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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