Throw Out the Rules to Stop Emotional Eating!

Okay, if you’ve tried to stop emotional eating and lose weight,
but haven’t yet succeeded, then you need to do something you’ll
love… throw out the rules!

Yes, even though overcoming emotional eating requires new
thinking and some new methodology, your success in part is due
to your ability to throw out all of those old rules that have
been weighing you down.

To get you started, here are three rules to throw out in order
for you to begin walking on your new path to success!

#1 Throw out the thinking that you have to go on a diet or
deprive yourself of anything.

When you tell your mind and your body that you are going to
eliminate certain foods or be strict about the quantities that
you’ll eat, you immediately set yourself up for failure. The
very things that you promise to stay away from will be the very
foods that you crave. In addition, your mind is a highly
sophisticated computer and once you tell it “Starting Monday I’m
going to do this and that,” your brain kicks in and sends you
into panic mode. As a result, you binge to prepare for the
impending stage of deprivation, starvation, and hibernation.
Your body clings to every once of fat because you’ve told
yourself, “Prepare for the worst.” Now, is this a very efficient
or fun way to start?

#2 Throw out the rule that you have to stop eating by a certain
time every night.

Learning how to overcome emotional eating is all about listening
to your body. If you’re hungry late at night, then by all
means… eat! Once again, if you say that you aren’t going to
eat past any given time, then as in the first rule, you will eat
all you can in preparation for the long night ahead. Why not
learn to respond to your body’s needs instead of boxing in
yourself like a caged animal? Be free instead of confined, so
that you can have peace, sanity, and a healthier body.

#3 Throw out any rule that says you must count calories or fat
grams!

Unless you are medically advised for other reasons, stop driving
yourself crazy with counting calories and fat grams. If you
think that being more mathematical in your approach will help
you achieve long term success, you only have disappointment
ahead of you. Yes, you can lose weight for a while, but you
won’t learn how to listen and respond to your body’s needs
because you’ll be too focused on the numbers. When you pay
attention to how you feel instead, your body will help you be
the best physician for yourself. Focus on eating until satisfied
and put that calculator away!

These are just a few of the many rules that have been taught
throughout the years. Now is the time for change, for new
thinking. The old rules didn’t bring you success in the past, so
why would they now? Think differently. Learn how to give your
mind and your body the best. Free yourself from the rules and by
doing so, you’ll start to free yourself from a life of
frustration.

Copyright 2005 Stacey Rodewald

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