One thing I have learned that honestly helps with compulsive eating or any form of out-of-whack eating is this- You must learn to love and embrace your compulsive nature and put it to work for you- in ways that make you feel better every single day.
I know from experience as a mentor for thousands of women wanting to change the way they treat their bodies, that making friends with compulsion provides a solid platform for everything good that you want to create.
My clients and I have always agreed- there is definitely an obsessive-compulsive nature tied into the overeating or binge-eating issues.
The way it works is that instead of getting hit with painful thoughts and feelings, you spend a lot of time thinking about eating or not eating. These thoughts take up a lot of space, until you finally succumb to the desire for relief, and eat. There is the obsession (thoughts) and the compulsion (action).
Because this may be a part of your/my brain chemistry or just an acquired coping style, it’s best to make it work for you, right?
That’s where my Daily Essentials come in.
I encourage all of my clients to create a daily routine of Daily Essentials that helps them connect to a sense of power, lightness, connection to their inner wisdom and Spirit, and to their own Divine Identity. In other words to create a routine for daily use that starts each day off by anchoring you in a cloud of positive feel-good energies.
My own compusive, guaranteed to start me off happy consists of these elements:
Morning prayer and gratitude
Healthy breakfast
Inspirational Reading for a few minutes or longer
A Break-A-Sweat workout
20-minutes of sauna with meditation
I do some variation of all of the above every day- the days I am unable to or somehow let something else get in the way (business deadlines, early phone calls), I am basically screwed. At a big disadvantage- I can’t get my groove on in the same way and I suffer for it.
At the very least, a prayer and a workout and breakfast can get me results but the whole routine works better. I do other little compulsive things too- like record my exercise on a big daily calendar- what I did, and how long I did it (have probaby 20 yrs of these records someplace- i love the sense of achievement and consistency, and wellness, a lot!)/
The more you can make friends with your own compulsive nature, the happier and healthier you will be. See how you might adapt some of these suggestions for yourself and let me know what you tried and what worked.
Love and inspiration to you-
xox
Lisa
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