Why having unsatisfying meals as an emotional eater can be a trigger? When we are thinking about food and eating, the first thought is pleasure and the idea of feeling different than the way we felt before we ate. We are expecting a different experience. If you are an emotional eater and you are trying […]
Healing from emotional and binge eating is tough if you are focusing on weight loss. Why? 1. If you are focusing on weight loss, you will try to do all the right things to get to the goal. Everything becomes about reaching that goal. This behaviour however (just like any diet) doesn’t help you to […]
When you are healing your relationship with food, trying to listen to your body, end emotional eating you will have confrontations with people around you. Some won’t get it and will think you are “fine”. Some will think it’s another “phase” and won’t believe it until they see the real change in you. On the […]
When you are trying to end emotional eating, I firmly believe in order to avoid a binge you need to include all your favourite meals in your daily life. Otherwise, the binge on those particular foods is just waiting for your moment of weakness. If you don’t plan your meals + treats you will always […]
Have you ever planned a binge? You know you have the opportunity to binge later on in the day. You want to suppress the urge but you find yourself thinking, daydreaming about what you will get from the shop and how you will eat it with pleasure during the evening. Even though you know it’s […]
Do you have a fear of being out of control around food while you are healing your relationship with food? First of all, you have most likely been trying to be thinner, smaller and see a lower number on the scale for a long time that the idea of weight gain (although it could be […]
How do you heal your relationship with food if you are constantly thinking about being thinner and losing weight?You can’t. At least not in the beginning. There is a process in which at first you need to allow your hunger to speak to you.You need to allow yourself to eat the foods you truly want […]
There is one fear stopping you from ending emotional eating and losing weight. This fear is rather common and it is sabotaging their capacity to say “NO” to unhealthy foods and overeating.It’s the famous FOMO- fear of missing out. We fear that we are going to miss out on the enjoyment of eating that particular […]
If you have overeaten one night here is what to do and what definitely NOT to do. 1. Try to use this experience as a learning opportunity- what happened, what triggered it? DON’T use this experience as an opportunity to blame yourself and plan another diet 2. Eat normally the next day. DON’T restrict the […]
I often talk about ending emotional eating and reaching food freedom.Food freedom is not just about eating a donut without guilt though. Food freedom means : 1. Not being triggered by comments from other people about your look, your diet, their dieting plans…you are aware of your body’s needs and you don’t compare with others […]