Overeating occurs for various reasons, and it’s not necessarily a pernicious habit. However, if you regularly overeat and it’s impeding your health, then overeating is a dependency that must be dropped. If you haven’t attempted to stop overeating before, it can be a monumental challenge. This 30 day mindfulness program will guide you over the mountain.
In this book we define overeating as: an unhealthy dependency on food in the present moment. That may be too broad of a definition, so let’s define unhealthy as: any amount of food that goes well beyond what’s necessary for survival and sustenance. You can define overeating any way you wish – as long as you recognize the habit as a dependency that is supported by adverse thought patterns, feelings, and behaviors.
Of course overeating involves food; that is, we’re not talking about the overeating of clothes or bricks. But overeating has little to do with food in general; otherwise we’d all be overeating broccoli, kale, beans, fish, and other healthy foods. This particular dependency involves a complicated reliance on feelings that result from too much intake of specific foods – specifically those foods high in sugar, sodium, and fat, as those trigger certain brain chemicals and reactions that we become conditioned to rely on. In time, the dependency strengthens and takes more of a foothold. This negative reliance is common in modern society, since high sugar, high sodium, and high fat foods are household staples. So, if you have an overeating problem, don’t be ashamed – you’re not alone. This program will help you drop the dependency.
This mindfulness program involves 30 days of lessons and exercises to help you overcome thought patterns, feelings, and behaviors that have you regularly overeating.
