Breaking Free from Emotional Eating (edit title/settings)

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• “When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own voice. Our ability to make decisions about what to eat and when. Our belief in ourselves. Our right to decide what goes into our mouths. Unlike the diets that appear monthly in magazines or the thermal pants that sweat off pounds, unlike a lover or a friend or a car, your body is reliable. It doesn't go away, get lost, stolen. If you will listen, it will speak.”

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• The first step in breaking free from compulsive eating is to eat when you are hungry.

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• When you want food and you’re not hungry, it’s a good indicator that you want something less tangible but don’t know what it is or else feel that you might not be able to get it.

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• When the hunger for food is absent, so is the signal that tells you to stop.

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• There is nothing you can’t have tomorrow so there is no reason to eat it all today.

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• Most of us miss our own lives. Most of us spend our time preparing for a moment that never comes, while the years slip by, unnoticed, unused.

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• As long as there is that voice of “not allowed,” as long as there are foods you feel you shouldn’t eat, you create struggle and conflict. As long as there is struggle, there is bingeing. And as long as there is bingeing, there is fear about eating what you want.

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• When you are not hungry and good food is around, what you do miss by eating is the chance to take care of yourself, to see that the world won’t end if you don’t eat the cheesecake. You miss the chance not to get sick, to be so full you can’t sleep, and to wake up in the morning wishing the night had never happened.

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• We eat to satisfy emotional as well as physical needs, and unless both are acknowledged and dealt with, we are setting ourselves up to feel deprived and go hunting for more food.

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• Trust develops and builds when I am given a choice (and not, as in dieting, denied it). Trust develops when I choose to make myself comfortable, not miserable, to take care of myself rather than hurt myself.

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• Physical hunger is of the body. Physical hunger asks for food. Nonphysical hunger is of the mind, the heart. When you see that your physical hunger is capable of being fulfilled, you can begin to allow that same possibility for your emotional hunger. When you don’t allow yourself hunger, you don’t allow yourself satisfaction.

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1. Geneen Roth (Author)

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• Dewey: 616.8526

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• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Diets & Weight Loss › Diets › Weight Maintenance
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Diets & Weight Loss › Diets › Weight Loss
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Recovery › Drug Dependency
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Self-Help › Eating Disorders
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Disorders & Diseases › Diabetes
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Mental Health › Eating Disorders
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Nutrition