Everywhere around us nowadays there is food. We end up eating seemingly all the time, even when we aren't hungry. We drive down the highway with big billboards on either side of the road advertising pizza delivery services, soda pop, fried chicken, you name it. We drive down the main street in town and there are those golden arches. We open a magazine to page after page of luscious looking cakes, cookies and pies.

Food is all around us. It is available at any time of the day or night; grocery stores open 24 hours, restaurants, you name it. These environmental cues often serve as the triggers for us to overeat. These things are pretty obvious,, but have you ever thought of dieting as a potential trigger to overeat?

Dieting is a trigger. Yes, it really is. How, you ask? Dieting is deprivation. With dieting you are telling yourself over and over again, “I can’t eat this, I can’t eat that, I can only eat this, I want to eat it, but I can’t , its not on my diet.” Our focus is on food. Our natural tendency when we tell ourselves no to something is to have our desire for that something increase! We want it even more because we aren’t allowed to have it.

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