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Eating Out of Loneliness and Low Self-Esteem

Sheryl Canter Tools for Recovery February 14, 2011 February 14, 2011 40 Comments

From the moment you are born, being fed is strongly associated with comfort and love. For infants, food and hugs go together, and that emotional imprinting stays with you for life. Cooking for someone is a way to show love. A box of chocolates is a traditional gift of love …

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5 Reasons Emotional Eaters Shun Mindfulness

Sheryl Canter Tools for Recovery August 3, 2009 August 3, 2009 9 Comments

There’s been a lot of discussion in the forum lately about mindful eating – generally how much people don’t want to do it. It’s ironic that emotional eaters who claim to love eating find it so hard to just eat – to focus only on eating when they’re eating. It …

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5 Main Triggers for Emotional Eating

Sheryl Canter Eating and Self-Care / Tools for Recovery July 8, 2009 July 8, 2009 24 Comments

When you’re in the moment of craving – wanting to eat, though you’re not hungry – it doesn’t help to have abstract knowledge of why you eat. If you know that you eat when you’re angry, for example, that doesn’t help much in the moment that you’re angry. You’re still …

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How to Stop Emotional Eating in the Evening

Sheryl Canter Tools for Recovery July 2, 2009 July 2, 2009 38 Comments

Do you eat in the evening – and eat and eat? If so, you are not alone! Here is a sampling of the many posts about this in the forum: “Night eating has been my number one curse. When I initiated that terrible habit then the pounds really started a …

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Is the Recession Affecting Your Eating?

Sheryl Canter Eating and Self-Care May 11, 2009 May 13, 2009 14 Comments

Are you worried about money? Be careful not to add weight gain to your list of problems. There’s a well-known correlation between low income and obesity. For one thing, high calorie foods are cheaper. For another, lack of money — or fear of lack of money — is very stressful. …

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How to Stop Food Cravings

Sheryl Canter Tools for Recovery April 29, 2009 May 13, 2009 3 Comments

Food cravings are, without a doubt, the biggest obstacle in recovery from emotional eating. Even when you know what is triggering the desire to eat, the craving can remain. As I mentioned in my previous post, the first step towards stopping is to insert a pause between impulse and action …

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The Importance of the Pause

Sheryl Canter Tools for Recovery April 29, 2009 May 13, 2009 3 Comments

Eating what your body tells you to eat, when it tells you to eat it, is obviously a more pleasant and effective way to maintain a normal weight than dieting, but how do you do that if you’re a compulsive or emotional eater? What you need is a road map …

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