3 Tips That Lead To Lasting Weight Loss

3 Tips That Lead To Lasting Weight Loss

 

I spent years struggling with my weight. During these years, I learned about healthy eating, and even with eating all organic foods and finding the right nutrition plan for me, as well as the right exercise for me, I still struggled with my weight.

Then I discovered the underlying cause of weight issues and the powerful secrets to permanent weight loss, and my weight struggles ended! Here are the secrets I learned that can help you make peace with emotional eating, and end your weight loss struggles.

1. Acknowledge your feelings.

The primary cause of emotional eating is that food is being used to avoid core painful feelings — feelings that we could not manage when we were little, and that most adults have never learned to lovingly manage.

It took me years to fully understand what these specific feelings are, why they’re so difficult to feel, and what we need to do to be able to feel them rather than avoid them with food and other addictions.

The main feelings we use food to avoid are:

Loneliness

We feel loneliness when we want to connect with someone and either no one is there, or the person or people who are there are not available for connection.

Most of us experienced much loneliness as children. Since this feeling was way too big for us, we learned to avoid it in different ways, and food may have been one of the ways.

Heartbreak

Most of us had our hearts broken over and over as children. It’s heartbreaking when we aren’t heard or seen, or are controlled, rejected or abused. We learned various ways of avoiding this very painful feeling, including eating for comfort.

Grief

If we’ve experienced a major loss and were not held in love over the loss, we needed to find ways of avoiding this overwhelming feeling.

Helplessness over others and events

This is one of the hardest of feelings to feel. Many of us will do almost anything to avoid accepting and feeling helpless over others and outcomes. This avoidance may go all the way back to infancy: if we cried and no one came to feed us and tend to us, we could have died, so the feeling of helplessness over others may become connected with an actual fear of dying.

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