How to put a STOP to Emotional Eating!

Three Simple Steps that will allow you to Lose Fat Fast!

Depression, boredom, or excitment; whatever it may be that leads you to open that refridgerator door when you know you should not, these guidlines will help break you free!

Apr 01, 2006 In one way or another there is an "emotional eater" in all of us. Eating can be triggered off by many types of emotion. Some people over eat when they are depressed. Some people raid the fridge when they are overly happy. Others will open the fridge 20 times within the same hour when they are bored. There are dozens of emotions that trigger the desire to eat. For me, it is definately boredom. I can literally open the fridge ten times in ten minutes in search of food while I constantly snack. It is as if I am waiting for something to grow or magically appear since the last time I opened the door. I recognized this about five years ago and was in need of a means to stop it.

That is when I realized I had taken the first step in breaking this bad eating habit. The first step is simply to recognize or identify the trigger. The trigger is simply the emotion that leads you to your over eating. This is the most important step. For me it was boredom; for you it may be another emotion or combination there of. Start being aware of the moods you are in when you notice you're over eating. When you see a pattern developed with a certain emotion; you have found your trigger. The second step is realization.Realization occurs at the moment you are your weakest; so you have to be at your strongest. It was easy for me to say I'm a bored eater, yet it was hard for me to stop eating when I was bored. You must realize your action while in the midst of it. The third step is replacing your bad eating habit with another activity.Even if you realize your action if you do not replace the activity of eating with another activity you will be back in the fridge within five minutes, I gaurantee it. Realizing is not enough, you have to stay busy.

For myself I replaced my habit of bored eating with surfing the internet. It worked for me; you have to find what works for you. Popular choices are going for a walk, reading, calling a friend. Find what works for you. On average it takes 21 days to break a habit. If you can 1. Identify the trigger, 2. Realize your action, and 3. Replace with an alternative activity for the next three weeks; that new activity can become your new habit. It worked for me. Now instead of raiding the fridge when I'm bored; I'm surfing the web.