Emotional Mastery

Completely back on track - I had a little talk with myself - and the Biggest Loser Counselor, Kwentin - and realized that how I deal with my feelings has been the cause of my emotional eating. Years of stuffing my feelings down and not acknowledging or expressing them has lead to my stuffing my face, emotional eating and self sabotage. This morning we talked about The Seven Steps to Emotional Mastery and I had an epiphany that I need to identify my feelings, face my feelings, express my feelings, learn from my feelings, and then liberate my feelings. Journaling, poetry, creative writing, and painting were all avenues that he indicated would be great ways to effectively express emotion. I think this Blog is part of expressing and liberating my feelings – which is why I have stayed on this journey far longer than I ever would have in the past. By now I would have definitely completely given up - not exercised at all and ate crummy for about a month before I would get back on track. From now on I plan to get up each day and decide that it will be a good day. And, when I do have challenging feelings about something – which is bound to happen – I will use these seven steps to create new habits for coping, instead of emotional eating and sabotage. I feel like a great weight has been lifted off my back! YAY!