‘Some people are willing to pay the price and it’s the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There’s some discipline involved. There’s some sacrifices’. – Mike Ditka
The Birthday Cake Syndrome – Are You Feeding Your Feelings or Your Body?
Dee Britton
As a child you more than likely had a birthday party each year on your birthday.
What always gets served at a birthday party?
Birthday cake, icecream and lolly bags.
Now think back to one of your birthday parties. How did you always feel?
If you where anything like me, you probably felt great. You were happy, excited and having a fabulous day. All your friends were there and they brought presents for you. The day was all about you.
Then at the height of the party, when you were feeling really special, really happy – your mum served cake (and icecream) and lolly bags for you and all your friends.
I know you are wondering what that has to do with you feeding your emotions.
Your subconscious mind now connects the two –
Cake and icecream and lollies (sweet foods) = Happiness / Feeling Great.
This analysis may help you to understand why at times you have been traveling along nicely, feeling great, following your healthy eating plan then all of a sudden something happens and you fall off the rails.
Maybe the kids are screaming, you had a bad day at work or an argument with your husband. You start to crave sweet food because you think that will make you feel better, it will make you feel happier, it will comfort you?
You are trying to re-create that feeling of happiness when you reach for something sweet.
Emotional Eating
This is called emotional eating!
Healthy eating plans are often derailed by emotional eating.
So how do you gain control of emotional eating?
Consciously you are aware that you really want to be slimmer and look better. You even know exactly how to do it!
Eat less, eat healthier and move your body more!
Right?
Yet, it doesn’t always happen that easily.
This is when you have to change your thinking about food in order to stop using it to deal with all the stress in your life. Instead you will begin to develop habits of slimmer, healthier women.
Do you really feel better after you have finished a whole tub of icecream, inhaled a block of chocolate or devoured a bag of lollies?
Whatever emotions drive you to overeat, the end result is often the same. Even I have been guilty of looking to these sweet foods for comfort and to make me feel better. Sure it has given me some instant gratification but I normally end up feeling sick and bearing the additional burden of guilt about setting back my weight-loss goal – often leading into an unhealthy cycle – emotions trigger overeating, I bet myself up for not sticking with my healthy eating plan, I feel bad and overeat again.
Does that sound familiar?
Wouldn’t you like to break the cycle today?
Imagine what it would be like to get off that emotional weight loss roller coaster and cruise along in your new healthy, slimmer, sexier body knowing that you had a fabulous relationship with food.
Feeling great about yourself and loving your body can be easier than you think.
I would love for you to share your emotional eating habits by leaving a comment below.
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Where are you going to be this time next year if you don’t start making the necessary changes today?
To health, happiness & living the life of YOUR dreams.
Dee
About The Author
Dee Britton is a Health & Happiness Coach, Certified Hypnotist, NLP Master Practitioner, Neuro-Linguistic Coach and Qualified Personal Trainer providing helpful tips, tools and coaching packages to help you feel better about yourself than you ever have before by teaching you how to put yourself first. Her programs and products will ensure you easily replace unwanted habits and effectively create forever change.
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The correlation between feeling good and food is an important issue that needs to be addressed and you do that here in this article brilliantly! Awareness is the first step to healing and change…thanks for sharing this!
Denny, I wish more people would understand this correlation. We would live in a healthier, happier world if they did.
Dee recently posted..The Birthday Cake Syndrome – Are You Feeding Your Feelings or Your Body?
Yes, yes, yes! I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately, and have realised that the most pleasure I get in my day to day life is FOOD pleasure! Now, although I don’t have a ‘weight’ problem, I certainly have a sugar problem, which is no good for maintaining my busy life, and good mental health, so I’m definately rethinking. Here’s to more leafy greens!
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Thanks for being so open and sharing Krishna. I hope you are going well with your leafy greens. They are soo good for you
I have gained and lost the same two stone for about the last 20 years. I get down to a healthy weight, and then and put it all back on again, just like countless other people.
I eat emotionally, there is absolutely no doubt about that, I have been to Weight Watchers, Slimming World, tried slimming pills, the GI Diets all of them work for a while, but sooner or later you come “off” the plan. And that’s the thing, they are all “DIETS”, or eating plans that do not look at the real reason why I eat or why other people eat, and it’s got nothing to do with being hungry.
I have an emotional connection with food that I find difficult to fathom, I have even tried hypnosis twice, to get the root of the problem and had no joy.
So, this is what I plan to do, not be on a diet or off a diet. I plan to just be, and stop the cycle of off and on, and see what happens. I have been doing this for a week, and so far it has been interesting.