Do you really understand why you're emotional eating? Wouldn’t life be grand if you could just stop emotional eating?

It doesn’t matter what eating plan you try and live by, if you struggle with emotional eating, it will keep adding weight to your body until you really get a handle on it.

I know for me, when I lost over 30 pounds, one of the hardest thing for me to get a handle on was emotional eating. Here are the first few things that I had to really understand in order to manage my emotional connection with food….

1. Emotional eating starts in your mind, not your body.
Knowing this can be a huge help for you because it has nothing to do with motivation, how strong willed you are, or what foods you like. Because emotional eating starts in your mind, you can change your thoughts and focus to change your eating.

The NLP technique I love is taking the image you are having in your mind – and making the image smaller, black and white, and unimportant. I then replace this image in my mind’s eye with a looking cute in a little black dress at a cocktail party and feeling light, lean and beautiful. 

2. Emotional eating is a feeling that needs a voice.
Emotional eating starts with a feeling that ultimately needs a voice. This means that when you want food, you must identify what you are really feeling.  Are you feeling sad, mad, anxious? Get clear on what is really underneath your desire for food.

3. Be patient.
If you’re like me, you want to get rid of emotional eating fast. When you take on emotional eating in a powerful way, you have to be patient with yourself through this process. Tying emotions to eating means you have to unravel food from your emotions which ultimately means that you have to start feeling your feelings.

My Gold Members who feel their feelings, say that for the first time, they actually are feeling and getting to know themselves and their desires in new and powerful ways – which is leading to massive weight loss and increased self-esteem.