Emotional Eating Is What You DO Not Who You Are

I believe that being an emotional eater is not really someone we ARE, but that emotional eating is something that we DO.

And since emotional eating is not a part of us but simply a behavior, we can choose to change that behavior.

This is freeing in that it means that feeling an emotion does not inherently mean that we have to eat, but that there is actually a space between feeling that emotion and the response where we have the opportunity to CHOOSE that response.

If you struggle with emotional eating you CAN learn to separate the emotion from the food. Initially it is difficult if this is a conditioned pattern that you’ve learned over time, but it can be unlearned…or at least changed by a CHOICE to act differently in response to your emotions.

Part of the difficulty, of course, is that if you don’t silence that emotion with food then you actually have to deal with it.

But when you learn to deal with the emotions that cause you to want to eat and learn to choose differently when they do arise, you’ll be free from the hold of emotional eating.