Stress Eating

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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Too Much Stress Eating? Libertyville Life Coach Says Try This…

Too much stress eating? I was talking to a friend the other day, who had a really great idea. Inside her snack cabinet, she posted a note, with the simple question: “Why are you here?” Then she lists a few choices – You are hungry You got triggered by an emotion You want a reward [...]

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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 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: 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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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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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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