{"id":56,"date":"2010-12-23T01:48:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T01:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2011-02-07T18:59:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T18:59:27","slug":"weight-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/weight-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Someone With A Weight Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many people with an emotional eating problem<\/a> can\u2019t even imagine themselves not obsessing about food and eating all the time.\u00a0 It has become a part of their identity.<\/p>\n

As Geneen Roth put it in her book, Women, Food and God<\/em>, as long as you have an eating problem, \u201cyou always have something to do.\u00a0 As long as you are striving and pushing and trying hard to do something that can never be done, you know who you are: someone with a weight problem who is working hard to be slim.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to feel lost or helpless because you have a goal and that goal can never be reached.\u201d<\/p>\n

I suspect that if you consciously identify yourself as someone with a weight problem long enough, you will ultimately create an unconscious sense of yourself as someone with a weight problem regardless of how much you actually weigh.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Check it out for yourself.\u00a0 Close your eyes and look inside and ask yourself: What is my sense of myself?<\/p>\n

Some people will have positive sense: I\u2019m someone who is okay with myself; I\u2019m fine just the way I am.\u00a0 Others might have a negative sense: I\u2019m someone who doesn\u2019t feel good about myself.\u00a0 There\u2019s something basically wrong with me.\u00a0 And others might have a sense of themselves as: I am someone with a weight problem.\u00a0 I will never be okay until I reach a weight where I really look good.<\/p>\n

Eating when we are not hungry is an attempt to not experience the \u201cbad\u201d person we mistakenly think we are. These negative feelings about ourselves are more than we think we can handle. \u00a0So in an attempt to go unconscious and not experience those feelings, we eat.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In fact we are not the terrible person many of us think we are.\u00a0 Those negative feelings are nothing more than the feelings that come from negative beliefs about yourself, beliefs that have never been really the truth.\u00a0 Beliefs like I\u2019m not good enough.\u00a0 I\u2019m not important.\u00a0 I\u2019m not worthy or deserving.\u00a0 I\u2019m not loveable.<\/em><\/p>\n

These beliefs were formed as a result of the meaning we gave to childhood interactions with our parents.\u00a0 If the beliefs were eliminated, the negative sense of we have of ourselves would disappear.<\/p>\n

We might experience ourselves in a negative way.\u00a0 Yet it is not who we really are.\u00a0 We have that sense as a result of beliefs and conditions.\u00a0 And we might experience ourselves as someone with an eating problem.\u00a0 That also is not who we really are.<\/p>\n

For more information about overeating and weight, please see my eBook, The Secret to Ending Overeating For Good,<\/em> at http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 Many people with an emotional eating problem can\u2019t even imagine themselves not obsessing about food and eating all the time.\u00a0 It has become a part of their identity. As Geneen Roth put it in her book, Women, Food and God, as long as you have an eating problem, \u201cyou always have something to do.\u00a0 … Continue reading “I Am Someone With A Weight Problem”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[11,3,8,6,7,10,9],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/emotionaleatingreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}