I just picked up October's issue of "Shape" magazine, and there is a "30-second tip" to put an end to emotional eating that just floored me. It says:
"The next time stress has you reaching for chips or chocolate, try this trick: Put your negative feelings on a mental conveyor belt and watch them go away. 'It helps you let go of whatever's bothering you,' says Edie Goldbacher, Ph.D., a researcher at Temple University's Center for Obesity Research and Education. As you see the anxiety vanish, so will your candy craving."
Does that kind of thing actually help anyone?
I've had therapists say stuff like that to me a lot in the past and I dismiss it. Most of my emotional eating comes from stress at my job. If I really tried to put all my job stress on a mental conveyor belt, I would be throwing everything on that so-called belt. I would then watch everything ride away then go crashing to the floor at the end of the belt and feel bad about it so I would want to go catch it all before it hit the floor.
So it would end up like the episode of "I Love Lucy" where the conveyor belt starts going too fast and they can't keep up with it. My belt would be so backed up on both ends that my productivity would come to a crashing halt because I couldn't keep up with everything going onto and coming off the belt at rapid speed.
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