Emotional and Stress-Eating

Obviously, emotional / stress / comfort eating involves food. When you eat for those reasons, the food can become central to your thinking. Sometimes, a good way round that is to fill your thoughts with other things.

Take some time to notice non-food good things in your life.

[Ooops, I was just about to use the example of a lovely bottle of home-made elderflower cordial a friend gave me today, and I realised that it was ‘food’!]

Here are some others:

·       The feeling of sitting down and taking the weight off your feet. Pay attention to how reducing that pressure feels.
·       Finding a brilliant gift for someone and feeling the anticipation of giving it to them.
·       Having longer days to enjoy the sun.
·       Someone letting you go ahead of them into a line of cars.
·       Dad jokes that are so bad you have to laugh.
·       Getting good wishes from people far away.

Really feel the goodness in those things and let your brain take more than a few moments away from food noise.

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