tourist's restaurants. Our plan was to simply eat a late lunch for the day and have a big breakfast for the last day. We both ordered fish and seafood with rice and potatoes. I watched the server pile the rice onto a plate and then the potatoes thinking that it must be a small piece of fish since there was no room left on the plate. Instead it was two plates of food for each of us--one with rice and potatoes and the other with fish and seafood.

The amount of food was overwhelming and my first thought was to be gluttonous and eat the entire two plates of food. I soon changed my mind and we took half of our entrees to our suite.

We microwaved it for a late dinner (absolutely delicious) and skipped the buffet breakfast we had planned for our last morning there.

How have you been handling your emotional eating? Can you visualize or imagine what you are actually eating? If you're not sure what I'm asking, please read my last two posts.

Although you can see and do most of the things in Aruba in two days, it is a great place to go to unwind, relax and enjoy great weather.

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Hypnosis and NLP

I find it amazing how many different approaches there are to dealing with emotional eating. Just happened upon an article from a fellow (actually it's a she) hypnotist from the UK suggesting that it's about getting rid of unwanted emotions. Click here to read the article. She has a twenty minute cd to download in which she claims to provide encouragement to lose weight. I'm not sayin that the cd won't work for some people, but I can't image handling the whole gamit of emotional eating in one twenty minute cd.

Just because we're both hypnotists doesn't mean that we use the same suggestions or even similar suggestions. She suggests NLP (neuro lingistic training) and EFT (Emotional Freedom Therapy). NLP is about grounding or association of a particular thought with a specific action or motivational statement which I also use in my work. EFT is about tapping on certain accupressure points. From my experience it's mainly suggestive and more likely to work with the gullable client.

Again, I'm not saying that none of these techniques are beneficial, but they don't tackle how to deal with emotions. It's like telling someone that by avoiding stepping on the cracks in the pavement, they will avoid emotional eating. The suggestion is very unsophisticated and the fact is that we live in a more and more sophisticated world and it helps a great deal if the suggestions make sense.

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How many pounds?

OK, we know that excessive eating is connected with emotions so its obvious that I ask these questions for you to ponder upon.
1. How many of those excess pounds are frustration?
2, How many of those excess pounds are confusion?
3. How many of those excess pounds are uncertainty?
4. How many of those excess pounds are connected with happiness?
5. How many of those excess pounds are malaise?
6. How many of those excess pounds are related to upset?
7. How many of those excess pounds are a result of anger?
That's one of the more difficult ones to acknowledge. It gets hid under other feelings.
8. How many of those excess pounds are associated with depression?

When you allow yourself to experience the these feelings, those pounds can come off.

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Solution for Emotional Eating

Today I rediscovered how to cure emotional eating--eat crabs. Those suckers take forever to eat and you can practically eat them all day long and not gain weight (unless you're drinking a lot of beer). Since we went to dinner last night (and I used the doggie bag simply because the serving was way too large to eat) I skipped breakfast and had crabs for lunch.

Dinner was my left over entree' from last evening--twas delicious.

I don't know why I even bother getting on the scale--just an overwhelming curiosity--since I know it's a stupid device. It's reading that I'm one pound from my goal so after we went to the beach, clonked out for a couple hours, walked a mile or so, we stopped by Dairy Queen and shared a Xtreme chocolate blizzard.

Emotionally, the blizzard was totally affordable.

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Emotional Eating "The Stress of Emotion"

Do you like to feel upset?

Do you like to feel down?

Do you like to feel bored?

Do you like to feel uncertain?

Do you like to feel happy?

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Do you like excitement?

Most people say that they like happiness and maybe excitement, but not the other emotions.

What is emotional eating about? Well it's about eating to avoid all of these emotions and others such as confusion, anger, malaise...

Emotions can be stressful. But the typical advice for managing stress, i.e. deep breathing, taking a walk, meditation, yoga, relaxation response... does little for handling the emotions of an emotional over eater.

Look at the situation where you're at the boardwalk and you walk into a candy store. Aside from taking a deep breadth (which is not specific) it's impractical to meditate, do yoga... Sure you might walk down the boardwalk and find yourself staring at another candy store.

Specific techniques are needed to deal with emotions that are emotion specific.


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Conquer Emotional Eating

I see so many posts for overcoming emotional eating like three easy things to do or seven steps to overcome emotional eating. I used to get excited about reading them in hopes of learning something, but I've come to realize that they have their heads up their you know what and know as much about emotional eating as they do about how to launch a rocket to the moon.

In my opinion it's their feeble attempt to make good of a search term "emotional eating" that ranks high in the search engine results. But their advice has little or nothing to do with dealing with emotions. Maybe I sound like a broken record, but damn it wouldn't you expect to see some direction in dealing with emotional eating. Sure they probably have something to sell and wouldn't be giving you all the goodies, but to think you'd buy their wares by teasing you with some recycled advice that has nothing to do with emotions, where they came from, how to deal with them, how to stop diluting them with food, how to refocus your life, how to build self esteem, self confidence..., isn't that an insult to your intelligence?

What does self esteem and self confidence have to do with overcoming emotional eating? Maybe a lot, maybe not so much, but I've seen clients generate some disappointing emotions from a poor self image or a lacking of self confidence.

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Improve Eating Habits to Deal with Emotional Eating?

When it comes to weight loss, "emotional eating" has certainly become the buz phrase of the decade--maybe the century. Everyone is writing about how to overcome emotional eating. Click here for another article on Losing Weight Improving Your Eating Habits. Certainly says nothing about emotional eating in the title but later in the article emotional eating is identified. Please read the article and tell me if you think there is any real advice other than typical advice on how to deal with emotional eating. Does it talk about embracing emotions? How to experience them? How to use them?

Again I'm not saying the advice is bad, it just has nothing to do with dealing specifically with emotional eating. Sure ultimately if you deal effectively with emotional eating your eating habits will indeed improve--it's a given.

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