Overweight isn’t always from eating too much, but often it is. The patterns of eating behaviors that end up in a weight problem are just that, patterns.  While you may be focused on that lapse of 20 minutes when you devoured a bag of Kettle chips, those moments of slipping into eating behaviors that repeat and repeat don’t happen in a vacuum, or because you’re weak-minded, lazy, or lacking in willpower.  The Kettle chips session happens in a context, the context of your life that hour, that day, and for the years and years you’ve been who you are.  It’s more than likely your biology, emotions, and nutrition hold the key to making sense of your out-of-wack eating, the key to cracking the case.

Your biology (or what your body does without deciding about it) may have something to do with going for the Kettle chips. You ate a packet of instant oatmeal for breakfast and a Weight Watcher’s frozen entree for lunch. That’s  nutritional sadism. You didn’t get enough food, enough calories, enough taste and flavor. You didn’t get sated, or satisfied in a way that’s different than feeling full.  Satisfying meals that are good also produce  the ” hit of happy” brain chemical dopamine.  Instead your measure of your meals was that  you were ”being good”.  Later in the day, when you couldn’t hold out on your biology, it won, and said “go for the fat, sugar, and salt, and go big”.  Had there been more flavor, more taste, more fat, more interest in your eating that day, the thought of eating may not have even occured to you. Better to not have the cravings in the first place than to have to try and resist them over and over and over.  

Eating to complement, not resist our  biology  is one thing. Putting it in that context is  sometimes  the total solution, but more often than not,  patterns of  feelings are playing a part in the automatic eating habits that get so exasperating.  Overeating makes sense. It works well to   “sponge up” tension, anxiety, stress.  The most important source of tension or anxiety  to anyone is the kind generated in family, the one someone is in and the one they came from.   To really put  eating trouble  in it’s proper context, put it in the context of the family system of relationships.  Being ”caught” in patterns of how the relationships hum along has alot to do with a chronic anxiety that gets managed with food.    Ultimately, seeing that, and working on self resolves that tension and resolves the eating troubles. That’s the idea.  This makes The Eating Guru help unique as a solution to eating troubles.

Weight loss advice almost always focuses on nutritional advice, and working on modifying eating behaviors without appreciating how they make sense.  Neither of these solutions have proven to be durable.    People end up blaming themselves for being too weak-minded to eat better. Nutritional advice from The Eating Guru focuses on eating food that’s good, that’s homemade as often as you can swing it, that gets away from “healthy foods” and “weight loss foods” that are highly processed, not terribly nutritious, and don’t satisfy taste and appetites.  We also get triggered to eat more by larger plates and mugs, by buying food in bigger amounts like it’s sold at CostCo, and by being naturally poor at judging how much we’re eating. Eating Guru help takes a wide look at eating troubles with a whole range of tools in the tool bag.