Emotional Eating

“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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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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How To Stop Overeating

If you are always wondering how to stop overeating, there is one thing that needs to happen. You need to signal your body that it is satiated. Here’s the key for how to stop overeating: When you consistently eat healthy fats, such as coconut oil, you provide vital nutrition to your body. But beyond that, [...]

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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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5 Steps To Managing Your Stress Eating Triggers

What’s a stress eating trigger? Anything that makes you want to eat. It could be something you see, hear, or smell. It could also be a thought or an emotion emanating from inside you. Yes, your own self talk could trigger the urge to eat! The trigger is the WHY. So it might go like [...]

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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: 3 Ways To Stop

Eating is all too often a rushed, mindless, automatic and mechanical hand-to-mouth activity. We are in a sense, eating zombies! Fortunately, we can be awakened and reprogrammed to actually start and stop eating when we are actually hungry. =========================== Emotional Eating Is Not The Problem! =========================== Let’s be honest – everyone engages in emotional eating [...]

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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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Is The Stress Eating Battle Over?

On this month’s cover of  ‘O’ Magazine, there’s a bold declaration – “The battle is over…” The ‘battle’ that Oprah is referring to is, of course, with her weight. It’s always been curious to me that one of the most influential women in the world . . . with access to every resource . . [...]

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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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