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Are You Struggling with Weight and Food Obsession - A 17 Point Checklist for Women

If you're a woman who has struggled for years
with being overweight, feeling afraid of7. You think your inability to lose weight is
eating real food, caught in a cycle ofall  your  fault.
binging and dieting, then you may have to
consider that you are a part of the majority8. The success of your day depends upon what
of  those  for  whom  dieting  does not work.number  the  scale  says.
Recently it has been revealed and admitted by9. You skip meals in an attempt to reduce
the medical community that diets just don'tcalories  or  fat.
work for 90-98% of all people. In the April
2007 issue of The American Psychologist, the10. You avoid parties and other social
Journal of the American Psychologicalgatherings  because  you  hate  your  body.
Association, UCLA researchers reported that
diets  don't  work  in  the  long  run.11. You avoid speaking up and letting your
feelings be known because you are afraid of
According to the latest results of apeople judging you and saying that you're
composite study done at UCLA, Traci Mann,fat.
Associate Professor of Psychology at UCLA and
lead author of the study said, "We found that12.  You  don't  want  people to see you eat.
the majority of people regained the weight,
plus more. Sustained weight loss was found13. When you are out at a social gathering,
only in a small minority of participantsyou'll order what you think you should and
while complete weight regain was found in thethen go home and eat more food to satisfy the
majority. Diets do not lead to sustainedfeelings  of  emptiness.
weight loss or health benefits for the
majority  of  people."14. You'll avoid sex or being intimate
because  you  don't  feel  attractive.
The thing is you probably already know deep
down in your heart that this may be true for15. You refuse to buy clothes in a size that
you. However, most likely you have no ideareally  fits  you
what to expect if you stop dieting and more
importantly how to make it work for you so16. When you're stressed, all you can think
that you can once and for all overcome yourto  do  is  eat
emotional eating and eventually lose all your
excess  weight  as  you  eat  real  food.17. You have a closet full of clothes that
you  can't  fit  into
These fears of yours are very natural and
understandable because the years of dietingIf you have 5 or more "T" responses, then you
that you've endured has conditioned you toare unfortunately overly concerned with your
think about yourself and your relationship toweight and probably an emotional eater. If
food  in  a  very  disempowering  way.you have less than 5, you may still be
dieting and it could be working for you. If
You've been taught to rely on diets to solvethat's the case, then don't change anything
your weight problem, and to believe that youunless you feel that you are ready to get off
are helpless over food, when the problem isthe  diet  roller  coaster.
not actually what you are eating, but what is
eating you. The diets are actually a part ofWhatever your results, take heart, it's never
the problem because they have probably madetoo late to begin again. You can overcome
you become obsessed about food and caused youweight and body obsession and learn how easy
to  hate  your  body.it is to trust your body by taking the first
step to decide to stop dieting. However if
Here's a checklist to see if you are weightyou are an emotional eater, it's important to
and food obsessed. Go through the list andbalance your decision to embrace non dieting
see how many of these items are true for you.and to integrate that with learning some
Then mark a "T" for true and "F" for false.solid stress relief techniques to handle the
Then  tally  up  your  "T"  responses.emotional tug that you get when you recognize
that  you're  not  really  hungry.
1. You start each morning by getting on the
scale.The next thing that you need to learn how to
do is to be gentle with yourself and change
2.  You  think  about  food  all  the  timethe way that you think about yourself and
food. The way to do this is to learn new ways
3.  You  take  your  mirror  too  seriously.of coping with stress and to take action to
increase the juicy factor in your life, which
4.  You  tend  to be an all or nothing personjust means to have more fun and do what you
love  more  often.
5. You judge yourself harshly. You think of
food as good or bad and when you eat the badBy learning to handle your emotions and
foods, you criticize yourself for being weak.knowing the difference between when you are
really hungry and not, and setting aside time
6. You feel guilty and shameful when youfor you, that is the key to making non diet
overeatweight loss work for you.



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