Losing weight requires you to break the habit of overeating. Like any other habit you've ever broken, you'll need to follow a few steps in order to allow the habit to extinguish and replace it with a different response/behavior that also meets your needs.

The first step to breaking the habit of overeating is to become aware of when, how often, and the physical and emotional environment in which overeating occurs. So you are aware of when you can interrupt the overeating habit cycle from playing out.

Step 2:  You'll need to make a plan ahead of time of things you can do or not do when you think you want to eat but you are not physically hungry.

Homework: Make a list of as many situations/triggers as you can think of that in which you know you eat for comfort or relief. Note the environment, too. Is it a delayed response? Were you alone?

Step 3: What do I think eating will give me right now? Can you identify the feeling you believe eating will give you?

Your habit of overeating is trying to tell you something about what is needed in your life. Use this inquiry process to uncover that need that you believe eating is meeting. Then get to work meeting those needs directly.

Weight loss requires you to support yourself differently than you've been used to. Your work is to develop a new relationship with your life to meet your needs directly and in integrity with who you are becoming.

Step 4: Learn how to feel your feelings. If you are a conduit for feeling, your feelings can give you a skillset of insight that lets you know more clearly what is needed in your life. I will teach you this skill in Episode 14.

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