There are so many parallels between how you eat and how you spend. I know this from both professional AND personal experience.

I used to be a binge eater. I would eat really healthy for a few weeks but deprive myself of everything I really wanted so inevitably the damn would break open and I would go crazy, eating every cookie and fried anything in sight.

Same went for my spending habits…I would stay on budget for weeks and weeks, never buying what I wanted. Then, in one weekend, I would blow my entire monthly spending budget.

I was SOOOOOO out of balance with both and it did not get better until I took a long hard look at myself and asked some tough questions: “What am I missing in my life that I am using food and spending for? Why I am unhappy? What feelings am I ignoring that are making me turn to food and money so I can copy with life?”

It was hard to face myself so bluntly like this, but once I discovered the answers I was able to find other ways of coping and I stopped abusing food and money.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever heard about eating was from a book called “Women, Food, and God” where the author suggests you eat without distraction…no TV, no reading, no heavy conversation. Just you, alone with your food.

At first it was HORRIBLY boring for me to eat like this and the silence was deafening, but eventually through all that silence I began to get in touch with my body and when I was full and stopped just mindlessly stuffing my face.

And that helped me stop mindlessly using my credit card too!

I highly recommend this book to anyone, woman or man, who has ever been an emotional eater or spender.

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