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Emotional Eating, The Mother Wound and Reparenting

Emotional Eating, The Mother Wound and Reparenting

by Michelle | Dec 1, 2023 | Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Intuitive Eating, Trauma Informed

Hello love, I wanted to talk about emotional eating and how it ties in to needing to reparent ourselves and the mother wound.  Something I share often is that Emotional Eating is a coping mechanism. It is something we develop in childhood. I see this time and time...
MYTH: You’re broken if you emotionally eat

MYTH: You’re broken if you emotionally eat

by Michelle | Nov 17, 2023 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, Body Image, Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Holistic Nutrition, Trauma Informed

Hello love, The myth of you being broken when you emotionally eat is not true. The reason is because Emotional Eating is a coping mechanism. So let’s dive in and chat about why this myth isn’t true.  A lot of women feel like they’re broken when they...
How to Use Triggers to Stop Your Emotional Eating

How to Use Triggers to Stop Your Emotional Eating

by Michelle | Nov 10, 2023 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Trauma Informed

Hello love, Today I want to share with you more about triggers and how you can use them to stop your emotional eating. I wanted to talk about triggers because I think that they can be misunderstood. Triggers are important and we need to be aware of them. But I think...
Acceptance – A Key Ingredient to Resolving Emotional Eating

Acceptance – A Key Ingredient to Resolving Emotional Eating

by Michelle | Nov 3, 2023 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Trauma Informed

Hello love, I wanted to share about acceptance because it’s been coming up a lot for clients. One of the main reasons why we emotionally eat is because acceptance for ourselves is missing.  What we’ve been taught is something is wrong with us. We weren’t fully...
Emotions and The Emotional Eating Pattern

Emotions and The Emotional Eating Pattern

by Michelle | Oct 27, 2023 | Emotional Eating, Emotional Health, Holistic Nutrition, Intuitive Eating, Trauma Informed

Hello love, I wanted to talk about emotions and the emotional eating pattern because it can get a little bit not confusing. The way we view emotions in society can impact our emotional eating. Emotional Eating is a coping mechanism. That means that we use food to cope...
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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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  • Your Shame Is Keeping You Stuck in Emotional Eating – Here’s How to Get Unstuck
  • The Real Reason You Emotionally Eat
  • How Being at War With Your Body Is Triggering Your Emotional Eating
  • How Avoiding Your Emotions Can Keep You Stuck in Emotional Eating
  • If I Had to Heal My Emotional Eating Again, I’d Never Do These 3 Things

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The Real Reason You Can’t Stop Emotional Eating: Y The Real Reason You Can’t Stop Emotional Eating: Your Protective Parts (And How to Transform Them)

Have you ever felt like there were two people living inside of you? One part says, “I’m going to eat healthy this week.” Then immediately another part jumps in and says, “Just have the cookies, just do it.”

Then another part jumps in and says, “What’s wrong with you? Why can’t you just be disciplined? Why can’t you stick to eating a certain way? Why can’t you just have some more willpower?”

And if this sounds familiar to you, it’s not that you’re crazy, and it’s not that you’re broken. It’s because you have different protective parts that come into play as you navigate your relationship to food (and your emotions). They’re trying to help you, but they’re using strategies that no longer work.

Today, I want to show you why these parts exist and how transforming them can help you heal your emotional eating.

Let’s dive in. Comment or DM “parts” and I’ll send you the full video✨
Food is not the enemy emotional eaters think it is Food is not the enemy emotional eaters think it is.

Food looks like the enemy because that’s what you see - your out of control behaviour with it but this is a symptom of something deeper.

Here’s why you feel out of control with food:

1.You are using external diets or plans t to tell you how you should eat vs learning what nourishes your body. You’re trying to fit yourself in a box you weren’t built for.

2.You’re using food as a coping mechanism when discomfort or uncomfortable emotions come up because this is what you learned to do to cope.

So you’ve been using food as a coping mechanism and using diets to control that behaviour. 

Because you never learned how to tune into your body - how to nourish yourself and how food feels in your body. And you didn’t learn how to meet your deeper emotional needs. 

So food has become what it wasn’t supposed to be and now it feels like the enemy. 

Your behaviour with food is at the tip of the iceberg and underneath are all the other things that are pulling the strings in the wrong direction that you need to resolve. 

And this is what we do inside of The Emotional Eating Evolution Program we look at the deeper root of what is creating your emotional eating and resolve it so you can get to ease and peace around food and in your body in a sustainable way. 

If you’d like to get started on this journey then grab my free guide “What Are You Truly Hungry For?” to start catching your pattern. FM or comment “guide” and I’ll send it over✨
They say it’s easy to feel your emotions? But is i They say it’s easy to feel your emotions? But is it for an emotional eater? 

Every time you try to FEEL - you hear…

“what are you complaining about - your life is great - you got the job/the car/the house”

“Other people have it worse than you, what do you have to be sad about?”

“It’s not a big deal”

“You’re too sensitive”

“Your parents were doing their best.”

AND you beeline to the cupboard.

You wonder why you can’t actually feel your emotions and have compassion for yourself.

Well, these beliefs keep you trapped in the emotion vs. resolving them which makes your body hold the discomfort making you run to food to get some relief. 

In order to shift you emotional eating you need to resolve this at the root. We do this inside of The Emotional Eating Evolution Program with a step by step process, and the deeper tools like somatic meditations with parts work to transform the inner war keeping you stuck in emotional eating. 

If you’re looking to resolve your emotional eating so you can get to ease and peace then book in a clarity call to see how I support you in the program. Comment or DM “clarity” to chat✨
It’s not *just* the food you emotionally eat that It’s not *just* the food you emotionally eat that impacts your health…it’s the emotions you hold in.

So when most women think about emotional eating, they think the biggest problem is the food. Maybe the sugar, the chips, the cookies or the late night binge. 

But what if I told you food isn’t the only thing impacting your health? 

What if the emotions that are driving you to eat have an even bigger impact? 

Have you ever noticed that when you’re stressed, your shoulders tighten? Or when you’re nervous, you get a knot in your stomach? Or when you’re trying to say something important, your throat tightens?

This isn’t random. These are examples of how emotions actually live in your body and manifest physically. Our bodies respond to emotions. They’re not just in our minds. 

Now imagine you’ve spent years using food to cope with your discomfort, your distress, your uncomfortable emotions. You’ve been using food to cope and soothe yourself. 

Here’s what happens and how to start resolving it so it doesn’t impact your health and you can get to ease and peace. Comment or DM “emotions” and I’ll send over the full video✨
What happens when you heal your emotional eating i What happens when you heal your emotional eating in The Emotional Eating Evolution Program?

👉🏽From food noise/restriction to nourishment and feeling energized. This is about connecting back to your true hunger beyond the “food rules” that can make you feel shame and spiral you into emotional eating. A nourished body doesn’t overeat.

👉🏽From body shame to acceptance. This is about feeling at ease in your body day to day without the shameful thoughts that you “should” be different and fit into some perfect box (which usually spirals you into emotional eating). This is where acceptance allows you to make true change.

👉🏽From coping with food to meeting your deeper needs. This is where you start resolving what food has been hiding and heal the emotional eating pattern by giving yourself what you really needed. This is where you stop coping and heal this pattern in the body. 

The result of The Emotional Eating Evolution program is ease, peace and confidence around food and in your body every day without feeling like you have to willpower or control. 

If you’d like support to resolve your emotional eating from the root book in an Emotional Eating Clarity call. DM or book through link in bio✨
How shame spirals you into emotional eating… Some How shame spirals you into emotional eating…

Somehow you find yourself in the cupboard.
Eating the chips, cookies, the snacks

You think…
how did I get here?
What was I thinking?
What’s wrong with me?

And instead of stopping … those voices make you spiral further. You feel the shame and you continue to eat because it’s the only way you know to make the noise stop.

These critical voices add fuel to the fire.

But they were triggered by something in your day that made you go to food in the first place.

Maybe it was a stressful moment, someone said something you weren’t expecting, you didn’t feel acknowledged, you walked past the mirror, etc . We all have our unique triggers that make us feel shame and triggers the urge to eat.

It wasn’t the food that started this cascade it was a trigger of emotions. 

You only learned to use food to cope so trying to stop yourself from this coping mechanism requires more than self criticism and willpower. 

In order to resolve this at the root you need to catch your triggers and start resolving them. 

Grab my free guide to start catching them. Comment or Dm “guide” and I’ll send it over✨
The real reason you emotionally eat. Guess what i The real reason you emotionally eat.

Guess what it’s not because you have no willpower and can’t resist the snacks in the cupboard. 

It because you have unresolved emotions that are triggered making you seek out food to soothe. 

Those unresolved emotions are traumas and they start from a young age. 

If you don’t know how to move through them and resolve them, you will continue to cope with food. 

But food cannot meet your emotional needs. 

In order to resolve your emotional eating you need to get to heal the emotional root, connect back to food and your body. 

This is what we do inside of The Emotional Eaitng Evolution Program so you can get to ease and peace. 

If you’d like to get started on resolving your emotional eating then grab my free guide to start catching your pattern. Comment or DM “guide” and I’ll send it over!
Why You Have Food Noise – And How to Finally Quiet Why You Have Food Noise – And How to Finally Quiet It (For Emotional Eating) 

Do you ever feel like you’re constantly thinking about food? You’re planning your next meal. You’re thinking, “is this food good or bad”? You’re constantly obsessing about food. There isn’t a moment when something about food doesn’t go through your head. 

You walk past the mirror and think, “oh my god, I need to go on a diet”. And, you think about what you ate at your last meal and you feel guilty. 
It’s exhausting. 

This is what many people call food noise. And today I want to talk to you about where this food noise comes from for emotional eaters so you can understand what’s actually causing it – and realize that it’s not  because you lack willpower. 

Food noise is this constant chatter in your head. You always questioning what you’re eating, whether you should eat, whether you’re actually hungry. 

In my experience, this food noise comes from two places when you’re an emotional eater. 

Let’s dive in. Comment or DM ‘food noise” and I’ll send over the full video✨
A.N.’s journey to resolving her emotional eating a A.N.’s journey to resolving her emotional eating and nightly ice cream binges.

When A.N. came to me she had tried a few programs + therapy to resolve her emotional eating. She was drawn to The Emotional Eating Evolution Program because it felt like a journey & something she needed after having body image issues + emotional eating for a few decades.

As A.N. moved through the program at points she felt she was failing and wanted to give up. This is where support and accountability are key.

She committed, followed the steps, showed up and asked for help.

A.N.’s nightly bingeing on ice cream resolved after the 1st somatic session and using the nourishment strategies a few weeks into the program.

It’s not a linear journey, by the mid point things came to a head and felt like she was going backwards BUT it is a HUGE breakthrough moment. A.N. was seeing where she was hiding with food, didn’t have boundaries, been taking on too much, etc…

She kept on going and got to the other side. 

Through the program she:

👉🏽had more ease with food and nourished herself
👉🏽 moved away from the diet rules that made her feel shame and spiralled her into more emotional eating
👉🏽saw how chasing “the body” was hiding her deeper need for acceptance and started meeting it beyond her body size
👉🏽her nightly binges on ice cream ended
👉🏽 got in touch with her true need for acceptance and saw a shift in how she felt about her body and in relationships
👉🏽found her triggers and has the tools to resolve them

A.N. felt more connected to herself, what she needed and started taking the steps to live more as who she is :)

If you are ready to feel at ease free and confident around food and in your body and heal then apply to work with us in The Emotional Eating Evolution Program. Link in bio✨
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