Ep 172: Disappointment Is Not a Food Group

It’s hard to stop eating a delicious meal even when you feel full. Once you stop, there’s a feeling of disappointment because you can’t eat to your heart’s content. But that wanting is all in your mind. You have to learn how to recognize these thoughts early on so that by the time your body tells you to stop eating, you can follow it. That way, you can learn how to stop overeating.

In this episode, I share a letter from one of my listeners, Julie. It reveals her struggles in stopping from eating a good meal because she’s already exceeding +2 on the hunger scale. I also talk about the mind and body connection, handling negative feelings, and emotional awareness.

If you want to stop disappointment from creeping up whenever you have to give up a good meal, this episode is for you.

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Discover the steps in changing your overeating tendencies.
2. Learn the importance of the mind and body connection and emotional awareness.
3. I will share how to stop overeating, and how you can eliminate disappointment by shifting your thoughts.

Episode Highlights

Julie’s Letter

• Julie wrote a letter about her feelings of disappointment whenever she has to stop eating because she’s going over +2 on her hunger scale.
• She wonders why she thinks she wants to keep eating even when she feels full.

Why Julie Feels Disappointment

• Since Julie has been dieting for a long time, her mind is overriding her body’s call to stop eating.
• You have to train your brain to stop believing that eating is the most wonderful event in your life. At the end of the day, it’s just food. You use it to fuel your body, nothing else.
• The first thing to do is gain awareness of what you’re feeling and thinking when you want to stop eating.
• Learn how to feel the negative emotions instead of using food as a coping mechanism.

Handling Disappointment

• Your brain equates discomfort to danger. Therefore, it pushes you to eat more to avoid feelings of disappointment.
• The first step in changing is to acknowledge the thoughts and feelings you have around food.
• You will feel proud of yourself once you can recognize these thoughts and establish a mind–body connection.
• Once you become aware that disappointment is a product of your thoughts, you can decide not to listen to it – that’s how to stop overeating.

5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode

“If you feel disappointment and you don’t eat, you are also learning how to feel negative emotion without eating it.”

“There’s more disappointment in ourselves because we feel like we can’t trust ourselves and that we don’t feel confident in ourselves.”

“The first step to changing is recognizing the thought and the feeling that is causing the overeating.”

“When you eat way beyond your body’s need, and you know it, and you feel very uncomfortable in your body, tell me that you don’t feel disappointed still.”

“Once you’re aware that it’s just a thought, the more that you decide not to follow it, the less power it has on you.”

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Dr. Deb