Maria's Last Diet

by Maria's Last Diet

Do you have a habit of eating too much food, eating too often, eating the wrong things? If so, the consequence, as you well know, is you’ll weigh too much.

Where do these bad eating habits come from? What keeps them going?

Do they come from goals you have for yourself to gain a lot of weight? Certainly not.

Do they come from other goals you might have for yourself such as making yourself feel better by eating? Could be.

What if your bad eating habits, if they’re really strong, like they’re set in stone already, don’t come from your goals anymore? What if they come from what you do time and time again in response to what you’ve come to associate them with? And what if they don’t go away for the same reason?

There is research to show that strong habits come from stable, repetitive cues in your daily life that “keep you locked into your habit”. This would explain why try as you might, you can’t break these habits, even when you set a goal to do so.

What does this research indicate you should do if you have strong habits that won’t budge? It points to you having to lessen the impact of those strong environmental cues.

A common example of what you can do if you eat too much food at a given time is to not put serving bowls of food on the table, and instead put the food on your plate. This helps you avoid being triggered or cued by the big serving bowls that almost welcome you to take more. Big serving bowls is one environmental cue to be avoided.

Using smaller-size dinner plates is another technique for lessening the familiar association of big plate with lots of food.

Still another way of lessening the impact of those pesky environmental cues on your behavior is to not buy and keep at home those foods that would preserve your bad eating habits.

Still other triggering cues for an eating lifestyle that can lead to really being heavy are such things as stresses in relationships and your own feelings and thoughts.

Whatever the cues are for you, and whether they’re inside or outside of you, these cues are what you have to address to do something about your bad eating habits.