Stress 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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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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Comfort Eating

We might as well face it, comfort eating is at an all-time high. Our lives get more and more hectic all the time. It seems like ever since 9/11, there has been a lot written about comforting ourselves and calming our fears. One of the biggest reasons people overeat is for self-soothing. When stress and [...]

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Is Your Eating On Automatic Pilot?

Because eating is essential to life, it’s not surprising that it is part of a well-regulated system in our bodies and minds. We feel hungry, seek out and consume food, and experience a sense of satiety. Then the cycle is repeated over and over again. This system runs automatically, but it is influenced by many [...]

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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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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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Stress Eating: Is It An Addiction?

Is Stress Eating An Addiction? All addictive processes represent an effort to control feelings. Even more than that, they represent an effort to keep life itself under control. Addicts are hooked on things being one certain way (the way they “should” be), and are unable to just let things “be” to take their natural course. [...]

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Saying No To Stress Eating

One night many years ago, my boyfriend called and wanted me to meet him at a bar down the street from where I lived. It was around 10 p.m., 20 degrees outside, and I was in my pajamas and curlers (yes, curlers!) The last thing I wanted to do was go out to a bar, [...]

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Stress Eating and Your Weight

Most people who engage in stress eating are highly concerned about their appearance and weight. For some people, their world is dominated by thoughts of food and weight issues. Most stress eaters want to lose weight and are anxious about gaining weight. Obsessive concerns about food and weight are not uncommon. One client that I [...]

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Stress Eating, Money and Weight

Someone asked for the transcript of the video on stress eating, money and weight. Here you go – Stress eating, money and weight issues have a lot in common – 1st – they  run on scarcity – the stress, fear and anxiety of not having enough. Many people are walking around with this sort of [...]

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