Note from Ellen…So many emotional, compulsive, and binge eaters say they can make changes, shifts, for certain periods of time; healthy changes like increased exercise, more healthful eating, self-care practices, etc. But before long they always find themselves back sliding into old unhealthy habits and back into the food. So I asked our Circle Experts to share their experience with this common pattern? I asked what they find missing from these repetitive attempts to change behavior.
Here’s what Mary Boggiano, PhD, who studies the behavioral neuroscience of eating disorders and obesity, had to say:
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I love the drowning rat story….I’m finding comfort from connections to
people I care about, when I eat with them, I hardly feel like eating – their
company excites something in my brain which takes away the focus on
food and amazes me in its affect on my eating. Maybe my friends company
is something I never appreciated as much as I do now. I’m making more of
an effort to generate things to do with people. For most of my life, I never
cared to be around people – I liked to read, play music, go to a movie,
take solitary walks, crochet, bake, entertain. Now just casual connecting
to a group or one-on-one with someone is full filling. And, I can still enjoy
the other, solitary things. I’m happier living in the Midwest than in Calif,
I’m happier in a small town, happier with the quality of people who share
similar values. I’ve discovered hypnosis has an amazing effect. Now you
have your beautiful science to inform me of the importance of the why of
some of these things in my life that work or don’t. Thank you for your site.