How Do You Overcome The Temptation To Overeat?
There is temptation to overeat everywhere you turn but you can overcome these desires by learning why you get tempting thoughts and how to short-circuit them before they causes you to act in an unwanted way. It is simple once you understand the dirty little secret behind temptation. The temptation to overeat actual unravels over 4 stages. Once you understand the stages you will see very clearly how you can disrupt the pattern before it leads you to take a destructive action. Stage 1. Having the thought. Okay, so temptation starts with having a tempting thought… “It’s the weekend, I deserve to relax and eat whatever I want.” “Those cupcakes sure look good.” There is nothing you can do to stop a tempting thought from popping into your head but don’t worry, just having the thought can’t hurt you, unless you allow the thought to stay in your head which is the next stage. Stage 2: Feeding the thought. You automatically move into this stage if you allow the thought to linger in your head.
