Mindful eating is not about giving anything up. It’s not a diet. It is about enjoying food more intensely. You can eat a double cheeseburger mindfully, if you choose to. You would probably enjoy it a lot more than if you had guilt around it. Or you might decide, halfway through, that your body has had enough. Or that it really needs something green, like [...]
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The first step to busting out of the emotional eating trap is to make friends. Not friends with other people, friends with yourself. You already have proven, perhaps over and over, that hating your fat or yourself doesn't change anything. Why not try another strategy? Taking care of yourself is its town reward, but—just as you [...]
Getting a grip on emotional eating As a result of all the emotional layering around food, many of us have forgotten how—and even why—we eat. Animals in the wild know that food is nourishment: it’s essential to their survival and that’s that. Animals do not eat for recreation, reward, entertainment or to numb out, and [...]