Overcoming Emotional Eating

In This Episode: [0:45] Guest introduction. [2:51] What causes emotional over eating? [7:28] Using metaphors to help someone recover from emotional eating. [17:45] Recovery from emotional over eating is the path to greater consciousness. [25:51] Eating in The Light of the Moon Cafe. Important Quotes: "Worry is a bad use of a good imagination." "Recovery from emotional over eating is the path to gr...

Know why you want to lose weight. Ask yourself "Why now?" Emotions lead us into motion. It is your why that helps you find your way.  

The more sugar you eat the higher your tolerance becomes. Physical issue Psychological Brain chemistry Belief or identity construct "Start to see it for what it is not for what you thought it was." Empower yourself. Take sugar or the predominant ingredient out of the house. Make sure you eat breakfast with protein and fiber. Get enough sleep. Find other ways to stimulate your reward center of the...

The more sugar you eat the higher your tolerance becomes. Physical issue Psychological Brain chemistry Belief or identity construct "Start to see it for what it is not for what you thought it was." Empower yourself. Take sugar or the predominant ingredient out of the house. Make sure you eat breakfast with protein and fiber. Get enough sleep. Find other ways to stimulate your reward center of the...

Inventory questions: At what point did it not become okay? What was the picture of your life when this first began? What is it like where you are now? When did those things change and why?

Inventory of the past. Inventory questions: At what point did it not become okay? What was the picture of your life when this first began? What is it like where you are now? When did those things change and why? "The best way to predict the future is to create it."  - Abraham Lincoln  

Deciding vs Doing 7 Ways to move from deciding to doing. Stop waiting until conditions are perfect. Stop. Get up. Do it. Stop overthinking things. Take continuous action. Use your action to overcome fear. Focus on the present moment. Eliminate distractions.  

False alarm signals Teeth hunger Mouth hunger Mind hunger Thirst Fatigue Emotional hunger      

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”  ― Malcolm Gladwell Stomach hunger - physical hunger False alarm signals Teeth hunger Mouth hunger Mind hunger Thirst Fatigue Emotional hunger "Take care of your body, it's the only place you have to live."      

Mind and fullness Fullness - the feeling of being satisfied or satiated in our stomach CCK - turns on the feeling of fullness and turns off appetite. Craving - the desire for food. Emotional eating - feeling a certain emotion that triggers you to eat. "Follow your heart but take your brain with you."  

"Grief is in two parts, the first part is loss and the second is the remaking of life"  -Anne Roiphe   7 Stages of Grief Shock or Disbelief   Denial Bargaining   Guilt Anger Depression Acceptance or Hope

Serotonin   sometimes called the happy chemical. Dopamine Anti anxiety brain chemical. Epigenetics - study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself.

Serotonin   sometimes called the happy chemical. Dopamine Anti anxiety brain chemical.  

Connection with food Brain chemistry connection with food   Emotional connection with food   Food connection with food    

In This Episode: [3:16] Wendi's backstory, how she got into working with emotional eating and nutrition. [8:46] Feeling our feelings. [12:16] The connection between food and emotion. [14:10] Why most people don't eat healthy food when nervous or stressed. [20:04] Surface behavioral interventions [32:00] Eating healthy [39:27] Things you can do right now to control your emotional eating. Everybody...

Physical symptoms of worry and anxiety are held in the body. It can create muscle tension. Anxiety and Worry can show up as restlessness. 2 Types of Worry   Real problem worry Hypothetical worry   

In This Episode: [1:52] Fear based eating. [3:26] Low road and high road. [10:00] Recognizing how we feel in our body. [11:49] Checking your feelings. [13:18] Listening to your body. [14:58] Helping the body chemically.   Amygdala - Mid part of the brain, the part that feels all emotions. Our emotions are tied to our body. Recognize that this will not continue forever. Our body knows what helps it...

Triggers for eating: Emotional trigger   Physical trigger   Environmental trigger Food trigger "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future, it is something you design for the present"  

"We are all just walking each other home" It's okay to focus on yourself Find your "Why" "When we feel good about us we do good things for us" Emotions are not emergencies. If we go through life sleeping we will never feel alive.  

"We are all just walking each other home"   "Life is both pain and pleasure. Both opportunity and challenge. Birth and death. "   "There's a season and a time for  everything. And it's not always for us to decide what the right season is or which season we should be in."   “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus   "Nothing to fear b...

"It is hard to fail but it is worst never to have tried to succeed" Shame - feeling bad about who you are Guilt - feeling bad about your action "Everyday you have is a new chance to change" "Fear doesn't stop us, we stop us." Creating future vision "Go ahead fall down, the world looks different from the ground" "Every stumble is not a fall and every fall does not mean failure"

Physical hunger vs Emotional hunger   Connect to another person or connect to yourself by nourishing yourself with good nutrition. Look at healthy recipes

Uncovering your best you: food, weight and life transformation Self Sabotage Cycle Saboteur Eckhart Tolle - Ego "Self sabotage is a message that you need to learn something about yourself"   Common self sabotaging behaviors Procrastination Self medication Comfort eating Self injury  

Uncovering your best you: food, weight and life transformation Self Sabotage Cycle Saboteur Eckhart Tolle - Ego "Self sabotage is a message that you need to learn something about yourself"   Common self sabotaging behaviors Procrastination Self medication Comfort eating Self injury  

Baseline  emotions: Anger Anxiety Sadness Loneliness