From Barb: When I'm eating when I'm not hungry, I'm starting to identify I am "out of the attitude" in some way and and do a "short-cut to happiness" from the Happiness Is a Choice book
I have very specifically noted that when I'm eating "mindlessly" - ie not related to hunger or beyond physical comfort, that I'm usually being fueled in this behavior by not allowing myself to act in a way I actually want. I do a combination of ignoring that quiet voice from within that like a child is tugging my sleeve asking to do something whom I totally "blow off". Plus I am also usually not speaking something I am thinking, and holding that "what I think but do not say" just far enough away from my mouth that I don't say it seems to require a continuous flow of food to sustain like a dam. I find that when I ask myself why I am eating I hear that I am not liking how things are going - either the choices I am making or my lack of authenticity, and if I stop allowing myself to drown that with food it is loud like a bull-horn.

Labels: asking for what you want, diet, food, over-eating, suppressing wants