Emotional Eating - Dangerous Times
Emotional Eating - a Five Flavour Day?
I was chilling out the other day when I got home from a workshop on nutrition - with emotional eating one of the topics we covered.
Having a restorative cup of tea, I caught the end of Judging Amy (daytime Hallmark, perfect for chilling out, just don't watch too much or your brain turns into a vegetable).
Amy was asking her Mum if it was a 3 flavour day. No, Tyne Daly replied, it's a five flavour day.
Now I myself am at the end of a long day so it takes me a second or two to catch on.
Then out come the Haagen-Dazs and the Ben & Jerry's...Aah! NOW I know what a five flavour day is!
This is emotional eating at its best. Or worst.
Let's hope it's not a daily event, as emotional eating then becomes destructive.
But you can conquer emotional eating forever.
Best wishes to all, Liz Copeland
So this week Fergie has had a go at the press for calling Princess Beatrice fat. Quite right too. Fergie, I mean, not the press.
Princess Beatrice is a gorgeous size 10 and combines slim and curvy in a perfectly satisfactory way. She does not need to be Hollywood slim (i.e. size 0) and if she were the same press idiots would be calling her anorexic.
Fergie has a right to be incensed as she has had her own battles with food and the media.
Let Princesss B. alone, she's fine as she is.
Best wishes to all, Liz Copeland
Most of us know when we are emotional eaters - whatever diet we are on it's so easy to find an excuse not to follow it.
With the fine weather we're having at the moment it's tempting to go hunting for summer clothes, but depressing if you are the same large size you were the year before. Or even worse, if you are bigger! You may despair of ever losing weight and you might feel that overeating is your destiny.
It isn't. So some hints to help you along the way.
As you start exercising, think of what you will look like after two months of workouts, not how you'll feel in the next five minutes.
When you are about to bite into the next cream cake, think of what you'll feel like in two hours time (bloated? fat? defeated?) not how you will feel over the next thirty seconds. Overeating will be 'invisible' to you in the next thirty seconds - you won't even know you are doing it. But in two hours time you'll be overfed and the cake calories will be firmly settled on your hips.
In your weekly shopping trip imagine how you will feel after you've eaten the foods in your shopping cart. Not just immediately after the first mouthful but several hours later, when you have processed and digested the food.
Overeating begins in the mind, not the mouth, so think of your future and eat well.
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