So let me guess, you think you emotionally eat because you have no willpower?
You have snacks in the cupboard, and you tell yourself, “I’m not going eat them.” But then a stressful day hits, and you beeline to the cupboard.
And suddenly, you’re eating all the cookies, the chips, the snacks…whatever you can find.
Then this voice comes over you as you;re stuffing your face and says, “What’s wrong with you? Why can’t you control yourself? Why are you doing this?”
But what if I told you it wasn’t because you didn’t have any willpower, that there was something deeper going on?
And it’s not that you’re incapable of controlling yourself around food. Once you understand that something more profound is going on, your emotional eating will make much more sense.
The real reason you’re emotionally eating is not because you’re weak. It’s because there’s something happening inside of you that you don’t know how to process.
An emotion gets triggered. Maybe it’s a stressful day at work. Maybe it’s a rejection. Maybe you feel overwhelmed. Maybe you feel lonely. All of a sudden, you start feeling like you’re not good enough. Maybe something happens, and it brings up an old emotional experience.
And in that moment, you feel uncomfortable, and you may not even register that something has happened. But your brain remembers: “Oh, when I feel this way, let’s go to food. Food helps us feel better.”
So you reach for food not because you’re hungry. And it’s not because you lack discipline. It’s because you learned early on in your life that food was the way you could make yourself feel better.
And that’s really what emotional eating is.
Let’s dive in:
- 1:16 Why do you go to food to soothe yourself in the first place?
- 4:09 Why emotional eating becomes an automatic pattern.
- 4:50 Food can’t meet your emotional needs. This is what you need instead.
- 5:20 The importance of emotions and what happens when you don’t hear them.
- 6:23 How to stop going to food to soothe yourself.
- 7:55 This is not an overnight process, it takes time and is not about willpower.
- 8:47 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program 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 ease,
Michelle
Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating
