Here is a great YouTube video featuring motivational and weight loss speaker Michelle May, M.D. I love to hear her speak. She really puts emotional eating in perspective.
For more information on Michelle’s program, click here.
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Food, Feelings, and Holidays
The holidays are just around the corner. There will be a lot of eating going on between now and the first of the year.
So what kind of advice will you be listening to this time around? Whatever it is, try not to take it too seriously.
Of all the times to worry about overeating, the holidays are not the time. They are meant to be happy times and there is always food.
You can’t escape it so you might as well relax and enjoy the food, festivities, and the feelings that the holiday season brings.
Remember, food addictions make you stuff down feelings. While the holidays can be stressful, there is no need to favor the stress over the joy of the season.
What can you do? Besides eat, that is. Having some fun is always a good idea. Get some extra rest, relax with a holiday movie. There are quite a few good ones and many are on TV now.
Cook or bake something. Your house will smell spicy and warm. You won’t have to worry about all the extra sugar and fat because all the best recipes don’t require all that junk. And there’s nothing like homemade cookies, pies, and breads.
Get to sleep early or take naps. Don’t let fatigue trick you into eating when you are actually sleepy and not really hungry.
Laugh as much as possible. It’s great for the stomach muscles. Check out fat blockers and enzymes at the health food store to help you deal with the richer foods.
Drink plenty of water. Get outside in the fresh air. Walk, jog, play on the swings in the park. Do something. Do everything but think about food addictions and emotional eating, and how much weight you have to lose.
Most of all, be happy. Everyone can think of something to be grateful for and happy about. Everyone. And nobody ever stuffs down happiness.
A Food Addict’s Halloween
Halloween can be sheer hell for food addicts handing out candy to trick-or-treaters. Yeah, you’re supposed to hand it out, not turn out all your lights and sit there in the dark and eat it yourself.
Halloween is one of the few opportunities some of us get to interact with real people, and children at that. Few things are more entertaining than watching children enjoying themselves.
The smiles, the big eyes when they get to choose their favorite candy all by themselves, the shrieks when an older ghostly creature jumps out of the bushes and scares the crap out of them, and the sweet, distracted “thank you” at Mom and Dad’s urging. It’s just too cool.
True, all that candy can be tempting, but I have noticed that I don’t feel overly emotional or stressed out waiting for the trick-or-treaters, so I don’t have any addictive cravings. That doesn’t mean that I won’t eat candy corn or M&M Peanuts but I just don’t go nuts with the stuff.
I’ve had 4 bags of candy stashed in the corner in a tightly-tied plastic bag for three days and I haven’t been tempted once. It actually feels weird. And just try to journal your feelings when you don‘t crave the addictive food!
My food addiction plan is in place. I expect to eat some kind of candy, so I’ll keep a couple of fat blockers on hand, but my plan is what will save my bacon.
I plan to enjoy every single bite of Halloween candy I eat–every morsel. No negative self-talk about shoulda, coulda, woulda baloney. Of course, I will drink lots of water to help flush the fats from the Snickers, Tootsie Rolls, and Peanut M&M’s, should the kids leave any for me.
And my surefire backup is a group of teenagers who come by around 9:30 and are happy to see a smiling face after being run off by some of my neighbors who close up shop by 8:00 PM.
Not only do we have a nice conversation, but they know that Ms. Bernie will give them the rest whatever candy is left over at the end of the night, so they really look forward to that.
Little do they know that they are helping me more than I am helping them. I’ve learned that when all is said and done, people are the absolute best rescue remedy for any food addiction, any time. Count on it.