Emotional Eating Books: 10 steps to control emotional eating & lose weight (NLP)

Feeling powerless to control your cravings, instead, you gave in to them. Can you make a different choice next time? Of course you can, and you will. Read on to learn how. Emotional eating can begin in childhood, when food becomes your parents' favorite tools of distraction and reward, wielded in response to various emotions and behaviors that you exhibited. As a baby, they silenced your cries with a bottle. As a child, they rewarded your good behavior with candy, snacks, ice cream and various sugary desserts. As an adult, you may find yourself eating certain junk foods just because it reminds you of some happy childhood memory.

Holidays and special occasions invariably revolve around food.

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There, you overeat for pleasure as a way to emphasize the festivity of the holiday, to fully enjoy it and "take it all in. Food can also be a way in which you subconsciously self-sabotage. It is your brain's job to protect your identity and your belief systems. When reality does not match your perceptions, your brain will do everything it can to resolve the inconsistency. If you see yourself as fat and unworthy, when you start losing a few pounds and gaining some momentum with your diet, guess what?

You will fall into self-sabotage and overeat. Your unconscious mind is "helping" you bring reality and your self-image into alignment. To explain it another way, think of your brain as if it were a thermostat. Food can be a coping mechanism for trauma. Your extra fat might be a physical representation of the emotional shield that you built around yourself. When you start shedding it, it can trigger you to feel unprotected and overly vulnerable.

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Thus, you build it back up. The power of our subconscious is exploited constantly by the food industry in their marketing. They perfect the taste, smell and texture of the food in order to keep us addicted. Eating becomes about coping instead of nourishment. Who wouldn't want to "Cheer up your lunch" with Oreos? The list goes on and on. The bestselling book Salt Sugar Fat is a great read on U.

Whether you are emotionally eating to feel better or because you lack the confidence to accept a healthier you, read on for 12 tips that will help you master your emotions and conquer emotional eating. Change the story you are telling yourself. You are talking to yourself all day long. Not out loud, but inside your head. That little voice never shuts up! It incessantly overanalyzes, self-criticizes, disempowers and misinterprets. If the erroneous story you tell yourself is "I feel deprived when I avoid eating snacks," then change it to something more empowering like "I'm proud of myself for taking care of my body and saying no to these unhealthy snacks!

It sure beats the flood of negative emotions that the old story would have induced. This takes practice, so don't give up when you slip back into the negative self-talk! Simply jump back on the wagon. For those of you into psychology, you may be already familiar with this re-framing technique as cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT.

And if you still hear your inner critic calling you "fat" or ridiculing you for your appearance, then try this exercise: First, tell your inner critic, "Thank you for sharing," and then close your eyes and imagine a more pleasant sounding inner voice saying something positive and empowering.

Repeat as necessary until you no longer hear that negative self-talk. Essentially, you are wrestling control away from the unpleasant inner critic who isn't even you.

Change your reward system. Disconnect food from your reward system, and start rewarding yourself with other fulfilling activities. Changing your mind is key to changing your body. Try out this NLP exercise for breaking the pleasurable associations you have with your favorite snacks: First, close your eyes.

Think of a favorite food that you are trying to avoid. Perhaps you cannot stop bingeing on pizza, for example? Now, think about something that disgusts you. Let's say you are grossed out by spiders and cockroaches. Now envision that delicious pizza that you love so much, with spiders and roaches crawling out of the steamy melted cheese.

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The more real, big and vivid you make this "video" in your minds eye, the harder it will be to desire that fattening pizza that you used to crave so much. Treat yourself as you would an adored little child. Slowly, I understood the reasons for emotional eating, such as anger, boredom, etc. I changed my eating habits and as a result, I lost weight. I have prepared a guide that will help you stop emotional eating as well. We are all emotional eaters at a certain level. With the help of this book, you will understand: How to avoid emotional eating How to take small steps that will lead to significant changes How to not count calories but listen to your bodies Michaela Jones from California wrote about the book: With the help of the book, I understood that you can lose weight without a diet when you tune into your body, the pounds just start to fade away Read more Read less.

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Read reviews that mention emotional eating lose weight great book eat helpful practical thinking tips guide. Showing of 19 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. The book really emphasizes that the mind and simple exercise are the key to become and stay slim. But sometimes it seems a little bit redundant. A Drawback was that real nlp methods swap technique, modelling, mental goal exercises were not mentioned, although the title claims this.

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However, just by reading the book you become motivated and you memorize this really true insight that emotional eating will make matters worse and that you CAN stop it. The basic messages of the book would be only a short list, but I believe that it is always - as long as a book is roughly written about the claimed topic- about the time spend with messages. If I were to say to you "emotional eating makes everything worse" , you would probably just agree, shrug and continue eating as you used to.

However, if you spend your whole life exercising and helping people loosing weight and seeing emotional eating making everything worse, this little sentence would probably suffice to let you drop your piece of pizza. Altogether the book helps you getting more insight, but it is not really about specific NLP methods as introduced by Anthony Robbins or Richard Brandler, etc.

Teach Yourself by Jeff Archer, just to see whether that comes up with some specific techniques. But as already mentioned, it is always about the memorisation and knowledge about simple truths and messages which will help you improving your life, so reading 2 books in your leisure time can only help you. Besides, there is this effect that I would call "anti-sunk-costs effect": You think "I have put so much time and money in this topic, I MUST do something about it now, otherwise it would be just wasted time", so you start following the principles introduced, which can be nothing but the best consequence of reading such books, right?

The book is an easy and welcome read for anyone who has tried to lose weight on her own. Anyone who never found peace with himself will love this book The author has the clear experience in this matter and I am grateful for this great book. The book is written simply and refers to the really important things Diets really temporary and do not help Self-belief and inner values are bring a real change Big Like!

This book is a great value for women who want to make a real change. The author provides practical suggestions at the end of each chapter that will help you to make the simple changes. Although some of this may be information you have heard before, He also discusses things you never thought about, All in all this was a good read.