“I love this whole concept, but I still don’t know if it will work for me, because I am an emotional eater. I eat and eat to try and erase the cares of the world.”

I hear you, but dieting is making that worse. In every way, diet mentality and reactive eating is getting so tangled up in your emotional eating, that what you begin to experience more, is reactive eating.

You can’t diet to get emotional eating under control. When you try to do that, it causes reactive eating and deep feelings of denial, biological, existential, and emotional. It snowballs, and all of a sudden you think you are a MONSTER emotional eater, bingeing and completely out of control, but what you are really doing is responding to both physical and mental restriction.

If you stop dieting, that’s your best bet to healthfully, easily, and sanely become aware of any “emotional eating”. On top of that, getting into your body, feeling what’s in there, and the work I do with limiting beliefs and energy work can support people who use eating or anything else to numb.

But I don’t know of anything that could be worse for emotional eating, than dieting.

This is one of the top searches that leads people to the Fuck It Diet…

They google: “The Worst Thing About Being On A Diet.”

So let me try and name what some of the worst things are about being on a diet, just to answer that question right off the bat.

Maybe the worst thing is that you are messing up your body’s natural appetite regulation.

Maybe it’s that restriction will lower your metabolism and make your body more fixated on food as part of the biological reaction.

Maybe it’s because diet culture makes you believe that any inability to stay on a diet is your fault, instead of just the way your body is wired.

Maybe it’s that dieting makes you anti-social and focused on the wrong way to achieve health.

Maybe it’s because it makes weight an important focus on your life.

Maybe because it teaches you not to trust your natural impulses and instincts.

Maybe it’s because it leads to bingeing.

Maybe it’s the doctors recommend dieting and weight loss as if it is a cure-all and don’t know what the #$@* they are talking about.

Maybe it’s because dieting is recommended before other more health affirming practices (like stress relief and rest.)

Maybe it’s because most diet foods suck.

Maybe it’s because you’ll spend your days hungry and think it’s healthy.

Maybe because it’s convinced you that if you can just shrink down enough, you’ll suddenly be worthy to take up space. Read that again. That makes no sense.

What do you think the worst part of dieting is? I can’t decide.