After about a month of doing this mission, I’ve decided it would be a good idea to refocus. For the first month, I was mainly focused on what I was eating.

Now I feel it’s important that I focus on why I am eating. Most days I eat healthy food for breakfast, lunch and snacks…but more and more I’m finding myself overeating and/or eating unhealthy foods later in the day. This is a result of what is called “emotional eating.”

Just about everybody does it, but most people don’t realize that they do it.

I had mentioned about a week ago that I took an online course in 2006 called Mastering Food (now called Shrink Yourself) when I lost about 30 pounds. Well, luckily I’ve just been able to find all of my notes from that course. I’ve been going through them this morning and I think it’ll be really helpful for me to study them over the next few weeks.

I want to share one of the Secret Formulas for dealing with emotional eating:

“I will not eat just because I don’t feel great! I need to find a different way of dealing with feeling unhappy/stressed/worried today that doesn’t involve food.”

I plan to make that my intention for today and maybe I’ll share some more of the Secret Formulas over the next week, since I think they’re so important.

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Latest posts in the Mission: Six-pack Abs series:

• Join me for The Primal Blueprint 30-Day Challenge
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Eating Meat
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Good Calories, Bad Calories
• Mission: Six-pack Abs: My latest fitness acquisition
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – I’ve been slacking…
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 53 – Photo Update
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 46 – Making progress, slowly
• Shrink Yourself: A program that helped me finally break past my weight loss plateau
• Healthy Tanning vs. Unhealthy Tanning
• Why is it so hard to stop Emotional Eating?
• 7 Ways to Recognize If You Are an Emotional Eater
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 35 – More Weight Loss Secrets
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 32 – Refocusing My Efforts
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 31 – Starting back up again
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 23
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 22
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 21 – Photo Update
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 20
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 19 (Another benefit: a healthier back)
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 18
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 17
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 16
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 15
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 14
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 13
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 12
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 11
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 10
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• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 7
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 6
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 5
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 4
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 3
• Mission: Six-pack Abs – Day 2
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