A Real Weight Loss Challenge—Identifying the Anxieties Behind Weight Gaining Eating
If anxiety is behind the necessity to binge eat, overeat, and eat fattening foods, what is the anxiety all about?
Anxiety is always about something.
You hear women say they feel anxious, but often they don’t get into the nitty-gritty of what their anxiety is all about.
What to Look For
What is your anxiety about that sends you right to food for comfort? What to look for is what's making you uncomfortable (aka anxious)? Do you know? Can you find out? The best way to find out is to let yourself think about what your anxiety is about when you stop yourself from doing the very thing that typically makes you comfortable (aka not anxious)—binge eating, overeating, eating fattening foods?
Just let the ideas and feelings come as they may when you are in the midst of stopping yourself from doing the usual weight gaining eating. Free associate. And if it will help, imagine yourself lying on a psychoanalytic couch with the psychoanalyst (bearded man, off course) sitting out of sight behind you, listening to you, and every now and then he writes something.
What your anxiety is all about is an important determinant of what action steps you will take to dispel this anxiety and make loss of weight a lot easier for you.
