How God Combats Emotional Eating

How can we immunize ourselves against emotional eating?

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I have already written a few articles about the most crucial moments that affect our health and fitness. For example, How to win the fight: a bag of chips vs. your goal to lose weight. However, this past week, I found myself in a situation where I had to go deeper because I had two great excuses to go crazy with my food and give up on my exercise. Even though I had given myself permission to take a break from my healthy habits, I just couldn’t; my body and mind simply would not go there. I recognized that my decision not to numb my pain with food did not prevent me from feeling extremely worried and upset, which could still be harmful to my mental and physical health. My mind felt like a warring place full of positive vs. negative thoughts, but I knew I could not let the dust clouds of this war settle and cover my heart.

I am not typically an emotional person; I don’t even watch chick flick movies. Honestly, the movies I watch and the books I read for fun are primarily thrillers (not counting the spiritual books I read daily for my ‘survival’). But this week, I shed some tears. After dropping off my daughter way too early (4 am) at the airport for college and driving back home, I couldn’t hold back the tears because I was already missing her. I thought to myself that I could have a nice big pancake…