8 ways to break free from emotional eating
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at
1:23 am
Financial woes, job stress, and other common symptoms of the current economic climate are prompting many Americans to turn to sugary, fatty foods for comfort.
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Emotional eaters eat out of strong feelings. They do not care about what they eat while they are eating because they have something else on their mind that they are trying to bury or make go away.
A craving is a strong desire. It may be something you have not had in a long long time, something you miss, or something you find unattainable or hard to get and it’s always on your mind!
Interview I did months ago about MySpace just posted – pls note my correct predictions of MySpace financial woes
I am, perhaps, one of the few here on the blog who has actually done work in the “Global Warming” field.
Recently I am a reviewer on a handful of scientific papers on the measurements of Co2 in the atmosphere and in ice cores as well as my own research over the last 10 years or so.
One of my first experiences with “Climate Change” was participating in experiments of aircraft seeding clouds with dry ice and iodine way back in the summers of 1977-1978.
The research materials I have fill about 30 legal storage boxes in my basement.
I appreciate that neither USWep nor most on this blog are organized to do the basic research in mathematics, statistics, physics and chemistry (with a dab or two of biology) necessary to even approach this subject competently.
And that is the problem.
The subject is scientific – and it has been pushed into the realm of politics in such a way that the average Joe is bombarded with a mix of fact and myth so to befuddle him. Average Joe simply has no tools capable of discerning the difference.
His common sense is being called into question by those with a political agenda:
His common sense:
– winter kills, summer lives —- but cold is good and warm is bad???
- the weather man can’t predict rain in the next hour, but climatologists can predict the weather 100 years from now?
- the measurement of temperature at this very moment is all a ‘it depends’; is it in the sun or shade, on grass or on concrete, 10 feet up or ground level, morning or at night – yet we know what the temperature of Houston 100 years ago with certainty?
- the sun makes all weather, but the man influence is bigger than the sun?
- environmentalism is the same as conservationist is the same as anti-pollution, right?
and so on and so on.
Average Joe finds himself wading in gobbledygook. He is then told to trust the experts – predictably totted out by the government.
And these government experts, with no surprise, call for more taxes and more restrictions on Average Joe.
Fortunately, Average Joe can smell a rat. Will he do something about it? (Shrug)
So, my mantra for the Average Joe – if the solution to a problem is government, you know something is wrong with 1) the problem and 2) the solution.
And the last bit of advice on this topic (or any topic):
If you do not understand the arguments, then stop worrying about it.
Don’t worry about that which you do not understand.
Work to understand anything you feel is worth worrying about.
To Ray:
RT In today’s economic climate, some of the most affordable housing is historic/vintage:
thanks JACG!!!
Need to hit the gym again today. Gotta burn the fatty foods I’ve been eating lately.