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If we only ate when we are hungry and only enough food to ease our hunger, then chances are that we will not have a weight problem. If only it was that easy!

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Some of us cannot lose weight because we do not exercise, eat too much unhealthy food, or just eat too much in general.  I am not part of the above groups, but I am an active member of the emotional eaters [...]

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This post is a discussion of a parent’s role in raising a child with emotional eating problems.

It is pretty astonishing the amount of emotional baggage that we being to the dinner table. Each time we sit at the dinner table, we are eating with the shade of our childhood disappointment with food.

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Bored Eating

by asithi on December 19, 2008 · 5 comments

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When it comes to weight loss, all of us have an Achilles heel. These specific situation can derail our good intentions with a blink of the eyes. Once we can identify of weak spots, we can begin to solve them for permanent weight loss.

Often our lifestyle and habits change with time. The cornerstone of successful weight loss is successful problem solving.

This post will discuss the diet danger zone caused by bored eating and possible solutions for for successfully solving bored eating.

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When we mess up, it is natural to feel guilt. But we have a choice: do we let our guilt over one meal or one day turn into a cycle of eating and TV watching or do we figure what we can do to keep this from happening again?

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A co-worker asked me ‘What is emotional eating? Why does his wife talk about it all the time? Is it just a female thing?’
Emotional eating is when you cannot separate mood from food. Some people eat when they are happy, unhappy, bored, excited, stressed, relaxed, etc. Give me an emotional and there is someone [...]

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