ARE YOU SAYING I CAN’T EAT COOKIES?
“I caved in last night, and I ate a batch of cookies I baked. I know it’s not good, it’s just that, when my husband started eating them, I couldn’t resist.” In a situation like this, a really important question to ask yourself here, is, if you weren’t eating the cookies out of a physiological need (hunger), what need were the cookies meeting? A cookie is not a very satiating (physiologically satisfying) food. But it is being eaten to meet a need. Now, there’s all kinds of potential emotions in play here. Jealousy/Envy (why does he/she get to and I don’t?); FOMO…