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 give you tips to shift how you make choices, so you can have the freedom of enjoying food without guilt or restriction.

Takeaways

Chapters

00:00 Introduction: Learning to Love Eating

02:04 Struggling with Food and Eating

04:02 Trusting Yourself and Your Body

06:24 Attunement to Needs and Values

08:24 Intrinsic Responsibility for Food Choices

10:23 Feedback Loop and Making Choices

13:37 Food as Neutral and Functional

15:37 Enjoyment and Weight Loss

18:56 Loving Yourself and Loving Food

21:06 Importance of Eating and Connection

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 resources to help you heal from emotional overeating on my website at ⁠www.bewellbyak.com⁠.

Takeaways

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Background

01:51 Inspiration to Reach Out

03:20 Struggles with Emotional Eating

08:12 Effects of Binging and Purging

12:02 The Importance of Believing in Healing

13:24 Transformative Tools in the Program

15:08 Eliminating Shame and Punishment

17:46 Intuitive Eating and Food Rules

19:14 Transformation in Daily Life

26:33 Life Transformed: Being Present and Free

29:01 Gratitude and Impact

29:55 Closing Remarks

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 pleasing, boundaries, body image, and weight, but you can learn easy strategies for overcoming people pleasing and creating healthy boundaries to improve self-worth and achieve lasting change.

You can learn more and get some great resources to help you heal from emotional overeating on my website at ⁠www.bewellbyak.com⁠.

Takeaways

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Importance of Self-Worth

04:34 Behavior Blockages: People Pleasing and Difficulty Creating Boundaries

10:20 The Connection Between People Pleasing, Boundaries, Body Image, and Weight

15:20 Creating Healthy Boundaries and Overcoming People Pleasing

19:15 Conclusion and Next Steps

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 overeating on my website at ⁠www.bewellbyak.com⁠.

Takeaways

Chapters

00:00: Introduction to Energetic Identity and Weight Loss

02:22: Understanding Masculine and Feminine Energetics

07:11: Cultivating Masculine and Feminine Energy

10:29: Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energy

17:14: Living in Alignment with Natural Energy

22:17: The Impact of Energy Balance on Weight Loss

25:24: Identifying Imbalance in Masculine and Feminine Energy

28:01: Causes of Masculine and Feminine Energy Imbalance

29:00: The Power of Aligning with Natural Energy

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 Unwrapped.

You can learn more and get some great resources to help you heal from emotional overeating on my website at www.bewellbyak.com.

Takeaways

Mindless eating is a common issue, especially during the holiday season.

Bringing awareness to mindless eating in the present moment is crucial for behavior change.

Early influences and triggers, such as seeking comfort and eating with others, contribute to mindless eating.

Asking motivational questions can help individuals recognize their motivations for mindless eating and shift towards mindful eating.

Chapters

00:00: Introduction to Mindless Eating

01:29: Factors Contributing to Mindless Eating

03:23: Recognizing Symptoms of Mindless Eating

05:10: The Importance of Being Present

07:02: Early Influences on Mindless Eating

09:26: Mindless Eating as Emotional Eating

10:27: Triggers for Mindless Eating

13:36: Questioning Mindless Eating Habits

14:27: Changing Behavior in the Moment

16:41: Asking Motivational Questions

19:04: Eating Mindfully

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.

Dive into this topic, and how it connects to Alexa’s personal story of hormone balance, emotional eating and nutrition, in this episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped.

You can learn more and get some great resources to help you heal from emotional overeating on my website at www.bewellbyak.com.

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 will get you to a place of deep contentment and self-acceptance.

Discover how to build authentic self-acceptance, and why it's so important in our weight losss journey in this episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped.

You can learn more and get some great resources to help you heal from emotional overeating on my website at www.bewellbyak.com.

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 blocks that are holding you back from healing from emotional eating so you can start achieving the weight loss that you desire.

You can learn more and get some great resources to help you heal from emotional overeating on my website at www.bewellbyak.com.

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 really scared of certain foods.

This was how I thought about food and eating for so many years, I was in a constant battle with it. Every meal felt like a battleground.

If you have also struggled with weight loss or keeping weight off, then you will definitely want to listen to this episode.

Discover how to truly break free from emotional eating and lose weight sustainably it in this episode of Emotional Eating Unwrapped.

You can learn more and get some great resources to help you heal from emotional overeating on my website at www.bewellbyak.com.

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 the idea of hustle is so tempting, and get real steps you can take to prioritize self-care and start establishing healthy boundaries in this episode.

You can learn more and get some great resources to help you heal from emotional overeating on my website at www.bewellbyak.com.