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Struggling With Emotional Eating or Binge Eating & Want to Lose Weight?

Coach, Emotional Eating, Healthy Food, Self Exploration, Weight Loss, Whole Health / By Tova

Consider shifting your focus from weight loss to health. There are many different types of healthy eating patterns developed by doctors to support a variety of health goals including brain health, gut health, longevity, blood sugar regulation/diabetes, strength, etc. Try researching and reading up on a few different approaches, and find what resonates with you. …

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Managing Your Urges to Break Your Healthy Eating Plan

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First, it can be helpful to identify exactly what your healthy eating plan entails. Specific eating programs can be helpful in terms of providing suggested types of foods to eat. At a minimum it is very important to eliminate added sugars and refined,. processed carbohydrates. Ultraprocessed foods drive overeating and will make it very difficult …

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Beginning Practices to Change Behavior

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It can be helpful to develop awareness of what you are experiencing in the moment you feel pulled to eat in a way that does not support your weight loss goals, such as eating unhealthy foods or emotionally eating. The moment you experience an urge to emotionally eat is a moment of profound choice. It …

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The Role of Relationships in Overeating

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Reflect on the role your interpersonal relationships have on your eating. Consider the impact of work relationships, family, romantic partners, and friends. An interpersonal relationship is one you have with other people, and these can play a significant role in overeating. This is especially true when these relationship dynamics fuel a negative emotional state. Ask …

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Why You Emotionally Eat

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You use food to cope with negative emotions because it works. You Eat The Thing and for a moment, you feel better. The negative emotions that drive you to use food are likely influenced by challenging interpersonal relationships and/or negative self evaluations or self criticism. Both of these— challenging social relationships and self criticism— block …

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Why You Struggle to Lose Weight

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I know, I know: you’ve probably been trying to lose weight for awhile. You’ve done all the diets, and maybe you’ve even found some success. But inevitably, your old habits creep in and you end up gaining weight, giving in to food, struggling against cravings that feel overwhelming. People are challenged by different obstacles when …

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Visualizing Your Ideal Self

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Thinking in terms of healthy inner multiplicity, it can help to work towards envisioning how you want to show up in your life. This essentially helps you strengthen, develop, and embody an inner part of self, or inner role. If you’re feeling stuck in some way, or aren’t showing up in your life the way …

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The Power of Setting Intentions

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Our minds are super powerful. In order to walk down the path towards what you want most in life, it can be helpful to have some idea of what that is. This is especially helpful when we find ourselves in liminal space and moments of transition. We’re thinking big picture here. For example, you may …

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The Power of Improv

Coach, Self Exploration, Whole Health / By Tova

Improv has become a kind of life philosophy for me. My background and experience in improv led me to pursue my MA in drama therapy. In holistic wellness consulting I integrate drama therapy to conceptualize improv as a powerful tool for personal growth and transformation. Most people think of improv as a way to be …

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Emotional Eating— A Different Perspective

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There are many different ways to conceptualize the process of emotional eating. I’m not going to do a full review of all of those. Rather, I will offer an alternative perspective that hopefully points to a unique way to address this issue. Let’s first reflect on behavior. Emotional eating is a behavior. It’s observable, because …

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