Exorcise

What kind of emotional demons are lurking in your or refrigerator? Well, it's time to find out and exorcise them once and for all. To succeed where you have failed, sometimes you have to take a step back, in terms of reaching your goal weight, "stepping back" means reviewing past and current self-defeating behaviors to identify where you got stuck, discouraged, or overwhelmed.

Here are several of the most common causes of overeating. These may be the excuses that are familiar to you.

1. EMOTION Do you overeat as a coping mechanism, to numb suffering, allay fears, combat loneliness.

2. REWARD Do you eat to reward yourself whenever you've done a good job on something?

3. SEEKING ACCEPTANCE Do you overeat because you're seeking social acceptance? Do you eat fattening foods at parties in order not to offend the host?