Black Emotional Eating

The eBook "Black Emotional Eating" provides Blacks particularly women with an understanding of the emotional force driving the overweight and obesity crisis gripping our communities. This eBook provides insights and steps to become free from the 'Feelings Food Syndrome' (FFS).

As Black folks too many of us have become unconscious emotional eaters, thus our action of eating without thinking becomes an automatic way of life. If this unawareness is not interrupted, it becomes a mainstay of our character, and this aspect of our character leads us to a destiny where we become overweight and obese; our emotional eating that produces obesity is a major contributing factor in creating chronic diseases, is contributing to a Black ‘sickness and cemetery culture’.

To end this ‘self-destructive eating treadmill’ we must begin the process of becoming emotionally free. This transformation process involves a full self-healing commitment in improving our emotional Intelligence (EQ), sense of self-esteem, increasing our feelings of worthiness and belonging; fostering greater self-acceptance; and reducing unhealthy emotional reactions to eating such as shame, stuffing, avoidance, depression, and unhappiness.

Stressful emotional eating doesn’t have to persist, you can break free from the negative emotional chain binding you to a disordered relationship to food. One of the eBooks’s points of highlight is that dieting plans and restrictions are not effective in sustaining weight loss and reducing obesity. This is because diets don’t get to the emotional heart of the matter and they keep showing us answers outside of ourselves – ‘the food’.

Until our emotional needs are addressed, eating based on feelings will continue to override any diet plan. Anderson covers the impact of racism and Black culture that perpetuates disordered eating; he offers realistic approaches to addressing and reducing emotional eating.