How to Make It EASY to Handle Urges to Overeat
Let’s talk about how to have a better experience when you decide not to overeat.
Even though you could be making daily plans full of food you absolutely love and are excited to eat, losing weight while eating all the food you love means you’re going to have to stop when your body signals to you that it’s SATISFIED not stuffed.
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And, as you use the incredible Hunger Scale and practice eating just what your body needs rather than WAY more than it needs, you still might find yourself having urges to overeat. That’s totally normal.
But sometimes our brains can get REALLY loud during these urges. It might send up thoughts like:
Just a little won’t matter
You were really good today, you deserve it
I’ll just try again tomorrow
I don’t care about weight loss right now, I just want to eat
Sound familiar? My brain is a master at offering me thoughts like that.
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And, when it does, you can either make the experience harder on yourself or much, much easier.
You can do that by either RESISTING the urge. Or by simply ALLOWING it to be there.
Resisting the urge to overeat feels terrible. You’ll know you’re resisting it if you find yourself getting mad at the feeling, fighting with it, pushing against it, or trying to wish it away. This is usually accompanied by thoughts like:
I hate this
This is unbearable
Why does this always happen to me?
This shouldn’t be happening
I can't stand this
I wish I could just get rid of this feeling
Resisting feels like hard work because it intensifies the dramatic story our brain is creating around the urge or desire for food. It takes an already uncomfortable feeling and makes it SO much worse.
But simply Allowing the urge to be there while you go about your day is 100x easier. Allowing the urge just looks like opening up to and getting to know the physical sensations in your body as you feel and process the emotion.
Calmly acknowledge “Oh, this is an urge. It’s not a problem to be solved, and it will pass right by if I don’t fight with it.”
You can be curious about how it feels in your body. Does it feel subtle or intense? Where are the sensations located, and what do they feel like? Is it rushy energy? Restless? Nagging? Pulling? Just calmly observe it. You will often find that the physical experience of it isn’t nearly as bad as the drama your brain wants to create about it.
As you welcome the feelings in, you simply notice and feel them in your body as they pass through you. The thoughts might look more like:
This may be uncomfortable, but I can totally handle this
I’m willing to feel these emotions to get me closer to my goal
I can do hard things
This emotion will pass on its own eventually, I don’t have to eat to get rid of it
Every time I do the work of allowing urges, I get stronger
An urge is just a feeling, it can’t make me react
If you feel and process your urges by Allowing them rather than Resisting them, they’ll dissipate in about 90 seconds. And, once those 90 seconds are over, you’ll get to feel SO proud. It's totally worth it.
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Send me an email and let me know how this goes for you. I would love to help you out if you’re struggling.
My clients are having huge wins processing even the most intense urges every day inside my Weight Loss for Women Who Love Food Program. You don’t have to try to figure out weight loss on your own. Working with a coach takes your weight loss efforts from frustrating, confusing, and hopeless, to totally doable and inevitable.
I would love to help create that for you. Schedule your Free Discovery Call right now, and let’s get you losing weight the fun way.
