Diets Don’t Work, Reason #1 - Eating to Self Comfort Has become a Habit

Your urge to reach for food when you’re not hungry, during times of stress has become an unconditioned habit that has been your body’s way of dealing with overwhelm and feelings of frustration. Despite what you may have been told, it can’t be controlled by sheer ‘will power,’ nor is it evidence of any weakness, wrongdoing or lack of discipline on your part. Nothing is wrong with you. This just means that you are an emotional eater.

Unconscious or emotional eating in response to stress is one of the biggest enemies and saboteurs of any diet. This stress eating is how most dieters unwittingly sabotage their weight loss efforts. Stress is the body's physical, mental and biochemical reaction to all of our life's events. These good, bad and ugly situations known as “stressors” parade throughout our lives whenever the status quo gets challenged.

When you find yourself ready to give into your kids’ whining, wanting to bang your fist on your dying laptop, feeling the pinch of making a promise you can’t keep, or perhaps feeling overwhelmed with joy at the prospect of celebrating a great job opportunity; your body is under the siege of stress. These stressors in your life are threatening to ravage your body and make you lose control.

If you are a busy woman who’s an emotional eater, you’ll notice that almost anything can trigger a binge when you’re dieting. Cakes, cookies, pies, donuts, even last night’s cold chicken with broccoli looks appetizing at a time when your life gets rattled. You're probably just as likely to fall off your diet if you're celebrating a big success or just having a really bad day. If this is your plight and you recognize that you have unconsciously created these kinds of associations to food in your brain that leave you at the mercy of your cravings, then take heart, there is a solution that will take you beyond dieting into a life of food freedom. You can begin again and reclaim your power over food.

As stated before the secret is to learn to make peace with food and deal with your stress. If you’d like to get started learning more about how you can lose weight without dieting, then download a copy of my free Lovin’ the Skin You’re In Sampler: The Juicy Woman’s Self Image Makeover Morsels.