It can be very hard to stop eating junk food. The worse time for junk food cravings tend to be in the evening and leading up towards bedtime. There are many reasons for this. Most people become bored after work as they sit down and watch TV. The boredom can lead to eating junk. This is just the way you have dealt with the feeling of being bored. Instead of doing something creative or something your heart desires (maybe because you feel too tired) you numb yourself. So each evening when you come home from work, you start to crave – you crave for junk because it numbs you and solves your emotional issue.

Of course, it isn’t really solving it, because as the next night rolls around, you repeat the process. You put on weight, you feel rubbish about yourself and that ultimately leads to more eating. It is just the way you have learnt to cope in the world. To undo it you need to learn to deal with your emotions another way and you need to get your needs met. Eating junk food doesn’t result in your needs being met; it just allows you to ignore them more effectively for a little while.

If you typically pig out in front of the TV, then its time to do something. Write a list of activities that you can do instead of eat. What things do you like to do, want to do but never thought you could? The bigger the list the better. If you aren’t exercising daily write this down as well because exercise is important. You can write more eventful activities to get a work out to than running or going to the gym! Maybe you like the idea of taking a dance class?

Write down as many as you can think of. May be you have some ambitions that have gone unfulfilled.

Instead of coming home and going straight to the TV, do something else. You may see TV time as your relaxation (although believe me it is far from relaxing you) so replace it with something relaxing. You could take a nice warm bath, do some yoga or meditation. Get yourself relaxed if that is what you want or like to do other work.

Try to plan your evening so that you don’t end up in front of the TV. You will find life much more rewarding if you are doing things that you love and that satisfy your need to be creative and playful.

In fact your best bet is to chuck out the TV or put it away for a week or so, see if that makes it easier for you to resist.

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Overcoming cravings can be as simple as erasing the physical causes (poor nutrition) of the cravings.  But usually there is an emotional craving attached also.  Emotional cravings are when an emotion triggers you to crave a food or feel hungry (Roger Gould calls this phantom hunger).

When we experience emotional cravings that are out of control, we need to start observing ourselves and seeing exactly what emotions are causing the triggers.  Maybe we eat out of boredom.  Maybe we eat because we are dissatisfied about our relationship.  Cravings – emotional cravings – are telling you something.  Instead of eating you need to listen.

A good start pointing when tackling this issue is to tackle our mindset first.  Negativity is something many people habitually part take in.  Our inner critic tells us we are not good enough and we constantly play the worse case scenario in any situation instead of weighing up all the facts.

Your weight loss outcomes can depend on many things but at the core of it all you need to believe in 3 things in order to successfully lose the battle with the bulge.

You need to believe:

1. POSSIBILITY: It is possible for you to overcome cravings.
2. ACHIEVEMENT: You are able to stop craving.
3. WORTHINESS: You deserve to stop craving and lose weight.

Possibility

Possibility is almost always mistaken for competence. We think that something isn’t possible, that we aren’t able to give up our favorite junk foods or stop craving when really we don’t know how to do it – we don’t have the knowledge or resources to be able to stop craving.

It is possible though, regardless of your situation. You can’t prove that it isn’t possible – you can only say that you haven’t achieved it yet.

Beliefs are not fact.

Beliefs are just our best guess at something and we often sell ourselves short. Do you think you have put a mental ceiling on your achievements? Do you think you have hindered your ability to stop craving through your beliefs about yourself?

Ability

Most of us tend to make others aware of our short comings, when we can’t do something. If you take a day out and observe people and what they say, you should notice how often people say they can’t do this or they can’t do that. We all think this is being modest, when in fact its not. Modesty is not boasting about what we can do, it isn’t boasting about what we can’t!

Once you become aware of yourself voicing your inability to give up chocolate/junk/sugar, you can stop yourself voicing it. If you continue to voice your inability to give it up, it will hold you back from achieving your lifestyle/weight loss goals. If you find it difficult to stop voicing your inability, a good alternative is to add the word “yet” to the end of your statements.

“I haven’t been able to give up chocolate…yet”

“I can’t stop craving…yet”.

It is also important not to make excuses for your craving failures. If you do not have the knowledge to prevent cravings, go out and get it.  Set tasks that you need to do in order to achieve your slimmer figure.

A general belief that you should try to hold is:

You have not yet reached the limit of what you are capable of.

Keeping this in mind will help you to achieve your craving and weight loss goals.

Worthiness

Do you deserve to give up junk food/lose weight? Does it make you feel uncomfortable to say you deserve to? If it does, this should help you figure out any obstacles that are in your way to achieving your goal. List them and work out how you can overcome them.

e.g. I don’t have the correct knowledge to stop my sugar addiction – to overcome this I am going to do some research and find a suitable diet program or expert to help me.

Allow yourself to believe these 3 things and you will be on the right path to a positive mindset to help yourself overcome cravings.

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Many food cravings and overeating issues can be eliminated when one provides the right nutrition for their body. However, not all overeating is a result of physical addiction to food or because one isn’t being a healthy eater.  Sometimes it isn’t as simple as this.

As a society that uses food for celebration, mourning and for social interaction – the emotional element to food cravings and overeating cannot be ignored. For many people their emotional eating issues can be addressed with some self awareness and journaling, but many need more guidance and can’t overcome it alone.

It can be difficult, very difficult to overcome our attachment to food – the comfort it gives us, but it IS possible.

If you find that becoming self aware – finding your emotional eating triggers, getting support from others and nourishing your body to decrease physical cravings isn’t enough to stop you overeating, then ShrinkYourself.com’s step by step, 12 week online program may very well be the solution to your emotional eating.

ShrinkYourself.com offers a 12 week program that teaches you how to overcome the bad feelings and emotions that cause you to overeat. It has been developed from a proven program used in hospitals to help individuals overcome overeating. What the program will teach you , step by step, is how to become mentally stronger, to question your emotions and overcome bad feelings for good.

ShrinkYourself.com is also a wealth of information on emotional eating and overeating. It has many free interactive tools to help you become more aware of your patterns of eating and also has many articles on the subject. If you are struggling it is a great resource, whether or not you feel the 12 week program is for you.

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Cheese addiction is fairly common in the Western world but most people don’t realize they are addicted to it. It seems crazy but a lot of the foods we eat have physically addictive properties and keep us hooked and coming back for more time and time again. Not only do we have to battle with the physical addiction of these foods but also the emotional addiction. We are a society of comfort eaters.

So what makes cheese addictive?

In 1981 Eli Hazum and colleagues (referenced in Breaking The Food Seduction) discovered traces of a chemical in cow milk’s that was similar to morphine. They put it through several tests only to conclude that in fact it WAS morphine. Morphine is a highly addictive opiate, but what is it doing in cow’s milk?

Well cow’s produce morphine in their bodies. This is most likely to cause a calming effect on their young to make sure they continue to feed to get the nutrients they need but also to make sure they bond with their mother.

On top of milk containing morphine, it also contains casein which when broken down during digestion frees a whole host of opiates. Casein is in a much higher concentration than in just milk too. So as you can see cheese is highly addictive.

So how do you overcome your cravings for cheese?

First of all you need to nourish your body properly. Feed your body healthy foods and the right foods so you no longer feel the physical craving for cheese. A tip to get you started is to eat as much fruit as you desire before each meal. This will satisfy you enough for you not to crave anything after your meals.

Cut dairy out completely or reduce it dramatically. Don’t eat cheese, not even a little as it is much harder to avoid the first bite then the second.

Lastly make sure you are not craving cheese for emotional reasons. Observe yourself throughout a day and see if emotions/stress trigger you to crave cheese. If so you can then begin to address the emotions you are feeling and stop using food to suppress them. If need be get support from others so you can turn to them when you are feeling stressed as opposed to cheese.

You can overcome cheese addiction, you just need to become aware of your triggers and nourish your body with the right foods to stop physical cravings arising.

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Overeating is something we all do once in a while. Usually we blame it on the holiday season or the fact that we are on vacation and in these times we don’t see it as such a big deal. Other times of overeating are when our emotional needs are not met and we are trying to suppress emotions.

Those of us who overeat to numb feelings or are suffering from an overeating disorder have to make extra efforts to overcome our overeating. Here are 5 tips to overcome your issue with food.

1. Become aware of the problem – often we aren’t aware of when we eat or even why we eat. Not every time is about being hungry. If we become aware of our reasons for eating and start living in the present moment we can see exactly why we overeat and are better able to overcome it.

2. Regularly eating – overeating can be harder to overcome if we aren’t eating regularly or if we skip a meal. When we are consumed by hunger we can find it very difficult not to eat rapidly and pig out. Make sure you are eating regularly and nutritious food.

3. Drink plenty of water – most people often mistake thirst for hunger. So before eating drink plenty of water to make sure you aren’t just dehydrated.

4. Eat fruit! Make sure you are eating plenty of fruit. Eating lots of fruit before meals will give you the nutrition an water your body needs and will stop you overeating on other foods.

5. Get support. When we overeat it may just be emotions trying to get out. Instead, either sit and allow the feelings to wash over you and come out or find a friend you can talk with about how you are feeling.

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If you binge eat, overeat and can’t help yourself you are not alone. Lots of people binge, overeat, put on weight and feel endlessly guilty about it. They can’t understand why they don’t have control, so hopefully this article will give you some insight.

Compulsive overeating is food addiction. Compulsive overeaters rely on food to comfort them in times of stress, depression and helplessness. It is often rooted in low self esteem and feelings can be so overwhelming that the compulsion to overeat is unstoppable.

The issue lies in the compulsive overeater’s inability to deal with emotion. When you have learnt to cope with life by eating, it can be very hard to break out of that habit.

Our society is all about repression of feelings. We hide behind masks because we don’t want others to know we are upset. We use food in celebration and mourning. It is just what we know. It seems harmless but when it consumes us on a daily basis then we need to take drastic action.

Most compulsive overeaters are overweight and are only aware they have an issue with food because of the extremity in which food is part of their everyday life. The only problem is, they do not know how to change this issue and do not know how to cope with emotions in a more beneficial way.

What makes compulsive overeating harder to manage is that it usually comes with a lot of shame and guilt. People who suffer from this usually have low self esteem and do not feel good enough, which makes the eating worse (it is a vicious circle). Food is how compulsive overeaters deal with their need for acceptance and love.

When we overeat to such a large extent it is because our emotional needs are not being met. In order to overcome compulsive overeating we need to take a good hard look ourselves and learn how to face our emotions.

The first step to any recovery plan is to nourish the body properly to eradicate physical cravings. This can allow us to focus on the emotional issues surrounding food. Usually with compulsive overeaters, journaling and support from friends may not be enough and professional help may be necessary. There is a great 12 week intensive online program for emotional eating that can be beneficial if direct one on one counselling isn’t possible and relying on journaling and friends isn’t enough for you to be able to overcome your eating issues.

It is hard; you should not beat yourself up over this. Emotional eating is something that you have to learn how to deal with by allowing yourself to feel. Once you begin feeling, you will find that feeling isn’t as scary as you thought. The initial process may be overwhelming (because your body has old bottled up feelings to release on top of the new present ones) but will make you feel great afterwards – satisfied and calm. This is something food will never be able to do for you.

Love yourself and stop loving the comfort food because comfort food will never love you the way you love it.

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We all partake in emotional eating. Whether we are celebrating someone’s birthday or mourning the loss of a loved one – food is rarely ever uninvolved. Comfort foods remind us of when we were young and even just the smell can make us feel safe and secure because it is a reminder of our childhood. We often crave these comfort foods most when life gets challenging or stressful.

For most of us we don’t realize we are an emotional eater or we don’t think it is that serious. For some of us emotional eating doesn’t lead to feelings of guilt or weight gain. For some of us we can comfort eat and think its no big deal, but it really is. For others, emotional eating is out of control and something that can rule our lives on a daily basis. This can seem like overwhelming cravings or hunger, but really it is the emotions that we feel making us feel hunger, desperate and adding to our weight.

Comfort food gives us instant gratification and takes away our ability to feel. Digestion and feeling both take up a lot of energy and therefore the body cannot do both. Comfort eating allows us to not have to deal with the emotion as we overload our digestive system with toxic rubbish.

When we feel emotional, it can be normal for us to feel a big empty hole inside of us like we are hungry. Instead of facing what this means – i.e. our emotions, we stuff it down. In society it seems as though we have become scared to feel so much so we don’t even realize that we are hiding from our emotions most of the time.

When we don’t allow ourselves to feel, we repress it. When you learn and begin to allow yourself to feel the emotion or emotions that arise and stop stuffing down you can feel very overwhelmed. This is because your body will be releasing past pent up emotions and thus it can hit you very hard. This is why it can be hard to let go of emotional eating, because we have to get past that first initial “scare” in order to move on and start learning to appreciate emotions for what they are. Being in the present moment, allowing a feeling to wash over us is wonderful and should be appreciated. The more you allow yourself to be in the present moment and feel, the less emotions will consume you and the less scared you will be of them. The intensity of the emotion will also drop. You will become stronger mentally and physically. You will feel so much better once it’s off your chest, instead of suppressing it with food.

Of course getting to this point isn’t necessarily simple. Some people can break their emotional eating by nourishing their body properly to get rid of physical cravings and getting support from others when they feel stress or emotional. Essentially replacing the comfort with a person instead of using food.

If you want to break emotional eating, you need to become aware of how and why you eat. Take a day out to observe yourself and what triggers you to eat. Are you eating out of true hunger? Most people don’t even have an understanding of true hunger!

If you find yourself eating for emotional reasons, can you stop yourself? Instead of eating can you sit and allow the emotion to wash over you – give yourself time to feel it and move pass it? Or can you turn to someone to talk about how you are feeling?

Don’t be hard on yourself. Emotional eating is probably something you have done from a very early age and so is a part of your make up. It is a learnt habit and it is how you have learnt to cope with the world. To undo something so ingrained in you will take time, so if you find yourself eating out of emotion – if you slip up – learn from it, don’t feel bad about it just move on. The first step is recognition. Once you know that you are eating out of comfort, you are able to overcome it.

Journaling can also help you pinpoint patterns in your eating. Write down how you feel before, during and after a meal. What triggered your eating – was it genuine hunger?

If you start doing this, you should, within time, be able to overcome your emotional eating and be able to feel and look after yourself properly. If you find it too hard or daunting to battle emotional eating yourself, you could try seeing a counsellor or there is a great program online that can help.

Overeating and cravings are common in the Western world and are often not given the proper attention they deserve. They are seen as something that individuals really should be able to control and if you can’t control them then apparently you don’t have enough willpower and are weak.Overeating can stem from two things cravings and emotional eating.

The word “craving” seems harmless and is just a nicer way, in most cases, to say addiction. Craving is almost an acceptable addiction because we don’t place much importance on its seriousness and we find it harmless. But cravings are not harmless – they are a symptom of underlying issues and can result in you overeating on foods you really wish you wouldn’t!

Most people think addiction is a strong word to use but that is in most cases what the issue is when it comes to cravings and overeating.

So in order to overcome overeating we must address the physical addictiveness of food or our cravings. Cravings are a sign of physical addiction, emotional addiction and also can be a result of not getting enough of a certain nutrient possibly.

The first step to eliminate physical cravings is to supply the body with the nutrients it requires. Most people don’t do this, don’t know what is right for adequate nutrition and just accept cravings as part and parcel of life. They don’t have to be! When you provide your body with the right nutrients you can eliminate physical cravings completely.

Second one needs to address any emotional relationship they have with food. Do you crave when you are bored, stressed or feeling? Take a day out to be completely self aware and note down when you crave and whether it’s as a result of having skipped a meal or because of an emotional need. Self-awareness in general is very helpful to you and good to continue to do as much as possible. Being in the present moment and practising being in the moment (as opposed to daydreaming or thinking about the past etc) will allow you to overcome your overeating triggers.

If your overeating is more emotionally related then the best thing can be to get support for from a friend or familiy member who can almost take the place of the food in comforting you. Who can allow tyou to feel your emotions with them if its too difficult for you to do alone. There is also a great step by step intensive program online you can follow over 12 weeks, if becoming self aware and facing your emotional demons is too difficult.

So provide your body with the right nutrition and face your emotions. This is the only way to truly overcome the overeating that is ruining your weight loss goals and life!

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Many food cravings and overeating issues can be eliminated when one provides the right nutrition for their body. However, not all overeating is a result of physical addiction to food or because one isn’t being a healthy eater.  Sometimes it isn’t as simple as this.

As a society that uses food for celebration, mourning and for social interaction – the emotional element to food cravings and overeating cannot be ignored. For many people their emotional eating issues can be addressed with some self awareness and journaling, but many need more guidance and can’t overcome it alone.

It can be difficult, very difficult to overcome our attachment to food – the comfort it gives us, but it IS possible.

If you find that becoming self aware – finding your emotional eating triggers, getting support from others and nourishing your body to decrease physical cravings isn’t enough to stop you overeating, then ShrinkYourself.com’s step by step, 12 week online program may very well be the solution to your emotional eating.

ShrinkYourself.com offers a 12 week program that teaches you how to overcome the bad feelings and emotions that cause you to overeat. It has been developed from a proven program used in hospitals to help individuals overcome overeating. What the program will teach you , step by step, is how to become mentally stronger, to question your emotions and overcome bad feelings for good.

ShrinkYourself.com is also a wealth of information on emotional eating and overeating. It has many free interactive tools to help you become more aware of your patterns of eating and also has many articles on the subject. If you are struggling it is a great resource, whether or not you feel the 12 week program is for you.

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Craving fatty foods is somewhat natural in the world we live in. The majority of the Western world eats a high fat diet and it can typically be over 50% fat! Your body becomes accustomed to it! Our diets in the Western world are high in fat for many reasons but the number one reason being stress.

When we are under stress or any emotional pressure, many people turn to food for comfort. When you eat fat, because it is hard on the digestive system, it weighs you down and numbs you from what you would be feeling. We comfort eat. Feeling emotion/stress and digestion are two of the biggest and most energy consuming mechanisms of the body – your body can’t do both at once. So if you eat fatty foods you stop yourself feeling.

Comfort eating is a big part of our world and overcoming our reliance on fatty foods to numb us can be very difficult. So the best way to deal with it is to wean yourself off. When food becomes an emotional issue for us, simply cutting ourselves off of fatty foods maybe too much for us to handle emotionally. It is overwhelming because those emotions you kept buried and avoided will want to resurface. So what you need to do is wean yourself off.

The best way to do this is to allow yourself something fatty at the end of the day but not the rest of the day. Fatty foods can interfere with the digestion of others food you eat and leave you bloated and sluggish. This is because of how hard it is for your body to digest fat. So save your comfort eating for the end of the day. This is the best thing to do for your digestion but it is also the easiest thing to do. Most people find they comfort eat more in the evenings (currently there is research being conducted around the notion of night being something we fear and thus we comfort ourselves as a result).

Start your day with a healthy low fat breakfast like 5-6 pieces of fruit. Have a nice low fat lunch and then for the afternoon continue with the same pattern. Eat plenty of fruit; eat a low fat meal and stock up on this first. Providing your body with the right nutrients is the first way to stop craving fatty foods. Once you have stocked up, if you need to or want to eat something fatty then go ahead – but get your good food in first.

Once you are used to eating low fat for the majority of the day, then start working on weaning yourself off fatty foods in the evening. Make a realistic plan. Start by going a night a week without fatty foods for a couple of weeks, then two nights etc. This is the best approach for your emotional well-being. If you do too much too soon you will ultimately end up in a panic and binge

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