You may have started January with some good intentions around food and snacking, yet in reality, very few people keep that commitment ongoing. For most, life gets busy, and we fall into familiar patterns – and this includes comfort eating, also known as emotional eating. For many, this feels confusing and frustrating and leads toContinue reading “Emotional Eating Is Not a Bad Habit — It’s a Survival Pattern – And it can be changed.”
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The Psychology of Food Cravings: What Your Body’s Urges Are Trying to Tell You
You’ve eaten well all day, drank plenty of water and fitted in some movement and then… the craving hits. You might feel an overwhelming urge for a salty snack, a comforting pastry, or a fizzy drink. Or perhaps it’s chocolate or fries. The problem is, the craving isn’t something you can ignore — and youContinue reading “The Psychology of Food Cravings: What Your Body’s Urges Are Trying to Tell You”
The Grief of Who You Used to Be: Identity Loss & Emotional Eating
Getting older brings all kinds of surprises – some welcome and some not so. With age comes wisdom, and for many a sense of peace. Yet before that, there’s a quiet kind of grief that often goes unspoken. It’s not the grief of losing someone else, it’s the grief of losing yourself. Of waking up oneContinue reading “The Grief of Who You Used to Be: Identity Loss & Emotional Eating”
What Does a Health Nutritionist Do? A Holistic Approach to Wellness
I’ve begun this year talking about whose advice to trust when it comes to diet and health. So, in the spirit of transparency, I thought I’d go into more detail about what exactly a Health Nutritionist like myself does, and the benefits of working with one. Although we spend a lot of time obsessing overContinue reading “What Does a Health Nutritionist Do? A Holistic Approach to Wellness”
Navigating Emotional Eating During Major Life Changes
You’ve developed some healthy habits, are aware and in control of emotional eating triggers, have a regular exercise and wellness routine and all is going well. Then along comes a curve ball and it throws everything off. The reality is, that life is filled with significant transitions and stressful moments that we don’t always see coming. If we’reContinue reading “Navigating Emotional Eating During Major Life Changes”
Looking after our Emotional Health: The Role of Vitamins and Supplements
How’s your emotional health? We don’t really ask ourselves that, do we? We might pay attention to our physical and mental health, yet looking after our emotional health is just as essential as poor emotional health which impacts everything else – including how and what we eat. If you’ve been following me and reading my blogs lately, you’ll know I’ve been talking about emotional eating – how we unconsciouslyContinue reading “Looking after our Emotional Health: The Role of Vitamins and Supplements “
How to Handle Emotional Eating Relapses
Emotional eating is incredibly common – in fact some research suggests over 75% of our eating is emotionally driven. This means we eat to satisfy an emotional need rather than nutrition or hunger. All of us occasionally eat for emotional reasons, we may use food to celebrate or choose comfort food when we are feeling low. AsContinue reading “How to Handle Emotional Eating Relapses”
Body Image and Emotional Eating: Understanding the Connection and Breaking the Cycle
The patterns of emotional eating are normally set down in childhood. This doesn’t mean your parents did anything wrong. With the abundance of food and choice available, using food to soothe, celebrate or as a reward is common for many families. Emotional eating is the practice of consuming food in response to feelings rather than hunger or nutrition. ManyContinue reading “Body Image and Emotional Eating: Understanding the Connection and Breaking the Cycle”
Creating an Emotional Eating Journal to Understanding Your Eating Habits
You may have heard me talk about emotional eating several times. Emotional eating is using food to make yourself feel better, to fill emotional needs, rather than your stomach. I find it’s often what lies behind yo-yo dieting, you can try every diet in the world but if you don’t uncover and deal with the emotional reasons behind your eating habits, they won’tContinue reading “Creating an Emotional Eating Journal to Understanding Your Eating Habits”
The Mind-Body Connection – How Emotions Affect Your Eating Choices
In my last blog, I wrote about how food affects our mood and how we can get trapped in a cycle of emotional eating. There’s no getting away from it – our minds and bodies are intricately connected, especially with the choices we make around food. In this blog, I’ll continue to explore the profound influence our emotions have onContinue reading “The Mind-Body Connection – How Emotions Affect Your Eating Choices”