Breaking Free from Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth

Author:Geneen Roth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2010-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

When everyone leaves and there is food left over . . . you have a few choices. You can: (1) Clean it all up tomorrow. (2) Clean it up the night of the party. Carefully. If you are feeling deprived (e.g., you didn’t enjoy yourself, you didn’t eat what you wanted, you were too full when the meal was served so you didn’t eat), this time is charged with binge tendencies. All that good food staring at you. And no one to watch how much you eat.

Here are a few suggestions to cut through what often feels like a magnetic force propelling you to the kitchen:

• After everyone has left, take some time for yourself. Do something soothing, something pleasurable. Take a walk, a bath. Sit in a rocking chair, read a magazine or a novel. Take your mind off food by realizing that you find pleasure in other things.

• If you are hungry (instead of wanting to be hungry), take a plate for yourself, put some food on it, and sit down at the table and eat. Not standing and not off of someone else’s plate.

• If you are not hungry but are determined to eat, take a very small amount of one or two items, put them on a clean plate, and sit down at the table to eat them.

• If you are not hungry but feel deprived and want to eat, remind yourself that you’ve got all this food in your kitchen to eat when you are hungry. And that will be sooner than you think.

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