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June
18, 2004:
Stopping Overeating, Nancy
Goodman author
of
It Was Food vs. Me And I Won
Mike
Carruthers:
So many people struggle with overeating, but overeating is likely
not just a food problem.
Nancy
Goodman :
We're not overeating because we're hungry. We're overeating
because they're feelings that we want to avoid so we just run
to the food.
Nancy Goodman
author of the book: It
Was Food vs. Me And I Won has struggled with overeating
for years. For example.....
Sundays
we would go to my in-laws and I knew just heading there I was
going to go crazy with the food and I would binge and I would
overeat. It was learning to understand that it really wasn't
the food. What it ended up being was that my husband grew up
in the kind of family I wished I had. They were all very close
with each other and I was feeling a little bit left out. And
that's when I said to my husband, I don't want to go to your
family's every Sunday, let's find other things to do with our
kids. And so, little by little I started making choices and
decisions in my life away from the food and being true to what
I really felt.
Often people
who overeat make food the center of their life and that has
consequences.
Because
I was so focused on food my life was passing me by in terms
of decisions that I wanted to make in terms of other things
I could be involving myself in . Everything that I looked forward
to in a day was food. I was a stay at home mom so the event
I looked forward to most was lunch. And at lunch I was thinking
about dinner. So today I look forward to those meals, I allow
myself what I want and I make sure that there is other things
in my day that are a little bit more exciting than food. And
that's brought the quantity of food way down and I don't have
problems with my weight anymore.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net,
I'm Mike Carruthers, and that's Something You Should Know.
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