A few weeks back, I wrote about being in pain and how I used food visually to comfort myself. What about when you use food literally to comfort yourself...as a daily habit? During the time that I worked with people who wanted to lose weight, this was the very reason that the majority of them were overweight in the first place.
Every one uses a method to comfort themselves, no right or wrong, it just leads to different consequences.
When pain is continual, the habit of "soothing" with food becomes so ingrained that you can see no other way to deal with it. When you pay attention to your choices, you begin to see patterns of coping. Then you inquire, "What's up with this? I see that I'm using food in this way as both a distraction and a method for feeling more control. Where in my life do I not feel control?"
The very act of asking is sometimes all that needs to happen to open the door to a whole new way of treating yourself. What helpful and healthful methods could you use to comfort yourself?
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