How to Stop Overeating

You had a bad day. Again. Your boss was a jerk. Your friend betrayed you. Your kids woke up late for school. Your partner didn’t agree with you. You got a flat tire on the way to work and your dog bit the neighbor kid.

Whatever the scenario is, it made for a crappy day!  And what better way to end a crappy day than to eat the whole box of cookies or consume a basket of bread along with the large bowl of pasta and why not just add a bottle of wine with that cheese?

Emotionally you’re spent, annoyed and crave to numb yourself with something outside of yourself because you’ve learned that it makes you feel better. Until you beat yourself up for going numb and eating all the things.

You know the cycle. It’s quite familiar to you but you just can’t seem to interrupt it enough to  do something different, yet you so long to be different. So, you tell yourself this is the last time you’ll do that and you’ll start changing tomorrow.

Then tomorrow comes and your alarm doesn’t go off, you wake up late, rush to work and your boss gives you a warning for being late again. You just can’t seem to get a break! The world is against you and the part of you that was going to change tomorrow is going to get pushed off again because dang it…you deserve to eat/do/numb whatever and however the heck you want!

If this sounds all too familiar then it’s the familiar that you must target for change. Einstein said, you can’t change a problem at the same level of thinking that created the problem, so assuming you can just will yourself to do something different “tomorrow” isn’t going to work. You’re going to start to focus on shifting the problem and realize the problem isn’t what you think it is.

You don’t have a problem with self-control, you have an issue with emotions. The issue is a disconnect from self and using emotions to drive yourself into further disconnect. When we acquiesce to our emotions then they become greater than the change we really desire and long for.

Measure your thoughts about what you want to change against the emotion that fuels the numbness and notice which one has more power.

You will notice the drive to stay numb and stuck in the cycle of not changing rules over the desire to change.

Until it doesn’t.

This is where your mind and will comes in to play. Changing your mind is just the start of changing your life. And as you are fully aware, when you want to change something the lovely beast of resistance makes its starring role.

When you change your mind and set an intention to change, then engage your will to create an emotion greater than the old emotion that resistance creates. That's when you change your life and beat the resistance! 

Did you know that scientists say that your body and mind cannot differentiate between an emotion that you’ve experienced to one that you create? SO COOL!!! That means you have power to connect the emotion you desire with the intention that you set to create the outcome you long for!

Now, here comes the tricky part…you gotta do the work! And trust me! It’s work! However, it’s also work to stay stuck in the same old cycle of numbness and pain that leads to overeating. So choose with clear intention the one that will bring you freedom and life!

Now, go do the work!