{"id":27,"date":"2010-10-15T16:34:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T23:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatingreport.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2010-10-15T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T23:34:43","slug":"eating-conditioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/eating-conditioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does Eating Get Conditioned So Often And Not Other Behaviors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emotionaleatingreport.com\">Emotional eating<\/a> is extremely common.  It seems a lot more common than other conditioned behaviors.  Which leads me to the question why do so many people condition eating and not some other behavior?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is simple. There are no other \u201cpleasurable distractions\u201d that<br \/>\nnaturally occur three times a day.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that one of your triggers occurs frequently in your life, such as<br \/>\nnegative feelings, boredom, loneliness, or feeling unlovable. Imagine further<br \/>\nthat you had gone to a movie several times a day earlier in your life and you had noticed over and over that the movie almost always provided a pleasurable distraction from the negative experience. Can you see that going to the movies would eventually become a<br \/>\nconditioned response to your negative triggers?<\/p>\n<p>In other words, eating is the most common response to our triggers<br \/>\nonly because we normally eat more often than anything else that provides<br \/>\na pleasurable distraction, a sense of comfort, immediate gratification, or a calming down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotional eating is extremely common. It seems a lot more common than other conditioned behaviors. Which leads me to the question why do so many people condition eating and not some other behavior? The answer is simple. There are no other \u201cpleasurable distractions\u201d that naturally occur three times a day. Imagine that one of your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/eating-conditioned\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Does Eating Get Conditioned So Often And Not Other Behaviors?&#8221;<\/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\/27"}],"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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}