Do you know when you start to become satisfied during an eating experience or do you keep eating until you are suddenly stuffed because you have not been aware enough while you were eating to recognize your bodies signals and pause or stop to reassess your choice to keep eating?
Discover the Satisfaction Factor
Are most of your eating experiences enjoyable? What makes an eating experience enjoyable for you? The people you are with, the environment, the actual food...taste, texture, aroma, temperature? Giving yourself unconditional permission to eat? Giving yourself permission to stop eating? Taking the time to check-in and decide if you even like what you're eating and if you want to proceed or if you are simply eating it due to a conditioned, automatic response?
Cope With Your Emotions Without Using Food
Man, this is a tough one. Food can be so comforting. In the moment anyway. Unfortunately, that cozy feeling of comfort associated with eating typically doesn't last and the underlying painful emotions do, especially when the core need is not being met. Can you even identify your core needs? Here are a few of my core needs...movement that feels good, quality human interactions, touch, to be seen and heard, to accept things as they are not as I wish them to be, help when I need it, raw joy just because.
You don't have to like your body, but you don't get to abuse it. Change begins with acceptance. Acceptance does not mean you are ok with something staying the way it is forever, but acknowledges the reality of what is now.
