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Resolving an Unwanted Overeating Habit

We’re all familiar with the willpower and deprivation strategies that try to help us resolve an unwanted habit like overeating.

What if those strategies were approaching the problem the wrong way?

What if you are not the problem when it comes to trying, and failing, to resolve an unwanted habit? What if it is the tools we’ve been using that are wrong?

Below you’ll find links to free articles and podcast episodes that explore a new understanding of how humans work and, more specifically, how that relates to getting rid of those pesky unwanted habits like overeating.

Articles

Why Diets Don’t Work

Overeating and the Self-help Paradox

The River of Life Heals the Drive to Overeat

Overeating: What do our feelings have to do with it?

Online course

Freedom From Overeating

Podcast Episodes

Addiction: One Cause, One Solution Part 1 with Christian McNeill

Addiction: One Cause, One Solution Part 2 with Barbara Sarah Smith

I can only ever stay on a diet for 3 days. What’s wrong with me?

How is a quiet mind related to weight-loss?

What’s happening when I feel a craving?

Will I be happy when I stop overeating?

I know it’s my thinking so why can’t I stop overeating?

Why do my cravings feel like life or death?

Overeating: What are we escaping from?

What does looking upstream have to do with diet and weight-loss?

Why are diets a different kind of suffering?

Is there such a thing as relapse? Part 1

Is there such a thing as relapse? Part 2

Is fear making us fat?

Why diets work temporarily

The loving nature of cravings

How does relaxation aid weight loss?

What should I do with intrusive thoughts about food?

What if we weren’t afraid of our cravings?

The Call Toward Home

Why is it good news when we backslide?

How are weight-loss strategies like an ice pick?

How can I be at peace with food during the holidays?

Why do diets fail us?

What does being calm have to do with weight loss?

Noise vs. Signal in Weight Loss

It’s Not All On You – coaching session with Tania Elfersy

Follow-up to the coaching session with Tania

Why Your Habit Proves You’re In Perfect Working Order

Exploding The Myth That We’re Using Food To Replace Love

Need more help?

If you’d like more help with unwanted habits, check out:

  • The Secret Language of Cravings – available in ebook, paperback, hardback, large print and audiobook
  • It’s Not About the Food – available in ebook, paperback, hardback, large print and audiobook
  • Unbroken Podcast. Interviews and information that explore the inside-out nature of life with a focus on ending unwanted habits. New episodes every Monday and Thursday.
  • My videos at YouTube.com/alexandraamor

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