The Emotional Eating Evolution Podcast

Welcome to Emotional Eating trigger season. This is usually the time of year where emotional eating can feel the hardest to manage.

I call it emotional eating trigger season for a reason. And if you struggle with emotional eating, you probably know what I'm talking about.

The holidays are supposed to be joyful, full of connection, and make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. You're with your family, you're enjoying, and you're making memories.

But the reality can look and feel really different.

Let’s dive in

1:17 What are the triggers coming up making us want to go to food?

3:10 Why is this happening during the “happiest” time of year

4:27 Client example of being triggered into body shame and emotional eating to feeling empowered and not going to food to cope during the holidays

6:25 The process that changed her emotional eating.

7:43 Why willpower doesn’t work.

8:25 What you can start doing to move through the holidays with more ease and peace.

10:58 You don’t have to wait until January to “reset” you can enjoy the holidays now (if you do this).

11:51 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and next steps.

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So why are you still emotionally eating?

Maybe you've gone to therapy. You know your patterns. You know your triggers and your wounds. You understand why you turn to food when you feel rejected, lonely, overwhelmed, criticized, or not good enough.

And maybe you can explain your emotional eating, but you’re still doing it.

You're still reaching for food when you're not physically hungry. That urge to go to food still seems to take you over. You might be wondering, “Why am I still doing this? I know about my patterns. I know why it's happening. Why am I still here?

Let’s dive in

1:21 You've done the work and know your patterns. Here's why they're not shifting.

3:07 Awareness is the doorway. You need to go deeper.

4:03 Understanding emotional eating so you know what’s needed for resolution.

6:00 Moving away from a quick fix mindset to creating a new practice to meet your needs.

7:02 What we misunderstand about emotions that keeps us stuck.

10:33 The danger of fighting the urge or removing food when you haven’t healed your emotional eating.

11:12 The truth about emotions and how they show you what you need.

12:20 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and next steps.

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Have you ever noticed yourself standing in front of the fridge, wondering, “How did I even get here?”

Or you started noticing your food noise getting louder and louder?

Before you know it, you're heading towards something to eat, and you feel out of control.

In these moments, it can feel like something's taken over. You weren't necessarily thinking about food a few minutes ago, and suddenly it feels like all you can think about.

You might try to figure out what happened, but you can't seem to pinpoint your trigger.

The thing is, emotional eating doesn't come out of nowhere.

Let’s dive in

1:16 Where is this food noise coming from and why do you go to food?

2:19 What actually triggers your so what actually triggers your urge to emotionally eat?

6:18 Knowing your triggers might not be enough to stop this pattern. Here’s what you need to heal the root.

7:30 How to start catching your triggers

9:12 How to heal the root of your emotional eating

11:02 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and next steps

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So how do you actually get to ease and peace around food and in your body?

Maybe you've spent years trying to control food to create peace, but it hasn't worked. You thought if you finally got to the certain place physically, you'd finally feel okay. And the noise would stop.

One of the things I've learned is that your out of control relationship to food and your body is not necessarily about food and your body. It's really about how you feel about yourself and whether you feel loved, accepted, and approved of.

Let’s dive in:

1:33 This inner war took me down the wrong path for many years.

3:16 This was not just about controlling food - the deeper reason for my behaviour and the measures I took to try to get control.

5:43 Flipping my life upside down in an effort to get control with food, my body and my life (spoiler: it didn’t work)

7:06 Putting on my scientist hat and figuring out my emotional eating on my own: my first light bulb moment

8:38 Finding a streamlined way to get to the root of my emotional eating.

9:26 Adding in nourishment, body acceptance and seeing a new way to resolve emotional eating.

11:25 Resolving my emotional eating, falling in love with food and a new path.

12:53 Facing my fear: looking my emotional eating in the eyes and the evolution of helping others.

15:14 Getting to ease and peace around food and in your body.

17:54 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and next steps.

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Maybe you've been working with a nutritionist for months, you are trying all the things, you're getting the support, but you keep hitting the same wall with your emotional eating.

You're still bingeing at night. You still feel like you're sabotaging yourself at the grocery store. You just can't seem to make things work.

So why do you keep hitting the same wall when you feel like you know what you're supposed to do with food?

Let's dive in.

1:16 What you see on the surface vs. what’s holding you back from taking action.

2:14 What is emotional eating and when did it start?

4:33 Example: 2 different things happening with bingeing at night.

6:25 Are you really sabotaging yourself with food?

7:38 Is more nutritional information the answer?

8:22 What’s holding you back from taking these simple actions

9:40 Resolving the root of emotional eating starts to shift surface behaviours more effortlessly.

11:09 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and next steps.

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👉🏽Find out more about The Emotional Eating Evolution Program here: https://bit.ly/EEEprogram

👉🏽Check out the blog post here: https://lallnutrition.com/why-you-keep-hitting-the-same-wall-with-emotional-eating/

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You can eat perfectly. You can follow the meal plan. You can exercise. You can lose weight. And you can force yourself into the body you think you're supposed to have.

And you can still feel completely out of control with food and emotionally eat. Because eating perfectly doesn't heal trauma.

And forcing yourself into a particular body, into the “perfect” box, doesn't heal the reason why you thought you had to control yourself in the first place.

Usually, we think that if we can control our behaviour and get to the place we want to, everything will finally be okay.

But what if the need to control food and your body is actually part of the problem?

Let’s dive in:

1:28 Why fitting into the perfect box doesn’t eliminate emotional eating.

2:51 Getting what I was chasing and it all crumbling.

4:26 What is creating your emotional eating?

5:50 The multiple messages you received keeping you stuck.

6:37 What you see on the surface is not what’s really going on with food.

6:55 Peeling back the layers to resolve emotional eating.

8:00 How you adapted to meet your deeper needs.

8:27 Doing the deeper work to resolve emotional eating to get to ease and peace.

10:19 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and free resources.

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👉🏽Check out the blog post here: https://lallnutrition.com/you-can-get-the-body-and-still-struggle-with-emotional-eating/

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If you struggle with emotional eating, you may genuinely feel food is the problem. You eat something you didn't plan to eat and you just can't seem to stop. You eat when you're stressed, upset, lonely, or bored.

And then you think, “Why can't I just control myself around food?”.

So, naturally, food seems like the enemy. But what if I told you something deeper is going on that's running this behaviour, that's making you go to food when you really don't want to?

Today, I want to show you what's really underneath that feeling of being out of control with food, and why trying to control it harder actually backfires.

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So they told you to feel your emotions to help your emotional eating. To have compassion for yourself. To stop suppressing your feelings. You sat with your feelings. You sat with yourself. You tried to feel what was coming up.

And then suddenly you hear:

“What are you complaining about? Your life is great. You've got the job, you've got the house, you've got the car. Other people have it so much more worse than you. It's not a big deal what you're going through. You're being too sensitive. Maybe my parents were just doing their best. How can I complain?”

And then you wonder, can I actually feel my emotions? And maybe a few minutes later, 5 minutes later, you're in the kitchen and you're eating.

Let’s dive in

1:41 One of the main beliefs that holds you back in resolving emotional eating.

2:50 Having a “good reason” you shouldn’t feel the way you feel keeps you trapped in emotional eating.

3:54 Where emotional eating comes into play to soothe you.

5:11 Feeling your emotions is a nuanced process.

7:28 Your body holds emotions - doing the deeper work to resolve them.

8:10 How allowing shifts your body so you don’t go to food to soothe.

9:38 Why I don’t tell clients to “just” feel their emotions.

11:12 A new way to move through triggers and resolve emotional eating.

11:50 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and next steps

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So what if the shame you feel after you emotionally eat is actually keeping you stuck in your emotional eating pattern?

You eat something, you didn't plan to eat. And then the thoughts start.

“Why did I do that? I shouldn't have had that. I shouldn't have eaten that. Oh my god, I'm ruining my plan. What's wrong with me? I'll never change.”

And underneath all of those thoughts is one painful belief:

There's something wrong with me.

But I want you to hear this: You’re not broken and you're not flawed. And your emotional eating isn't proof that something's wrong with you.

Let’s dive in:

1:44 The vicious cycle that leaves you feeling stuck in shame.

2:21 Why emotional eating was created in the first place.

4:00 You’re not broken, you just haven’t learned to heal the root of your emotional eating (and meet your true needs).

4:38 Awareness is great but doing the deeper work is what shifts your emotional eating.

5:55 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and next steps

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👉🏽Find out more about The Emotional Eating Evolution Program here: https://bit.ly/EEEprogram

👉🏽Check out the blog post here: https://lallnutrition.com/your-shame-is-keeping-you-stuck-in-emotional-eating-heres-how-to-get-unstuck/

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So let me guess, you think you emotionally eat because you have no willpower?

You have snacks in the cupboard, and you tell yourself, “I'm not going eat them.” But then a stressful day hits, and you beeline to the cupboard.

And suddenly, you're eating all the cookies, the chips, the snacks that are in the cupboard. Then this voice comes over you and says, “What's wrong with you? Why can't you control yourself? Why are you doing this?”

But what if I told you it wasn't because you didn't have any willpower, that there was something deeper going on?

Let’s dive in.

1:16 Why do you go to food to soothe yourself in the first place?

4:09 Why emotional eating becomes an automatic pattern.

4:50 Food can’t meet your emotional needs. This is what you need instead.

5:20 The importance of emotions and what happens when you don’t hear them.

6:23 How to stop going to food to soothe yourself.

7:55 This is not an overnight process, it takes time and is not about willpower.

8:47 The Emotional Eating Evolution Program and free resources.

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👉🏽Find out more about The Emotional Eating Evolution Program here: https://bit.ly/EEEprogram

👉🏽Check out the blog post here: https://lallnutrition.com/the-real-reason-you-emotionally-eat/

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