Jessica Lawson explains why people reach for food after work despite not being hungry following bariatric surgery. When you think "I deserve it," food is doing a psychological job like decompressing or rewarding yourself, not satisfying hunger. Identify what you needed before you walked through the door, then replace that automatic reach with something intentional.
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After bariatric surgery, you can get home around 5:30 PM, not be hungry, and still start eating whatever is in sight while thinking, I deserve it. When I hear one of my clients say that sentence, I don't make the snack, the food, the whole story. I hear I deserve it as a clue about what food may be expected to do for you in that moment, and it may be a quickest way to shift out of your work, to decompress, feel relief, or simply give yourself a reward. So before I focus on What you eat, I want you to understand the hour before you got home. What changed when you walked through the door? What were you expecting food to do for you in that moment, right there and then? Because if food is doing a job for you, another rule about the snack leaves that job completely untouched. The snack, the food, is the part that you can see. The job the food is holding may be doing exactly apart, and that's what I wanna understand. So if you wanna understand what is happening before food takes over and learn how to stop it and what to do next, Follow me here. That's the work that I do.