Anonymous wrote:Not replacing junk with healthy food, but replacing a bad habit with a good one. Keep your hands busy. If you’re knitting, drawing, working a puzzle, playing a game, etc, you won’t be able to eat. Only eat at the table, so you can’t sit in front of the tv and stuff your face. If you want a snack, plate it and take it to the dining room without a tv and eat it there. It’s much less fun and tempting that way.

This is great advice and I’m starting this now!

Not replacing junk with healthy food, but replacing a bad habit with a good one. Keep your hands busy. If you’re knitting, drawing, working a puzzle, playing a game, etc, you won’t be able to eat. Only eat at the table, so you can’t sit in front of the tv and stuff your face. If you want a snack, plate it and take it to the dining room without a tv and eat it there. It’s much less fun and tempting that way.

Another thing, do not eat while watching TV or reading your phone/device.

Focus on chewing slowly (count 20 chews if you have to), and pay attention to the aroma, color, tastes of your food.

Another tactic, eat each ingredient separately, rather than mashed together so you can distinguish and appreciate each unique offering. You feel full and happier that way.

Before you eat, ask yourself, am I doing this because I am hungry or because it will make me feel good? If it's the latter, take a beat, and talk to yourself about the emotion. Journal, listen to music, take a walk, do something else. Because the only problem food is going to solve is actual hunger. And the problems food will cause if you abuse it for anything other than hunger are legion.

I'm an emotional eater and I've pretty much stopped using food that way. It sucks feeling the feelings, but it's better than being fat and uncomfortable.

Eat real, tasty, nutricious food you cook yourselves.

Pay close attention on how the food turn into alkaline and acidic states in your body. You need thst bslance to be healthy.

Make friends with people who cook, not people who go out to drink and order out all the time.

No pre-packaged food.

No calorie counting.

No fad diets.

Any strategies for replacing the emotional eating with healthy eating?