EP. #165: How to determine what you really need instead of eating

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the reasons why so many people weigh more than they’d like, and keep gaining weight, is because they use food to meet needs that it can’t meet. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re lonely and want connection, so you eat.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re fearful, so you eat.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You feel misunderstood, so you eat. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But what’s wrong with those examples? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Food can’t meet any of those needs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It can’t be your friend or lover, although Heaven knows some of us have tried.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It can’t quell your fears. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It doesn’t have the ability to understand you. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All food can do is give your body fuel and make your hunger for that kind of nourishment go away. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sure, eating will take your mind off your real needs for a few minutes, but then you’ve eaten a bunch of food your body may store as fat, and still will be left with those underlying needs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s why in this episode we discuss the fundamental categories of human needs, and why your happiness and well-being depends upon meeting them for real, instead of trying to meet them with food.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tune in to learn how to</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">get in touch with your needs and work towards meeting them in a lasting, meaningful way, and notice how your urge to eat when you aren’t hungry dissipates. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you haven’t checked out my free video masterclass, Kick the Emotional Eating Habit for Good, click on the link below. It will get you focused on some of the issues I’ve been discussing, give you some tools to sto