231 Weight Loss & Emotional Eating – Simon

Weight Loss: The Neurobiology of Appetite, Eating, and Weight Gain

Julie M. Simon explains that when we eat in the absence of physical hunger cues, routinely choose unhealthy comfort foods, or eat beyond full, something is out of balance. Weight loss becomes impossible.

She says that these tendencies suggest that we are missing important self-care skills generally learned in childhood. Current brain science shows that a lack of consistent emotional nurturance in infancy and childhood, when the brain is being formed, can result in difficulties with self-regulation. In her work here at CBJ Julie uses her extensive personal and client-based experience and offers a comprehensive, step-by-step mindfulness program designed to rewire the brain and end overindulging once and for all.

In this interview, we discuss food and food dysregulation, compromised executive function challenges regarding food intake, with direct insights into an improved recovery process – including and beyond dieting.

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About Julie

Julie is a licensed psychotherapist and life coach and a lifelong fitness enthusiast, she is also a certified personal trainer with over twenty-five years of experience designing exercise and nutrition programs for various populations. She is also the founder and director of the popular Los Angeles-based Twelve-Week Emotional Eating Recovery Program, which offers an alternative to dieting by addressing the mind, body, and spirit imbalances underlying overeating.

When Food Is Comfort – Insightful Connections

When Food Is Comfort: Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain, and End Emotional Eating explains the details of how and why when we eat in the absence of physical hunger cues, routinely choose unhealthy comfort foods, or eat beyond full, something is out of balance.

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Book and Additional References

* Website: http://www.overeatingrecovery.com

* The Twelve Week Overeating Recovery Program – Simon

* When Food Is Comfort: Nurture Yourself Mindfully, Rewire Your Brain, and End Emotional Eating – Simon, 2018 – Global Amazon Link

* The Emotional Eaters Repair Manuel – Simon, 2012 – Global Amazon Link

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Thanks

Thanks, Julie, for joining us here at CBJ to review these personal observations the clinical and personal applications for both understanding and correcting dysregulated food intake, dieting, and the connections with our emotional lives.

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