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The Ritual of Food Addiction

Written by Caryl Ehrlich


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As you become more aware of your patterns of thought, word, and action, you can beginrepparttar process of rearranging or omittingrepparttar 114316 automatic next steps and to create new constructive patterns for yourself. Eventually, you’ll learn to be comfortable thinking, saying, and doing, something else instead of putting food into your mouth, just because it’s there. This unraveling ofrepparttar 114317 ritual of food addiction helps you to make pro-active choices so you can becomerepparttar 114318 person you want to be. Sometimes,repparttar 114319 new way is quite different from what you’ve accumulated inrepparttar 114320 way of behavior. Your old way was built over a lifetime of unconscious actions and reactions. You now haverepparttar 114321 opportunity to create something new and wonderful that better serves your present need to weigh __________ pounds. Bobby F. dancedrepparttar 114322 I can go all day without eating, but once I start, I can’t stop tango, a remnant from a previous weight-loss plan. Since evening activities weren’t as stimulating asrepparttar 114323 daytime ones, he was without things to occupy his mind; old feelings and thoughts bubbled up. With no place to go and no one to talk to, he incorporated going intorepparttar 114324 kitchen into his usual evening activity of killing time. One trip torepparttar 114325 kitchen yielded a piece of candy, another trip yielded a nibble of leftover salad, another trip two grapes. The once- or twice-a-night ritual became more and more frequent. It really took off when he had a phone installed inrepparttar 114326 kitchen. He found himself sitting on a chair with wheels while speaking onrepparttar 114327 phone and rolling over torepparttar 114328 refrigerator where he’d openrepparttar 114329 door and window-shoprepparttar 114330 shelves. When he worked on breaking that ritual, I had him put a little tick mark on a piece of paper whenever he thought of putting something into his mouth. Between 9 p.m. and midnight, he found himself thinking about food forty-two times! That is approximately one episode every five minutes. Forty-two times in three hours he had gotten inrepparttar 114331 habit of putting something in his mouth, even though he wasn’t hungry. Forty-two times he nibbled a bite of this and a swallow of that, just because he was bored. Whether eating one item, or one bite from many items, it all adds up. It doesn’t matter if it is salad or soda. You’re eating when you’re not hungry. If you practice this habit every day ofrepparttar 114332 week, you’ve got a behavioral addiction that becomes a weight gain. Keep doingrepparttar 114333 same thing and it becomes a part ofrepparttar 114334 evening’s entertainment. When Herman movedrepparttar 114335 phone out ofrepparttar 114336 kitchen,repparttar 114337 picture changed. His weight changed. His habits changed. This was just one of many patterns he discovered as a result of being mindful. There were even more to find. He realized how he always ordered a glass of wine when he took clients to dinner; or how each meal ended with a cup of coffee. Every visit to a theater to see a movie seemed to be bonded to eating a bag of popcorn or buying a soda. The buying – I call it a compulsion to spend – is a ritual, too. When I talked about rituals with another person I teach, she commented that keepingrepparttar 114338 logbook, in which she enters her daily weights and what she eats, was a ritual. I agreed. Some rituals help us to become mindful of what it is we are doing and enable us to see, in writing,repparttar 114339 patterns we’ve created. Some rituals are better than others. Barbara J. had difficult times at 4 p.m. each day. It was clear that her desire to eat wasn’t about hunger; her lunch was usually only a few hours before. It was connected to her children arriving home from school. When she had to prepare food for them, she mindlessly nibbled onrepparttar 114340 food herself. She also had a phone inrepparttar 114341 kitchen and practiced some version of talking onrepparttar 114342 phone and browsing amongstrepparttar 114343 bratwurst. You may be thinking: But I only pick atrepparttar 114344 broccoli. If you’re eating when you’re not hungry, it doesn’t matter what it is. It all adds up. In an office, an eating ritual might begin atrepparttar 114345 onset of a coffee-wagon bell ringing at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Rachel S. told me of a mindless habit she had when she commuted from Manhattan to her home in New Jersey. Every trip, five days a week for a year, she’d eat a candy bar. Just that one candy bar habit could add up to approximately twenty pounds by year’s end. I used to have a habit of buying a large bottle of fruit juice and would sip it a few swallows at a time – it’s only juice I used to think – until all 64 ounces were sipped away and I’d buy another bottle. When I realized how often I repeated this behavior, I began buying juice in individual bottles of 4 ounces each, putrepparttar 114346 bottles on a different shelf thanrepparttar 114347 top one inrepparttar 114348 refrigerator. If I didn’t see it, I didn’t think about it. If I didn’t think about it, I didn’t drink it. The habit started to collapse on its own. Sometimes, changing just one part of a ritual – whether thought word or action – loosensrepparttar 114349 entire knot of behavior without much effort. Sometimes it takes more thought. In this case, changingrepparttar 114350 size ofrepparttar 114351 container didrepparttar 114352 trick (a physical action). I also thought (mental re-patterning), that I’d gone years without drinking juice so many times during a day and it had always been okay. It could be okay again. You get used to anything. What are some of your rituals and habits?

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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