Emotional Eating Tip: Is Your Spirit Being Fed?

j0430869 Emotional Eating Tip: Is Your Spirit Being Fed?So often, when women want to lose weight, they focus on what they don’t want to do.  Don’t eat dessert, don’t snack in front of the TV, don’t take second helpings. The truth is, one of the important keys to weight loss success is to have a clear plan for what you will do. Overeating and weight gain are often caused by turning to food to meet needs and address feelings other than physical hunger.

If you want to avoid turning to food at the end of a hard day or not overindulge when you are stressed or tired or bored, one tip you’ll want to act on is to make a list of the activites and experiences that feed your soul and that are not food.

My list includes my outdoor runs in the woods and by the water, time alone, great books, laughing, music, time with the people I love, and time in beautiful places.  When I feed my soul these things regularly, the habits I don’t want to fall into seem much less appealing and important.  I feel “full” and well fed.

What feeds your soul?

Leave a comment and share your thoughts.

Take good care,

Melissa

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2 Responses to “Emotional Eating Tip: Is Your Spirit Being Fed?”

  1. DeBorah Beatty says:
    July 22, 2009 at 4:22 pm

    I have several things that feed my soul:

    1) Sitting on the beach, watching the sun and the waves play tag in the early morning

    2) Having coffee or tea with friends/mentors

    3) Spending time with my daughter

    Focusing so tightly on launching my business I suddenly realized that I’ve been neglectful and noticed just how emaciated and hungry my soul has become.

    I’m moving forward finally to remedy that moving down to Portland, Oregon next month, but it’s been a long time. I found it interesting that after a prolonged period of “starvation” I stopped noticing the hunger. Your post made me realize just how hungry I am.

    Thank you for bringing it to my attention so I can heal it.

    DeBorah Beatty
    The Created Life Coach

  2. Melissa says:
    July 22, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    Hi DeBorah,

    What a great point you make about how we can become oblivious to those hungers if they are ignored for long enough. I’m glad you’re feeding your soul again :-)

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