{"id":31,"date":"2010-10-20T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T23:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatingreport.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2012-02-22T18:21:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T18:21:14","slug":"difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Has It Been So Difficult To Stop Emotional Eating?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many people with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emotionaleatingreport.com\">emotional eating<\/a> problem have tried so many<br \/>\ndiets and pills and eating programs that they are now skeptical that anything<br \/>\ncan 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\u2019s claims about emotional eating solutions couldn\u2019t possibly be true.<\/p>\n<p>But if you understand the role of conditioning, you understand that<br \/>\ndiets\u2014which consist of eating something different and eating less than you<br \/>\nnormally would eat\u2014work only to the extent you are using will power to<br \/>\novercome the compulsion to eat more than the diets permit, whenever<br \/>\ntriggers or the desire for rewards are present.<\/p>\n<p>And even though pills can affect your appetite or change how you<br \/>\nprocess food internally, they cannot stop the compulsion to eat more than<br \/>\nyou are hungry for in response to triggers and rewards.<\/p>\n<p>Only de-conditioning can do that permanently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s claims about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/difficult\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Has It Been So Difficult To Stop Emotional Eating?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/31"}],"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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}