Feelings

Are we fat because we eat too much or because we have triggers in our mind that make us feel the need to eat?
The desire to eat comes from the Hypothalamus, it tells us when we are hungry. We also have eating disorders based on our mood.
Boredom
Depression
Anxiety
Love
Happiness
Self Confidence
When we eat due to boredom, depression anxiety we normally eat junk food.
When our desire to eat comes from happiness, self confidence those people will eat healthier foods. Now people in love seem to eat both junk and healthy food, and that is why we drop weight during the dating stage of a relationship. during that time we exercise, and make better food choices. except when we are socializing with our date we seem to eat high fat type foods and drink alcoholic beverages. Now the high in fat foods seem to not make that much of a difference due to the amount of activity we involve our self in.
The eating disorder is a true mental disorder. In behavioral therapy the techniques used are looking at our activities of daily living, when we eat, how we eat, and what we eat. the specifics help us know who we are.
Know why and when we do things help us control our action. Like eating.
If I eat every time I sit and watch TV I will always want food when I watch TV. If the pattern is eat then go have a cigarette, guess what I will do? after every meal I will want a smoke. Our mind desires a pattern it likes a habit, this way it does not need to think much it only does. stopping those regular daily activities requires our minds deep thought, inturn we change, but we must maintain a continued reminder of the changes we made, this allows us success.
So, I must stop the sit and watch TV and eat habit, then I will not feel the need to eat for the comfort of my mind associating the two. The Comfort Zone. Make a new comfort zone and these changes will help the loss of weight or what ever else you may want to change.