WEIGHT COUNSELLING

CHANGE YOUR EATING PATTERN BY

CHANGING YOUR THINKING PATTERN

Find the answer to why you over eating or like sweets too much and you will loose the excess pounds permanently.

Emotion eaters please note; going on a diet without working on the cause is like trying to mop the floor with the tap open. There is no (real) end to it as you are dealing with the result instead of working on the cause.

‘Hopeless’ diets
Diet after diet and none of them has a (long) lasting effect on your waist-line, yet alone your life. Having lost some considerable weight, it is usually just a matter of time before putting on the weight again. Why does one person overeat while the other apparently doesn’t feel the urge to? Some people say it is in their genes. Could be. But people in third world countries don't seem to suffer from that. ‘It just tastes so good’ is another often heard excuse. So it is for the people who don’t overeat. Maybe something else is going on.

Often people try to find comfort or reward in the fridge or cookie jar. Something is missing or nagging them, for short they are not feeling too great not all the time maybe only for a few minutes (the weak moments). They have 'an empty feeling' and often eat to get rid of that feeling and to feel good.  

Emotion eaters
There is a special kind of people who diet. It could be that ertain emotions make you react more strongly and in a different way than somebody else. That these emotions make you (over) eat subconsciously, to try to make you feel good. Emotions that remind you (subconsciously) of things that happened in your life. This can be anything such as a painful event at work, a strained relationship with your (ex) partner, certain (unpleasant) situations, something that reminds you in a certain way of your childhood, your school-time, etc. For short something in your history that no matter how small and subconscious makes you eat too much. If you have certain emotions and you eat them away, you are likely to be an emotion-eater. Below you find a list which you can check to see if you are an emotion eter.

Signs of being an emotion eater
Everybody gets hungry but what makes a person an emotion eater:

  • Your hunger is caused by feelings, usually an upsetting emotion.
  • Starts in your mouth and mind and not in your empty stomach
  • Your hunger is very sudden and urgent instead of gradual
  • Your hunger is for specific food for example certain sweet or savoury things
  • Involves automatic or near absent-minded eating
  • You are (often) not able to stop eating in response to fullness
  • You feel guilty about eating afterwards.

Emotion-eaters and the effectiveness of diets
When you are an emotion eater, the need for food is usually all ‘inside your head’. When you get certain feelings, often (subconsciously) triggered by certain memories, being on a diet usually is less effective. Think about it, you are trying to deal with the result of overeating instead of working on the particular urge to overeat; the cause. With a lot of effort you have lost the weight (mopping the floor to get rid of the water) and then something emotional happens that triggers the urge to overeat (the running or dripping tap speeds up) and you are back to square one. You are going through cup boards, the fridge, jars, etc. to look for that particular food you all of a sudden crave. Before you know it you have eaten all of it.  You had promised yourself with all your heart the last time not to do so anymore and are now very disappointed in yourself. You feel bad about yourself and start to eat even more and end up in this vicious circle.  ‘What got into you? If only you knew.

Working on the cause of your urge to eat instead of on the result
Going on a diet and working on the result instead of the real cause, is like mopping the water from the kitchen floor with the tap running. There is no real end to it. It is better to repair the tap and work on the cause than to keep mopping up.  When you look for the cause and deal with the result you even kill two birds with one stone!

Weight counselling
Together we take a closer look at why you have the urge to overeat regularly. Often you are no longer aware why you do this. COACHplus has certain effective methods to do this. We work with what surfaces. When you really work on the cause, the urge to overeat will decline and a diet will be more successful. You can control yourself more being aware of what is causing it and your urge to overeat will diminish and eventually disappears.  

By the way weight counselling doesn’t mean you can’t go or be on a diet but it is a nicer feeling to mop the floor knowing the running tap is being repaired simultaneously.

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