Do You Know What Your Food Triggers Are?

In order to take on a fabulously thin life, It's important to be able to recognize your food triggers quickly, nip them,
and then move on with your day in a naturally thin fashion.

 

We have five main categories of food triggers and they fall in to:

1. People triggers – your mother-in-law, friend, eating buddy

2. Location triggers – coffee shops, the kitchen at a friend’s house, your kitchen

3. Emotional triggers – sadness, boredom, procrastination

4. Sensation triggers – like smells, tastes, sights

5. Time of day triggers – 3:00 at work, right when you get home from work

 

Take out a piece of paper and quickly identify each of these food triggers in your life.

You’ll find that one or two of these categories will be stronger than the others.

 

Then, once you’ve identified them, there are several strategies you can use. I just placed an audio up on ThinWithinU.com showing how, the other day, when I just wanted food I used the “What do I need” strategy. You can find this audio in the weekly audio section of the site.

 

Here's one way thing you can do immediately – you can connect the level of intensity of your trigger and urge to eat. If you really, really, really want to eat but you know that you are not hungry and this has nothing to do with food, but rather your mother-in-law, take some time to:

1. Breathe

2. Throw in a guided meditation to relax and refocus you.

3. Use the “What Do I Need” free-writing technique

4. Meditate for 5-10 minutes by placing one hand on your chest and one hand on your belly. Notice the rise and fall of your chest.

5. Release your stress to the Universe

 

To your thin self that is ready to shine through all of your food triggers,

Marna