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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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Stopping When Full

Sheryl Canter Tools for Recovery April 30, 2010 May 1, 2010 17 Comments

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 …

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Are You an Emotional Eater? Take the Test!

Sheryl Canter Tools for Recovery November 8, 2009 November 8, 2009 13 Comments

Are you an emotional eater? If so, what are the reasons you eat? Are you mainly soothing negative emotions, or do you eat primary to distract yourself from the real problems in your life? How does being fat affect your view of yourself, and perhaps even serve you? Take the …

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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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The Original “Body Wisdom” Study

Sheryl Canter Nutrition (what you eat) June 21, 2009 January 19, 2011 6 Comments

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 …

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Emotional Eating in Men and Boys

Sheryl Canter Eating and Self-Care May 29, 2009 May 29, 2009 36 Comments

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 …

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Eating Out of Loneliness (or Is It?)

Sheryl Canter Tools for Recovery May 26, 2009 May 27, 2009 18 Comments

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. …

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A Simple Tip to Stop Compulsive Overeating

Sheryl Canter Tools for Recovery May 22, 2009 May 22, 2009 8 Comments

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 …

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