All Blog Posts Tagged 'emotional' (12)

Overcome Emotional Eating

The problem of emotional eating may end with the scale but it begins in the mind. Stress takes its toll on your life. When your defenses are compromised your health takes a hit and so do your emotions. Everyone has good days and bad days. How we deal with the bad ones brings emotional eating into play. You look for comfort. People who turn to food for comfort find a coping mechanism that won’t judge them, hurt them or tell them to stop. To complicate the issue, eating can stimulate the release… Continue

Added by GetFitJenn on March 29, 2009 at 4:32am — 5 Comments

Oprah and Emotional Eating

If you haven't heard yet, you will soon—it's everywhere in the media. Oprah has disclosed that she has regained weight she worked so hard to lose and that she now weighs 200lbs. My heart goes out to Oprah—as well as to the millions of women who struggle just like her. Today, on a morning news show, I watched two reporters banter back and forth about what they believe she should be doing to reach and maintain a lower weight. They discussed their certainty that slower weight loss, smaller meals, a… Continue

Added by Melissa on December 10, 2008 at 9:14am — No Comments

How NOT to eat emotionally: Ten things to do with a feeling when you really don’t know what to do with it

How many times have you started at diet or weight loss plan, a fresh new day of healthy eating, only to feel completely derailed by an unexpected bad day, an awful experience or strong emotions—hurt, anger, disappointment, even boredom—that seemed to magnetically pull you to the refrigerator? We’ve been talking about that in my Coaching Club program and it inspired this post. Ten things to do with a feeling when you DON’T KNOW what to do with it: 1. Breathe Sit tight. Breathe in, breathe ou… Continue

Added by Melissa on December 10, 2008 at 8:57am — No Comments

Emotional Eating Tip of the Week: VOTE!

There is something I say so often that my coaching clients can probably quote it in their sleep. “When things feel out of control, focus on taking care of what you CAN control.” This is a much more effective strategy than our tendency to try to avoid or muffle what’s going on by overeating and creating an ice cream-induced coma. There are so many things around us today that may feel out of our control and that are contributing to the stress and worry that we carry. Here (again) is my advice: “W… Continue

Added by Melissa on October 31, 2008 at 8:51am — No Comments

How to take control of stress eating, overeating, and seasonal weight gain

Do you tend to gain weight as the seasons change and the days get shorter? Are you finding yourself emotionally eating or stress eating as you watch the pundits on TV deliver the latest scary news about the economy and our retirement/college savings? 'Tis the beginning of the season, in s… Continue

Added by Melissa on October 12, 2008 at 5:32pm — 2 Comments

Is the economy leading you to overeat?

It’s a stressful time and it seems like we can’t turn on the TV or radio without hearing somebody whose job it is to fill the airwaves with repetitions of all the bad things that are happening or might happen in the future. People are worried and frustrated. Many feel out of control. The… Continue

Added by Melissa on October 8, 2008 at 10:19am — No Comments

It's Time For a New Relationship With Food

My heart feels heavy. Self magazine has released the results of an online poll of 4000 women between the ages of 25-45. The poll was conducted in conjunction with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sixty-… Continue

Added by Melissa on September 29, 2008 at 1:24pm — 2 Comments

Emotional Spending?

Here’s more evidence that it pays to be mindful of your mood—or more accurately—that it might literally cost you if you aren’t. A recent study by researchers at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and the University of Pittsburgh found that study participants who watched a sad movie cli… Continue

Added by Melissa on June 30, 2008 at 11:34am — 2 Comments

How to identify emotional eating: ten signs

I'm often asked about how to identify whether or not emotional eating may be an issue. Emotional eating is not always easily identified. Here are some patterns that are likely to indicate that some kind of emotional eating is going on: 1. The hunger comes on suddenly and the need to e… Continue

Added by Melissa on June 24, 2008 at 2:43pm — 4 Comments

Stressed Monkeys Overeat Too

So what's the significance of this story? Well, I hope it helps some who tend to get so angry with themselves when they succumb to eating under stress. No, I don't believe this study means that we can't take charge of overeating, but I think it does show that emotional eating is complex and that our appetites are driven by a number of different issues and realities. The desire to eat to cope with emotions and stress is something that should be approached wit

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Added by Melissa on June 2, 2008 at 10:51am — 8 Comments

Mistakes that sabotage weight loss

The term emotional eating is thrown around a lot, but not everyone understands what emotional eating really is. Emotional eating is eating and overeating that occurs when we use food as a way to cope with a feeling, situation, or a need that is not physical hunger. Emotional eat… Continue

Added by Melissa on May 16, 2008 at 4:43pm — 4 Comments

How your ipod can help you take control of emotional eating

A lot of overeating (and emotional eating) happens when we use food to try to "feel better" or improve our mood or our day. Interestingly, music can be an incredibly powerful tool that can serve the same purpose--and doesn't cause weight gain. At a conference recently, I experienced a ver… Continue

Added by Melissa on April 2, 2008 at 6:50pm — 5 Comments

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