Emotional Eating: A Step-By-Step Guide to Stop Overeating. Nourish a Healthy Relationship with Food Through Meditation. A Proven Workbook Included to Plan and Win Your Battle Against Binge Eating

By Sarah Meyers

If you are anything like most people, you didn't have a class in "how to deal with difficult emotions" when you were in grade school, a time in which such a thing could have been really useful.

 

If you had, it might have kept you from developing less-than-helpful habits such as eating, drinking, shopping, fighting, blaming, and other destructive tendencies designed to avoid and deny your feelings. Even if you didn't learn healthy ways of dealing with your feelings when you were young, it is never too late to bring compassion and understanding to your world of emotions. It is never too late to realize that all emotions are mentionable and manageable, and I'd like to add natural.

 

First of all, unpleasant emotions are natural and mentionable. Everyone has them and will continue to have them as long as they are alive. They are a part of us and arise out of the conditions of our existence. Even the most enlightened human beings you know have feelings of sadness and anger. They, like you, feel deeply from the heart. Unpleasant emotions are not bad or wrong. They are a natural and normal part of our shared human existence.

 

It's helpful to understand that for at least half of your life you will feel a little to a lot of physical or emotional discomfort. It is not your birthright to have only pleasant experiences, so maintaining that position is only going to set you up to feel even worse. When you insist you should only be happy, you will have the pain of the difficult emotion and the pain of your resistance to it. Your ability to be with the unpleasant without having to fix, deny, avoid, or run away is crucial to your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. The only way to fully experience the joy in your life is to go through the work of feeling the pain.

 

The first step is awareness. What are you feeling? Since you might not be used to doing this, I suggest you check in with yourself throughout the day. Name and acknowledge what feeling is present—happiness, frustration, confusion, and so on. Putting your feelings into words, called "affect labeling," can help you regulate a negative experience by changing a part of your brain associated with emotions and subsequent reactions. In other words, knowing what you're feeling can give you a little distance from it, allowing you to take a deep breath (literally and metaphorically).

 

Once you have identified what you're feeling (and taken a deep breath), you are on your way to managing it. You don't have to like it or want it, but accepting that a feeling is present (because it is) is a sane approach to reality. You will never win a fight with a difficult emotion. If you face an emotion, acknowledge it, label it, and accept its presence, then it will begin to soften and eventually fade away. All emotions (just like everything else in life) are impermanent and manageable.

 

In this book you will find:

• What is Emotional Eating?
• Symptoms of Binge Eating
• Diets and Their Bad Sides
• Finding the Right Food Balance
• Types of Eating Disorders
• Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder
• How to Ensure the Eating Disorder Never Comes Back
• Frequently Asked Questions
• And More

 

If you want to learn how to distinguish between emotional hunger and true hunger, all you have to do is start browsing through this book which, in depth, will guide you from understanding the fundamental concepts to solving the problem.

And it certainly can be a good opportunity to explore your inner journey and find out if emotional eating is really your problem and how to overcome it.

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Sarah Meyers
• Release date: May 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201572785

Book preview

What is Emotional Eating?

If we want to stop the problem, we need to know what we’re fighting. When you have a runny nose, headache, sore throat, and a cough, it’s easy to see that you have a cold. Once you’ve identified the source of your symptoms, you can go to the store to get medicine and you’ll feel better within a few days. Unfortunately, the process of diagnosing and treating an eating disorder isn’t this simple. 

There will be periods of confusion, frustration, denial, and anxiety all wrapped up into a challenging disease that some may never diagnose in their entire lifetime. By reading this book, you’ve taken the first step in admitting that there is a problem that needs a solution. Doing this is a very brave thing, so you should be incredibly proud of yourself. 

We also need to highlight the subtle, yet often complicating differences between overeating and binge eating, which are often confused. Overeating basically involves continuing to eat when one is already full, even when more food doesn’t need to be eaten. This would be like going up for a fifth or sixth piece of pizza even though you’ve already had four big slices. 

Many people will overeat on a daily basis, but this doesn’t mean they have an eating disorder. Sometimes, it can happen simply because one is not educated properly on portion control. Binge eating involves episodes of overeating, usually brought on by an underlying reason such as anxiety or depression. Binge eating usually happens when the person is alone, and they often feel quite shameful after an episode. 

When you are in the middle of an eating disorder, you don’t always realize what’s happening. It is only after months, or even years, of the disease progressing that you can finally look back on what you’ve been through and realize there’s a problem. It is very similar to having an alcohol or drug addiction. At first, it’s just one time. One moment of binge eating — or having one extra drink. Then, before you know it, you’re keeping snacks in your car, closet, and pockets so you can binge eat before work or in between classes, much like an alcoholic might sneak beers in the same way. Though both diseases have to be treated differently, the kind of guilt and shame that comes along can be very similar, and they start in the same small