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Five Sneaky Strategies to Eat More Leafy Greens
Leafy green vegetables are an absolute staple for your health! Ideally, we would be consuming them in some form every single day. Here are five ways to sneak more leafy greens into your diet.
Immunity: 2 Foods to Increase and 2 Foods to Reduce
Did you know that there is a great deal you can do with your nutrition to affect your immune system? Here are two foods to increase in your diet to boost your immunity, and two foods to reduce or eliminate to protect your immune system.
Binge Eating: Nothing To Do With Personality
No matter how long you've done it, no matter how much it feels like you, eating issues have absolutely nothing to do with your true nature or personality.
How to Stop Emotionally Eating When You’re Lonely
Overeating when we feel lonely is a common experience. But being by yourself and feeling lonely are not intrinsically related. We can feel lonely when we aren't alone, and we may not feel lonely even when we are alone.
New Year’s Resolutions Shouldn’t be Punishments
The best motivation for a resolution would be to think of habits that are sustainable for the rest of our lives, and that are motivated by a love for your body on the inside, not just how you look on the outside.
Overeating to Make Tolerable the Intolerable
Overeating can make the intolerable in your life feel more tolerable. It can help us "cope" with things in our lives that don't feel good. Here’s what you can do about that if this is the case for you.
How to Know When to Eat and How Much to Eat
We need to get back to basics. When we eat and how much we eat should be determined by our physical sensations of hunger and fullness, rather than an external system.
Self-Love Results in Healthy Eating
As you grow in self-love, you have an increasing feeling that you don't want to make yourself feel bad physically, that it's just not worth it. This feeling can grow strong enough that it is a major deterrent to taking compulsive actions with food.
Food Addiction Does Not Indicate a Weak Will
Food addiction does not indicate that you are weak-willed, pathetic, or shameful. Food addiction DOES indicate that you’ve been treated badly and are avoiding feeling emotions.
Overeating: Your Parents’ Attitudes to Emotion
What were your parents’ attitudes towards emotions? Did they own and feel their emotions in a responsible manner? To understand some of the reasons why we use food to avoid emotions, we can look at our parents' feelings about emotions.
Compulsive Eating and Suppressing Feelings
Questions you can ask yourself when you want to eat compulsively: What am I feeling emotionally right now? Am I trying to get a feeling from this food/drink? Am I trying to suppress a feeling with this food/drink?
I Was Taught to Hate Myself, So I Used Overeating
The more I feel the anger and grief of what was attacked about me my my parents, the less I use food to attack myself and to cope with the intense self-judgment that my parents taught me.
Food Addiction: Was Your Childhood Really That Great?
I have come to view it as formulaic and mathematical: it is not possible to have food addiction and yet also to have had a great childhood. There is no such thing. It doesn't exist as a possibility.
Rage is a Magic Key to Healing Overeating
When I look back on what has helped me to heal from binge eating, one of the biggest pieces of the puzzle has been finally feeling some anger and rage after having had a lifetime of suppression.
If You’re an Emotional Person But Still Overeat
What if you cry a lot, or feel angry a lot, and yet still overeat? Suppressing emotions is what creates food addiction, so what's going on when you feel like you're connected with your emotions, but you are still overeating?
Food Addiction Indicates a Crisis in Self-Love
We often think of overeating in terms of calories and willpower, when we really need to be thinking about it in terms of self-love. Overeating tendencies tell us of a crisis of self-love within the soul of a person.
Do Dietary Parameters Trigger Binge Eating?
The truth is, you can put parameters on your diet without necessarily triggering binge eating. Putting parameters on your diet, say by going vegan, vegetarian, or gluten-free, does not inherently trigger binge eating.
How I Use Juice Cleansing to Access Suppressed Emotions
Juice cleansing has been a really pivotal experience for me in healing my lifelong overeating. Yes, lots of physical benefits happen, but the important thing has been how it has helped me access my emotions.
Binge Eating As a Way of Taking Out Anger on Ourselves
Binge eating can be a way of taking out anger on ourselves when we feel we are not allowed to feel angry about other people. We may feel guilty about it, like we are a bad person for feeling anger, and blame ourselves.
Compulsive Eating to Stay Productive
Do you force yourself into productivity when you’re tired? This can explain why you compulsively eat when you’re fatigued. To change this, we can examine our emotions regarding achievement, perfectionism, and productivity.