Overcoming Compulsive Eating. Alice J. Katz

it, and what foods you crave.

      (c) Know your motivation. You must know why you want to change.

      (d) Change your habits. You must learn to replace junk foods with healthier ones, eat only what you love and desire, eat slowly, and eat only at a table.

      (e) Increase trust in your body. You must become more aware of when you are hungry and when you feel full and trust that if you listen to your body's signals you will weigh less.

      (f) Replace myths. You must get rid of misconceptions you have about food, feelings, and fat, and replace them with more rational ideas.

      (g) Feed your emotional hunger. You need to identify your feelings and needs, and take care of them without using food to push them away.

      (h) Replace negative thinking. You need to increase your self-esteem and give yourself positive messages.

      (i) Take control. You must take control of your life by becoming assertive.

      (j) Take action. You must replace self-pity and feelings of hopelessness with “doing” and “expressing,” instead of “eating.”

       A diet of living, loving, and being makes a diet of overeating impossible.