Do You Try to Eliminate “Temptations”?

Do you ask your partner or children to not bring certain foods into the house because you feel powerless when they're in front of you?

Do you worry about social events beforehand because you feel it's going to be inevitable you'll eat too much?

Do you chock up your compulsive eating to simply, "It looks good, it smells good, it tastes good, and it's in front of me. That's the reason I compulsively eat"?

The truth is, you don't need to control the people who live with you and what they bring home, and you don't need to worry about events with junky food.

When you heal the true causes of overeating, which are emotionally-based, you will be able to be in any environment with any food and you will not compulsively eat. “Temptations” being in front of you won’t cause an overeating spiral.

It is not the presence of food or the fact that it smells good and tastes good that is the reason you want it.

Having to control people and circumstances to try to avoid overeating is not freedom with food.

Being able to be around any food without any advance notice, and not harming yourself with overeating, is freedom with food.

I know that this promise may seem lofty and unrealistic, but I assure you it is not.

I personally went from a person whose groceries never survived past the day I bought them and felt that if anything yummy was in front of me I had to eat lots of it, to being able to live in a house with (vegan) ice cream, chocolate, chips, whatever -- and not be tempted to binge on them.

One bite or one meal never leads to a spiral. It's just a bite or a meal.

Instead of worrying and controlling, redirect your energy to exploring and emotionally healing the real causes of why you want to act addictively with food.

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