As we found out in our post Emotions and Weight Loss, Psychologists believe that emotion is the biggest block to losing weight. With this in mind Michael J Hadfield, in his book Lose Weight Without Diets, shares a great technique to start understand how your emotions are affecting you achieving your weight loss goals. You just need to get a notebook to record your feelings. This is how he suggests you do it:
Whenever you have the desire to eat when it is not mealtime…
- Make a note of what you are feeling on a scale
- 0…1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…10
- And how bad, or good, it is.
- Then eat whatever you want
- 10 minutes later check how you feel
- Bloated…uncomfortable…not nice full…nice full…comfortable…nothing…empty
First of all just begin to notice whatever feelings or emotions are present whenever you get the urge to eat – especially when you are planning to snack and going through that mental should I, shouldn’t I, which we all know is going to end with you giving in to the urge, so why not save yourself the hassle and just eat.
Please let us know how you get on with this technique as we believe it has great potential in you achieving your Mind Body Weight Loss.
Kind regards
Mindful Mark
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