My emotional eating started exactly 25 years ago. I was 14 years old. Like every child, I needed my parents’ love to grow up loving myself. I was validated on every aspect of my life including my looks until I gained weight. I gained weight because I was eating more granted, I was lonely after […]
If you grew up in a highly critical environment you may be hyper vigilant on your flaws. You may be trying to fix them in order to avoid criticism. If you felt abandoned, you will do anything to keep people around and try to be and do things perfectly all the time. You are hard […]
If you grew up in a highly critical environment you may be hyper vigilant on your flaws. You may be trying to fix them in order to avoid criticism. If you felt abandoned, you will do anything to keep people around and try to be and do things perfectly all the time. You are hard […]
Do you find yourself trying to eat clean and be good with your eating only to “mess it up” at night and over the weekend? Do you find yourself overeating on a regular basis yet you know you weren’t hungry in the first place? Here are some tips to overcome emotionally overeating while still enjoying […]
Do these questions sound familiar before or after you ate something? 1. I should have had only one slice…2. I shouldn’t have eaten that, too much fat, too many carbs…3. I should eat less tomorrow to compensate…4. Should I just go all in and start a new diet tomorrow?5. I feel so bad for eating […]
This is what I used to do when I was faced with a desire to binge and emotionally eat. Normally for me, my desire would come up after a very stressful day at work and I just felt I wanted to reward myself, I wanted to relax in front of the TV with loads of […]
This is what I used to do when I was faced with a desire to binge and emotionally eat. Normally for me, my desire would come up after a very stressful day at work and I just felt I wanted to reward myself, I wanted to relax in front of the TV with loads of […]
I think it’s truly messed up that for a long time we (especially women) have been told to lose weight and go on a diet. Now all of a sudden we are told we shouldn’t diet and love our bodies the way they are. The issue is that many of us came out of dieting feeling […]
When you step on the scale you can see either a higher or a lower number than what you expected. Almost no one steps on the scale to get the “proof” that they weigh exactly what they thought. So what happens when the number is bigger? It can throw you off into a binge. Why? Because it’s […]
There are three fundamental unmet needs that can lead to a binge: 1. Physical: not enough good, water, rest, sleep…whenever you put yourself in a position of not resting, not sleeping properly and nourishing yourself regularly, you risk a binge later on. 2. Social: connection with people. Isolation works for a while but then it […]