Put the Kabosh on Emotional Eating?

Happened across an article by Marna Goldstein Thall titled Put the Kabosh on Emotional Eating with 3 P's at http://www.financenewsblog.com/put-the-kabosh-on-emotional-eating-with-the-3-p%E2%80%99s-strategy/

After the first paragraph I was excited to the prospects of some real direction and quickly sank to zero for the three p's are basically advice on how to handle habitual eating--not emotional eating. It's more recycled advice from the 80's when everyone treated overeating with fad diets, behavioral modification...

It seems that I have yet to find one expert or author that knows the difference between eating from habit and emotional eating. Can we put the kabosh on recycled advice?

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Change Your Eating Habit--Life Awaits You

Happened across a great article. Click here to read it. The material sounds very familiar.

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Lose Weight (Life Awaits You) Emotional Eating

Sure you have forever to get your act together and get serious about losing weight, correct? But you put it off day after day and week after week and month after month and year after year and before you know it you'll be in your 80's wondering what happened to your life.

But what actually works. I mean you've tried different diets and put your heart and soul into them and maybe you lost some weight but gained it all back plus some. It's sad that 95% of all those who lose weight gain it all back plus some.

The reason is that there are no real approaches to handle or focus on emotional eating which is the primary reason why weight is gained back.

After you've lost the weight and gained it back a few times it's easy to get thoroughly disgusted. Who really knows what they are talking about? Watch TV for a few hours and you'll see two-to-three ads for shakes, pills, and supplements to kill appetite.

But what really works? Even after you agree that you are an emotional eater where do you go for help. You read a few books on the subject and get more confused or find that there's really no direction.

I mean, where do these emotions that contribute to you eating come from? What do you do with them when you have them? How do they impact your life? Can you allow you to feel any emotion? Can you refocus to see what that excess food really means?

These are just a few questions and if whatever book or article you've read doesn't empower you to answer those questions but creates more stress, then it's most likely recycled advice.

What is recycled advice? Answer: the same old advice that's been given for the past four decades--it hasn't work for the masses then and it won't work any better now.

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Want to a cure for emotional binge eating and discover how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them? You can purchase the, The Scale Conspiracy, (in e-book form) emotional eating now for only $14.95. It's a $39.00 value.

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Is Emotional Eating a Mental Illness?

In my last post I referenced an article which claimed that emotional eating is a mental illness.
I'm an emotional eater and find it hard to believe that I have a mental illness. Perhaps if I were fifty pounds or more overweight. So I think there need to be a qualifier there as opposed to stating that emotional eaters are mentally ill.

And then there are many emotional eaters that never eat when they are frustrated, upset, depressed or angry--they eat to reward themselves and when they are happy. Of the books I've read, I have yet to find any of the emotional eaters experts handle happiness or explain it. I'm sure someone does, but most leave you to believe that there is a serious issue or emotional problem in the emotional eater's life that they use food to avoid.

By the way, if one can choose to make an issue serious, one can also choose to make the issue unserious. Make sense?

And how about self love? How does that fit in the scope eliminating emotional eating?

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Born American Video and Emotional Eating a Mental Illness?

A friend sent me this link--it has nothing to do with emotional eating, but I'm sure you'd like to see the video as it's well worth the view. Turn up your volume--especially if you like country and western. Click here for it. If you're not into country and western, this is an exception as you will still love it.

"Emotional eating is considered both an eating disorder and a mental illness" says R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen in her article Consequences of Emotional Eating.

The idea of it being a mental illness is new to me. She writes about it's impact on relationships with others and with self. It contributes to self hate and I've been writing about self love in a couple of the last posts. What are your thoughts--do you feel you suffer from a mental illness? Can you wrap your thinking around the concept of self love? On a scale of 1 to 10 how easy it is to apply self love--ten being hard and one being easy peasy? No I'm not selling Gyco Insurance.

Some who are only ten pounds overweight are emotional eaters and those who are 50 or more pounds overweight are also emotional eaters. Do you think the classification of mental illness might be connected to how much overweight a person is?

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Eat All You Want and Lose Weight?

Ok, I'm an emotional eating specialist--actually I consider myself an expert (toot my own horn) and I discovered this diet (similar to Atkins) that enables you to eat all you want and actually lose weight. This has nothing to do with emotional eating except to stay on the diet, it helps to manage your emotions.

Actually I'm not a diet type of guy and spend most of my time making fun of the various diets. Nevertheless every book you read about losing weight has a diet in it and I discovered this diet quite by accident. Fifteen years ago I encountered a skin parasite that nearly killed me. Of the half dozen doctors and specialists I consulted, none knew of a treatment. Eventually I discovered what foods the parasites like and what foods put them in remission and actually ate all I wanted on the diet and lost a lot of weight.

But what kind of foods are you stuck with? How about foods like shrimp scampi (using real butter) with rice or pasta, marinara with linguine, ice cream...? Unheard of but very real to have a diet that allows such tasty foods and at the same time lose weight.

In fact of the hundreds of people who have used the diet, the biggest reason that they come off the diet is that they lose too much weight. I stayed on it for nearly ten years during which time my body chemistry was perfect with respect to cholesterol and all other parameters.

Take the emotional eater quiz? Click here.

Want to a cure for emotional binge eating and discover how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them? You can purchase the, The Scale Conspiracy, (in e-book form) emotional eating now for only $14.95. It's a $39.00 value.

Emotional Eating "Do You Love You?"

Two posts ago I wrote about self love. No I'm not talking about the conceit type of love. Actually those who are conceited really don't love themselves either and have a terrible self worth issue.

But we're talking about loving the child within. A science that came to the forefront in the 70's (I believe) was transactional analysis. Yes, psychologists discovered something! They realized that within each of us there is a child and a parent and the possibility of an adult.

The child is frivolous, rebellious, non-caring, in search for adventure... Not all things about the child are bad in fact it's often a good idea to get in touch with the child within us. After all the child was not born rebellious. The child became rebellious and non-caring in response to the parent we developed which is controlling and into rights and wrongs.

It's not uncommon to have a grown adult in total conflict between his parent and child. When it comes to food, as the rebellious child wins the person becomes overweight. When the parent wins the battle, anorexia is the result.

Do you recognize the fight within you? I believe Geneen Roth's book Breaking Free From Emotional Eating is to let the child win to the point of exhaustion. And even though I think it could be done far better and differently, the ultimate goal is to negotiate a truce between the parent and child to bring the adult into being.

Can you recognize your internal battle? Am what I'm writing making sense?

Take the emotional eater quiz? Click here.

Want to a cure for emotional binge eating and discover how to identify emotions, embrace them and feel them? You can purchase the, The Scale Conspiracy, (in e-book form) emotional eating now for only $14.95. It's a $39.00 value.