6 mistakes that make you feel out of control around food

You are a busy, driven woman working hard all day and then you reward yourself with food at the end of the day because “you finally deserve something nice”. 

Or you have constant cravings and find yourself snacking all afternoon. When you have a few minutes, you go to the fridge or pantry at home, or to the vending machine or coffee room at work to get something to munch on. Maybe your desk is full of candies and chocolates so you can have something whenever the craving hits. 

You eat when you’re stressed, anxious, pressed for time, angry, frustrated, feel inadequate, not in control or unappreciated, sad, lonely, bored or even happy.  

You frequently use eating as “me-time”, entertainment or procrastination. 

To compensate for your emotional eating, you follow some kind of diet, count calories, points, measure grams, watch the clock when you can eat again, 

and then self-sabotage all your weight loss efforts when you just can’t diet any longer. 

You constantly start over because it’s getting harder and harder to stick to any plan. 

You sometimes feel like an alcoholic but use food instead of alcohol. 

After overeating in the evening, you can’t sleep well, you wake up tired, feeling guilty, in a bad mood and you take it out on other people. Often on people who least deserve it.  

You are not present in your daily life because you think about food all the time, and secretly wonder how other people can eat normally and not care about food so much. 

You’ve spent so much money on diet programs and therapy, countless hours of researching and still act the same way (or worse) around food. 

You feel like something might be wrong with you, it’s not who you really are, and you don’t understand why you keep behaving the way you do.