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The ritual of food addiction

If you were to try to understand the game of weight loss as long as I was coaching people – twenty-five years – You have probably tried to avoid foods, even if this view has not worked. What you need to do is watch the ritual leading up to the part where you finish everything on your plate.

For many years I had either a radio or a public access television cable show named "Changing Habits." The opening of two lounges state: we cover eating, smoking, gambling, drinking, shopping, spending, and negative thinking. He also spoke of low gain wages, the accumulation of debt, apartments in disorder, and procrastination. All these things have something in common: they can be ritualized.

I too was seduced by the hypnotic effect that I felt when I was blind, the state machine of ritual. When in this state of mind you're comfortable without having to think or feel something else. I smoked cigarettes, spent too much, drank too much, and went into debt as if I was in a trance. Writing this book has become a ritual behavior, there was always another chapter to write or edit or rewrite or type. I'm in the middle of construction in my apartment. What began as rebuild a bathroom and floor the kitchen has turned into buying new furniture and decorative built-ins.

A small part of the decorating process has been the search buttons for cabinet doors. There were hundreds of styles and shapes and colors and prices from which to choose. I do not even want to tell you how much choice I had to do when it comes to choosing a sofa.

If gambling or drugging or eating, or writing a book, there is a ritual of things we do, and say, and I think, before, during and after the actual use of the drug. And I use the word here because a drug ritual behavior is as much a drug on your system, such as food or cigarettes or alcohol.

The player knows the telephone number paris off-track bookmaker or by heart, a bartender remembers your usual drink; you shop whenever you're bored. The drinker is the favorite drink with a quantity specific ice or mixer or water. He / she can drink the drinking pace, with or without the other at specific times of day or week or one year, and many people only drink in particular places, ie, it occurs to me about alcohol in a Chinese restaurant. As my friend Tom always orders a beer and friend Sara orders one large and one small concern in a Japanese restaurant. Each part of a ritual of meshes with other parties to improve the behavior more effectively. Add to the list as you lock and unlock the door of your home or office, meet the phone, call a friend, get ready for bed, put your hair, or comb your mustache.

When I smoke, it was the purchase and the smoking of cigarettes. But there was also my collection cigarette, Dunhill lighter, and I used a Lalique ashtray, for the love of God. I added additional behaviors to my ritual, too: I needed to buy and have on hand, mouth spray lighter to the lighter and outside and rinse to use after I smoked each cigarette.

The ritual paraphernalia is as much a part of your diet or use tobacco or drinking habit as lighting and inhaling a cigarette, or swallowing a mouthful of food. Each habit has its own ritual actions and reactions.

Think about other rituals and habits you mindlessly perform each day: brushing your teeth, shower, shave, or put on makeup. Checking on mail or phone message retrieval answering machine can be a part of phonebook. I recently added to my ritual, regular checking of my e-mail to see if I've Got Mail.

The clothes in the morning is ritualized, too. You can comb your hair and makeup, then put clothes. Some others have put their clothes on the first, then comb the hair and makeup. I eat breakfast and make my day, two day, three a day vitamins, minerals and tablets calcium. I even arrange them on a paper plate in four little piles for easy access later. It's a ritual, too. This is what we do:

We organize and ritualized, so that we can narcotic.

All this work busy, distracting, at least for the moment, feelings or thoughts with which you do not want to face.

I practiced and perfected many constructive rituals in my life. After having regularly for many years, they are now automatic and blind and serve my needs. They help make my day run smoothly, such as assistance a pencil when I write in my book an appointment. It is comforting in the familiar.

It is the ritual of the first thought or word or action that leads to thought or word or action to another, and the next and the next. Eventually, you succumb to what you think is the attraction of taste or smell or even sight of food. But this is really the tail of a ritual where one can be tired or bored and just to get used to everything that is before you. Some of us eat like an excuse to pause or rest. It is difficult to say no because that's all knitted together the first thought of a ritual for the first feeling of remorse. There are always regrets. This is part of the ritual, too. This cycle of ritual behavior must be stopped and sorted out. Identifying these models, even acknowledging that you have models, is a wonderful stage first change of habits.

As you become more aware of your habits of thought, speech and action, you can begin the process of redevelopment or omit the automatic next step and create new models for constructive yourself. Finally, you'll learn comfortable thinking, saying and doing something else instead of putting food in your mouth, just because it's there.

The outcome of the ritual food dependence will help you make proactive choices so you can become the person you want to be. Sometimes the new way is very different that you have accumulated in the mode of behavior. Your old road has been built on a lifetime of unconscious actions and reactions. You now the possibility of creating something new and wonderful that better meets your present needs to weigh __________ pounds.

Bobby F. danced that I can go all day without eating, but once I start, I can not stop tango, a remnant of a previous plan of weight loss.

As the evening activities are not as exciting as those days it was without things to occupy his mind; old feelings and thoughts bubbled up. With nowhere to go and nobody to talk to, he has incorporated into the kitchen in her usual evening activity of killing time. A trip to the kitchen gave a candy, another trip has a quartet of salad leftovers, another trip two grapes. Once or twice a night ritual became increasingly frequent. It really took off when he had a telephone installed in the kitchen. He was sitting on a chair with wheels while talking on the phone and driving on the refrigerator, where he opened the door and window shopping on the shelves.

When he worked to break this ritual, I had put a little tick on a piece of paper each time he thought putting something in his mouth. Between 9 pm and midnight, he found himself thinking about food than forty-two times! It just about one episode every five minutes.

Forty-two times in three hours, he had the habit of putting something in his mouth, even if he had not hungry. Forty-two times, he munched a piece of this and swallow it, simply because he was bored. What to eat an item, or a bite of many items, it adds everything. It does not matter if it is salad or soda. You eat when you're not hungry. If you practice this habit every day of the week, you have a behavioral addiction that becomes a weight gain. Keep doing the same thing and it becomes part of the evening's entertainment. When Herman offers the phone in the kitchen, the picture has changed. His weight has changed. His habits changed. This is just one of many reasons that discovered as a result of being attentive. There was still more to find.

He realized he was still ordered a glass of wine when he took clients to dinner, or how every meal ends with a cup of coffee. Each visit to a theater to see a film seems to be bound to eat a bag of popcorn or buy a soda. The purchase – I call it a compulsion to spend – is a ritual, too.

When I mentioned rituals with someone other than teach, she noted that the keeping of the book in which it enters its weight per day and what it eat, was a ritual. I agree. Some rituals help us become aware of what we do and we can see, in writing, models we have created. Some rituals are better than others.

Barbara J. had a difficult time to 4 hours each day. It was clear that his desire eating was not on hunger, his lunch was usually a few hours before. It was connected to his children arriving from school. When she was preparing food for them, she mindlessly nibbled on the food itself. She also had a telephone in the kitchen and practiced a version of talk on the phone and navigation among the sausages. You may be thinking: But I will not leave the broccoli. If you eat when you do not hungry, it does not matter what it is. All this adds up.

In an office, a ritual of eating may begin at the beginning of a Coffee bell rings car at 10 am and 3 pm Rachel S. I said a stupid habit she had when she buy from Manhattan to his home in New Jersey. Every trip, five days a week for a year, she ate a chocolate bar. Just one candy bar habit could add up to about twenty pounds by the end of the year.

I used to have the habit of buying a big bottle of fruit juice and he would drink a few sips at a time – it's just juice, I thought – until all 64 ounces were sipped away and I would buy another bottle. When I realized how many times I repeat this behavior, I started buying juice in individual bottles of 4 ounces each, put the bottles on a shelf other than that of the top one in the refrigerator. If I do not see, I do not think about it. If I did not think about it, I do not drink. The habit started to collapse on its own. Sometimes, changing just one part of a ritual – whether thought word or action – loosen the knot set of behaviors without much effort. Sometimes it takes more thought. In this case, change the size of the container has been around (one physical action). I also thought (mental re-structuring) that I had gone years without drinking juice so many times in one day and it has always been correct. It could well happen again. You get used to everything.

What are some of your rituals and habits?

About the Author

About The Author: This article is an excerpt from the book Conquer Your Food Addiction (Free Press) authored by Caryl Ehrlich. Caryl also teaches The Caryl Ehrlich Program, a one-on-one behavioral approach to weight loss in New York City. Visit her at http://www.ConquerFood.com to know more about weight loss and how to keep it off without diet, deprivation, props, or pills. Caryl welcomes questions or comments about this article and the behavioral methods she incorporates into her weight loss program. For further information: Caryl@ConquerFood.com or call 212-986-7155.

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