Hello love,
You’re not broken because you can’t stick to a diet. What if I told you that sticking to diets and having a diet mental is actually triggering your emotional eating?
If you’ve ever told yourself “I’m going to start again Monday, I’m going to stick to the diet”, and you end up eating all of the foods you restricted then this video is going to help you understand why that’s happening.
What is diet mentality?
The way I see diet mentality is this: if you’re on a diet and you keep trying to stick to the rules and the regulations of that diet, your mindset becomes completely focused on those rules.
I also see clients who have a lot of food rules. They might not think they’re on a diet, but they have absorbed so many beliefs about how they should eat. For example: you shouldn’t eat past 7 p.m.; your plate should be “this” small; have more protein; less fat; fewer carbs; or you should intermittent fast, etc.
Even though these aren’t necessarily part of a formal diet, they’re part of the health noise out there telling you how you “should” eat.
These ideas feed into a diet mentality, and you start creating rules for yourself that come from outside of you—without actually knowing what your body needs. This happens because you disconnected from your body a long time ago. Especially as an emotional eater, you began using food to soothe discomfort, distress, or any uncomfortable emotions that came up.
Then, you started using diets to control your “out of control behaviour” with food. You replaced one set of “out of control” behaviours with another set of rules you could “control”. Along the way, you were never taught to understand your own body and what you actually need. You keep thinking there’s something outside of you that’s going to give you the results to make you feel good.
Let’s dive in:
- 2:00 Here’s how following diet rules leads to bingeing and emotional eating.
- 3:59 How this cycle keeps you stuck.
- 4:20 Getting to the bottom and resolving this binge-emotional eating cycle.
- 8:06 Where your emotional eating pattern comes from.
- 8:27 My journey with emotional eating and getting to ease and confidence.
- 10:31 The shift in your nervous system from stress to ease.
- 10:50 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 resolution,
Michelle
Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating
