Weight Loss: Gain control of Emotional Eating with Hypnotherapy

Is Emotional eating sabotaging your attempts to lose weight?

Emotional eating is eating is a way to suppress or soothe negative emotions, such as stress, anger, fear, boredom, sadness and loneliness. Both major life events and the hassles of daily life can trigger negative emotions that lead to emotional eating and disrupt your weight-loss efforts. These triggers may include: Unemployment, Financial pressure, Health problems, Relationship conflicts, Work stress or Fatigue.

In these situations you may just reach for whatever food is available, even if you are not hungry. It's quite likely that you won't even enjoy the food. The result is that you feel bad about yourself, adding to the emotional eating cycle and that just makes you eat more.

Here are some tips to help you deal with the emotional eating cycle:

1. Reduce your stress. stress contributes to emotional eating. stress management techniques such as yoga, meditation or relaxation can help to reduce stress levels and start to switch off emotional eating.

2. Hunger reality check.Before you reach for food, STOP and try to assess if your hunger real or emotional? If you ate just a few hours ago and don't have a rumbling stomach, you're probably not really hungry. Try drinking a glass of water and give the craving a little time to pass.

3. Keep a Emotional food diary. Write down what you eat, when you eat, how you're feeling before and after you eat. Over time, you may see patterns emerge that reveal the connection between your mood and food.

4. Fight boredom. Some emotional eaters eat when they are bored. Instead of snacking when you're not truly hungry, distract yourself. Take a walk, watch a movie, take your dog for a walk, listen to music, read a book or call a friend.

5. Take away temptation. Don't keep supplies of comfort foods in your home if they're hard for you to resist.

6. Snack healthy. If you feel the urge to eat between meals, choose a low-fat, low-calorie snack, such as fresh fruit, vegetables with low-fat dip or unbuttered popcorn.

7. One thing at a time. Sit up to the table while you are eating and focus on that alone. Don't eat while watching TV, surfing the internet, driving or doing any other task. In these situations you will not fully enjoy the food and will end up eating more.

8. Be kind to yourself. Nobody is perfect, if you have an episode of emotional eating, forgive yourself and start fresh the next day. Focus on the positive changes you're making in your eating habits.

However if you are an emotional eater all this can be very difficult on your own, using willpower alone. The bad eating habit are deeply embedded in your subconsious mind and when it comes to eating you can find yourself on autopilot. For many no amount of telling your conscious mind to stop eating, to reduce your food intake, to go on yet another diet is going to work. This is where Hypnotherapy comes in. Hypnotherapy helps to change the way you think about food, your feeling towards food and your eating behaviour. Through Hypnotherapy it is possible to make these changes and make them stick because it communicates with your subconscious mind. This can mean making long lasting changes in your lifestyle and saying goodbye to emotional eating, goodbye to diets for good.

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