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Emotions are Part of the Puzzle to Resolving Emotional Eating

Emotions are Part of the Puzzle to Resolving Emotional Eating

by Michelle | Apr 12, 2024 | Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Trauma Informed

Hello love, Emotional Eating has to do with emotions. I wanted to share more with you about emotions because they are part of the puzzle to resolving Emotional Eating.  Looking back on my own journey I would consciously eat food to feel better or be triggered into...
So why did you start to binge and emotionally eat?

So why did you start to binge and emotionally eat?

by Michelle | Apr 5, 2024 | Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Trauma Informed

Hello love,  I wanted to dive into why you started to binge and emotionally eat. Binge and emotional eating are a bit different but very interconnected.  Emotional Eating is what it sounds like; it’s where we use food to help us cope with uncomfortable emotions. We’re...
You won’t stop binge and emotional eating until you understand this.

You won’t stop binge and emotional eating until you understand this.

by Michelle | Mar 29, 2024 | Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Holistic Nutrition, Trauma Informed

Hello love, I wanted to chat about what you need to understand to stop binge and emotional eating because it can be confusing when we emotionally eat and binge eat. We think something is wrong with us, our body, that we need more willpower, or self control.  This...
Compassion on your Emotional Eating Journey

Compassion on your Emotional Eating Journey

by Michelle | Mar 22, 2024 | Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Holistic Nutrition, Trauma Informed

Hello love, Having compassion for yourself on your Emotional Eating journey and beyond is going to help you so much more than you think. I wanted to talk about compassion and how you can cultivate more of it on your journey. The reason I want to share this is because...
Trauma Keeps YOU Stuck in Your Emotional Eating Pattern. How to move through this!

Trauma Keeps YOU Stuck in Your Emotional Eating Pattern. How to move through this!

by Michelle | Mar 15, 2024 | Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Holistic Nutrition, Trauma Informed

Hello love, Before I dive in I want you to not be afraid of the term trauma. Trauma means we experienced an event in our life and we were left unresolved from it. That means the emotions associated with it are unprocessed, and how we felt about he situation just left...
Emotional Eating is about unmet needs & food is a poor substitute

Emotional Eating is about unmet needs & food is a poor substitute

by shiraz | Mar 8, 2024 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, Body Image, Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating Triggers, Emotional Health, Holistic Nutrition

Hello love, Emotional eating is a coping mechanism that we develop in childhood to help us deal with discomfort, uncomfortable emotions and stress. It’s something we develop because certain needs were not met. When we are going through this discomfort and distress we...
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Welcome! I’m Michelle Lall, founder of L.A.L.L. Nutrition. I am a Certified Holistic Nutritionist specializing in Emotional Eating. I am based in Toronto, Canada but work with clients online worldwide.

I help my clients to get to the root cause of their emotional issues so that they can finally feel at ease, free and confident in their body and around food.

The goal of my business and website is give you access to resources to help you understand your emotional eating. I do this through FREE content in the form of articles & vlogs and through my signature methodology - The Emotional Eating Evolution Program.

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  • What Actually Changes When You Heal Emotional Eating (Beyond Just Food)
  • Why Your Lack of Boundaries Is Making You Emotionally Eat
  • Why Intuitive Eating Didn’t Work for Me Until I Healed Emotional Eating
  • Most Common Questions I Get about Emotional Eating – Answered
  • It’s Not Always What You’re Eating that Triggers Emotional Eating – It’s the Way You’re Thinking

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Why Emotional Eating Is a Regulation Strategy (Not Why Emotional Eating Is a Regulation Strategy (Not a Food Problem) If you’ve tried dieting, therapy, willpower, intuitive eating and you’re still turning to food, then this is for you. Because emotional eating isn’t a food problem. It’s a regulation strategy. And once you start to understand that, everything starts to make sense. If you’re like most women who struggle with emotional eating, you feel like you need to control food. You need to control your body. You need more discipline. You need a better meal plan. But emotional eating isn’t happening because you don’t know what to eat. It’s happening because your nervous system is dysregulated because certain emotions are being triggered and coming to the surface. And food has become one of the fastest ways you know how to regulate your internal system to get back to calm, to feel soothed and to stop feeling like you’re out of control. Let’s dive in to see how to resolve this because food was not made to regulate you. Comment or DM “regulation” and I’ll send you the full video✨
Red flags that tell me you’re still in diet mental Red flags that tell me you’re still in diet mentality that triggers emotional eating. I was recently speaking to a woman who said she knew a lot about eating disorders but was still emotional eating. As we were talking about her pattern I asked her when she would emotional eat and if she knew it was emotional eating or that she was restricting. She said a few things - sometimes she makes a “nourishing meal” that looks like a healthy meal with dessert and all the things. She also said she was allowing herself to eat more based on her personal trainer suggestions. In all of this I didn’t hear her mention that the meal was satisfying to her body or if she could tell when she was triggered into emotional eating. What I heard was: I am following the rules of what “should” be healthy but I don’t actually know in my body if that is what I need, if it’s true hunger or emotional. It’s a sneaky way diet mentality is still running the show. I’m not going to throw nutrition out the window but the missing piece is YOUR body. When we keep trying to adhere to a plan without seeing if it’s right for us, we shame ourselves when we can’t stick to it. Shame triggers emotional eating. If you’d like a tangible way to see if you’re truly hungry or triggered into emotional hunger then grab my free guide. Comment or DM “guide” and I’ll send it over.
Why weightloss shouldn’t be your goal when you emo Why weightloss shouldn’t be your goal when you emotional eat AND getting to “your healthy” without restriction. What I find with my clients is that their weightloss is fuelled by chasing acceptance and validation. On the surface they may say things like “ I want to get healthy” “ I want my body to reflect my activity”. But deeper down the belief running the show is “I’m not good enough until I reach this weight”. Which is shaming and spirals you into emotional eating, and keeps your body in fight or flight mode which make you hold onto weight. I get it - this was my motivation as well until I dieted my way to the “right body” and the acceptance, validation and compliments eventually ended and I went right back to food. When you heal emotional eating at the root and address the layers to this pattern weightloss can be the natural byproduct because your body is not stupid, it just requires the right conditions. We work through this using the framework in The Emotional Eating Evolution Program through True Nourishment, Body Acceptance and Emotional Wellness. If you’d like to get started on the first step I give to clients comment “free guide” and I’ll send it to you✨
The Pendulum Swing: From Dieting to Intuitive Eati The Pendulum Swing: From Dieting to Intuitive Eating – And Why Emotional Eating Still Remains. Have you noticed the pendulum swing? Swinging from years of dieting to intuitive eating, where you eat whatever you want but your emotional eating still remains. You might be asking yourself: I stopped dieting, why do I still feel so out of control? This really isn’t about choosing one side or another, it’s about what each side doesn’t address. I used to emotionally eat and I tried both approaches, swinging from a diet mentality to intuitive eating. I see this in my clients too, and neither side really worked. Essentially, diets disconnect you from your body’s actual needs. They also add a layer of shame when you can’t stick to the rules, which make you feel worse. This cycle perpetuates emotional eating. On the other side, is intuitive eating. Often, when we’re fed up with diets and rules, we swing completely in the other direction, throwing everything out the window and eating whatever comes to mind. This is not helpful as well. Neither approach works for emotional eating. Let’s dive into how to actually resolve emotional eating at the root. Comment “swing” and I’ll send you the full video✨
The Truth About Emotional Eating No One’s Talking The Truth About Emotional Eating No One’s Talking About 👀 Here are some of the strategies I see women with emotional eating using that don’t work: 1.Relying on diets, intense exercise, willpower 2.Relying of the health system to “fix” them with pills, surgery or programs that don’t get to the root 3.Intuitive Eating 4.Over eaters Anonymous 4.Going to therapy and just talking about things …And these are just some of the common ones. Emotional eating is multilayered, and to truly heal it, we need to understand it from all angles and get to the root. Your emotional eating is a coping mechanism. It’s connected to thoughts, unresolved emotions and stress. Which is why a lot of solutions give you a temporary result, but will never work long term…because they don’t address the deeper layers to your pattern. Like my client recently said after trying all the diets and emotional eating programs - they didn’t get to the core... This is why I want to invite you to join my FREE MASTERCLASS tomorrow - April 7th! In the masterclass, we’ll dive deep into the layers of emotional eating, unpack some common myths about emotional eating, and I’ll share what really triggering your emotional eating. In this masterclass you’ll learn how to address your emotional eating from all angles in a holistic way so you can move towards a life feeling at ease around food and in your body. So, regardless of where you’re at in your emotional eating journey, this masterclass can be a game-changer. Comment “join” to save your spot for the upcoming masterclass✨
Why do you emotionally eat? Mostly because of unh Why do you emotionally eat? Mostly because of unhealed emotions aka trauma. And trauma is not a scary word. Ok, I get it. Years ago I didn’t even know what unhealed emotions were let alone trauma. Looking back I didn’t know how to move through my emotions, I just held it in. And to cope with the pain I used food. I didn’t know it then, but I didn’t have the skills to meet my true emotional needs. So that trauma isn’t a scary word you run from, trauma is just unresolved emotions you experienced from certain life experiences. If you can’t process these emotions you hold them in your body and look for ways to numb the pain. Like with food (your drug of choice). It’s really not about the food but kind of is (join my masterclass to dive deeper on this nuance!). So when I’m working with clients the root of their pattern is trauma that developed in childhood resulting in a dysregulated nervous system. You might not remember it but your body does and covesr it up with emotional eating urges. It thinks it’s helping you by distracting you with food to get some relief but it’s also impacting how you feel about yourself and making you feel shame. Don’t worry - there’s a way to heal this and you get to experience ease and peace around food and in your body. Your body literally shifts it’s nervous system from being in fight or flight to to calm. It’s not about willpower, diets or any of that surface stuff. Some practitioner’s don’t really get it. If you want to actually see what shifts your pattern with emotional eating I’ll be sharing more in my free live masterclass this Tuesday April 7th for ambitious women looking for a solution that goes beyond just white-knuckling it through a binge with surface-level solutions. In this masterclass, you’ll learn: 👉🏽 Why willpower isn’t the answer�👉🏽 Why diets fail you�👉🏽 What’s really triggering this pattern�👉🏽 The 3 Keys to resolving emotional eating Don’t settle for surface solutions that don’t address the root cause. It’s time to take control of your emotional eating journey. 👉🏽 Comment “Masterclass” to register and get the replay if you can’t join live.
You deserve more than just coping with food. You d You deserve more than just coping with food. You deserve to thrive. Emotional eating keeps you from feeling ease in your body, at peace around food and showing up confidently in your life. Are you ready to resolve this pattern at the root? I’m so grateful I resolved this pattern before I had my son, so I could model something better to him: a healthier relationship to food, more confidence in my body, compassion for myself and the ability to move through my emotions. And most of all feeling more whole. I always knew - our children learn through who we are being vs. what we are saying. This journey is about being the version of yourself you desire to be - a better parent, a present partner, a better business leader, a true friend, showing up confidently at work and in your life even when life is life-ing. This journey isn’t about finding a magic bullet. It’s about addressing the root causes of your emotional eating and giving you the awareness, tools, strategies and embodied experience to resolve it so you get to the other side where food doesn’t determine your worth or level of confidence. This is about your life. Isn’t that worth the investment? I think so. Join me at my upcoming FREE LIVE ONLINE MASTERCLASS next week on April 7th “The 3 Keys for Ambitious Women to Heal their Emotional Eating from the Root so they can finally feel at ease and confident around food and in their body.” Let’s step into a life where you feel ease and peace. The life were you are not just surviving but thriving - even with the ups and downs ;) 👉🏽 Comment “Masterclass” to register and get the replay if you can’t join live✨
The Biggest Mistake Ambitious Women Make When Tryi The Biggest Mistake Ambitious Women Make When Trying to ‘Fix’ Emotional Eating. Most women think emotional eating is a food problem. So they try to solve it with food rules. Here’s the real mistake - they try to control the symptom instead of healing the root. So they: start a new diet plan with high hopes cut out their trigger foods track macros rely on willpower shame themselves when they slip up And it works… for a few days, months and even years. But the moment stress hits the emotional eating comes back harder. Why? Because emotional eating isn’t really about the food (ok it’s a bit nuanced so join my masterclass to find out more), it’s about: -the parts of you using food to cope -your unmet needs -your unresolved emotions You can’t fix emotional eating at the level of food - it’s the tip of the iceberg. You fix it at the root (your inner world). That’s what shifted everything for me and for my clients. When I stopped focusing on control and started focusing on: True nourishment, Body acceptance, and emotional wellness …that’s when food stopped feeling like a battle. And that’s exactly what I teach in my FREE LIVE masterclass “The 3 Keys for Ambitious Women to Heal their Emotional Eating from the Root so they can finally feel at ease and confident around food and in their body.” on April 7, 2026. I’ll be laying out the step by step method I use to help my clients feel peace and ease around food and in their body. 👉🏽 Comment “Masterclass” to register and get the replay if you can’t join live.
Willpower Won’t Stop Your Emotional Eating - So wh Willpower Won’t Stop Your Emotional Eating - So what will? If you’re an ambitious woman struggling with emotional eating - I’m sure you’ve tried this for years with no real change. The truth is you don’t need more willpower or to avoid triggers. I get it, I was there too. I used my willpower to stick to diets, to restrict, to do long personal training sessions, and diligently went to therapy sessions. But I couldn’t make the changes stick and I hit my last breaking point. What I was doing wasn’t working… Back then I thought I had to flip my life upside and change everything to finally….Change. So, I ate what I wanted, moved to Korea (yes), changed careers from being a chemist to teaching - hoping I’d have a breakthrough and finally feel ok. But guess what? I still didn’t feel better, things seem to get worse. So I had to figure out my emotional eating because it was stronger than ever. My episodes were debilitating and my self hate was at an all time high. I felt disgusted, disappointed and hopeless and knew I needed to do something. So, I put on my scientist hat and figured out the pieces step by step. This is what I realized: emotional eating was my go to coping mechanism. I used it to deal with stress, trauma, and all the uncomfortable emotions I didn’t know how to handle. And now? It’s been over 10 years since I’ve emotionally eaten. I feel confident and at ease around food and in my body without using willpower, without shaming myself, without counting calories… And now I teach women just like you how to do the same. If you’re ready to resolve your emotional eating then join my FREE LIVE Masterclass on April 7th where I’ll share: -Why willpower doesn’t work. -Why diets fail you. -What’s really triggering your urge to emotionally eat. -The 3 Keys to resolving emotional eating for good. In this Masterclass, you’ll see what’s really been going on and how to stop this pattern and start feeling like you’re in the driver’s seat again. 👉🏽 Comment or DM “Masterclass” to register and get the replay if you can’t join live.
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