Getting into the habit of eating when hungry and stopping when full is our goal and the major key in losing excess weight for good, but it doesn't always happen overnight.
When I started running self-help support groups for compulsive eating women in '94 I called my workshops 'Healing the Eating Habit,' because more and more I was given reason to believe that we are breaking a habit in this weight loss game - the habit of eating when full. Yes, eating when physically full, is all we have to give up, in order to lose excess weight for good.
The thing is when we are compulsive eaters, whether we are carrying a little or a lot of excess weight, to be told to stop when full is sometimes a little like a heron addict or an alcoholic being told to just quit the drugs or drink. It is not always that easy.
Why? Because eating when full, smoking, drinking or drug taking serves a purpose and that purpose is the suppression of feelings - specifically uncomfortable feelings.
If we sort the feelings / emotional issues out we automatically sort the compulsion to eat when full out because they are not separated they are linked.
If we sort the feelings / emotional issues out then we automatically sort the alcohol / drug problem out for they are linked.
How else can I deal with those uncomfortable feelings / emotional issues that I have suppressed with food when full? -This is the question we are asking ourselves on our journey to becoming slim for good.
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Sofia
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