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3 ways to overcome emotional overeating
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3. Embrace temptation
When you accept the feeling of being tempted to overeat, you use it as a means of working through and breaking free from this addictive behaviour. You’ll still feel compelled to overeat in circumstances when you’ve done so in the past, whether it’s at dinner parties or during Sunday lunches. But by recognising this desire and not fearing it, you empower yourself. Practicing this helps create a new association in your mind between food and positive habits. You’ll overcome the fear of food, and by realising you can resist the temptation to overeat, you’ll eat less. If you actively choose to resist the desire to overeat, the temptation will fade. In time, when you can identify and live with your addictive desire to eat, you’ll become more aware of your natural hunger, stop eating at the end of each meal and limit junk food and late-night snacking.
3. Embrace temptation
When you accept the feeling of being tempted to overeat, you use it as a means of working through and breaking free from this addictive behaviour. You’ll still feel compelled to overeat in circumstances when you’ve done so in the past, whether it’s at dinner parties or during Sunday lunches. But by recognising this desire and not fearing it, you empower yourself. Practicing this helps create a new association in your mind between food and positive habits. You’ll overcome the fear of food, and by realising you can resist the temptation to overeat, you’ll eat less. If you actively choose to resist the desire to overeat, the temptation will fade. In time, when you can identify and live with your addictive desire to eat, you’ll become more aware of your natural hunger, stop eating at the end of each meal and limit junk food and late-night snacking.
Good luck.
Gillian Riley is a writer, counsellor and seminar leader who uses cognitive
techniques based on her experience of working with overeaters. Her book Eating Less: Take Control of Overeating (£5.99; Vermilion) is available now. Gillian leads Eating Less courses in north London and offers telephone coaching. Visit www.eatingless.com
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