Weight

I believe that weight gain or loss, for most people is a mental thing. When I'm stressed, it's easy to see me at the refrigerator door looking for something sweet. Am I hungry? NO...but it would be nice to taste something good!

Emotional eating is tied up with your self esteem. You are craving something, but it's not food. It can be love, acceptance, or a myriad of issues. But, it's Not about Food!

So, we need to dig deeper than that. It's a need for something more...we don't feel filled up for some reason. The real issues are harder to deal with than eating something for a temporary fix. Our emotions are connected to how we behave. If our emotions are out of whack, we eat or sometimes stop eating.

Starving yourself and not eating is another form of self expression. It's covering up feelings of insecurity, feeling less than someone else, or not deserving of food, or other pleasant things. We all need to work hard at looking at ourselves and examining what we see in the mirror. We need to face ourselves and knock down our barriers, to be clear of who we are. The reality is that most of us sell ourselves short, and don't see how beautiful and unique we really are. Let's look in the mirror and see our specialness...We all need to see beyond what a mirror might see and turn inward for the answers.