{"id":184,"date":"2011-09-07T00:18:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2011-09-07T07:39:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T07:39:37","slug":"adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/adapt\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Eating Is An Adaptive Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NOTE: I\u2019m sorry that I have not posted to this blog in the past couple of months. We have been busy creating new products and services that will help people transform their lives, including an on-line course to teach people how to eliminate beliefs on their own. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I intend to post information about this topic <\/strong><strong>here on a regular basis <\/strong><strong>that you will find useful. Please let me know what type of information you would find helpful.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bigstock_Woman_On_Sofa_Eating_Chocolate_3916073.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;margin: 17px 20px 3px 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;float: left;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A young woman lying on her couch eating chocolate\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bigstock_Woman_On_Sofa_Eating_Chocolate_3916073_thumb.jpg\" width=\"216\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>Someone with an emotional eating problem might be so focused on getting rid of the problem that they are not particularly concerned with why they have the problem. <strong>But understanding why they have the problem can provide them with clues on how to get rid of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A book I\u2019ve had in my library for some time, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_11?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=the+eating+disorder+sourcebook&amp;sprefix=the+eating+\">The Eating Disorder Sourcebook<\/a><\/em>, by Carolyn Costin, provides some really useful information on the needs that emotional eating fills for most sufferers.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn lists some common states of being for the eating disordered individual:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low self-esteem <\/li>\n<li>Diminished self-worth <\/li>\n<li>Belief in the thinness myth <\/li>\n<li>Need for distraction <\/li>\n<li>Dichotomous (black or white) thinking <\/li>\n<li>Feelings of emptiness <\/li>\n<li>Quest for perfection <\/li>\n<li>Desire to be special\/unique <\/li>\n<li>Need to be in control <\/li>\n<li>Need for power <\/li>\n<li>Desire for respect and admiration <\/li>\n<li>Difficulty expressing feelings <\/li>\n<li>Need for escape or a safe place to go <\/li>\n<li>Lack of coping skills <\/li>\n<li>Lack of trust in self and others <\/li>\n<li>Terrified of not measuring up <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She makes a few important points about this list that are worth noting:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA person in one or more of the above states will naturally seek comfort for, alleviation of, or distraction from their feelings.\u201d And eating when having these feelings is one of the best ways to cover up or be distracted from them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEating disorder symptoms can be seen as behavioral manifestations of a disordered self.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 an eating disorder, for all the problems it creates, is an effort to cope, communicate, defend against, and even solve other problems. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 the adaptive function of an individual\u2019s eating and weight-related behaviors must be discovered and replaced with healthier alternatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Choosing \u201chealthier alternatives\u201d to emotional eating should only be the first step. The next steps should be eliminating the source of the problem<\/p>\n<p>There are three major approaches to treating eating disorders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Psychodynamic <\/li>\n<li>Cognitive behavioral <\/li>\n<li>Disease\/addiction <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I would classify The Lefkoe Method as a type of psychodynamic approach, in that this approach argues that it is important to address and resolve the underlying causes for disordered behaviors. If that is not done, the problems may subside for a while, but usually return.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think is the source of emotional eating? Please join the conversation below.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about how The Lefkoe Method can help you eliminate your emotional eating problem, please see my eBook, <em>The Secret to Ending Overeating For Good<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/\">http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011 Morty Lefkoe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: I\u2019m sorry that I have not posted to this blog in the past couple of months. We have been busy creating new products and services that will help people transform their lives, including an on-line course to teach people how to eliminate beliefs on their own. I intend to post information about this topic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/adapt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emotional Eating Is An Adaptive Behavior&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}