This document discusses how anger and frustration can sometimes lead people to cope by overeating unhealthy foods. It provides alternatives for dealing with anger such as deep breathing exercises, which can help calm intense emotions and allow people to think more clearly. Going for a run or joining a gym are also suggested as physical activities that can relieve stress and anger without overeating. The document advocates developing non-food strategies for managing anger to improve one's health and well-being.

1. Eating and Anger
• You probably are entitled to your anger.
• You would like to express it.
• If you express your anger there are consequences.
• You threaten the person who provoked you.
• That person could get angry back at you.

2. Eating and Anger
• Anger can not stay bottled up.
• But if you explode with anger you could lose a job.
• You could damage a relationship.
• What do you do if it's unsafe to explode?
• What do you do to stay in control?
• You need a solution.

3. Eating and Anger
• If you are very lucky, you could explain your feelings, and the other person
would be sympathetic.
• You also might get the other person to explain their point of view.
• You might come to understand their point of view even if you don't agree with
them.

4. Eating and Anger
• Life is not always ideal.
• You may have to hide your anger.
• You may have to swallow your anger.
• Some people stuff down angry feelings by eating.

5. Eating and Anger
• Pent up anger can trigger headaches and rashes.
• Eating to stuff down anger makes a waistline bulge.
• Swallowing anger leads to bellyaches or heartburn.
• You need alternatives to coping with anger that do not involve food.

6. Eating and Anger
• You need on-the spot strategies to keep from exploding with anger.
• You need a braking technique so you don't have to grab food to calm down.
• Breathing can help.
• Breathing is a distraction.
• Breathing changes the intensity of momentary anger.

7. Eating and Anger
• Breathing is calming.
• Taking ten deep breaths can help anger subside.
• Angry moments can pass.
• Anger can fade.
• As anger subsides you find you can think.
• You are OK when you can think.
• Breathing buys you time.

8. Eating and Anger
• The technique for calming anger with breathing is simple.
• You push your stomach out.
• Take a breath through your nostrils.
• Let your breath go up into your head - into your brain.
• Exhale and let the breath go.
• Do that ten times.

9. Eating and Anger
• John found another remedy.
• He had a lot of frustration at work and his anger built up.
• At home he calmed himself with after dinner munchies.
• He did not really calm down but his waistline expanded.
• He was frustrated with his waistline as well as with his work situation.

10. Eating and Anger
• He decided to try running.
• The weather was pleasant, when he went for the run.
• He felt good. He got hooked.
• Sometimes he ran before work, sometimes after.
• Running, walking or working out, calmed him.
• His moods evened out. He felt more stable, focused.

11. Eating and Anger
• Ann got irritated because she had endless responsibilities.
• She took care of the house.
• She took care of the kids.
• She cooked.
• Sometimes she worked or volunteered.
• She did things for others but not for herself.

12. Eating and Anger
• It was a good life.
• But she ate as a way to take time for herself.
• Her waistline swelled.
• She needed pleasures other than eating.
• To get out of the house, she joined a gym.
• She had more fun than she expected.

13. Eating and Anger
• You may not be able to change the power someone has over you that makes
you angry.
• You may be stuck in your personal situation.
• You may not want to accept another's viewpoint.
• But you want to make things go your way more often.
• What works?

14. Eating and Anger
• Assume that you're justified.
• Assume you're right to be angry. Being right doesn't solve a problem.
• The other person feels the same way about being right.
• How will you get what you want?
• Eating will not do it.
• Anger storms do not help.

15. Eating and Anger
• Breathing techniques help.
• Exercise helps.
• Thinking through your situation helps.
• Overeating is bad for your health.
• Listen and develop self-suggestions for food-free ways to cope with anger.
• Go to the next slide for help.

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