How Buffering Is Making Us Overweight

Sep 1, 2024

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Buffering?  You may need a Certified Life and Weight Coach who trained with The Life Coach School, because checking out mentally and emotionally can lead to weight gain.

 So, you may be wondering, what's buffering?

 

I first heard the term buffering while training to be a Certified Life and Weight Coach through The Life Coach School, and it explained a pattern I'd seen many times before, but never been able to understand before.

I'd stopped my “retail therapy” overspending, only to start overdrinking.

Then I stopped overdrinking, only to pile on the pounds.

The problem was not the specific coping tool I was using, but the fact that I was using a coping tool instead of dealing with my emotions.

I was buffering.

 

You see, life is a mix of positive and negative emotions.   As a society, we aren’t taught what to do with the negative ones.

 

If you’ve ever seen a toddler in a grocery store, you know our natural inclination is to react to a negative emotion.   But as we get older, we understand we aren’t supposed to do that as adults.

 

So most of us go to resisting negative emotions, and one of our favorite ways to resist negative emotions is by taking false pleasure and using that to distract from or cover up the negative emotion.  This is called buffering.  And buffering is exactly what I learned how to beat when I trained at The Life Coach School to be a certified Life and Weight Coach.

 

We know we are buffering when the distracting activity has a net negative effect.  So for example Netflix is fine when it’s for an hour in the evenings, but it becomes a problem when it’s for four hours during the middle of a work from home day.

 

It’s the same with food.  Healthy food you eat for fuel because you are hungry is fine.  Unhealthy food you are eating to cover up negative feelings that later manifests as weight gain is a problem.

 

I was talking to a lady just the other day who had mentioned she’d moved in with a friend who was sick to help take care of her, and she’d been hiding donuts in her room to eat.  She ended up gaining 10 pounds from the experience.  That’s a classic example of buffering.

 

Looking for an LCS trained certified Life and Weight Coach to help you stop buffering so you can lose weight?  Let's work together.

  Schedule a call at https://lisaduke.net/schedule 

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