Are you ready to transform your relationship with food in a lasting and meaningful way? What if you could help others find the path to greater freedom and joy with food as well?
In today’s episode, 57-year old Deborah wishes to improve her health while losing 70+ pounds, and she comes to Marc David looking for help. A teacher who dreams of becoming a chef, Deborah is frustrated by her efforts to lose the weight and keep it off. Through the course of their work, Marc helps Deborah recognize the key role that stress plays in her emotional eating habits, and the need to find other ways to regulate her nervous system outside of food. Listen now!
Key Insights:
Stress can drive many of us to engage in disordered eating, whether emotional eating, overeating, binge eating, or other related patterns.
“Stress eating” is a natural phenomenon rooted in both our psychology and biology. Bringing compassion and self-understanding to ourselves is the first step in changing this unwanted pattern.
There are biological reasons why we feel good after eating. Turning to food in times of stress isn’t inherently “wrong” or “bad.”
The first step to transforming emotional eating is through awareness. Because only once you become aware of something, can you change it.
Forgiving oneself for one’s perceived failures and shortcomings is another key towards choosing life and initiating effective weight loss.
Marc David’s twin areas of expertise in nutrition and psychology has helped numerous people overcome challenges with food and emotional eating. Watch this episode of the Psychology of Eating podcasts to hear Deborah’s story!
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