Journaling can help you to keep track of your emotions and help you on your path to changing your relationship with food and your body.

 

It can be very healing to write down your thoughts. And by keeping it in a nice journal, you can say anything and keep it completely personal.

You may wish to write about:

 

·How you feel when you are wanting to snack on something when you aren’t physically hungry. Try and tune in to what emotions you are feeling and write it down.

 

·Write about a meal you ate in the day and the emotions that you felt, whether you tuned into your hunger signals or don’t even remember eating a certain food, if you ate it too quickly.

 

·How you feel about yourself and your body, whatever comes up, just write it down. This way you notice what your inner dialogue is and it helps you be more compassionate towards yourself.

 

·Write daily positive affirmations, this can reinforce them if you have been saying them throughout the day.

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‘Wins’ when you realise you don’t actually need to eat something, through choice and not depriving yourself. However small it is, just write it down.

 

·If you notice your clothes getting looser or how amazing, you looked in the mirror earlier.

 

It can be very rewarding writing in your journal. You will also be able to go back and see what progress you have made.

 

At the end of each day, write down what you are grateful for, and this is such a powerful way to think positively and attract great things into your life.

‘I am so grateful and happy for my house’

‘I am so grateful and happy about my amazing body, how it looks after me so well’

‘I am so grateful and happy for my family around me’ etc.