{"id":25,"date":"2010-10-16T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T23:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatingreport.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-10-16T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T23:31:42","slug":"role-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/role-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"What Role Do Beliefs Play In Emotional Eating?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally I had thought, because getting rid of beliefs never stopped
\nemotional eating<\/a> and because de-conditioning did with most clients, beliefs
\nhad nothing to do with emotional eating. That was a logical fallacy on my
\npart. Just because beliefs are not the sole cause of emotional eating doesn\u2019t
\nnecessarily mean they can\u2019t be a partial cause for some people.<\/p>\n

I now think that conditioning is almost always involved in emotional eating, but beliefs also can be involved for some people.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the way it looks to me now. Most people with an emotional
\neating problem have been conditioned to eat in response to various triggers
\nand rewards. This is true regardless of the client\u2019s environment as a child.<\/p>\n

However, if someone has grown up in an environment in which one\u2019s
\nparents have an eating problem and they talk frequently about dieting, losing
\nweight, being too heavy, being \u201cgood\u201d on days they stay on their diet and
\n\u201cbad\u201d on days when they do not, and \u201cgood\u201d foods and \u201cbad\u201d foods, then
\nsuch people are likely to form a bunch of beliefs that result in food and
\neating being a constant issue in their lives \u2026 in addition to the conditioning.<\/p>\n

Here is a list of a few of the beliefs one of my clients identified and
\neliminated: If I can\u2019t eat \u201cbad\u201d foods, I\u2019m missing out. \u201cBad\u201d foods make
\nyou fat. To lose weight you can\u2019t eat anything \u201cbad.\u201d The way to keep food
\nfrom running my life (like it did my mom\u2019s) is to eat whatever I want to eat.
\nCan you see how such beliefs probably would lead to emotional eating?<\/p>\n

Beliefs like these would have to be eliminated before one\u2019s emotional eating
\nwould stop completely. I\u2019ve been able to help clients with this type of belief
\neliminate their relevant eating beliefs using the Lefkoe Belief Process.<\/p>\n

I want to distinguish between beliefs that directly lead to emotional
\neating (like those just discussed) and those that lead to triggers that lead
\nto emotional eating. The beliefs listed above would directly lead to
\nemotional eating. Beliefs also can lead to negative feelings (such as anxiety,
\nanger and upset), feeling sorry for oneself (a sense of victimization), feeling
\nunlovable, etc. These conditions then can become triggers for emotional
\neating. But these beliefs do not have to be eliminated before emotional
\neating can be totally stopped.<\/p>\n

Why Are These Beliefs So Different?<\/p>\n

Because if the Lefkoe De-conditioning Process unhooks these triggers
\nfrom emotional eating, it becomes possible to deal with the triggers with
\nbehaviors other than emotional eating\u2014such as talking to friends, listening to
\nmusic, exercising, reading a book, or any activity one truly enjoys.<\/p>\n

Although these activities have always existed as possible ways to deal
\nwith the triggers that emotional eaters have, they are rarely chosen as
\nalternatives because eating already has been conditioned to occur
\nimmediately (unless stopped by will power) following the presence of the
\ntrigger. Once eating has become de-conditioned and is no longer a
\ncompulsive behavior, you then have the time to calmly find another activity
\nthat will provide a \u201cpleasurable distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally I had thought, because getting rid of beliefs never stopped emotional eating and because de-conditioning did with most clients, beliefs had nothing to do with emotional eating. That was a logical fallacy on my part. Just because beliefs are not the sole cause of emotional eating doesn\u2019t necessarily mean they can\u2019t be a partial … Continue reading “What Role Do Beliefs Play In Emotional Eating?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/25"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}