I don’t know about you, but I have been an emotional eater for most of my life. It started in childhood. If I had a bad day at school, my Mom would make my favorite food to help me feel better. This lasted even through college; remember care packages?

It is no wonder we continue to use food to help us feel better into our adult life. I encouraged this with my children when they were growing up as well.

In this podcast, I outline the differences between physical and emotional hunger.

When you eat to numb your emotions, it feels better temporarily; but the feelings that triggered the eating are still there. Then you feel worse for overeating, beat yourself up for not having more willpower and the cycle continues.

Over the years this way of eating becomes a well-practiced habit. A habit is something you can change; it does not define who you are as a person.

You may have no idea you are thinking this way because it is going on in your subconscious. It’s like background noise or music you don’t notice anymore.

Whether you realize it or not; your emotions run the show. The key is to identify your emotional eating triggers. One way to do this is to journal or keep a food and mood diary which will increase your awareness. At first, the awareness will be after you overeat which is OK because you are learning what your triggers are. Then, over time you see patterns emerge so you can target specific actions to take to change this habit.

If you want the transcript for the podcast, I upload it as a blog on my website: https://www.weightlosswithwendy.coach

If you want help to overcome your emotional or stress eating, get on a call with me. Click on the link to schedule: https://chatwithwendy.as.me/

Contact me: weightlosswithwendy2018@gmail.com