Emotional eating

At the end of the day, true change, healing emotional eating and losing weight permanently only comes when you realize that what you eat does not matter nearly as much as why and how you eat.

Welcome everyone.

So happy to be here with you today for this episode.

And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the difference between a healing journey and a weight loss journey and how Oftentimes, we focus on results when really we're supposed to focus on our healing and how spending energy and effort preoccupied with food, macros, counting calories, and weight loss results actually hinder and hurt your ability to truly heal from emotional eating.

Because it's so important to remember that when it comes to healing and healing our relationship with food and creating a body image that we love and feel safe in and feel confident moving through the world in, there's a difference between a weight loss journey and a healing journey.

We're going to talk about what those differences are.

I don't ever worry about that anymore.

And I did worry about that in the past when I was...

Um, maybe we'd talk about some more of the emotional side of...

We're gonna talk about maybe emotional eating.

We're gonna talk about body image and how it literally impacts everybody, and how even the people that you see on social media and think, "They're the most sorted out, jacked person I've ever seen," they are probably eating their feelings at night, at least sometimes.

Hands up.

Uh, there is a component of the amount of protein you're eating, how you're sleeping, amount of water in your system, all of that.

Is there a checklist or a way in which a sustained lifestyle will ensure that my signals are working uninterrupted? They're not getting triggered by cravings, not getting triggered by emotional eating, not getting triggered by, say, you know, hangry feelings.

Is there, is there a way in which I can look at it more holistically?

So it, that's what lifestyle is.

It's a simple way to know.

There's no rocket science to that.

Let's talk about, uh, emotional eating.

A lot of people, I mean, the movies have abused this, ""Breakup ho gaya toh ek tub of ice cream ke saath baithe hue hain." Or, um, if you're going through a rough patch in, you know, in your life, you'll probably see people expand in size or lose too much weight, right? All of that has been shown.

So sorry.

We're gonna be talking about emotional eating.

Like, why we do it, how to change it.

Um, I do wanna put a little trigger warning at the beginning of this episode, um, for eating disorders.

Even if you don't do it instantly or do it perfectly, like it is such an easy loop to stay within, and not just for eating habits, with like so many other things in life, and like bad habits we're trying to break.

Exactly.

I, and I know that like we are talking about, you know, binge eating or emotional eating, like specifically here, but you're so right.

Like, this is truly the way that we become aware of-

But the idea is that by doing things in this way, it helps to sort of regularize things in terms of, you know, things like keeping blood sugar levels stable.

which helps to minimize um cravings it helps to protect against um going too long without food and then suddenly feeling starving and then reaching for something that perhaps isn't the best option for your body or is maybe too much for what your body needs um so really trying to sort of reset everything so that people can reconnect with those hunger and satiety cues um also teach people about different types of hunger and you've kind of you kind of touched upon this before um and and this is a slightly over simplistic way of describing it but um I talk to people about uh is what you're experiencing stomach hunger like physical hunger or could it be heart hunger which is more your emotional eating.

So could it be that you're stressed or lonely or anxious or bored and you're eating because of one of those things? Or is it mouth hunger? So mouth hunger is more your habit eating or those kind of sensory cravings that people sometimes have, like, oh, I could just do with something crunchy or I could just do with something salty.

Or is it head hunger? So I'm kind of moving up the body.

Yeah, absolutely.

What's the, um, the psychological side of things that the weight loss medication isn't addressing and that you would love to? people to understand that they really do need to address alongside that weight loss journey

yeah yeah but i think you know it can depend obviously on the individual but um perhaps if uh one of the factors that that led to their their weight being where it was at was emotional eating for example um so a couple of things that i might see when someone or is on GLP ones is that, um, uh, they, if, if they've used food to deal with emotions and, and that might mean either avoiding them or soothing them with emotions, um, and then they're no longer able to do that, then, um, They might feel a bit of a loss, really.

So sometimes people experience heightened emotions.

Have you ever found yourself standing in the pantry, not because you were hungry, maybe you were overwhelmed, bored, anxious, lonely, exhausted? Today's episode is going to get to the bottom of your emotional eating.

It's not about food.

You want to tune in and you want to hear these practical tips to finally get to what is eating.

Absolutely.

I'm so excited about today's show on healing your hunger.

Trisha Nelson lost 50 pounds by identifying and healing the underlying causes of her emotional eating.

Trisha is an emotional eating expert.

She's a TEDx speaker.

Thank you.

So I have Amber Romaniak, an emotional eating, digestive and hormone expert with 13 years experience helping high achieving women create a level of body confidence, intuition and optimal health through powerful mindset healing, self-care and overcoming self-sabotage with food.

So she does this through addressing the key negative thoughts, patterns, and limiting beliefs that keep women stuck in the same behaviors for years and decades that they haven't been able to break.

And her podcast, the No Sugar Coating podcast, has two million plus downloads, over 600 episodes, and is listened to in over 90 countries.

Yeah, that's amazing, Amber.

I think that must be one of the most downloaded podcasts in the food freedom space.

So Amber has been on her own journey and overcame her own emotional eating after gaining and losing more than a thousand pounds and spending over $50,000 on binge foods and spending five years balancing our hormones and digestion.

And she also dismantled her deep limiting beliefs and behaviors, keeping her stuck in the same looping patterns.