Section 4 – Phase 1

Week 3 – Emotional Eating

Session at a Glance:

Weight Standings – 10 minutes
Teaching on Topic – 30 minutes
Question for the Cast – 30 minutes
Motivation/Encouragement – 10 minutes
General Questions – 5 minutes
Homework – 5 minutes

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Hello, Week 2 is done. Can you believe we are two full weeks into this?

It’s kind of crazy! We got our week 2 weigh-ins done, and now let’s look at our standings after week 2.

1. Weight Standings

Go through the standings from last place to first place.

In total we as a group in week 2, you lost ____________ pounds. Awesome job!!

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop!!!

Celebrate their new weight decade. For example, 182 lb, down 3lb = 179 lb; the new decade is 170!

2. Topic: Emotional Eating

So tonight, we are going to talk about Emotional Eating

More importantly, Finding Your Triggers.
- We all have them, but most people never think about them.
- What triggers you to emotionally eat, to emotionally drink

For most of us, this starts when we are little
- Rewarded for being positive
- Punished for not eating all of our food

We have been conditioned to eat emotionally – what emotions
- Happy – Sad – Angry – Frustrated – Lonely – Celebrations – Holidays – Late Night
  - In most cases, we have been conditioned to eat emotionally
- We have created rewards – traditions – all about the food
  - Then we are raised or raise our kids to do the same thing
  - Make food a reward
- Some of us emotionally eat for ALL of them. When we are happy & when we are sad.

Being overweight is emotional, not logical; we logically know we should not eat the food, but when our emotions come into play, all logic goes out the window.
- Emotions will always lead us down a path that doesn’t align with our goals.

So, since we live in a world filled with emotions and emotional people, we have to learn OUR TRIGGERS
- What triggers us to eat emotionally
  - Give examples – lonely, driving, late night, weekends, holidays, hard days, free food, success, work, fight with a spouse,
- We are never going to change people or situations or get rid of our emotions.
- We must change the way we deal with them.

First step – Recognizing our triggers
- What triggers us

Second step – next time it happens, how will we choose to deal with it
- It is going to happen again, but if you already have a plan of how to deal with it, we aren’t caught off guard, we aren’t surprised, we aren’t leaving our health to emotion
- We are making decisions according to our goals by choice, not hoping to get lucky by chance.

EXAMPLE:
- Next time I get frustrated by the kids – I will take a walk instead of eating
- Next time I have a bad day at work, I will do______________
- When I am tempted to late night eat, I will drink water, drink tea, etc

3. Question for the Cast

What is at least one trigger you know we need to address ASAP???
- Just on top of your head, make it your best guess!

4. Motivation/Encouragement

As we come into week 4 – now that you know this, you will start to see your triggers all over.
- You will start to recognize it, you will start to take control back,
- You will start to succeed where you have not.
- You will triumph over situations that have stopped you in the past.
- You will start to see your goals /dreams turn into reality.

5. General Questions?

6. Homework for this week

Weekly progress photos
Write down your triggers
- Pen and paper or use your computer
- Create a plan of attack: What am I going to do next time if I get triggered?
- Come to the group and tell us about it when you have overcome it!
Read your contract “I commit to” and your declaration
- Keep it in front of you, and remind yourself daily.
- Look for any areas where you are not doing what you have promised yourself that you would do.

Observe the following Life Class Example.