Before you go on another diet conquer emotional eating. For decades Americans, in their obsession to lose weight, have ignored emotional eating. They go on diets and use techniques such as calorie counting in hopes of losing weight. “Eating emotional feelings is the largest contributing cause to being overweight. The true way to success is to conquer emotional eating,” - says Richard Kuhns, author of The Scale Conspiracy E-book.

In his book he points out that decades of approaching the weight problem with diets has most overeaters hypnotized into believing that they really have an eating problem. Yes, while those who are overweight definitely would agree that they have an eating problem or a food problem, the truth is that overeating is only a symptom.

What do you often do when you feel: Frustrated? Bored? Happy? Excited? Upset? Depressed? Unhappy? Angry? Like rewarding yourself?

If your answer is "eat" in response to one or more of these questions, you are an emotional eater.

The book points out that the truth is that overeaters use food to dilute various emotions. You're bored and there's nothing to do so you eat. You got a lot accomplished so you eat to reward yourself. You're happy being with your friends so you eat to celebrate a good time. You're angry or upset about something so you eat to sooth yourself. You are stressed and under pressure so you eat to relieve the stress and pressure.

The book also covers other emotions such as confusion, depression... food is also used to dilute those emotions and feelings. It doesn't matter whether the emotions are good or bad feelings.

Yet, most of us have no idea how to take the emotions straight and leave food out of the process. But may be we have to try it?

Reference:

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