Stop Emotional Eating in 4 Easy Steps
Are you concerned you might be an emotional eater? Take a look through these FAQs to help you understand more about emotional eating, the triggers, the signs and how I can help you.
Emotional eaters use food to meet an unmet emotional need. so, if you turn to food for comfort or to feel happy, you are, essentially, using food to soothe difficult feelings. Sometimes emotional eating can happen on an unconscious level too. This means that you might not be aware of any difficult or distressing feelings but you realise that your eating habits are out of control.
Some of the most common signs of emotional eating include:
Whether it’s a learned behaviour, a habit, or a sugar addiction, food, being a naturally pleasurable thing, offers that much needed relief from difficult and uncomfortable feelings. It’s a cycle that you want to break but no matter how hard you try, the temptation to binge or comfort eat is just too overwhelming.
Emotional eating is an attempt to use food to feel better. It is often rooted in childhood but essentially, it’s a learned association that links food with feelings of relief or comfort.
Ultimately, it’s stress, whether sudden or long-term stress, that causes us to seek solace in food. Although food is essential for our survival, it is also immensely pleasurable so it’s not surprising that we turn to food when faced with difficult circumstances and life events.
The first step is learning to manage those overwhelming emotions effectively with my tried and tested relaxation technique so you can remain calm and collected no matter what.
Using the latest powerful habit breaking psychology, you’ll start to unhook the desire to eat those high sugar/high fat foods and align your mind to healthier eating choices.
Bring resolution to the origins of your emotional eating habit with my powerful re-encoding technique and override your unwanted eating habits with healthier strategies.
Tap into the incredible power of your mind and emblazon your healthy eating successes into your future so your new eating habits are set up and ready for you to journey right into.