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 …
A lot of emotional eaters eat fast – not just a little bit fast, but extremely fast, minimally chewing their food, and raising the next bite to their mouth before the bite they’re chewing is swallowed. Everybody knows the reasons not to do this: You barely taste your food or …
There are many reasons that people continue eating after they are no longer hungry. Here’s the short list: You don’t recognize satiation cues. You don’t recognize that you’re no longer hungry until you are past full. It bothers you to leave food on your plate. The reasons for this can …
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 …
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 …
In my previous post, I talked about how eating processed food can make people fat. Processed foods are fabricated in labs, specifically and deliberately to use our body wisdom against us. The weapons they use are fat, sugar, and salt, which trick us into overeating. From the chapter on Stage …
What makes people fat are the two main factors that interfere with body wisdom: Emotional Eating and Compulsive Overeating – Eating when you’re not hungry, to meet emotional needs and cravings. Processed Food – Processed foods are engineered to pervert body wisdom so people eat more. Body wisdom is an …
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 …
