It starts out simply enough.
You just got home after a busy day, and you reach for a snack—just to hold you over until dinner.
You grab a banana. That should be enough to satisfy you until mealtime.
You go to the refrigerator to get the meat you’re cooking tonight, and happen to see one leftover piece of pie on the shelf. No use letting the kids argue over that later.
You scarf it down.
While you’re prepping dinner, you clean out the kids’ lunchboxes, and find a half-eaten bag of chips. You hate throwing it away, so you quickly finish it off. Waste not, want no…right?
By the time dinner is ready and the family is around the table, you’re not really hungry anymore. But you’ve just made this meal, and what does it say about you if you don’t eat with the family?
After everyone’s done, someone pulls out a carton of ice cream, and even though you’re far from hungry, you have a bowl.
With sprinkles and chocolate syrup, of course.
As you head off to bed, you suddenly realize that you’ve been slowly consuming food over the last five hours.
Why do you do that? Why is it so hard to stop eating once you’ve started?
That banana really would’ve been enough to eat until dinner. But it feels like once you turn on your “eating switch”, there’s just no turning it off.
Your body has a physical need to eat. But even more than that, you have emotional, mental and even spiritual responses to food that makes you eat—and even overeat!
If you’re not properly handling just one of these areas, it’s easy to miss those “full” signals your body gives. And you keep eating and eating, even when you really just want to stop. Let’s chat about what makes you unable to stop eating. I’ll give you practical and spiritual tips that will help you understand why you’re overeating. Plus discover how you can stop this habit and replace it with a healthy approach to eating.
In “Once I Start Eating, I Don’t Want to Stop” we discuss:
- The four types of hunger that lead to overeating.
- How to change your food mentality so that you can stop eating.
- The importance of feeding yourself spiritually to prevent binge eating.
Links mentioned:
- Get your Binge Proof Action Planner.
- For a deep dive, check out Grace Filled Plate Platinum and be sure to get on the waiting list.
You may also love:
- How to End All-or-Nothing Eating Once and For All
- Season 1 Episode 36: How to Make a Plan to Overcome the Temptation to Eat
- Season 1 Episode 43: When Your Emotions Control Your Eating
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- Get your FREE Faith [is greater than] Food Email Course.
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Brandice Lardner is a Certified Personal Trainer, Nutrition Coach, Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, Homeschool Mom, and Jesus Girl whose mission in life is to help women ditch the diet mentality and find peace with food and their bodies so that they are better equipped to do the great things God has called them to do.
kathy pederson says
The podcast had some good ideas.
Brandice says
Glad you found it helpful, Kathy!