Emotional Eating: My Kindle Book Describes The Cause And Cure
I’ve had many breakthroughs over the years, from creating the Lefkoe Belief Process that quickly and permanently eliminates the beliefs that run our lives, to the various de-conditioning processes, to a process that dissolves the meaning we automatically and unconsciously add to events all day long. Two of the most exciting breakthroughs occurred just a few years ago when I figured out that the primary cause of emotional eating is behavioral conditioning, not beliefs, and then created a process that de-conditioned the triggers for emotional eating. I wrote a book describing my emotional eating breakthroughs After those breakthroughs I wrote [...]
Do you know about the two types of conditioning that have caused the emotional eating epidemic?
During the past two years I’ve written several blog posts about emotional eating and its causes. As I learned more about emotional eating from my clients and about learning theory, I’ve changed my mind on several occasions. I now think I understand the essential causes of one of the biggest problems we face: One-third of America’s adult population is obese and another one-third is overweight. The health consequences are devastating; the financial costs are staggering; the misery experienced by those afflicted is overwhelming. Nothing proposed thus far has come close to being able to stem the epidemic. I think I [...]
Emotional eating: the cause and the cure
Joanne was 52 when she called me to help her with her weight problem. She said she needed to lose 80-90 pounds, but her real complaint was, “I need to eat all the time. I know I’m full and I keep eating anyway.” As I questioned her she revealed that it was easier for her to eat and be fat than to have to explain to herself why men didn’t love her. “Men are not interested in fat women, so if I’m fat a lack of interest from men won’t mean anything about ME.” She said she used food to [...]
The Causes And Cure For Overeating
The more we work with clients who have a problem of overeating, the more convinced I am that we have come up with an effective solution to a major health crisis. Over 70% of American adults are either overweight or obese. That is a disastrous situation for those people who have an eating/weight problem and a serious crisis for society as a whole. As more and more clients de-condition eating as the compulsive response to emotional triggers and as I better understand the role of beliefs in overeating, it is clear that a long-term solution to overeating now [...]
How to stop emotional eating (and other compulsive behavior problems) for good
When I first started helping clients whose major complaint was emotional eating—eating for emotional reasons when they really weren’t hungry—I assumed that the problem was caused by beliefs and conditioning, like most other behavioral or emotional problems. But when all the beliefs and conditionings that appeared to be relevant had been eliminated, the problem usually was as bad as ever. At which point I went back to the drawing board. I knew all about “classical” conditioning, in which a stimulus is conditioned to produce a behavioral or emotional response. So rejection or making a mistake can be conditioned to produce [...]
Eating/Weight Problems: The Source and Solution
Most of the behavioral or emotional problems we want to get rid of are relatively simple to deal with. We procrastinate. We worry all the time about what people think of us. We lack confidence. Using The Lefkoe Method you can find and eliminate the beliefs and conditionings that cause these problems. As a result, the problems will disappear. Unfortunately overeating and weighing too much are not as simple. This problem is much more difficult to get rid of than most because it consists of from six to eight (or even more) sub-problems, each of which has to be handled [...]
