Emotional Eating

The Willpower Trap

Ever wonder if you have enough willpower to stop stress eating and lose the weight you want? 5 decades ago, there was a famous study, fondly called the “marshmallow study.” Preschool kids were asked to sit in front of a marshmallow, and not eat it for a full 15 minutes. The kids who were successful [...]

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“Food Calms Me Down”

It’s a familiar refrain that I have heard often from my clients. I used to think the same thing. That is . . . if I took time to think about it at all. If what you need is to be calm, then there may not be faster ways to do it, but there are [...]

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Psychological Eating

How much of your eating is physiological and how much is psychological eating? How you feel in any given moment depends upon how you are managing your emotional states. It is human nature to want to feel good. That is one reason why so many people use food to manage emotions, and change the way [...]

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Psychology Of Eating

It’s time for the psychology of eating. After all, you’ve tried all the diets. You’ve counted calories, carbohydrates and fat grams. You’ve studied every food combination ever invented and used your own body as a laboratory. They work—temporarily. They may even work for months at a time and you think you’ve finally licked it. You [...]

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The Doughnut Truth

If you are an emotional eater, then diets are a “doughnut truth.” The writer, Vladimir Nabokov coined the term doughnut truth to mean “only the truth, and the whole truth, with a hole in the truth.” What diets can offer to an emotional eater is no more than that – a truth with a hole [...]

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Is Stress Eating Your Answer To Everything?

The other day I sat in an airport in Raleigh, NC. It was 10 a.m. and I was exhausted. I had gotten up early to pack. My best friend wanted to have 1 last chance to go to breakfast before I left. It had been a whirlwind trip, visiting friends and my old stomping grounds [...]

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Women Food and God on Oprah

“Women, Food and God” will be featured on the Oprah show this week, with Geneen Roth, author of 7 books on compulsive eating. Geneen has always been masterful at describing her compulsive eating and compulsive dieting in artful detail. This book discusses the process of her retreat students, as well as the connection of spirituality [...]

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Stress Eating Is NOT The Problem

I can’t tell you how many posts I have read with statements like “I am gaining weight because I am stress eating!” Many people seem to have an awareness that something is driving them to eat, and it’s easy to focus on that as the problem. Stress eating itself is NOT the problem. It is [...]

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The Downside Of Losing Weight

What’s your downside of losing weight? Hmmm . . . it could be any number of things . . . most commonly the fear of having to maintain it . . .  or having to give up the foods you love . . . or the fear of unwanted attention from others. It can certainly [...]

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Are You Hungry For Something More Than Food?

We use food for stress relief, and as a source of comfort and solace. But no matter how much you eat, it won’t bring more love, nurturing or acceptance into your life. The more stress we feel, the more the felt need for a reward or a distraction in order to feel good – a way [...]

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