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Do you eat when you're not hungry? Do you have a problem
controlling the amount of food you eat? Do you use food as a way to
procrastinate?

Do you use food to ease your stress? Calm your anger? Relieve your
boredom? Give you energy? Celebrate your successes?

If you answer yes to more than one of these questions, you most
likely eat and select certain foods for the emotional responses
they give you. One way to learn how to take control of your
emotional eating is to use the method that most 12-step programs
use, the HALT method. HALT stands for Hungry, Angry, Lonely and
Tired.

Being too hungry, angry, lonely or tired are conditions that can
leave you more vulnerable to using food as a crutch. The HALT
acronym can help you remember that when you feel certain emotions
that trigger you to eat, stop and substitute the eating with
something that will actually allow you to experience your emotion.

If you're lonely, call someone. If you want to celebrate a success,
reward yourself with a non-food gift. Whatever emotion drives you
to eat, remember there is a better way to feed it than with food.

Here's to HALTing your eating,
Megan Porter, RD

www.caloriesperhour.com

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