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Post by bbbearsmom on Dec 3, 2019 0:54:25 GMT
Tuesday, 12/03
Day 33 Eliminate Emotional Eating
From Beck: People without a weight problem don’t think to eat to feel better.
Beck says while being upset is uncomfortable we can tolerate negative emotions and they will go away like cravings. She says: …best way to decrease your distress is to respond to your negative thinking and to solve the problem associated with your emotional upset. She points out she covers this tomorrow.
She suggests you use mindset techniques to deal with emotional eating:
Label your feeling. (And tell yourself you’re not hungry.)
Stand firm. (That you will not eat)
Don’t give yourself a choice. (NO Choice!)
Imagine the aftermath of giving in. (How will you feel after you overeat)
Read your Advantages Response Card. (Refocus yourself)
Use behavioral techniques:
Distract yourself.
Drink a soothing no- or low-calorie beverage.
Relax.
How are you with emotional eating?
Do you use mindset or behavioral techniques to handle it?
What other ways do you use to handle it?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Dec 3, 2019 0:59:06 GMT
Right now I don't think I emotionally eat but right now life is pretty steady and sane. When I do get really upset about something in the past I made it a point to make sure I was eating healthy and would eat beans or bean soup. The beans/bean soup because almost 30 years ago I found out that eating bean soup would calm me down if I was really upset to the point of crying. (Also I've yet to overeat on bean soup.) When I have things on my mind I use other things to distract me, I might exercise, meditate, get busy and do something, reach out to a friend.
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Post by cathygeha on Dec 3, 2019 7:45:38 GMT
How are you with emotional eating? Haven't been emotional recently. I might still have whatever I can find in the house but as not much is in the house to derail me it might be peanut butter with sugar, fruit or if we have nuts...a handful of nuts.
Do you use mindset or behavioral techniques to handle it? Not recently
What other ways do you use to handle it? I usually escape into a book. If I don't want to be HERE I go somewhere else.
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Post by lani on Dec 3, 2019 15:12:09 GMT
I usually escape into a book. If I don't want to be HERE I go somewhere else. My favorite! I was getting stressed yesterday and had the knee-jerk reaction of wanting to eat in response, but I swatted it down. I am able to do that now without going through all the techniques. I think I have a mental shorthand version now. |
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Post by cathygeha on Dec 3, 2019 15:39:32 GMT
I usually escape into a book. If I don't want to be HERE I go somewhere else. My favorite! I was getting stressed yesterday and had the knee-jerk reaction of wanting to eat in response, but I swatted it down. I am able to do that now without going through all the techniques. I think I have a mental shorthand version now. My favorite, specially in winter when it is cold, is to find a paperback book (most likely a re-read kept on the shelves to drag out when this needs to be done) and head upstairs with a glass of wine, fill the tub, sip wine and read a book...nothing can relax me more than that...at least not at the ripe old age of 68 in February 
Do you have an acronym (is that the word) for what you whip through your brain when you need to de-stress? Share if you do.
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Post by lani on Dec 3, 2019 15:46:30 GMT
cathygeha, that sounds divine. No actual words that I use to get my brain's attention. It's more like when Cher slapped Nicholas Cage and said "snap out of it!" only wordlessly. OT: I see that the $100 million that was being held up up in aid to Lebanon has been released. No explanation for the delay.
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Post by cathygeha on Dec 3, 2019 16:48:28 GMT
cathygeha , that sounds divine. No actual words that I use to get my brain's attention. It's more like when Cher slapped Nicholas Cage and said "snap out of it!" only wordlessly. Okay...thinking I remember that movie...Italian perhaps in essence and he was younger but there was definitely chemistry? Would work for me OT: I see that the $100 million that was being held up up in aid to Lebanon has been released. No explanation for the delay. Who can explain the whims of countries and those that run them. The money to "here" I have heard is for the military. Now...is it actual dollars or old trucks and tanks and airplanes or real dollars? who knows. AND on that note...there was something that blew some away here because money was sent by the Lebanese government (that is in hoc up to its neck) to some "Palestinian" bank or source or whatever (perhaps the UN?) as part of the Arab relief fund...though the people commenting were saying...why THAT relief fund and not our own? You know how it is...or perhaps not?
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Post by surfgirl on Dec 3, 2019 16:54:12 GMT
OT: I see that the $100 million that was being held up up in aid to Lebanon has been released. No explanation for the delay. Ironic, isn't it? That the current US administration uses excuses like "corruption" for holding up much-needed aid to other countries when our own corruption is at an all time, red alarm high. Boggles the effing mind. *steps off soapbox*
As to the topic of the day...I'm still not great at this one. I ate toast and jam last night after soup, because why? Because I'm sick, I'm getting upset at the constant coughing and hacking, and it's been over a week and I feel like I'm not getting better. So why did I think toast and jam would make me feel better? It's not medicine, right? It's not ordered by a doctor to help quell colds, right?
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Post by lani on Dec 3, 2019 19:38:48 GMT
surfgirl , there is rampant corruption in Lebanon. I doubt any country is free of it. I'm just suspicious of the motives behind you-know-who. I kind of miss Nancy Reagan and her horoscopes. Not really.... I just mean it makes as much sense as his current "policies". Sorry I steered us into political territory. I'll try to keep off that subject since I don't think it's appropriate for this thread. It's just cathy and her being in Lebanon that brought it up.
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