Apr
22
Conquering Stress Eating
ByI am working with a client for the energy for joy program, and we are working with ways to stop emotional eating. I thought these ideas would be helpful for you as well.
- Set a timer for 30 minutes at a craving before you eat. It may just go away.
- Deep breathing – I love this one. I periodically do some deep breathing throughout the day even when I’m not stressed.
- Keep changing your perspective – reframe negative thoughts into powerful and positive ones
- Ask yourself if you are hungry or not, if not look at your list of stress relievers for something different to do – walk, movie, music, read, memorize a prayer or poem, journal
- Have something enjoyable to you planned for every evening
- Plan your meals – and snacks
- Eat only when seated at the kitchen table
- Watch your thoughts like stress is intolerable. The truth is you can tolerate stress, you are resilient, you are capable. You can recognize when it pops up. And tell yourself "I am having stress right now. But, I can tolerate this. Stress is a part of life and I can handle it. I will not numb myself with food. I will embrace my feelings instead."
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I love the part of watching your thoughts. Monitoring the stress thoughts to replace them with calm thoughts. We need a big imaginary white out to erase all those stress thoughts. Be consistent at whiting them out. Eventually they go away. One at the time. Is just too many of them.
Great post Beth, thanks.
I got an article regarding the subject in my blog. Check it out
http://soulhangout.net/it’sthethoughtsstupid
Hi Luz,
White out – now there is a great image!
Yes, isn’t it great? It was my son’s ex girlfriend who came up with it. We always pointed out the thoughts that should be erased. I used to use the term eraser, and voila, one day she says “WHITE it OUT” I love the story. Thanks for the comment Beth.