Many women move from dieting to restriction to intuitive eating, and something still feels off about it.
They still experience food noise, emotional eating, confusion, and hunger – maybe even weight gain.
So intuitive eating works best when you’ve healed your emotional eating.
And I know that might be confusing because sometimes intuitive eating is positioned as the solution to your emotional eating.
Intuitive eating promises no food rules, eating what your body wants, honouring your hunger and food neutrality. But if you have emotional eating, intuitive eating can feel really chaotic because it doesn’t help you heal your pattern and it doesn’t give you guidance. It leaves you floating in outer space without any real structure.
So, I struggled with emotional eating for a really long time and I tried every diet. I tried everything I could. I would always swing between restricting to letting everything go and eating what I wanted. It felt really confusing and chaotic.
And that was because I hadn’t healed my emotional eating.
As I started to slowly resolve my emotional eating and my relationship to food, I realized that intuitive eating wouldn’t have been the solution for me at that time.
Let’s dive in
- 1:55 When I had had enough of my emotional eating: my rock bottom, moving to Korea, and eating what I wanted.
- 3:32 Finding out I was an emotional eater and the first steps to truly nourishing my body (not just putting whatever in my mouth).
- 4:24 The downfalls of intuitive eating for emotional eaters who feel “hungry” all the time.
- 5:00 The layers that started to help me heal emotional eating and develop “true intuitive eating”.
- 10:00 The steps to true intuitive eating for women with emotional eating. (Hint you need a structure to flow from).
- 11:00 True emotional eating is not about the food, but our relationship to food suffers along the way.
- 11:53 Free resources and next steps
Next Steps
1. If you are ready to start your journey to resolving your Emotional Eating you can download my free guide “What Are You Truly Hungry For?” to start discerning true from emotional hunger and catching your triggers HERE.
2. If you are ready to transform your emotional eating so that you can get to ease, peace and confidence around food and in your body with a step by step process and guidance then find out more about The Emotional Eating Evolution Program HERE.
To true nourishment,
Michelle
Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating
