February 7, 2012

What Are You REALLY Hungry For?

Hungry Baby Birds

What are you really hungry for? If you are an overeater have you ever considered that your hunger has nothing to do with food or the physical need of your body for sustenance? Perhaps you eat when you aren’t even physically hungry and maybe you cannot remember the last time that your stomach was empty [...]

Shrink Yourself Emotional Eating Experiment – Week Eleven

Rebellious child

You’ve heard all the talk (and maybe even said it yourself) about the lifelong struggle with food and weight, the struggle of keeping it all going, of watching what you eat, staying motivated to exercise, etc., etc.? Well for myself, this isn’t so much a struggle with anything outside of me as it is a [...]

Maybe You ARE Out of Control in Your Eating?

I can see from yesterday’s comments that we’re on the same page here – there’s a little bit more that goes into losing weight and making a lifestyle change than just “getting a grip on yourself” and exercising self-control. Does this mean that you can let it all hang out and still reach your weight [...]

What Is A Trigger Food?

Sweet Trigger Foods

Have you heard of the term “trigger food”? Do you know what your trigger foods are? Trigger foods are any foods that trigger you to overeat and/or binge. They are foods that you just can’t get enough of; one bite is never enough and one helping isn’t enough. Trigger foods can also lead you to [...]