So many people with an emotional eating problem have tried so many
diets and pills and eating programs that they are now skeptical that anything
can help them stop emotional eating for good. That conclusion is understandable. They have been disappointed so many times. It would make sense to now believe that anyone’s claims about emotional eating solutions couldn’t possibly be true.
But if you understand the role of conditioning, you understand that
diets—which consist of eating something different and eating less than you
normally would eat—work only to the extent you are using will power to
overcome the compulsion to eat more than the diets permit, whenever
triggers or the desire for rewards are present.
And even though pills can affect your appetite or change how you
process food internally, they cannot stop the compulsion to eat more than
you are hungry for in response to triggers and rewards.
Only de-conditioning can do that permanently.