Feelings such as stress, boredom, sadness, and loneliness can often lead to emotional eating as a way of soothing or suppressing negative emotions. Affirmations have become my go-to when it comes to reprogramming your thoughts and emotional triggers.
In this article, I give 12 affirmations to help you stop emotional eating and share some of the things I’ve learned in dealing with eating my feelings and how I have begun the process of stopping.
As I took a bite, I felt the instant calm. I just wanted to feel good for a moment. But now I feel something else happening... I feel the energy leaving my body to the point I can’t even keep my eyes open. What am I doing to myself? Something has to change.
When I stand back and evaluate the “food” that I’m eating on a regular basis, I realize I’m not eating food at all...I’m actually eating death.
This is how Dictionary.com defines food:
“any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc.”
Sustain life? Provide energy?? So if I eat something that literally zaps the energy out of me, can I still call it food?
I can’t and that leaves me with a serious decision to make.
If mastery of Self is my goal, am I willing to give up the foods that I love to achieve it?
Here’s what I know: Becoming a master of anything requires discipline.
Over the last few years, I’ve watched these discourses in discipline unfold in different areas of my life.
At one point I actually called out to the heavens asking to become more disciplined because I knew that discipline really wasn’t my strength.
And now here I am…
My Divine Agency has created the opportunity for me to discipline myself in this area and I feel like I’m looking down the barrel of a gun. (be careful what you ask for, you just may get it)
So you may be reading this saying, well what’s the problem? Just stop eating the toxic, non-food.
Well, here’s the issue.
“Food” is not just food anymore.
“Food” has become my emotional crutch—
I use it to get through boring monotonous work…
I use it to calm me during a hectic day…
I use it to gather the tears that I don’t feel like crying…
I use it for everything except what food is meant to be used for.
I say I love the very “food” that depletes me, makes me lethargic and brings imbalance to my physical and energetic bodies.
If this sounds like an abusive relationship, it's because it is.
And I am finally over the drama of yoyo dieting, emotional eating, and being overweight
I choose me…
I choose my health…
I choose balance…
I choose mastery of this aspect of Self.
Are you with me?
If you are ready to take command of your thoughts and stop the emotional eating, Recite these 12 Powerful Affirmations with me:
I love my body.
I will nourish my body with healthy foods.
I give myself permission to feel my emotions without guilt.
I allow my emotions to process through my body.
I choose to be my best self in this moment.
Food is my tool to empower my body.
Today I will sing the praises of my body.
I choose to heal myself.
I choose to be healthy— mind, body, and spirit.
I am in full control of my impulses.
I will use my emotions to support healthy thoughts only.
I am not the victim of circumstance but the creator of the reality I want.
