Hi! I'm Donna Reish, IF teacher, weight loss coach, blogger, and half of "The Minus 220 Pound Pair" as my husband and I have lost over 200 pounds together (160 of that in the past couple of years through the Weight Loss Lifestyle habits and strategies I teach!). In this episode, I present Part I of two parts about Urges and Feeling Feelings---really good stuff!

This episode digs into sitting with or processing food urges. Earlier (Episodes 7 and 8), I taught that we have three main choices with urges. The first two choices aren’t ideal and both have net negative consequences. We can give in to food urges (obviously many net negative consequences!). We can white knuckle our way through them—try to use willpower. (Find out tons of deets about willpower in Weight Loss Lifestyle 60 and 61!) That also gives a net negative consequence because it isn’t sustainable, and we don’t learn to deal with our feelings/urges.

Of course to begin with, we must remember that food urges are any of those times that we want to eat something that is

(1) a type that isn’t on our plan for that day; (2) an amount that isn’t on our plan that day; (3) a time that isn’t on our plan that day.

If we believe that a food urge is a desire to eat off of one of those---a desire to buffer with food rather than feeling our feelings in that moment—we can look at food urges for what they are---feelings/urges/unctions/desires to do something other than what we planned or truly wanted to do.

This episode details ten ways we can sit with/process those urges rather than fighting against them. They all work at various times—and they can also work for other urges that we don’t want to give in to!

I hope this is a help and a blessing to you as it has been to me. I am gradually learning to do this—and the control and peace I feel around it is utterly amazing!

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Watch episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA8gyhCmb3U&feature=youtu.be

See full article here: https://donnareish.com/think-feel-eat-episode-#9:-10-ways-to-sit-with-process-food-urge

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