Coping With Emotional Eating

One challenge we often face when it comes to our fat loss progress is how to control our eating from an emotional standpoint. This can be a huge problem for a lot of women.

For most of us food is forever attached to emotion based on the environment we grew up in. Just by the way certain foods made us feel when we were young, we attached emotion to it long before it consciously became “comfort food” or a reward.

It’s only natural as we get older to extend that and use food as a coping mechanism for things we try and deal with.

So what classifies as emotional eating? [Read more…]

Should I Eat A Salad Or A Cheeseburger?

So as some of you may know I have started my Dress Size Reduction Diet today www.30dayjumpstart.com and as I look over my menus for the next few days I see there are lots of vegetables but no salads so far.
This caught my eye because usually as soon as you utter the word diet, salad usually follows.

But the truth is MOST salads you find at restaurants and fast-food joints are loaded with more fat and calories than a cheeseburger and fries. Really. In fact most of the time when I see someone eating one of those salads I wonder, did you really want that or did you really want a cheeseburger but settled on the “healthier” salad? [Read more…]