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The times that I’m most pulled to food are varied.  When a situation occurs, emotions arise.  Are you in touch with those emotions?  What I’ve found with myself and many of my clients is we don’t give ourselves a moment of pause.  Are you like a long distance jumper and go from the situation immediately [...]

Last weekend, we went to see a special show as a family.  It was so fantastic.  We had a great time.  When I think of the times that I’ve been happy, truly happy and fulfilled, food was not an issue.  I didn’t give the scent of freshly baked cookies a second thought.  Why?  I was [...]

For many of us with weight challenges and emotional eating tendencies, when the thought hits to eat something, there’s very little that stops us.  We go for it. What about if you could pause?  Give yourself just a moment of pause.  Before you emotionally eat, ask yourself the question of “Will eating this (insert food [...]

When I reflect back on my life pre-op and sometimes post-op, I have wasted so much time, money, and most importantly, energy on emotional eating.  Worrying about my weight, what I look like, what I can hide behind jackets or sweaters, what I was going to wear that would hopefully fit.  What a waste of [...]

Pre-operatively, and sometimes post-op (!), I ate for pleasure.  Pleasure of filling time from boredom, squelching emotions or uncomfortable situations was managed by emotionally eating.  My surgery and weight loss woke me up.  The time, energy wasted and extra calories that I thought was pleasure actually was pain.  I ate to get pleasure to soften [...]

Heading for the kitchen when you’re feeling angry, lonely, bored, or tired may be the reason you’re gaining weight or at a plateau.  Emotional eaters lose less weight and are more likely to gain it back than those that are situational eaters.  If you’re an emotional eater, create strategies to combat emotional eating to manage [...]

Have you ever found yourself standing at the refrigerator or kitchen cabinets searching?  You aren’t hungry yet frantically searching for something?  What is that something?  What are you searching for?   What you are searching for isn’t contained in the kitchen.  Rather than look inside your kitchen, look inside of yourself. Many times when we find [...]

I’m sick today.  I have a cold, sore throat, headache, you name it.  I don’t like being sick.  No one does.   Being drained of energy, tired, and just generally lethargic makes me feel vulnerable.  I don’t know what it is about getting a cold but it makes me want to eat.  It may be that I’m [...]

What is emotional eating?  Emotional eating is when we eat in response to situations and feelings other than physical hunger cues from our body.  It is as though we are feeding our head hunger than our physical hunger.  Physical hunger is feeding our body; head hunger is feeding a void in ourselves that we want to [...]