Emotional Eating.

If you've ever binged on brownies out of boredom, shoveled French fries out of frustration, inhaled apple pie out of anger, you know damage emotional eating can do to even best weight loss efforts.

In fact, it's been estimated that 75% of overeating is caused by emotions. (Translation: BIG problem for weight loss)

Although Emotional Eating is a serious problem and often has deep roots, it can be overcome. You don't have live your life as a slave to emotional eating.

With that in mind, I've listed 3 quick tips to help you stop emotional eating (and start losing weight!) .

#1 Be Happy!

I know, it sounds simple but it works! How tempted are you to eat emotionally when you are happy, challenged, living and enjoying life to fullest? When you're excited about life, you don't NEED food for that quick pick-me-up!

Take some time every day to reflect on what gives you joy in your life. Are you moving in that direction?

The backlash against diets has been tremendous, and rightly so. It's a well-known fact that 95-98% of those who lose weight on a typical diet will gain that weight back (and probably more!).

So obviously diets aren't working right?

Well, it depends on how you look at it and whom you ask. There are still that 5% of dieters who apparently haven't gained weight back. (Wouldn't you actually like to meet one of those people someday?)

So I wouldn't say diets don't work. Because, technically, they do. In general, if you restrict your calories you will lose weight.

If diets never allowed anyone to lose weight they would have been passé long ago. Instead, diet industry just keeps chugging along, raking in billions of dollars a year, making more and more outrageous promises.

Somebody's got to be getting results somewhere!

But perhaps better question to ask yourself is this:

Does dieting work FOR YOU?

Does dieting work for you in sense that it moves you towards your goals (permanent weight loss, natural slimness, and freedom from worry)?

I believe that for 95% of population, answer is a definite 'NO!'

Diets may work in sense that they can take off weight under certain circumstances. But diets are far from best method to lose weight.

In fact, for most people trying to lose weight, diets are WORST thing they can possibly do!

Diets actually set people up to gain weight!

How? Well, diets are harmful by very nature of what they do to our physical bodies. (slowing metabolism, making body extra efficient at fat storage, etc).

But maybe worse is what they do to our minds!

There are 2 ways in which diets mentally TRAIN us to gain weight.

First of all, we all know that what we focus on, we are drawn to. We are told that if we want to achieve any goal, we should focus on that.

>> "Picture where you want to be." >> "Visualize it." >> "Think and grow rich." >> ”Imagine your success in vivid detail.” >> "See yourself crossing finish line."

Why do we do this? Because our minds are powerful and what we think about, we are drawn to.

So what do diets make us focus on? The food!

We're constantly thinking,

>> 'Is that hot dog on my list?' >> ‘How many exchanges is that hamburger worth?’ >> 'How many points is this banana bread?' >> 'Is that salad dressing really low carb?'

Thinking about food over and over again then becomes a mental habit.

And what's result? We find ourselves eating more because we're constantly thinking about food and eating. It's not that we don't have willpower to stick to a diet. It's that we're unknowingly training our minds to eat by dieting!