To reexamine your stories ask yourself:

• How do you feel about yourself, your body and your eating?
• Take a look at what your parent thought you about yourself, your body, your food and your eating.

How to redesign your stories?

• Take a close look at the burdens you are carrying from your past and decide to let them go.

The first step to changing your life is to stop telling your story as if it was a sad one. Because eventually if you stop doing that it will stop being one.

If you want to make the choice to make a change, you have to master your fears so they don't control you anymore.

In order to really make a choice to make a change and open your way to a new you and a new day, you have to accept how you are and where you are.  

• Identify the problem
• Recognize why it's there
• Identify what you want to change
• Identifying the obstacles and finding solutions
• Make the change
• Stick the change

How to truly make a behavior shift

• Focus on only one behavior.
• Identifying and understanding your why.
• Understanding how the current behavior serves you.
• It's okay to be uncomfortable.
• Remember that there's no time limit.

Cause of emotional eating in children

• Boredom
• Anger
• Sadness or depression
• Parental influence
  1. Don't use food as a reward or punishment
  2. Using food as love
  3. All feelings need to be appreciated
  4. Parents own food biases or prejudices

"Slow down, find the wisdom, heal the wound. That's how true change begins for yourself and for our children."

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

― Toni Morrison

"Every moment of every day you get a chance to change."

Creating a new beginning

• Decide what you want and when you want it by.
• Consider the consequences.
• Assess the obstacles.
• Make a plan and prioritize.
• Assess what happens everyday objectively.

"Don't look back, you are not going that way."

"Make the change in your food because you love how it feels."