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September 11 2009, Issue 24

In this Issue:

Hello to everyone in the Food & Joy community and welcome to all our new subscribers. If you love food and hate dieting this is the newsletter for you!

Feature Article:  Emotional Eating - Go Beyond the Food
Liz Recommends: Conquer Emotional Eating Forever Starter Pack
Teleclasses & Programs: How to Get Beyond Emotional Eating
About Liz: Liz bio

Choose how you eat

Welcome all new subscribers to your first issue of Food & Joy’s “No More Rabbit Food” and hello! to all returning subscribers.

This issue we are looking at the various reasons for eating. Sometimes we forget it should be a pleasure not a burden, so I hope this article will give you some perspective on how we eat.

And the next teleclass will help get you focused on healthy, enjoyable eating – it’s a ‘back to basics’ on emotional eating. So if you want to get your brain and body realigned over the process of eating start now by signing up for the teleclass.

Best wishes and the best life to YOU,

Liz

Liz Copeland
The Food and Joy Coach and Creator of the Food & Joy Coaching Process

How to Get Beyond Emotional Eating

Our next teleclass is on Thursday September 17^th, 6pm UK time and 1pm Eastern/NY.

The topic this month is how to get beyond emotional eating.

So this teleseminar will be packed full of information on...

• Finding the emotional eater in you

• Loving yourself and feeding your emotions

• Enjoying food without guilt

We’ll also cover the truly transformative topic of discovering the magic you have inside yourself - and this can really free you to enjoy your food, love yourself and be the size and shape that feels wonderfully the “you” you were meant to be.

Based on the information YOU gave me I have put together a whole list of topics designed to help you reform your life and give you the size and shape you want.

Note: If you have already signed up for the June teleclass you will automatically get details of the other teleclasses in the series - there is no need to sign up again! 

And if you can’t be on the call the recording will be available as an mp3 if you are signed up for the teleclass series.

Based on the information YOU gave me I have put together a whole list of topics designed to help you reform your life and give you the size and shape you want. We began on the the 18^th June with a teleclass on the juicy subject of dealing with food cravings. This teleclass was packed with information and there were tips that you could put into practice straightaway.

**Sign up for the whole series and you’ll be getting tons of info over the next few months. I’ll be doing one teleclass per month and those of you who join this very special list will be the first to know about special offers and fantastic new programs.**

Emotional Eating - Get Beyond the Food
by Liz Copeland
The Food & Joy Coach

What is eating about?

Beautiful tastes and textures, wonderful aromas, a pleasing plate of food?

Something to fill you up when you are hungry?

A great gift that you can share with others, while you also enjoy their company?

A list of calories, fat grams or carbohydrate grams?

A stack of guilty pleasures or healthy (less enjoyable) alternatives?

Food shouldn’t be any one thing to us. We use food to give calories and nutrients to our bodies, for sure, but it is also a source of pleasure for the sheer joy of eating. It also enables us to spend time with others in a social and sharing way.

And occasionally we have to eat because we are hungry, even though we may not have time for food. Occasionally we use the food to fill in the long gaps between nothing, eating from boredom or loneliness. All of us have a composite approach to food, a mosaic of behaviours that describes our relationship with food.

But what predominates for you? And are you using food too often to fill in the gaps in the rest of your life (or to block out other things that are going on)?

In order to see how you view food, next time you eat, and for the next couple of days ask you self these questions before eating –

• Am I really physically hungry? And on a scale of 1 to 10 how hungry am I? – calibrate your eating to cope with your hunger.

• Is this predominantly a social meal that I am having with friends? -If yes you might want to spend more time talking and listening than eating.

• Am I eating from habit simply because it is a meal time? – You might want to wait half an hour or so and then re-measure your hunger (but don’t let yourself get TOO hungry).

• Am I eating for emotional hunger – to fill in an emotional gap (I’m lonely or bored) or to squash too much emotion (I’m angry).

It takes courage to answer the last question (and I’ll be talking more about courage in the next newsletter) but if emotional eating is your downfall you cannot deal with it purely at the level of the food, you have to address the emotions.

Sometimes just stopping and allowing yourself to feel what you are feeling can give your emotional brain the support it needs, so you can go on to REALLY enjoy your food.

Try it and see. And if you need help with this let me show you how.

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This is Food & Joy’s introductory product to help you conquer emotional eating, gain control over food and ditch the diet.

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Liz Copeland is the Creator of the Food and Joy Coaching Process