Possible PitfallsWritten by Caryl Ehrlich
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A point to remember: If it’s not water, it’s food. And this, too: If you swallowed it, you ate it. It all adds up. Whether you overeat because of genetics, ethnicity, religion, circumstance, or emotion doesn’t matter. Perhaps you eat for some of these reasons or all of these reasons. Each person gets into habit of using food inappropriately by eating for reasons you tell yourself it’s okay to eat, even if you’re not hungry. Having followed these habits for such a long time – sometimes decades – they’ve become involuntary conditioned responses. Just as Pavlov’s dogs, when a stimulus appears, can a yes, thank you, be far behind? The intelligent you, thinks you shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing, but you can’t stop. That’s sneaky part of addiction – as if making up your mind will do trick when it never has before. This might be moment to make a list of reasons you eat. Put down breadstick and get a pencil. After seeing my list, a middle-aged woman said to me, “According to your program, I haven’t been hungry since 1963.” She was correct. She and you may have misidentified these situations, circumstances, and emotions as hunger for such a long time, you’ve lost your innate ability to identify this most basic of feelings. If you’re trying to satisfy a physical hunger, your body doesn’t require a great deal of food. If you’re trying to fill an emotional hunger, you could back up a truck full of food to your home or office, and it would never, ever, contain enough food. “Okay guys, put Mallomars in cabinet, Häagen-Dazs in freezer. The Twinkerdoodles go on bed.” If you become so overwhelmed, confused and paralyzed with not knowing what to do about this multi-faceted, many-layered topic of weight control that you can’t stop eating once you start, chances are you do nothing. If hungry, you need to nourish body. If, along way, it also tastes good, looks good, and smells good, you’ve got a bonus. But you shouldn’t be eating because it looks, smells, and tastes good. Almost everything fits that criteria. If you’re thirsty, drink water. If you’re responding to one of above stimuli, change habits by creating new and constructive responses to replace your old and destructive ones. This is called repatterning. I might have missed one of your Possible Pitfalls, but you get idea. Add yours if it’s not here. Observe how you eat when you’re up or down, alone or with friends. We even eat differently with men, differently with women, and another way with children. These pitfalls might be because of emotions, circumstances, or just because it’s there or you’re there, in neighborhood where your favorite something is prepared as nowhere else in world! Pitfalls can be any of these things or all of these things. None of Pitfalls I’ve described above are hunger. And if it’s not hunger, it’s not a reason to eat. What are your Possible Pitfalls?

This article is an excerpt from the book Conquer Your Food Addiction authored by Caryl Ehrlich. Visit her at http://www.ConquerFood.com to know more about weight loss and keep it off without diet, deprivation, props, or pills. Contact her at Caryl@ConquerFood.com or call 212-986-7155.
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