What if your relationship to your body is contributing to your emotional eating?
Because if you’re struggling with emotional eating and you’re unhappy with your body, you might think, “If only I could lose the weight. If only my body looked a different. Then I wouldn’t feel this way anymore.”
And I used to believe that too.
I thought if I could finally change my body, I’d finally feel good enough, and all of this noise would go away. But what I eventually discovered was that being at war with my body was actually keeping me stuck in my emotional eating.
And today I want to tell you why.
I don’t believe we’re born hating our bodies or criticizing our bodies or thinking something’s wrong with our body.
But for as long as I could remember, the way my body looked, how much I ate or didn’t eat, and how I looked was a topics of conversation around me.
When I was really young, apparently I wasn’t eating enough, so I was given medication to eat more. And as I went to grade school and got older, there were comments about my body. I felt too big.
I was also very self critical and thought, if I only looked the right way, then I’d finally be loved and accepted.
And that kind of makes sense if I look at my history with the comments that were made about my body, whether I was eating enough or not eating enough. It just felt like I just wasn’t good enough at the end of the day.
That’s what a child is going to take away from these experiences and what I did as well.
Let’s dive in
- 1:30 How you internalize messages as a child that you’re not good enough.
- 2:00 The “shoulds” that you think you need to be to be loved, accepted and good enough.
- 2:46 The struggle with food, trying to control it to reach “the body”.
- 3:46 Getting to “the body” but falling back into emotional eating and feeling not good enough.
- 4:25 Hitting rock bottom again and deciding I needed a better way – cue body acceptance.
- 5:54 The unexpected changes that happened when I started to accept my body.
- 7:37 What happens to your body when you don’t feel good enough and how acceptance shifts your nervous system.
- 9:00 Seeking external validation can trigger shame and emotional eating.
- 9:48 The difference between body acceptance and body positivity.
- 11:21 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program 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 ease and peace,
Michelle
Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating
