You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real, and this is episode 71.

I'm your host, master Weight Loss Coach and author Cookie Rosenblum. Today and every Tuesday I'm here to

coach you and teach you how to end your emotional eating, emotional eating,

and how to leave all your overeating habits in the past.

If you just found me, I'm certainly glad that you did,

welcome. And if you're a regular listener welcome back

today we're gonna talk about thought loops all those thoughts that go around and around in your head so get, get ready to be coached. We're going to dive right in.

Here's what you will learn today by the end of this coaching session. You're going to learn

exactly what a thought loop is, where those thoughts spin around forever and they're repetitive and it feels like you just

can't stop thinking them and then we're going to talk about can a thought loop

help you in any way and can it hurt you in any way and then we'll talk about why it's

so hard to break out of it and of course I'm going to give you before the end of

our session a way out of those repetitive thought

loops that keep you stuck exactly where you are.

So as I promised, let's dive right in. So what is a thought loop? Well remember that when we talk

about thoughts we always talk about cognitive behavioral psychology which tells us a little bit about the sequence of events and what

happens in our minds when we think a thought, where our feelings come from, and why we do what

we do. So remember that something happens in the world and because

of it your mind comes up with a thought and your thought is like an interpretation of what's happening of the situation.

Then from that thought your mind creates a feeling or an emotion that you actually experience in your body.

It's like a vibration in your body and that feeling or that emotion is what leads you to take a specific action or not to take action.

So we have something happens, you have a thought about it, that thought helps create a

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