How To Love Your Body

Ep 055 - Emotional Eating

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Do you struggle with emotional eating? Emotional eating is the tendency to eat in response to positive and negative emotions. Humans will do anything in their power not to feel uncomfortable, so to make it go away/ distract themselves many people turn to food. In this episode we share the spectrum of emotional eating - there are different levels and some are healthy and some are not as self honoring. This is to say that some emotional eating is completely healthy and normal, but there does come a time when it can be destructive to your relationship with food and your body. A first step is to assess where you are on the spectrum. Normalizing emotional eating is definitely something you'll want to do - you may be in a place where accepting the emotional eating that is happening, is the best next step. Dieting/ the desire to eat less/ “food is fuel” narrative has demonized all emotional eating when in fact it’s just a part of normal eating…. But yes there are times and degrees of emotional eating that you