Emotional Eating | The Fit Shack

Are you a “What If” thinker, constantly thinking “what if this happens” or “what if that happens”?
Do you find that your scary, what if thoughts propel you towards food in an attempt to quell your fears about the future?
Week Eight of Attacking Anxiety & Depression
Welcome to week eight in my 15-week series of my self-experiment [...]

Can relate to this? - you’ve got so many things on your plate that you’ve either let your health and fitness routine totally slide, or you keep telling yourself that you don’t have the time to incorporate a health and fitness routine.
A Stuffed Schedule
If your schedule is so jam packed that you hardly have time [...]

Welcome to week seven in my 15-week experiment on myself with Lucinda Bassett’s Attacking Anxiety and Depression program.
If you haven’t been following along with this series up until this point please go back and read the intro, which is where I explain how this series relates to your health and fitness goals. 95% of the [...]

Here we are at week six already in my self-experiment series with Lucinda Bassett’s program Attacking Anxiety and Depression.
So far in the past 5 weeks we’ve learned about:
- the symptoms of stress and anxiety,
- that panic attacks might be sending you to the frig,
- that negative thinking is the main downfall of any weight loss [...]

I had a wonderful time bringing you my 12-week series on emotional eating a few months ago while I was experimenting on myself with the Shrink Yourself program. And hey, if you missed it, you can still check it out - my introductory post to the series lists links to all 12 updates.
Shrink Yourself is an awesome program [...]

Here’s something that seriously bugs me - referring to how you eat by announcing, “I’ve been good today” or, “I was so bad today”.
Why does this bother me so much? Because you’re essentially labeling yourself as being either good or bad based on how you eat.
Well I don’t know about you, but I’m much more [...]

Your belief is your biology. With every thought you think, there is an associated chemical reaction and physical affects. - Attacking Anxiety & Depression, week three.
Depending on how long you’ve been a smart reader of The Fit Shack, you may remember that I used to write daily motivational posts.
These posts were focused on your thoughts [...]

Welcome to week two of my 15-week series in my latest experiment on myself here at The Fit Shack. In this experiment I’m using Lucinda Bassett’s program Attacking Anxiety & Depression on myself.
In this series I’m reporting my weekly experiences with you like I did in my emotional eating experiment, my ban on refined sugar [...]