Episode 30: Emotional Eating & the Hidden Cost of “I’ll Deal With It One Day”

You know those moments where you catch yourself in the mirror and there's nothing actually wrong or different than it was yesterday? But suddenly you notice you're scanning your body.

You're checking.

It might be your stomach.

It might be your skin.

It might be your face.

And there's this quiet commentary running in the background.

It's not loud necessarily, but it's familiar.

And it might start with things like, you look tired.

You should fix this.

Or how did you let this get like that? And I'm sure there's a part of you that knows.

that this isn't really about your body like you can see the pattern and you know that it maybe gets worse when you're overwhelmed or when you're stressed or when you're comparing yourself but it still gets you it changes how you feel in your body how you show up what you wear how comfortable you feel in being seen And you can hold both things at once.

You can understand it, yet you're still impacted by it.

You can listen to something like this and think, that's exactly what I do.

And then a few hours later, you're back at it again.

The gap between what you know and what you do can be exhausting.

At some point, you've probably had that moment or that thought where you thought, I can't keep doing this forever.

This is exhausting.

Maybe after a night where you felt full or frustrated and you realize how much space this is taking up in your head.

In that moment, it feels clear, like something has to change, but then life just keeps on lifing.

Things keep moving.

The intensity might fade.

You might feel like yourself again.

There's days where you have more confidence, so you tell yourself, it's not that bad, or I'll work on it one day, or I'll come back to this.

But that one day becomes a place that you live in.

Because it feels responsible.