More on Emotional Eating…
So what makes the difference between someone who can control their mood-influenced eating habits and someone who can’t? In a recent article on his blog BurnTheFatBlog.com, Tom Venuto talked about this same topic. He approaches it from the angle of the difference between someone that keeps their weight off long-term and someone that relapses. The main difference was that the people who maintained their weight loss were able to confront the problem that they had with emotional eating and through careful planning and tracking they were able to overcome this problem.
Here’s a direct quote from Tom’s article that summarizes the difference between the maintainers and the relapsers:
Maintainers, on the other hand, were vigilant and conscious of EVERYthing:
- They were conscious of the quantity and type of food they ate
- They were conscious about the amount of activity that they needed personally to maintain their weight
- They consciously worked to “keep in shape” after they reached their initial goal
- They were conscious that they felt uncomfortable in their clothes after they gained even a little weight such as a few pounds after a vacation
- They intentionally wore close-fitting clothes to keep themselves aware of their bodies, which prompted them to exercise more eat less if their clothes felt tighter.
So what can you learn from this? First of all, it’s possible to beat the emotional eating habits! You just have to be willing to make the lifestyle changes that have to be made for these changes to take effect. The question you have to ask yourself is: are you willing to make those necessary changes? If you are, then you’ve taken the first step to becoming a weight loss (or even muscle gain) maintainer rather than a relapser.
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True, all the carefully planned diets in the world will not work if you eat according to feelings.
Great Post. Emotional eating is the reason that many of us ruin our diets or regain the weight we lost.
Emotional eating is a topic I dealt with myself for years. And on my website I discuss how one can find their emotional eating triggers. Finding your triggers helps you become more aware of when you are about to engage in emotional eating and even stop before you start.
On my blog I also discuss binge eating and overeating which are very common eating issues these days. I would appreciate your feedback on my blog at http://howtostopeating.com
I also would like to contribute content to this blog on the topic of binge eating or emotional eating. I think I can write a very relevant post or two on how to stop engaging in emotional eating that your readers would find very valuable.
If you are interested please contact me at the email address I entered into this comment form. Thank you. Keep up the great posts. I have subscribed to your RSS feed and will be checking out your other posts