Hello love,
Today I wanted to share a client spotlight. If you’ve ever felt trapped in your emotional eating and like nothing’s working no matter what you do, this is going to be helpful. You’ll see how it’s possible to go from daily emotional eating binges to calm and ease.
I’m going to be sharing my client Kelly’s journey: how she went from daily bingeing to resolving her emotional eating and feeling at ease and confident in her body and around food. I’m going to share exactly how we did that using The Emotional Eating Evolution Program Framework.
So when Kelly first came to me, she had been bingeing daily for about a year and a half, even while being in therapy for around 3 years.
In the past she had a tried Weight Watchers reached her goal weight, but soon started experiencing emotional eating and started gaining weight. Her results were built on a foundation of sand and she had no motivation to maintain them.
Before she reached out she was being pressured by family to go on weight loss medication (Ozempic).
But deep down, she felt there had to be another way, one that didn’t involve being on prescriptions for the rest of her life. She really wanted to get to the root of her emotional eating and resolve it. Interestingly, a therapist recommended my program to her, not her therapist, but a therapist that was aware of her struggles.
So Kelly got in touch, we had a clarity call and she decided to join the program. I’m so glad she did.
If what I’m sharing about Kelly sounds familiar – like trying diets, reaching your goal weight and not being able to sustain it, going to therapy, considering weight loss medication, and feeling like you can’t stay stuck in the cycle of shame and emotional eating – then you’re going to find her transformation really insightful.
Let’s dive in:
- 2:30 The main phases in The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and physical symptoms associated with emotional eating.
- 3:38 True Nourishment – connecting Kelly to true hunger, emotional hunger and catching her triggers
- 4:57 Body Acceptance – Kelly’s triggers around body shame and the holidays
- 6:09 Emotional Wellness – getting to the root of Kelly’s emotional eating triggers and the outcome of resolving them.
- 7:57 Before: what Kelly used to do when triggered – reaching for food and toxic people
- 9:10 After: resolving the root somatically – being able to regulate, not binge and meet her needs
- 9:46 Working with a body shame trigger before Thanksgiving and not bingeing!
- 10:21 How Kelly started to move through triggers in the moment and stop them from spiralling her into emotional eating.
- 10:50 Kelly’s early progress; bingeing stopped a few weeks into the program, improvements in her IBS, and saving the cost of the program through her changes.
- 11:26 Eight months later: she’s motivated, no more emotional eating and losing weight
- 11:50 Side effect of doing the deeper work: speaking up and boundaries that stick at work.
- 12:37 Why we don’t focus on weight + Kelly losing over 30lbs 8 months after the program ended and continuing to shift.
- 13:49 Kelly committed and went from daily bingeing to resolving her emotional eating and that confidence carried into her life (she even got engaged after avoiding it!)
- 15:00 Feeling stuck? Next steps and free resources.
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 resolution,
Michelle
Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating
