HealthNess: Too Much on Your Plate?

When we want to lose weight, we find an eating plan that makes sense to us. We learn the principles, commit to the strategies, eat according to plan and lose weight. This should be the end of the story. But it's not. For over 99% of people the story does not end there. What happens? In short, LIFE happens. We get additional pressure from work. We have a fight with our spouse. Our eight year old goes through a"a stage". Our mother-in-law comes to visit. Any one of a million possible scenarios happens that causes additional stress in our lives, and has us reaching for a chocolate bar. Before we know it, we've regained that 5 kg's we lost and another 2 kg has come to join it. This is the yoyo effect emotional eating can have on our weight loss attempts. Everyone has stress in their lives, problems to solve and negative emotions to deal with, but not everyone eats in response to these common aspects of the human condition in the modern age. Emotional eating is a learned response - a learned way of dealing with unpleasant emotions. And as such, it can be unlearned. First of all, what is emotional eating? The most helpful definition is that it's when you eat in order to control your emotions and you do so in conflict with your true intentions. If your intention is to enjoy yourself at a party without regard to your weight or health and you eat and drink to your heart's content, it's not emotional eating. But if you're overweight, or have a health problem you know is related to what you eat, and you want to lose weight and improve your health by eating healthy food, but you eat food you know is not good for you because you're bored, that is emotional eating. When people eat for emotional reasons they often describe feelings of powerlessness, both in relation to their eating and their lives. Although these feelings are completely incorrect and false, people will believe them so much that they think they must eat to get rid of that feeling. There is a strong sense of compulsion to eat certain foods because the feeling of powerlessness is close to the source of panic. However, using food as a solution is both temporary and illusionary. It doesn't help you to actually deal with any of life's problems. In reality, we are using food to avoid dealing with life's problems. We've become hooked on a short cut to feeling better through food in the same way that an alcoholic or drug addict tries to feel better through alcohol, drugs or smoking. The problem is that the population is under increasing levels of stress in relation to the complexity of modern life, and hence we see increasing levels of obesity and food-related diseases. This situation is not going to change any time soon. So we need to find a way to break the habit of using food to feel better and learn new ways of dealing with life's problems.

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