Ending self-criticism

It’s not affirmations. It’s not guided journeys. It’s not cognitive behavioral therapy. It’s not binging, or nude meditation, or sewing, or EFT, or NLP, or scream therapy.
It may be all of those things and none of those things, but the bottom line is I’m changing the way I think, and it’s changing my life.
Beating myself [...]

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Update on guided journey

You might remember the guided journey I bought from IOWL a few weeks ago. What has happened since then?
I was listening regularly to the journey, working very hard on the conflicts (there are many), when suddenly one day, I stopped listening. Overnight I changed from listening to the journey twice a day to not doing [...]

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Anatomy of a binge

Brownies were my binge food for toothache (yes, I get the irony).
Chips and crunchy snacks were the binges for work stress. When the salt had overpowered my mouth so much that it hurt, I would add dip or sweets to make me feel better.
Chocolate was my binge food for sadness.
All of those foods never made [...]

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Best. Birthday. Ever.

The guided journey certainly seems to be helping me cope with everyday stresses. Formerly I would eat in response to stress, but often I now can recognize that stress comes from competing wishes, and I need to make my decision about those wishes, not eat to suppress and postpone the inevitable.
For my birthday, everything went [...]

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Chocolate is as normal as an apple

There’s a lot of chocolate in my house. Literally kilos of chocolate. That’s because I wrote a chocolate blog as part of my personal therapy. Aligned with the compulsive eating, I had strong cravings for chocolate. When I discovered Overcoming Overeating, and Geneen Roth, and Inside Out Weight Loss, I knew I had to make [...]

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Toothy irony

The dysfunction in our family included a general lack of health and normal sanitary care. After a few years, we stopped going to the doctor because we couldn’t afford it. Dentists were out of the question.
Coupled with that was our family’s superior skill at avoiding reality. We could sit in a pile of bills and [...]

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How to overcome stress eating

How to Completely Overcome Stress Eating in Just Ten Minutes
By Dr. Annette Colby, RD
Annette@AnnetteColby.com or www.AnnetteColby.com
A simple way to overcome stress or stress eating… this easy process can be used at any time of the day. It is particularly effective when you are feeling overwhelmed with anxiety or when you come home after a particularly [...]

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How to make friends with potato chips

Remember the book Overcoming Overeating? Good book, and I used the method successfully to rebuild a positive relationship with food. One of the cornerstones to the method is to stock up on your binge foods and coach yourself through eating them until they stop being dangerous. It was great – I even carried a food [...]

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Binge triggered by the movie Cashback?

Today I looked at my goals again, as you just read. I’m starting a week’s vacation, and I made a nice list of things to do, mostly for fun. I also listened to a podcast or so, to help me move along a bit.
Where did I move? Straight to a few hours of endless eating. [...]

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How to stop mindless eating

See also my post on How to stop eating when you’re not hungry
Whenever you eat mindlessly or when you are not hungry, the root cause is simple: you are responding to your mind’s needs rather than your physical needs. This might be emotional eating, or habit eating, or whatever. The fact remains, it’s not what [...]

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