Emotional Eating Unwrapped

In this episode, Alana explains how tracking macros is often a projection of past trauma and a control coping mechanism disguised as a path to body confidence and food freedom. She shares her personal experience with macro counting and highlights that it only works the first time due to the shock factor. While macro counting is attractive to those who seek control and certainty, it ultimately lead...

Summary In this episode, Alana discusses the emotional ramifications of weight loss and the importance of admitting the desire to lose weight. She shares her personal journey with emotional eating and weight fluctuations, highlighting how it affected her self-image and limited her experiences. Alana emphasizes that weight loss is a catalyst for change and a transformative journey that goes beyond...

Negative self-talk is extremely common — and it has a huge impact on our self-esteem and self-worth. In this episode, we’ll discover how negative self-talk is learned and internalized from a young age, and influenced by childhood experiences and societal values.  We dive into common negative self-talk statements and learn how they can serve as a window into our deepest desires, so we can recognize...

Learning the skill of eating with intention can help you to lose weight, keep it off — and actually start enjoying food! In this episode, we discuss how to learn to eat with intention, and I share my key principles to guide intentional eating. You’ll discover the the importance of self-awareness, satisfaction, and trust in making empowered choices about food. Cultivate a healthier relationship wit...

Asking for help and getting support is crucial to succeeding on your weight loss journey. The truth is that weight loss is not just about food, but also about our environment and the people we surround ourselves with. Discover the emotional and identity transformation that occurs when we lose weight and how this process leads to a need embracing vulnerability, curating our energetic space, dealing...

Learning to love eating is vital to developing a healthy relationship with food. In this episode we discuss the distinction between food as a substance and eating as an experience. I’ll share my personal journey of struggling with emotional eating and the mindset shifts I made to trust myself and my body. Understanding your needs and values allows you to make intentional food choices, and I’ll giv...

Many women struggle with overcoming the habits and behaviors of emotional eating. In this week’s episode, I interview my friend and client Katie Hoover.  She shares her journey of struggling with disordered eating from a young age and how it affected her life. We also talk about the transformative tools she has learned and how they have transformed her life. You can learn more and get some great r...

In this episode we will discuss the importance of self-worth and how it impacts our relationship with food and eating. Low self-worth can lead to emotional eating and weight gain, as well as feelings of insecurity and fear.  Explore the behaviors of people pleasing and difficulty creating boundaries, and how these can hinder the development of self-worth. There is a deep connection between people...

Our energetic identity can affect emotional states, our relationships with those around us, and even our ability to lose weight and keep it off. Dive into the difference between masculine and feminine energetics, and learn how cultivating a balance between masculine and feminine energy can help our overall wellness. You can learn more and get some great resources to help you heal from emotional ov...

Mindless eating is a common issue for women, and is one of the top behaviors that those who struggle with emotional eating can work on to see results quickly. Often stemming from habits we developed in childhood, or simply in relation to boredom or situational triggers, eating mindlessly can be a difficult issue to see in ourselves. Dive into this topic in today's episode of Emotional Eating U...

Don’t miss this week’s episode with a very special guest and friend, Alexa Cawley, as we talk about one of my favorite topics… Learning to love yourself and your body! The way that you think about food and your body image are closely connected with how confident you feel in other areas of your life. It’s so important to really authentically love your body and own how you want to feel in your body....

Self acceptance starts with uncovering your authentic self. We have to establish and create safety for our authentic self, and then build our authentic self in order to live from our authentic self. It's not an easy journey, but ultimately you will get to a place where you truly embrace and love yourself for who you are. You acknowledge your strengths, your weaknesses without judgment. This wi...

Emotional eating isn’t really about food at all — it’s about our mindset and the connections between how we think about food and eating and our behaviors. Ultimately, many nutrition and weight loss coaches focus on food, when in reality you can't rely on any diet or meal plan to help you stop using food as a coping mechanism. In this episode, we’ll dive into how to identify and reframe mindset...

Everyone thinks the answer to losing weight is calories and macros, but these are probably not going to actually help you achieve lasting weight loss. For many years, I was on a diet trying to lose weight, giving all my efforts to figuring out what diet would work. I eliminated carbs. I eliminated fat. I stopped eating carbs. At the end of the day, I only ended up gaining more weight, and I became...

Let's dive into the truth behind hustle culture — and the real impact it has on our behaviors with food and eating. Hustle culture is almost synonymous with our everyday lifestyle... but this issue deeply affects women due to the emotional toll it can take. Giving into hustle culture on a regular basis can lead to stress, overwhelm, and ultimately comforting yourself using food. Discover why t...

Today's episode is a special topic: how to navigate the holiday season and all of its emotions and temptations. It's hard to believe, but the holidays are right around the corner... stressful feelings. Especially for people who struggle with their relationship to food, it is so important to learn to relax our nervous systems around the holidays — and starting now before all of the holiday...

It's so important that we learn how to shift our focus from using food as a way to connect. We have to shift the mindset of thinking that food is the only way that we can give and receive love, or even that feeling of connection. Especially for women, it’s so common for food and eating to become a primary means of bonding. Whether it's meeting friends for coffee and pastries, gathering for...

Today’s episode explores how applying mindfulness and developing emotional neutrality, or emotional balance, to the context of your life can help reduce stress, eliminate overwhelm, and really help you heal from issues like emotional eating. In our fast paced society and constantly connected world, we have to learn how to create our own sense of boundaries. This helps keep us anchored and grounded...

Becoming accountable to yourself, or taking intrinsic accountability, allows you to take ownership of your actions, take ownership of your choices and take ownership of your wellbeing. This is the necessary step most people miss in their weight loss journey. Without the the pressure of external rules and systems that keep you in line, like a diet or a meal plan, you need to build trust i yourself...

Everything is impacted by our ability to regulate our nervous system. If we have a regulated nervous system.. our mood will be better, our weight will be better, our hormone balance will be better, our digestion, our sleep, and even the way that we feel in the world… will all feel better. If your nervous system is dysregulated, it can affect so many areas of our biology and our emotions, so learni...

You will not sustainably lose weight long-term if you have not healed your emotional eating. Weight loss feels like it should be the goal… but really, it isn’t. If you eat emotionally, if you turn to food as a coping mechanism, then the hard truth is... no diet, no counting calories, is going to help you lose weight and keep it off for good. Even if you lose weight at first, your current behaviors...

Often, we think to ourselves… “I deserve to eat this.”  This mentality of “I deserve to eat this” is one of the things that can keep us in an emotional eating cycle and cycle of yo-yo dieting.  It's so important to acknowledge that this mentality is pervasive, especially as we're reframing our relationship to food and working to heal our attachments with eating. A key skill is to remember...