How can I avoid overeating when I'm bored?

When you're resisting the task in front of you, the idea of distracting yourself with an exciting taste experience can be tempting. A vision of hot fudge cascading down slopes of pure white vanilla ice cream can transport us from the monotony of daily life. Who couldn't use a respite from changing the sheets or preparing the taxes or any other task we love to avoid?

The habit of eating pleasure food to change our experience, to escape and entertain ourselves rather than nourish our bodies, is an innocent way of trying to love and soothe ourselves when we're bored or under stress. There's no reason to make ourselves feel bad or wrong about this. However, overfilling our tank has consequences that don't feel loving, like indigestion, lethargy, or feeling bloated, nauseated, headachy, or sleepy.

We may feel guilty, regretful, or angry, and judge ourselves for lacking willpower when we gain weight and our clothes feel tight. What's a girl to do? First, if you notice your hand reaching toward the cookie jar or the ice cream in the freezer when you're full, walk into another room, away from the food and ask, "What story am I in?" or "What am I believing that's not true?" or "What do I really need right now?"

Get quiet and take a few minutes with these questions. Almost always, you will find a painful emotion or some unease lurking underneath this impulse. One of the costs of overindulging in pleasure food is that it prevents you from experiencing or inquiring about what you're feeling or believing that caused you to want to eat.

The ego's Child (pleasure-seeking impulses) goes after pleasure as a way of coping with what it doesn't like about life. When you automatically indulge and fulfill a desire, you miss out on its real message: There's something that's off here that I need to address, either inside myself, in my life, or with another person. Keep this in mind and notice when the Child starts talking to you.

Ask yourself, "Is there something that I'm resisting about life, something that I'm trying to cope with by seeking pleasure? Why do I need pleasure now? What do I really need?

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