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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 23, 2020 23:20:25 GMT
Monday, 08/24
Thinking Mistake #4: Emotional Reasoning
You think your ideas are true even though objective evidence says not.
"Since I feel like a failure for having strayed, I really must be a failure."
"I feel like I just have to have something sweet right now."
How are you doing with your emotional reasoning?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 23, 2020 23:21:59 GMT
I guess this would what happens sometimes when I'm hungry. I feel like I have to eat something right now instead of waiting until a planned meal or snack. This was happening recently and it was extra food. Once I became aware of it I was able to cut back on it.
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Post by cathygeha on Aug 24, 2020 6:25:21 GMT
Emotional reasoning is...interesting. This question took me on a trip to emotional reasoning then emotional eating and then an emotion chart. I think emotions often drive behavior. Some have better blocks and stops in place to check emotions before acting while others...including those that overeat due toe motions...do not have the checks in place that would help keep life/eating in balance. I will insert a couple charts I found if they are not copyrighted.
I am doing a LOT better with this. I am not out baking cookies when upset but instead soak in the tub and read or do something else. So...a lot better than in my teens and pre-menopause/hysterectomy!
The charts have me looking to see if perhaps I eat as a result of more than one kind of emotion 
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Post by luvvinlife on Aug 24, 2020 14:13:16 GMT
I used to justify emotional eating as long as I had room in my food budget. Now Iām usually able to talk myself out of it. bbbearsmom,Great job on the rebounding! What did you do differently in order to find that it was extra food? |
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 24, 2020 16:18:49 GMT
cathygeha, Great charts. Thanks for sharing. luvvinlife, It was recognizing that I was doing the extra eating. Just this morning I wanted to do some extra eating and I was able to wait until lunch time to eat. It is the awareness of the sabotaging thought that makes the difference.
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Post by luvvinlife on Aug 24, 2020 18:11:03 GMT
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Post by surfgirl on Aug 25, 2020 22:53:31 GMT
cathygeha, can you please share a link to those charts? I'd like to use them in my trainings, they're really interesting, thanks! Some of these thinking mistakes can be so similar, like I was going to say I do or did this alot, but then I read the description above and I think what I do is deluded thinking, where I tell myself I'll eat this now and make up for it later. Then again, I do stress eat at times, and I suppose that IS emotional reasoning isn't it? Like when I HAD to have tea cake with my evening tea every single night during the first 3 months of quarantine. I was able to stop that though because I realized that there was no way I was going to get to my weight loss goal if I kept that up.
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Post by cathygeha on Aug 26, 2020 5:45:35 GMT
surfgirl, Not sure...I think I googled "feelings wheel" and looked at the images section THEN chose a couple I liked, clicked to get to the site that had the ones I liked then copied the image on the locations and copied/pasted the url into the message. This is the page that came up with these and some others:
You could also check feelings chart...happy hunting!
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Post by surfgirl on Aug 27, 2020 19:47:47 GMT
Thanks Cathy!
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