I often advice my clients to notice when they are eating not because their bodies are asking for nourishment, but because they are emotionally uncomfortable. Becoming aware of that moment when you are no longer eating because you are hungry. You are now eating to control your feelings. This awareness creates the opportunity for choice. Conscious choice is the starting place for recovery!
A new book has just been published about how overeating or binge eating can be used to control feelings:
Food,The Good Girl's Drug by Sunny Sea Gold. In it she explains:
"Another widespread but subtle myth is that going on a diet will help to reduce binge eating. It’s the idea that dieting will give people with BED the control they lack. That somehow rules and regulations will keep their eating in line. To the contrary, dieting usually leads to overeating and is a major trigger of BED. Diets don’t treat BED"
http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/food-the-good-girls-drug-how-to-stop-using-food-to-control-your-feelings/
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