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The Grates Family, Tucson, Arizona

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We almost forgot to send you a note about our success we have had with your program. I say WE because our whole family has taken part in the Strip That Fat diet program. We each created our own diet plans and have stuck to our guns. Our family (2 kids, 2 parents) has lost a combined weight of over 60 pounds in just over 5 weeks. Thanks a million!"
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"I have lost 60 pounds as of today. I`m on thyroid medicine, I was on prednisone which made me gain weight, but on this diet [cholesterol lowering diet] I started losing even though I was on both medications. I`m on the GI diet now. I love the food on it."
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"Hey Dr. Suzanne, Thanks so much for your wonderful 'Top Secret Fat Loss Secret as it's changed my life! The best part is that after learning what was causing me to be so heavy all I had to do the one little change you mentioned early on in your ebook, and the pounds just melted off! Some complete stranger in the mall the other day told me I had a nice butt! (Never thought I'd hear that one - Ha!)" Tracy

Emotional eating is eating for reasons other than hunger.


It is eating as a reflex to an emotion.


Most commonly it is a reflex to a negative emotion, like stress, anxiety, boredom or many others but not necessarily, positive emotions like happiness or excitement can also trigger emotional eating.


These reflexes can be conscious or unconscious and they can be the result of learned behaviors that could have been acquired through our lives starting with childhood.


We all eat for comfort sometimes, however, if eating certain foods as an automatic reflex to an emotion becomes a habit then it can start to present a problem, it can prevent us from losing or maintaining our healthy weight.


Also, it wouldn't be a problem if every time we eat for emotional reasons we would reach for healthy foods, but the most likely choices are the foods that make us feel good, foods that produce release of the hormon serotonin in our brains, which is responsible for 'happy' feelings, these are mainly sweets like ice cream or chocolate and high refined carbs like donuts or chips.


Emotional eating can also cause most of our overeating, some studies suggest that as much as 80% of overeating is caused by emotional eating.


And overeating can create feelings of guilt that can make the initial emotion that trigger the eating worst.


Another issue compounding the problem is that continuous use of certain foods as a response to an emotion can also contribute to a certain degree of physiological dependence, the body now joins our brain to ask for a specific food.


Emotional eating is not a disease and it is not about self-control, you learned to attach food to an emotion and you can reverse it.


The first step to beat unhealthy emotional eating is awareness, to learn about what emotions cause you to eat certain foods and to learn techniques to cope with the emotion in a different more healthy way.


Find out if you are an emotional eater by reading our article about the signs of emotional eating.



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