Why New Years Resolutions Don’t Work for Emotional Eating

by | Dec 26, 2025 | Blocks to Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating, Emotional Eating Triggers, healing emotional eating, Intuitive Eating, Trauma Informed

Hello love,

We’re heading into the new year, maybe you’re thinking of trying a new diet, or starting a new resolution to heal your emotional eating.

If you’ve ever set a resolution to “fix” your emotional eating and you feel like you fail a few weeks later, then this video is for you. 

Resolutions fail for a few reasons. First of all, they’re usually targeting something you want to fix – like the way you eat. But it’s just really trying to fix a symptom, not the root. 

So it doesn’t actually work. You’ll end up falling back into the same trap. 

You try to control your food, try to control your body, and focus on fixing all the symptoms. But emotional eating is not a food issue or an exercise issue. 

There’s something deeper going on. And if you’re not looking at the root, this pattern isn’t going to shift. 

I know you’re probably not craving a smaller body or to look a certain way necessarily. What you’re deeply craving is to feel peace around food and ease in your body. 

And those are very valid things to want and desire. 

But when you go after them in a very willpower-driven, disciplined way – trying to contort and push yourself into a certain body – you don’t get that result.

Instead you’ll feel tension and stress and like you failed or didn’t get it right. And that just puts you back into the same shame spiral in the same loop that triggers more emotional eating and make you feel more and more dissatisfied with your body and yourself. 

I know you want to feel capable, you want to feel like you can navigate your life without turning to food, to manage your stress or your emotions. 

Let’s dive in

  • 1:42 What will help to shift your emotional eating
  • 2:00 Core things to focus on to get to ease and peace around food and in your body
  • 3:36 First steps I recommend

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 confidence sustainably,

Michelle

Certified Holistic Nutritionist Specializing in Emotional Eating