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Stop and Think before you eat.  Are you actually Hungry?  Listen to your body.  It will tell you when it NEEDS food.  Your bad habits will tell you when you want food.  Listen to your body.  I suggest starting any diet program with a 24 hour fast where you spend the day listening to your body and practicing some restraint.  Will the food you are considering eating Improve your health? Does it have high nutrient density and low calorie density?  And lastly, what are the Negative consequences of eating the food in question?  Will the food in question help or hurt your health?

Since coming up with this system I have become much more aware when I get urges to eat everything in site.  You may notice with this simple exercise that you will already consume less just be recognizing that you’re not actually hungry.  Much of the time this isn’t enough and we need to do more to counter those times when we say, “I know I don’t need this and it will hurt my diet but I’m going to eat it anyway because it will taste so good and I’m going to really enjoy every bite of it.”

A Lean Body May Be Simpler to Get Than You Think

There will be more to come to help overcome emotional eating.  The first step to taking control of your diet is to become aware of our habits and turn off autopilot.  The next step will be to create a new healthy autopilot!  Notice, I said this can be simple but it isn’t necessarily easy at first.  Once good habits are formed it can get easier.  Stay tuned for the next post where I will provide some useful techniques for replacing bad habits with good ones.