Overcome Overeating
Overcoming overeating isn't the
same as overcoming other bad habits
or even addictions such as alcohol
or smoking. You cannot simply
stay away from the troubling substance
since you have to eat. Instead
by practicing the One More Bite
program for weight loss you will
learn:
- How to change your food preferences
so more of your favorites will
also be healthy choices
- To feel more satisfied every
time you eat
- How to make painless lifestyle
changes
- How to identify and then use
your motivation strategy to
change your eating habits
- What emotional eating means
and how to eliminate its effect
on you
- Ways to improve your body-image
and self-image
- How to remove the trauma from
food shopping
Problem with
Weight Loss Diets: Results Don't
Last
What's the main problem with
every weight loss diet? They are
a temporary fix at best, since
results never last. And why don't
the results last? Simply because
your body is a product
of your lifestyle. Temporarily
changing your behavior (dieting)
and then returning to your usual
habits will obviously put you
right back where you started (or
worse). Only by changing your
daily habits will you permanently
change, and if that isn't what
you want to hear, then you're
not ready for permanent weight
loss.
Why torture yourself time and
again by severely cutting back
or eliminating entire food groups,
or worse suffering through semi-starvation
diets (less than 1000 calories),
refusing to eat foods you love
(I'll never eat cake again), or
experiencing intense hunger pains
(a completely natural bodily response
to starvation)?
Emotional Reasons
for Overeating
These are all emotional reasons
to eat based on feelings or beliefs,
rather than hunger. Real hunger
is a biological need for nourishment.
Without this built-in need, many
would die from malnutrition or
starvation simply because they
wouldn't eat enough nourishing
foods, but, here's the rub: With
our over-abundant food supply,
many of us have learned
to eat for reasons other than
hunger consequently we're overfed,
over fat and yet dangerously under
nourished.
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