How to Overcome

Food Addiction and Overeating

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As you have now started to alkalise and are feeling romantic with the thought of not eating chocolate, ice cream or other tempting tid bits, or have even been on this regime a while…you will start to feel pretty good about yourself and your body.

But what happens…when you fall off the wagon? It was only one you say, one didn’t hurt me a bit, but it never usually is just the one, its a few more, a whole packet, the whole bottle…and then some.   Then comes the sneaky eating..you know, where you hide food from others. It feels naughty, sinful and the excitement keeps it going.

“Im back on it tomorrow you say”…until the next blip. You may last 3 – 4 weeks, a month, maybe 6  but usually cannot sustain a complete alkalising regime because you are constantly wrestling in your head with it.

This is normal, a lot of alkalisers go through this. You feel denied, like you are missing out. You don’t want to be the ‘boring one’ god forbid your friends stop asking you out because you are no longer drinking or eating pub meals.  ‘Alkalising is anti-social’ you say…well that depends, a lot of restaurants are good for an 80/20 meal, Lebanese and Turkish cuisine have a lot of 100% dishes.

So you choose to alkalise, because you really really really want a different experience for yourself. Great, easy done, it doesn’t seem so hard.  Next comes the fun bit – throwing out all the acid crap from your cupboards, from the fridge, going through it all…feels great…and then the restocking, thats huge fun.    But here’s the kicker.  Most people cannot support any new diet, alkalising or not, because they haven’t transformed their mindset.

Your mindset, is your foundational thinking on this.   Ive experienced many clients and observed many others who really want this for themselves, or they get a specific result and then sabotage it, or they just can’t seem to let go of that chocolate bar fantasy.  It really takes something, to move into this new arena.

A lot of people, have food addictions and overeating problems they think that alkalising is going to fix. How can I overdose on vegetables right?    Yeh, I mean its ALL so good for me, right?  What happens is that we take those patterns from past food addictions and overeating…and after a short period of time, we apply them here. Its automatic.  And you then get back into the negative cycle of binging, using laxatives or one day good, one day bad etc.

Then you are back to square one, but this time you know exactly what you are doing to yourself because you are now hyper aware…but cannot stop yourself all the same…you try, and fail, and try and succeed, then fail, you keep starting over, and over, and over and go ‘stuff it’ and try it again…you know Im telling the truth right?

Even for those who are serious alkalisers…..there are still many who over eat on their alkaline food, their negative food patterns and relationship to food still exists…and even they don’t know how to beat it.

I’ve partnered with Gillian Riley, author of Eating Less: say Goodbye to Overeating to bring to you, her weekend seminar on the psychology of food addiction and overeating.  Its called ‘Eating Less’…but it’s so much more than that.

Never before in the history of alkalising

has anyone put together a seminar

on this subject!

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Here are some of the discoveries you will make;

• improved sense of self-esteem, control and balance, in particular in terms of food
• lose the sense of compulsion, the feeling of being driven to overeat
• be less obsessed with food all the time
• develop a relationship with food like that of a ‘normal person’
• feel more relaxed around food, in all situations
• gain a greater sense of choice about comfort eating, so that when you feel upset or miserable, you could eat some junk – but you don’t have to

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This weekend seminar is for you if you still struggle with food, in any scenario whether it be at home, restaurants, or even go from bingeing to nothing, yo-yo dieting, extreme dieting, comfort eating or even find that you just need the support in doing something different.

Some of the topics covered;

• how to create a deep sense of choice, and how to make the choices you really want to live with. A lot of people choose alkalising as  ‘fix’ to something which is why they start to resent this choice
• understand overeating in terms of addiction to food, addictive thinking and behaviour, and brain function
• how to let go of perfectionism as the way you control your eating. A lot of alkalisers go into overdrive with food control, becoming the food police, policing others and beating themselves up when they don’t get it right or fall off the wagon.
• understand why ‘intuitve eating’ doesn’t work
• ability to set your own limits to your meals, and how to end meals within those limits so that you don’t eat until you feel ‘stuffed’.  Many alkalisers ‘make up’ for not eating bread, meat or dairy by stuffing themselves with veges and salads. Their mindset is still the same, alkalising will not change it.
• How to get back on the wagon when you fall off, quickly.
  

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For more information on course dates please email Gillian at g-riley@eatingless.com

The venue is in St Johns Wood, North London

**Upon booking you will receive course materials, confirmation of the venue and times.

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Testimonials

I am more in the ‘driving’ seat than felt previously and able to recognise that my behaviour is about my choices at any given moment.  Mandy

I am so grateful for your grasp of this issue and the uncluttered transmission of the message. It is so effective and empowering. Many thanks, CR.

In spite of intrinsically knowing that diets that focus on weight are at best like a mirage, always elusive and just out of reach and at worst downright harmful, I have found myself seduced for all of my teen and adult years by the fantasy of a ‘better me’ and as a consequence have seriously negatively affected my already fragile sense of self-worth. I know that I maintain a ‘never good enough’ sense of myself in the practice of dieting to achieve weight loss and as far as evidence based practice goes, my weight has only ever escalated. Petra

The most significant thing I learned was to pay attention to my addictive desire, face it, feel it and think through the consequences of both satisfying it and managing it without satisfying it. MB