Comments on: Shrink Yourself Emotional Eating Experiment – Week Nine

By: Shrink Yourself Emotional Eating Experiment - Week Ten | The Fit Shack

Shrink Yourself Emotional Eating Experiment - Week Ten | The Fit Shack — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:48:52 +0000

[...] Week Nine introduces you to learning about your Safety-Seeking self, that part of yourself that sabotages you and keep you overweight because that’s where you’re comfortable – being overweight. The problem is that you don’t want to be overweight (hey, isn’t that the reason you’d want to do the Shrink Yourself program? lol, of course it is! ), so Shrink Yourself teaches you how to soothe your Safety-Seeking self. [...]

By: JoLynn Braley

JoLynn Braley — Tue, 06 May 2008 02:59:18 +0000

@Mark, I’ve had times of looking at food as fuel, too, and it’s worked for me, but still have had the side that wants to emotionally eat. You might not be an emotional eater though, which is really good so that you don’t need to go through this.

@FB, right, the Shrink Yourself program teaches you to regain your personal power instead of looking for food to solve your feelings (which it can’t).

@Chris, I think you might have read my post on May 02 where I blogged about starting a detox? And I don’t know about mixing Xylitol w/Stevia – Xylitol is a sugar alcohol and sugar alcohols trigger my sugar addiction, and you’re right that it can cause intestinal issues if you use too much. I’d recommend plain Stevia instead, especially if you’re addicted to sugar like me.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:09:40 +0000

I think it’s a good idea to do a detox to get rid of the bad left-over affects of Splenda. You may start to experience some weird sensations as the toxins are being flushed from your body, but keep it up, as you will feel better when it’s all done. And if you really need to have something sweet, a good and safe product I’ve been using is a mixture of xylitol and stevia, which have been used for decades with no harmful affects like aspartame and splenda have. Xylitol by itself is fine unless you use a large quantity which can cause some diarrhea. By combining the 2 you get a great tasting sweetener – they are both plant-based and there’s no chemical processing involved. Good luck in your weight loss and detox!

chris’s last blog post..Cheap and easy plant labels

By: failureblogger

failureblogger — Sat, 03 May 2008 03:57:49 +0000

This is a great post! But I think that we are the only ones that can stop ourselves from emotional eating. But I'll try the program anyways. failureblogger-16 year old blogger failureblogger's last blog post..4/30/08

By: Mark A. Salinas

Mark A. Salinas — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:28:27 +0000

Mark of a good regiment is to be mentally and emotionally prepared for ups and downs.I tend to have more success with food if I look at it as fuels vs. a pleasure. It definitely challenges me to keep focussed and to remember that the process is to be tackled “one day at a time”.

Mark A. Salinas