What need are you trying to fill with food?

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You know the feeling. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You feel a strong urge to eat, but you aren’t hungry. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s undermining your weight loss efforts, but you find it so hard to not give in whenever it arises! </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe you just ate lunch an hour ago and you’re working on a tough project. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or maybe the kids and the pets are driving you nuts and you either can’t get anything done or even just take that break that you desperately need. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or you’re stressed out because you have to pay bills today. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or you’re lonely and wondering what’s wrong with you that you haven’t found a partner. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What makes</span> <strong>you</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">feel like you want to eat when you aren’t hungry? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How often do you choose to eat for a reason that has nothing whatsoever to do with whether your body is physically hungry? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why do you feel the need to eat all the time? Perhaps by now you’ve realized that this feeling is an emotional and not a physical need. After all, you’re not hungry, so your body doesn’t need food to nourish it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Food is easy and readily available. It tastes good and brings you instant pleasure to escape from whatever is going on in your life that is making you want to eat.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But that’s precisely the problem. By eating, you temporarily feel better, but you’re avoiding dealing with the real problem, and that is that something is going on in your life that is making you want to eat. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tune in, and I’ll tell you where the urge comes from and how you can manag