Hello love,
If you’re an ambitious woman who has spent her life succeeding and reaching for goals and achievements and it feels like emotional eating is something you can’t fix, like you can’t seem to control food or your body – It’s not that you’re broken. It’s that you learned that control would get you results, but it hasn’t.
What I’ve learned is that when we stop trying to fix ourselves and we start learning to understand ourselves, this is where everything changes.
In my journey with emotional eating – on the outside it looked like I was really smart and ambitious. I went to university, I was a chemist, I went back to school for teaching and I was doing all of these “things”.
But under the surface, I couldn’t control food or my body. I felt so out of control and I was trying everything from a really young age to get my emotional eating and my out of control behaviour with food under control.
I would swing from restriction to disordered eating, trying every diet and practitioner I could find to help me. I was trying to fix myself because I really thought I was broken. I didn’t understand how I could be hungry all the time. I would compare myself to my friends and it seemed so easy for them to be okay in their bodies and with food but for me it was so difficult.
It wasn’t until I tried everything and being so disciplined and rigid that it broke me. It didn’t matter that I was seeing a nutritionist, a therapist and a chiropractor, it didn’t help. I reached this breaking point where I had to stop doing everything I had done and figure it out.
This was my rock bottom where I ended up as changing everything in my life. I moved from Toronto to Korea. I was an analytical chemist and I started teaching. I was living in a new country, in a new culture, and I needed to sort out what was going on for me.
I *really* thought if I changed everything that this pattern would just break. But my emotional eating intensified and I had to figure it out. Spoiler: up until this point no one had told me I was an emotional eater.
Let’s get into it:
- 2:27 Being in a big rock bottom – I had to figure out what was going on with my emotional eating. (no one had told me I was an emotional eater!)
- 3:41 I wasn’t really hungry all the time? What was really going on!
- 4:23 Putting the pieces together and how it’s not about the food. What it’ really about.
- 5:02 How feeling safe (or unsafe) makes you use food. Let me explain.
- 6:02 What I really needed instead of food.
- 7:20 Keeping all your emotions in. They don’t disappear – they trigger emotional eating.
- 8:17 How I started feeling more at ease around food and in my body.
- 10:26 The step by step process that built internal confidence around food and in my body
- 11:22 What ambitious women need to resolve emotional eating.
- 12:29 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
