Archive for the "Emotional Eating" category

 

Why Medicating Your Stress & Anxiety with Food Doesn’t Work

 

We’re at week eleven in my self-experiment with Lucinda Bassett’s Attacking Anxiety and Depression program. Just a couple more weeks and I’ll have completed this program although just like any area of self-growth and self-improvement it never really “ends”, but rather when you learn healthy life coping skills then you’re in a position to continue [...]

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Does Obsessive Thinking Drive You to Overeat?

 

So, have you ever engaged in obsessive, scary thinking, telling yourself all kinds of things that got you all worked up, scared, and worried? 
Have you ever found yourself turning to food to try to quell those scary, obsessive thoughts and feelings?
Week 10 – Attacking Anxiety and Depression
Wow, we’re already at week 10 in my 15-week experiment [...]

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Lose That Weight by Losing the Guilt and the Worry

 

Have you ever indulged in guilt because of how you ate, how much you ate, how little you exercised, or because you regained some or all of the weight that you had previously lost? Did feeling guilty help you get back on a healthy path or did it keep you in unhealthy behaviors?
Have you ever [...]

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How “What If” Thinking Can Sabotage Your Weight Loss

 

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 [...]

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Are You Stuffing Your Days & Then Stuffing Your Mouth?

 

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 [...]

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How Being Assertive Will Help You Lose Weight

 

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 [...]

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Feeling a Bit Angry? Don’t Stuff It With Food

 

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 [...]

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Emotional Eating – Got a Question?

 

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 [...]

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