From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 68
The word guilty serves as a cover-up for a less acceptable emotion. When you peek underneath your guilty feelings, you may discover a whole list of emotions.
The next time you feel guilty about something, ask yourself, “If I wasn’t feeling guilty, what would I be feeling?” [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 67
Recognize areas where you are holding a hot coal, and make a conscious decision to let go of it.
Work on healing your heart, and you’ll probably find that eating to punish someone else will stop as well. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 66
This lesson still makes me laugh as I remember the night I kicked the kettles. Such a funny event, but it brought lots of laughter and relief from stress and loneliness.
During times when we’re hurting or feeling weak and vulnerable, it’s easy to think that eating will fix the problem. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 65
Changing the way you show feelings doesn’t have to be traumatic.
You can start gradually, as I did, by expressing your emotions on a limited basis. Eventually, demonstrating your feelings will become easier and more enjoyable. [Read more…]
For today’s lesson, instead of answering the three questions, I’m sharing a longer version of my personal story about emotional eating.
It’s not easy for me to do this because it reminds me of sadness in my life that never goes away completely. But as a way to help you understand emotional eating, I’m opening my heart to show you my own struggles toward a healthier relationship with food. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 18
On the left side of a piece of paper, write the words, I feel, and on the right side write, because of. Choose a situation or event to explore and in the left column, write a word to describe how you feel about it.
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 62
Recovering your feelings doesn’t mean you have to start pounding your fists and screaming.
You simply need to move out of the neutral zone and rebuild your enthusiasm for life. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 61
Facing your emotions doesn’t have to destroy you. When you take your feelings out of the dark, it makes them less scary.
You may discover that your grief, anger, and even bitterness aren’t as intense as you remembered. [Read more…]
From 100 MORE Days of Weight Loss, Day 60
Consider letting go of fretting about yourself and your own weight-loss goals.
Instead, focus on your ability to support and encourage others. Think about the words you need to hear, then give these words away to someone else. [Read more…]
I’ve just been through a couple of hard weeks.
My exercise program went away because I “didn’t feel like doing it.” Then I found myself eating a lot more cookies, desserts and nighttime ice cream.
I couldn’t figure out why I had slid into this overeating pattern.
My life seems fine right now, and I didn’t feel overly stressed. The weather’s been good, my home life is stable [Read more…]