"Why am I eating emotionally when I know better?" Hot Seat Coaching

**Live Group Coaching: Mental Restriction, Emotional Eating & The Fuck Yes to Yourself** This one is a live hot seat coaching session from inside The Freedom Collective. Sandy joins me for coaching today, and what unfolds is one of those conversations that touches something really universal. She has done so much work already: she left restriction behind, rebuilt her relationship with food, got into her body in a completely new way. And then life hit hard. Loss, family illness, exhaustion. And food became the thing she defaulted to. And now she is in her head about it, ashamed of herself for it, and wondering why she cannot just choose the things she knows will make her feel better. Sound familiar? **This session is for you if:** - You have done a lot of recovery work and then life happened and you feel like you have gone backwards - You are emotionally eating and giving yourself a hard time about it even though you know it makes sense - You find yourself mentally restricting even when you are physically eating freely - You have thoughts of going back to old diets or food rules and then sabotage yourself in response to those thoughts - You want to understand what the difference between restriction and genuine choice actually feels like **In this episode, we cover:** ✨ Why emotional eating during an emotionally depleted season of life makes complete and total sense ✨ Why food should always be on your emotional support list, and why putting it there is not a step backwards ✨ The difference between being back here and being here: why there is no back, only forward ✨ Mental restriction: how judging your food choices, even subtly, creates the same biological drive to eat as physical restriction ✨ Why thoughts of going back to old rules or diets can trigger the exact sabotage you are trying to avoid ✨ What your brain and nervous system need to see before they will trust that restriction is not coming again ✨ The fuck yes to yourself energy: who she is, how she thinks, how she moves through the world and how to start embodying her now ✨ Why attachment to outcomes at the gym creates suffering whether you achieve them or not ✨ Seasons of life: why this moment is not the moment to overhaul everything, it is the moment to be held by everything you have already built ✨ Homework: write the letter to yourself, visit the grocery store as your fuck yes self, notice when mental restriction is quietly running the show **Powerful quotes from the episode:** 💬 "There is no back here. Ever. You've evolved and changed. You are not the woman you were before." 💬 "Mental restriction always creates a biological response. Your body hears the thought of restriction and reacts, even if you are physically eating freely." 💬 "Unrestricted eating is a fuck you to restriction. Intuitive eating is a fuck yes to yourself." 💬 "You are exactly where you are supposed to be. If you could have accessed the other tools, you would have. Thank goodness for food." 💬 "This season of life is not about changing your body. It is about embodying everything you have already learned and loving yourself through it." You cannot go backwards. You can only be here, right now, exactly where you are. And that is enough to start from. Much love. 💛 💙 Join my FREE support group: https://victoriakleinsman.com/free-support-group 💙 Free trial in The Freedom Collective: https://victoriakleinsman.com/coaching 💙 Work with me 1:1: https://victoriakleinsman.com/1-1-coaching 💙 Become a coach: https://victoriakleinsman.com/become-a-coach