TurboFire Challenge Group – Week 2:

By Home Fitness Gurus | Category: Challenge Group Guides

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More often than not, when we suddenly crave an unhealthy food (something salty, fatty, sugary, or maybe alcohol), there has been something in our life that has triggered it. Kids stressing you out at home and then find yourself reaching for some potato chips? Get the shaft on your work bonus and then all you can think about is having pizza and a beer? Your favorite team’s best player tears his ACL and the next thing you know, you’re taking it out on a Dark Chocolate Milky Way… or three.

Emotional triggers like this are very real. However, our ways of combating them only complicate the issue, they never fix it.

The next time you find yourself obsessing over a food like this, look back on your day and take stock of what happened. See if you can backtrack into identifying the trigger, then start being on guard for it in the future.

Over time you’ll learn to be more on guard for these stressors and develop a more productive method for dealing with them… like, say, I don’t know, maybe *cough *cough Exercise *cough *cough.