You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real, and this is episode 144.

I'm your host, Master Weight Loss Coach and Arthur Cookie Rosenblum.

Today and every Tuesday I will be your coach and your guide to help you and your emotional

eating and lose that extra weight. If you just found me welcome and if you're a

regular listener welcome back. Here is where we talk about your habit of emotional eating, which is the main work that I do in the world.

This is where coaching meets psychology, which meets brain science.

And this is where your problem ends.

So get comfy and get ready to be coached.

This episode, as always of Weight Loss Made Real, is brought to you by the Freedom Group.

Now let's get started with our coaching session today.

We're going to be working on this, how to deal with other people's moods without eating.

I know for myself that I used to be totally ruled by the moods of my family and those closest to me, particularly my two daughters, especially

when they were teenagers. My husband, who's almost always in a pretty good mood, spoiled me.

So when he occasionally was not in a great mood,

I read it as a sign that something major was wrong.

I also used to subscribe to the old adage that you can only be as happy as your least happy

child and you can fill in the blank there, your least happy partner, your co-worker, your relative, your BFF. But let's pause for a minute

and think about how limiting that belief is. And if you believe that, then your

chances for a peaceful day-to-day existence would be completely out of your control.

Wouldn't it be better, even though we know we're not meant to be happy all the time,

to be the masters of our own moods no

matter how the people around us feel in any given moment. Today we're going to

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