Lose Weight By Overcoming Overeating & Cravings
Physical and emotional cravings to food can lead one on the path of desctruction. Both can also hurt your weight loss efforts and most people who experience physical and emotional cravings are overweight anyway. It can be like an neverending battle. The first step to losing weight should be to tackle these issues. Cravings will hurt your weight loss efforts more than anything else. Why? Because most of the time they are like a silent killer of dreams. We don’t recognize cravings as something serious – we don’t recognize food addiction as anything for anyone to worry about. It is just brushed off like it is something so so natural in the Western world. However, for many cravings and/or emotional eating will stop you losing weight because instant gratification is more important at the time of craving. Just like a heroin addict finds it difficult to give up heroin, so do some people find it difficult to give up certain foods or to stop intense cravings. This is for two reasons.
1. Food is physically addictive. Some foods, like chocolate trigger the same part of your brain as heroin does.
2. Emotional eating without paying much attention to it. Some of us eat out of boredom without realizing – we snack, we indulge in lots of food to help us overcome a bad feeling, stress or even to celebrate!
To overcome the physical cravings with little effort, all one has to do is eat the right foods. Eat healthy – eat plenty of fruit, eat nutritious WHOLE RAW foods regularly. Also make sure you eat breakfast as this can have a condierable affect on your eating habits – it can either cause you to snack more, or decrease your snacking desires.
To overcome emotional eating you need to write down what triggers you to eat. Observe yourself over a day and make a note of what triggers you. Then come up with a list of things you can do instead of eat e.g. go for a walk, talk to a friend. For some people though emotional eating is deeper and more intense then they can imagine. After years of emotional eating, we may need more expert help or an intensive program to help us to overcome this pattern for good.
Tackle these two things and you will lose weight without dieting. Then you can work on improving your diet for health and prosperity without sabotaging yourself along the way.
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