Today I’d like to talk about a very important tool to use when you’re working on overcoming your food addiction. The tool is positive self talk.

It’s not the same thing as positive thinking. It goes deeper than that. Even if your conscious mind does not yet believe it, you can reprogram the way you think about things, including food and your food addiction.

Positive self talk is about those conversations we have with ourselves that talk us into and out of things that may or may not be good for us. Positive self talk is our front line support system.

You can change your perspective using positive self talk. Making positive statements and reciting daily affirmations related to your goals will internalize positive feelings about yourself and what you are doing. Using this technique, you can completely renovate your belief system.

It’s food for the Soul, and if you are an emotional eater or a true food addict, nourishing the spirit is extremely important.

No matter what you do physically to overcome an obstacle in your life, it is what you do for your Spirit that will carry you through the hardest of times. I think a food addiction falls into that category.

Since food addiction is born out of feelings of low self-esteem, shame, and isolation, among other things, inspiration and self-acceptance can play a large part in the recovery process of a food addict.

One of my favorite things is a set of HarMoney Prosperity Cards that I bought more than 20 years ago. These simple affirmation cards look like little $100 bills. Each one has a statement that reminds you that abundance is a choice. They are very inspiring.

Saying these affirmations each day invites prosperity into all areas of your life. You can learn to go from thinking like a victim to thinking like a champion, from feeling helpless to feeling empowered.

They’re simple little sayings that feed and comfort the Spirit and calm the mind. True prosperity and harmony are neighbors in the heart.

Whatever prosperity means to you , if you are letting emotional eating turn you away from your dreams, you will not find it until you can get yourself back on track.

Even though food addiction is a good reason to feel hopeless, depressed and abandoned, it is not a good enough reason to push prosperity away from yourself.

To attract prosperity, you must relax. If you are battling a weight problem because of a food addiction, you need inspiration to motivate you into action.

I recommend HarMoney because of the gentle way each card reminds you that you are somebody. You are special. You deserved to have good things in your life.

Prosperity will not be given to you automatically. You must draw it to you as a magnet attracts steel.

When you  stuff down your feelings with food, the temporary comfort fades when your body reveals the consequences of your emotional eating spree in the mirror.

That’s when you have to be strong and fight back with positive self talk. HarMoney will give you all kinds of ideas about what to say to yourself.

It’s up to you to attract the things you want in your life. Like attracts like. Become the best you that you can be.

When you like yourself, you will attract the people you want and need in your life. Then you will not need emotional eating as a source of comfort.

Don’t let a food addiction deprive you of the kind of life you desire. Use whatever tools you need and build the life you want.

Do yourself a favor and check out HarMoney Prosperity Cards. They’re awesome.

Stuff your Spirit with inspiration and fill your heart with love. Soul food of the best kind with words that remind you that you are already perfect. And you are loved.

Yesterday I spoke of getting healthy. Instead of focusing on losing weight, make your goal bigger. Look past your food addiction and ask yourself what it will take to get healthy again. Is there a program that will work for you?

You may have to experiment before you find a plan that fits your goals. Remember, not all food addicts are created equal. Your food addiction is unique to you, so your eating plan won’t be a one-size-fits-all.

One of the best places to start when you want to rid your body of fat is your eating plan. When you are putting the right foods in your body, you will feel energized and you will want to be active.

Don’t let confusion stall your start. That’s your food addiction stepping up to sabotage you.  If you find a plan that sounds like it may work for you, give it a try.

Always look for a money-back guarantee of 60 days so you will have enough time to try it out. When we attempt something that will improve our lives, procrastination seems to pop up and try to pull us back to our old ways.

That’s just the food addiction. It may always lurk under the surface, but so what? Do it anyway. The guarantee will give you time to try the product even if you’ve let it sit for a week.

I think that being able to eat well, and eat for energy is the best. If you can go organic, great! Your body will be all the better for it.

The most important thing is that you learn what your body needs to be full of energy and vitality, so you can feel happy again. Being happy makes it all seem possible.

You can learn to eat past your food addiction. Even if emotional eating still plagues you, eat past it. Don’t let it stop you. Don’t let anything stop you from being healthy and happy.

One of the programs I like is Eating for Energy. Raw foods are the most energizing. They taste great and give you lots of energy without pills and caffeine  and other stimulants.

Let someone who’s been there help you get there. Yuri walks you through every step of the way in the Eating for Energy program. You need a mentor who will demonstrate how this new way of eating can work for you. That guidance and support will inspire you and keep advancing  you toward your goal.

You can’t give up food, and if you beat yourself up about emotional eating, your food addiction will only gain more power over you.

Don’t ask yourself how much weight you want to lose. Ask yourself how much you want to weigh. How do you want to feel? What do you want to do?

When you know what foods burn fat, not just make the number on the scales go down, you will find that there’s a lot more to eating past your food addiction than just counting calories.

When you experience firsthand how great you can feel when you are doing the things that your body wants and needs, that food addiction is just one step closer to slipping out of your life for good.

You can do it!!

I was pondering this while eating a cinnamon and raisin bagel–Thomas’, buy one, get one free. Boy, are they good! I decided they would be a better snack to have around than popcorn.

Diets don’t work. Willpower doesn’t work. Why? Because food addicts eat when they are un-comfortable, when they cannot be comforted.

We don’t want to eat. We want to be comforted. We want support, someone to listen without judging, a confidant to care about us and tell us everything will be okay, when we are feeling overwhelmed.

We give food addictions way too much power, and ourselves way too little. Emotional eating is eating when your heart is restless or broken and you are not in control of your emotions.

Emotions put on scary faces and jump out at you from everywhere, like pranksters on Halloween. But you can’t think fear away. You have to fill up with love so there won’t be any room for fear.

I know it sounds corny but people need to be cared about, listened to, and comforted. You may not carry your “blanky” with you into adulthood but the need for a safe haven is always present.

That safe haven used to be called “home” but these days home can be a very empty place. So we resort to filling that void with food. To the food addict, food and shelter are the same thing.

Food is readily available and you can count on it. How often can you find that combination?

There is plenty of advice available to food addicts, facts and opinions alike. Some is helpful; some is not, depending on the problem the food addiction is causing.

One thing is certain. Food is not the problem. No diet in the world can cure a food addiction. But changing the way you eat can improve your physical and mental health and change the way you respond to stress.

Tomorrow, if I can figure out how to do it, I am going to share with you about a program that helped me tremendously. I didn’t know how to eat anymore. I gained weight no matter what I did.

The packaged food programs weren’t successful. Nothing worked. I was afraid to eat anything and so I panicked and ate everything. Then in 2001 I got healthy.

Food addiction is a real problem and there are some real solutions. You can change the way you think of yourself and your relationship with food. Get healthy again, one good habit at a time.

When you learn how to do this, you won’t have to worry about winning every battle with food, because the war will be over.