This is Part 3 in a 3-part series on Habit Eating. (1) How Habits Can Control Your Eating (2) 3 Proven Strategies for Breaking Habits (3) 2 Key Principles in Creating New Habits Habits are automatic behavior cued by context (where you are, what you’re doing), performed without intention, and …
This is Part 2 in a 3-part series on Habit Eating. (1) How Habits Can Control Your Eating (2) 3 Proven Strategies for Breaking Habits (3) 2 Key Principles in Creating New Habits In Part 1 of this series, I described what habits are, how they are created, and how …
This is Part 1 in a 3-part series on Habit Eating. (1) How Habits Can Control Your Eating (2) 3 Proven Strategies for Breaking Habits (3) 2 Key Principles in Creating New Habits Sometimes you eat because you’re hungry and the food tastes good. But often you eat because it’s …
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 …
Since I started the original Normal Eating Support Group in 2002, only a tiny fraction of members have been men – well under 1%. And those few men who joined have never stuck around. In contrast, many of our female members have been active participants for years. (I’m very grateful …
The Normal Eating® approach is to figure out the reasons behind emotional eating, and then take steps towards fixing the real problem. So if you’re eating out of loneliness, you’d take steps towards enriching your social life. The tricky part is figuring out the real problem. It’s not always obvious. …
Not all emotional eating comes from the expectation of future deprivation, but some of it does. How many people, for example, decide to start a diet on June 1, and then spend May 22 to May 31 overeating — getting while the getting is good? A lot! Even if you’ve …
