What If I’m Addicted to Ice Cream?
This blog is a labor of love, self-love that is. I write it because I am learning the the lessons I write about as I write them and LABOR is definitely the right word. Writing about this topic is hard work. I would prefer to ignor this subject most of the time and pretend that everything is under control and in order. It isn’t. I find myself daily eating my breakfast or lunch with the laptop open before or a at least a book. I really have trouble with the practice of just eating, not doing something else at the same time. As a result, I forget to chew my food thoroughly and slowly and eat more than I need because I am not paying attention to the ‘full’ signals when they come.
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Paul McKenna said eat what you want when you are hungry. What if what you want is ice cream? It is impossible to ‘chew’ ice cream, I tried. The best I come up with is letting it melt slowly in my mouth. I am also sure I don’t eat ice cream because I am hungry, physically that is. I think it fills one of those emotional voids I don’t want ot look at too close.
There is no such thing as moderation either when it comes to ice cream. If it is in the house I will eat it, even it is a flavor I am not crazy about. So is ice cream an addiction that I have give up entirely? I tried McKenna’s aversion tricks with it. I pictured it full of hair off the floor or worse yet, raw onions. Hasn’t helped. I still can’t pass the ice cream isle without bringing home a half-gallon.
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Hi Susan,
I don’t recommend aversion therapy – there are far easier and better ways to break the addiction to ice cream. First, give yourself the gift of closing that book or laptop when you eat. No, it’s not easy to eat without doing anything else, but it is the only way to learn to be mindful. And mindfulness is one of the most powerful tools for weight loss. By the way, I have 2 other blogs and an affiliate program for my ebooks, if you’d like to join.
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This one took a while to get a handle on but I have finally broke the hold of this icy treat. I really owe my thanks to Dr. Carol Solomon and her teachings on Emotional Freedom Techniques. By listening and following along with her tapping through the issue I have found that I can walk past the ice cream freezers in the supermarket. Yesterday I went to the movie theater and was going to treat myself to a package of Dibs. I had planned this and was intent are allowing myself this “exception” but when I found they were out of Dibs and only had Häagen-Dazs ice cream bars, I easily passed on the treat. How odd is that? I would have never thought I would pass up a Häagen-Dazs?
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