If you’ve been beating up on yourself for overeating, and letting your inner critic push you around, calling you names, you don’t deserve this kind of hurtful treatment. But you may be accepting it, because you don’t realize that you have a choice.
But you do.
Are you tired of struggling with feelings of self-hatred and disgust each time you overeat? Do you realize that by believing that you deserve to be punished for losing control around food, you are actually hurting and abusing yourself?
Most of us are disappointed and angry with ourselves when we overeat, often assuming that our tendency to use food for comfort means that we lack self-control.
Many women believe that overeating is a character flaw that deserves to be punished, and they become overwhelmed by feelings of guilt and shame.
But just because your eating goes out of control, doesn’t mean that you are a bad person. When you’re already down, it’s not the time to kick yourself too.
Contrary to what you may have been told, this isn’t going to help you change your response to food. In fact when you treat yourself like trash it will only make you feel worse, and that can often lead to another binge right around the corner.
If you’ve been beating up on yourself for overeating, and letting your inner critic push you around, calling you names, you don’t deserve this kind of hurtful treatment. But you may be accepting it, because you don’t realize that you have a choice.
But you do.
When you notice that the little voice inside your head is shouting nasty, angry, judgmental things, putting you down, it creates a negative vibe that keeps you feeling bad about yourself. This is because you may feel that you have violated the rules of your tribe; your family, friends, and anyone else who may have been responsible for instilling in you the beliefs you have about your body, food and your relationship to eating.
Although you may have been led to believe that you could curb your binges by taking a tough love approach, it doesn’t usually work, because the problem is not the food. It’s what’s eating you. Essentially it comes down to feelings of safety and security. If your brain has associated food with comfort, and each time you’re under stress, you eat, you will continue to get triggered to do that no matter how much you try to avoid it. In order to break the cycle, you must interrupt the pattern. Change starts with awareness.
The reason behind why your body is craving love in the form of food is because a part of you is hurting and doesn’t know how to handle the overwhelming emotions that you may be feeling. If eating is your only way of feeling safe, getting angry with yourself for overeating, only makes things worse.
I’ve created this 49 minute video for you to inspire you to see your tendency to overeat from a much more realistic and gentle perspective.
Here are some of my favorite quotes that I hope that you will find useful:
“The biggest most important thing to do is to set boundaries w/ your family and demonstrate that you respect yourself and so others must do the same.”
“Realize that when you act in desperation for food, it’s not a cause to hate ourselves. It’s an opportunity to look within and to go within yourself with the deepest of compassion to realize that overeating is your soul’s way of saying, “Help Me, Please. Look, there’s a problem. We need to look at this.”
Most of all, I ask you to remember that when you find yourself knee-deep in food, the problem is not what you’re eating. It’s what’s eating you! Stress.
emotional eating, overeating, Thanksgiving, fat, Andrea Amador, The Juicy Woman, self-compassion, eating disorder,
Video – How to Love Yourself Past a Binge
View | Apr 12, 2014 by thejuicywoman
Categories: Love Yourself More, Self Esteem/Body Image
http://thejuicywoman.blogs.com/my_weblog/2014/04/video-how-to-love-yourself-past-a-binge.html
If you’ve been beating up on yourself for overeating, and letting your inner critic push you around, calling you names, you don’t deserve this kind of hurtful treatment. But you may be accepting it, because you don’t realize that you have a choice.
But you do.
Are you tired of struggling with feelings of self-hatred and disgust each time you overeat? Do you realize that by believing that you deserve to be punished for losing control around food, you are actually hurting and abusing yourself?
Most of us are disappointed and angry with ourselves when we overeat, often assuming that our tendency to use food for comfort means that we lack self-control.
Many women believe that overeating is a character flaw that deserves to be punished, and they become overwhelmed by feelings of guilt and shame.
But just because your eating goes out of control, doesn’t mean that you are a bad person. When you’re already down, it’s not the time to kick yourself too.
Contrary to what you may have been told, this isn’t going to help you change your response to food. In fact when you treat yourself like trash it will only make you feel worse, and that can often lead to another binge right around the corner.
If you’ve been beating up on yourself for overeating, and letting your inner critic push you around, calling you names, you don’t deserve this kind of hurtful treatment. But you may be accepting it, because you don’t realize that you have a choice.
But you do.
When you notice that the little voice inside your head is shouting nasty, angry, judgmental things, putting you down, it creates a negative vibe that keeps you feeling bad about yourself. This is because you may feel that you have violated the rules of your tribe; your family, friends, and anyone else who may have been responsible for instilling in you the beliefs you have about your body, food and your relationship to eating.
Although you may have been led to believe that you could curb your binges by taking a tough love approach, it doesn’t usually work, because the problem is not the food. It’s what’s eating you. Essentially it comes down to feelings of safety and security. If your brain has associated food with comfort, and each time you’re under stress, you eat, you will continue to get triggered to do that no matter how much you try to avoid it. In order to break the cycle, you must interrupt the pattern. Change starts with awareness.
The reason behind why your body is craving love in the form of food is because a part of you is hurting and doesn’t know how to handle the overwhelming emotions that you may be feeling. If eating is your only way of feeling safe, getting angry with yourself for overeating, only makes things worse.
I’ve created this 49 minute video for you to inspire you to see your tendency to overeat from a much more realistic and gentle perspective.
Here are some of my favorite quotes that I hope that you will find useful:
“The biggest most important thing to do is to set boundaries w/ your family and demonstrate that you respect yourself and so others must do the same.”
“Realize that when you act in desperation for food, it’s not a cause to hate ourselves. It’s an opportunity to look within and to go within yourself with the deepest of compassion to realize that overeating is your soul’s way of saying, “Help Me, Please. Look, there’s a problem. We need to look at this.”
Most of all, I ask you to remember that when you find yourself knee-deep in food, the problem is not what you’re eating. It’s what’s eating you! Stress.
emotional eating, overeating, Thanksgiving, fat, Andrea Amador, The Juicy Woman, self-compassion, eating disorder,