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Activity Four: Awareness - Your challenge this week
So activity four this week is about putting everything you have learnt from activities 1-3 into practice. For the next week you can only eat when you are 100% sure you are physically hungry. You need to ask yourself each time before eating if you are physically hungry. If you are not 100% sure, wait before eating (or eat…
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Activity Two: Awareness - Is it an addiction?
The second activity this week comes again from a free ebook by a doctor that works on emotional eating (available at skrinkyourself.com). Please post answers to the bellow questions Questions 1. Try to pinpoint the times when you were tempted to break your diet or overeat. What were the main causes? Were you anxious or…
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Activity Three: Awareness - Where did it come from?
The third activity this week comes again from a free ebook by a doctor that works on emotional eating (available at skrinkyourself.com). Please post answers to the below questions Questions 1. Can you identify a time when you began to seek food for comfort? What was happening in your life at the time? If you can’t remember…
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Activity One: Awareness
AWARENESS We will start with being aware of emotional eating. The first activity this week comes from a free ebook by a doctor that works on emotional eating (available at skrinkyourself.com). Throughout the week we will journal on the questions he proposes. Next week - after we have more awareness - we will move only…
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Emergency Area: Come here if you're about to emotionally eat
Emergency Area: Come here if you are about to emotionally eat (and leave advice for your future self) 1. First take a deep breath, well done for being aware of your emotional eating, that is the first and hardest step. 2. You have a choice right now. You can be the best version of yourself, where you take on the difficult…
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How is everyone going with the emotional eating challenge?
For the last two weeks I have been doing a program that specifically works on emotional eating and have been finding it quite helpful but also stressful as it forces you to deal with the pain that is generally ignored/numbed by eating (http://www.shrinkyourself.com). I would love everyone to post how they have been going…
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Strategy 3: Mindful Eating
This week we will learn Mindful Eating. This is both a technique for managing emotional eating, and being mindful when you are eating for hunger. When you eat it is about having your complete awareness on the food, and making eating a beautiful experience. Here is a 10min video introducing mindful eating…
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Strategy 4: Hyponoses
This week is about hypnoses. This one technique where there is scientific evidence for its efficacy. Basically you chose an “emotional eating hypnosis” audio recording you like, then listen to it while relaxing with your eyes closed. For this technique you 1. Choose an audio recording you like. You can download an mp3 from…
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Strategy 1: Emotional Freedom Technique
This week we are going to learn a technique to help us when we feel like emotionally eating. In week one we learnt how to we aware of when you are emotionally eating, and we played with using will power and alternative activities to not emotionally eat. This week you will learn and practice “Emotional Freedom Technique” to…
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Strategy 2: Neuro-Linguistic Programming
This week we will learn Neuro-Linguistic Programming which is a way to associate emotional eating as something negative. So that when you consider emotional eating you will associate it with something negative. Basically you think of something terrible, and associate emotional eating with that, through a visualisation…
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Stop Emotional Eating 6 Week Challenge
Stop Emotional Eating 6 week Challenge - join anytime In this group challenge we will break the habit of emotional eating over a six week period. Each week we will trial a few of the strategies that are freely available on the internet to stop emotional eating. This will be an intensive group. It will involve about 30min…
