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Why do many people lack diet motivation and have trouble eating right? With all of the information available about how the wrong foods adversely affect our health, why would someone continue to eat unhealthy foods? For many people, it's because unhealthy eating is a habit, and habits can be very powerful and difficult to break. The power of a habit can often overcome any amount of logic.

Habitual mental patterns are what keeps many people who attempt to eat right and lose weight from succeeding. How you mentally represent food is the controlling factor in what, how much, and when you eat. For many people with unhealthy eating habits, food provides emotional comfort. Their mental patterns with regard to food control them so completely that their habit of unhealthy eating is very difficult for them to break. Unless they have a way to change what food means to them on a subconscious level, their automatic responses to food will not change.

People with healthy eating habits don't have an emotional connection to food. They enjoy food, but they see food primarily as nutrition. They eat only when they're hungry and they stop eating when they're not hungry any more. Their mental patterns with regard to food are different than the mental patterns of unhealthy eaters. If you're one of those unhealthy eaters, I'd suggest keeping a daily diary; do not simply record what you eat in a given day, consider WHY you're eating. This takes discipline and even self-examination, but if you can discover your stress eating triggers you can address the unhealthy thinking patterns that lead to unhealthy eating.

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