It starts innocently enough.
You open a box of Girl Scout cookies, planning to eat just a couple. An hour later, you realize you’ve finished off half the box.
Or perhaps at a party, you reach into a bowl of peanuts or M&M’s and quickly lose track of how many times you grab another handful. [Read more…]
On the way home from work, Kathy stopped to visit her mother.
She’d planned to stay only a few minutes, but then she noticed the plate of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
They smelled wonderful!
“I’ll have just one,” she thought. And she did. It tasted so good that soon she reached for another, then several more. [Read more…]
It’s so easy to grab food that shows up in front of us.
Food triggers are everywhere, from the cookies on the counter to the TV ads for pizza. Before you know it, what started as the “thought” of food is now going into your mouth. [Read more…]
How to figure out what you are feelingOn 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.
No matter how long you stay on your diet or maintenance plan, food will still always look good!
And you’ll never be completely free of the temptation to eat something when you feel stressed or upset and need nurturing and solace. [Read more…]