How to deal with emotional eating - by Melissa Murphy - Helium. Melissa Murphy - 565406's image for: "How to Deal with Emotional Eating" Caption: Location: Image by: If you are among the millions of Americans who are having trouble managing their weight because of emotional eating, you are not alone. The Roots of Emotional Eating Experiences surrounding food are among the earliest associations that are built in a person's psyche. Upon entering adolescence, people can develop eating disorders which are largely due to an emotional imbalance.
How to Overcome Emotional Eating Knowing how emotional eating affects you and becoming aware of its foundation is the first step in managing the psychological aspect of eating. . • Check in with yourself. . • Record your feelings. . • Distract yourself. Many people find themselves in an emotional trap that causes them to give in to unhealthy cravings which are often of the high fat, sweet or salty variety.
Start With Why. 14 Tips For Resolutions That Stick in the New Year. Statistics show that only about 15% of New Years Resolutions are kept. With an 85% failure rate, it’s no wonder that the amount of resolutions made is dropping. You wouldn’t buy a product that is defective 85% of the time, so why buy into the annual hype about resolutions? A strategy that fails over four fifths of the time is broken. The question is, how do you fix it? Most resolutions come in the form of habit changes. Resolutions Require Strategy, Not Willpower I believe that most New Years Resolutions fail because people approach them incorrectly.
With the right strategy, however, you can make habit changes a success. Create a Trigger. 18 Tricks to Make New Habits Stick. Wouldn’t it be nice to have everything run on autopilot? Chores, exercise, eating healthy and getting your work done just happening automatically. Unless they manage to invent robot servants, all your work isn’t going to disappear overnight. But if you program behaviors as new habits you can take out the struggle. With a small amount of initial discipline, you can create a new habit that requires little effort to maintain. Here are some tips for creating new habits and making them stick: 1. Commit to Thirty Days – Three to four weeks is all the time you need to make a habit automatic. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Martin Seligman on positive psychology | Video on TED.com - StumbleUpon.
Why You Shouldn't Feel Guilty About Stealing a Little Time for Yourself. Whether you're single, married, or in a relationship, the demands of life and the expectations of those nearest and dearest to your heart can make finding time for yourself a huge challenge. Between dedicating time to parents , children, partners, siblings, in-laws, nieces, nephews, friends, colleagues, and work, it's hard to even dream of stealing a little time for yourself.
Couple that with the guilt that many people, especially women, experience when they manage to find a few moments of time for themselves, and it becomes clear why so many people feel that finding time for themselves isn't worth the effort. But worth the effort it is, and not only because of the personal benefits you'll reap. Alone time has interpersonal benefits as well. As I described in my recent post, , the personal benefits of solitude are many. But in today's world, how do you find the time to give to yourself? As overscheduled as our lives are these days, it can be quite a challenge to find time for yourself.