Marias Health Blog

To change your eating behavior or other negative behavior, you need to find out how different situations or events may influence your thoughts, which in turn affect your behavior.
To do that you can use the following questions …

1. What happened today? Describe events or situations at work and at home, which in various ways to get involved and touched you.
Try first of all to identify events during the day, giving rise to negative thoughts and unpleasant feelings. It may be your feelings when you saw your boring colleague, it can apply to the remorse you feel that you forgot to call your mom. No event or situation is too small or trivial to be noted in this context, the important thing is that you reacted to it.

2. How have you thought about the events? What emotions have the events brought with you?
What were you thinking during and after the various events / situations? For most of us, it is easier to reach the emotions that a situation or event giving rise to. But do not give up! It is important that you learn to identify your thoughts about different situations – and especially if it is positive or negative thoughts.

3. How do you think your perception of today’s events have influenced your eating behavior?
Give yourself time to really think through the issue. Did you eat without thinking as you thought about what happened? Did you eat to hide a feeling of discomfort in the body?

Start by thinking about these issues and maybe you’ll see a pattern in your behavior. Next time I will continue with some more questions …