Emotional Eating and Weight Management: Navigating the Connection
Emotional eating, the tendency to use food as a coping mechanism for emotional distress, can significantly impact weight management efforts. Understanding the intricate relationship between emotional eating and weight management…
Read MoreAddressing Emotional Eating with Mindfulness, Awareness and Compassion
Emotional eating, the tendency to use food as a coping mechanism for emotional distress, can disrupt our relationship with food and hinder our overall well-being. However, mindfulness, a practice that cultivates present-moment…
Read MoreWhat’s the Difference Between Emotional Eating, Eating Addiction and Food Addiction?
Food is not just fuel for our bodies; it often serves as a source of comfort, pleasure, and even emotional support. However, when our relationship with food becomes problematic, it can lead to various concerns such as emotional eating, eating addiction…
Read MoreEmotional Eating 101 – Back to the Basics
We throw around the term ‘emotional eating’ a lot. Sometimes we even act like it is some kind of affliction that we contracted or is part of our personality. We say things like, “I have always been an emotional eater” or “I always eat when I am ____,” filling in the blank…
Read More10 Signs of Emotional Eating and Strategies to Break Free
Emotional eating is a common coping mechanism where we turn to food for comfort during times of stress, sadness, or boredom. It leads us to consume food in response to emotions, especially negative emotions, instead of hunger…
Read MoreTest Your Sensitivity to Stress to Control Your Emotional Eating
Have you ever found yourself rushing to food after a difficult day at work or learning some bad news? Sensitivity to stress is your ability to resist or, on the contrary, to generate severe reactions to stress depending on the situation you have to deal with…
Read MoreHow It Feels to Live with Emotional Eating
As far as I can remember, I have always relied on food to be able to make it through the day without breaking down. I have always been overweight, and I was affected by severe obesity for much of my adult life. I reached out to everyone…
Read MoreWant to Stop Emotional Eating? Ask Yourself These 6 Questions
Have you ever thought about the tiny number of things over which we have actual control? There are so many things in life that go on regardless of us actually ‘doing’ anything to make them happen…
Read MoreWhy the Solution to Emotional Eating Over 60 Is Self-Love, Not Diets
If you’ve ever reached for food for reasons other than satisfying your hunger, it’s likely you’ve struggled with emotional eating. And if you’ve been on this planet long enough, you’re bound to hear some terrible advice about how to manage it…
Read More3 Critical Steps to Overcoming Emotional Eating After 60
I think we would all agree that eating well is key to health and a healthy weight. But getting to the eating well part isn’t just about the food. If it were, we would have far fewer overweight people today. Read More