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Changing How You Eat: Mindfulness and Planning

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Do you know what influences what and how much you eat? Do you know your triggers?

You may believe that how much you eat is determined by how hungry you are or by how much you like the food or even by your mood. But you may be mindlessly eating which is dangerous to our success at weight management.

You really can eat too much without knowing it and you can eat less without knowing it. Changing how you eat can make it easier to get to and maintain a healthy weight. Here ae some ideas for making the healthier choice the easier choice: [Read more…] about Changing How You Eat: Mindfulness and Planning

How to STOP Emotional Eating

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Feelings are feelings. They are not wrong or right. In our weight management journey, we must learn ways other than eating to manage them. If you are are an emotional eater, try these techniques:

  • Acknowledge and name the emotion. Then take time to journal what you were feeling when you chose to eat when you weren’t hungry.
  • Create an action plan to feed your feelings without food. Make a list of three or four things to do such as have a cup of tea, go for a 10 minute walk or work on a hobby.
  • Stop and breathe. And wait 10 minutes. Have a glass of water. Give yourself time to think if you are physically hungry or not. Picture yourself managing the situation.
  • Seek and build relationships so you have support. Reach out to your support system to obtain perspective.
  • Make yourself a priority and build up your healthy habit muscle. Be proactive by meditating, journaling or relaxing.

Make sure you have what you need in your toolkit ahead of time to ensure you do not eat your feelings but manage them. Here’s to your health!