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4 Ways to Stay on Track This Summer
It's often easy to lose sight of your goals during all the summer fun. Although not as dangerous as winter, summer can derail your weight loss efforts if you're not careful.
5 Excuses Emotional Eaters Make
There are many excuses emotional eaters give for hanging on to their habit of overeating, even when it affects their mental and physical well-being. Here are 5 excuses that we most often hear at Shrink Yourself.
5 Surprising Consequences of Emotional Eating
Everybody knows about the health risks of overeating. However, overeating and emotional eating have many hidden consequences. Here are five you should consider.
7 Springtime Tips to Slim Down by Summer
Spring is a time of renewal and change, the perfect time to start new, healthy habits or shed those last few pounds. Check out our 7 springtime tips to help get you on your way and slim down by summer!
The Moral of the Story is Care
It's not that you don't care, it's that you feel defeated or afraid to set yourself up to fail. And why shouldn't you? Diets set you up to fail because they don't offer you the information you need to lose the weight you want.
The Eight Signs of Emotional Eating
There are very specific signs of emotional eating. If any of the following statements sound like they could apply to you, then it's likely you are struggling with emotional eating.
Why Diets Fail: Emotional Hunger
Only one in every 100 people who goes on a diet succeeds in losing weight permanently. The rest gain it back again or can't lose weight at all. Find out why.
Emotional Hunger: Twelve Types That Make You Break Your Diet
Read about the twelve types of emotional hunger that trigger emotional eating. As you read through the list, ask yourself how many of these apply to you and your life.
Phantom Hunger vs. Real Hunger
There are two types of hunger, one physical and the other phantom. Learn how to tell the difference and what you can do to eliminate phantom hunger.
Are You Overdoing Comfort Food?
How do you know if you are over-using comfort food? Are you heavier than you want to be? Then you are over-using comfort food. It's that simple.
The Essentials of Emotional Eating
You probably believe that diets work, if you let them. But letting a diet work means sticking to it - and therein lies the problem.
The Link Between Being Stuck and Losing Weight
Be honest with yourself. Are you ready to get unstuck? Take your foot off the brake and you'll begin to move forward. Once you're moving you can steer yourself where you want to go.
Why We Binge
If you're a binge eater you probably already know the painful cycle of desperately wanting to binge, giving in, feeling remorse afterwards, and then promising yourself to never binge again.
Food Addiction & Food Obsession
If you are addicted to food a lot of your day is spent thinking about what you are going to eat, when you're going to eat, and whether or not you will have exactly the right food in front to satisfy your appetite.
Diets & Depression
Being on a diet is so common that we take it as a simple choice to lose weight. Occasionally it is, but in fact it usually involves much more.
Overeating: A Habit to be Broken
If you're just realizing that you're an emotional eater, you're probably starting to see that your diet failures haven't been due to lack of willpower but something deeper. Rest assured: overeating is a habit that can be broken.
The Hunger Switch and Emotional Hunger
The seven most frequent questions about the Hunger Switch and the illuminating answers.
The Profile of an Emotional Eater
Everyone who eats for emotional reasons is unique, but we can learn something from the things emotional eaters share in common. Let's take a look!
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