Advice to solve emotional and stress eating 🍎

A few weeks ago, the reader sent me this question:

I exercise regularly, but I still fight stress I eat. Where and how do I start addressing the team?

You can probably connect. How do I know? 1) You are a man. (Unless you’re a robot … in that case: Hi, and please don’t turn us into batteries Matrix 👋)

2) When we work with clients, they meet the suction questionnaire so that we can learn more about them, their goals, who are their biggest challenges.

The emotional and stress of eating is The The most common challenge our clients report to come more than time, motivation or even know what to do.

If nothing else, eating when we feel stressed is a thing most of us have in common!

The emotional dish and stress eating are complex behavior and appear for a lot of people in different ways. While I’m not a therapist or registered dietitian, I can Share some patterns and strategies that we saw helping others as part of our training in a nerd fitness.

This is said, if these behaviors are especially intensively or threatening, I want to admit that work with licensed mental health professionals (especially someone is not trained for a disorderly dish) can be truly valuable. The therapy can be the gearbox here, and our coaches often work in tandem with therapists to make sure that our work will support what they do. ❤

With everything that is said, investigate several practices within our coaching volume we saw help. 🙌

One of the most powerful things you can do is just a break and notice What happens when you find yourself eating reflex.

Is that stress? Exhaustion? Boredom? Frustration? Hungry? Just because it’s the time of the day?

It’s not about stopping behavior now – we just become increasingly more aware.

Literally, people said that they are saying how they feel at the moment: “I just had a stressful interaction with my colleague, and my instinct was to reach for something crispy.”

Once we better understand our behaviors, we can use some other strategies in which we will discuss help.

Although sometimes, this step is enough! I remember my client Liz told me that this only practice was so powerful, it helped repeat her behavior in a way that felt good (though it was not intention!)

2 Proactive Self-Care (Aka Your Nutrition Menu)

Many emotional arent products from UNMET needs – fatigue, loneliness, stress, excessive.

Therefore, we recommend that you build “nutrition menus”: a list of small, purposeful activities that help you recharge. Reading, stretching, magazine, walking outside. Whatever really helps you.

Choose one thing with that day every day to practice proactive self-care.

My client sign often found reaching for snacks at the end of the day while watching TV, although it was not technically felt hungry.

We realized that part of the trigger was feeling for him Didn’t have time for himself during his busy dayAnd so it was time for decompression at the end of the night was important to him.

Whenever he tried to just fight with a “discipline”, it would be back and couldn’t keep him.

While we had no time for small pockets of other charging activities earlier during the day when the basic need was filled, and stress at the end of the day was easier to change.

3. Use “always” and “sometimes” language

Useful reframe often use: instead of marking food as “good” or “bad”, think of them as “always” or “sometimes” food.

“Always” food supports your goals and energy consistently. These are the things you want to regularly engage in meals and snacks regularly.

“Sometimes” foods are still great options options, we just decide them to eat them with less frequency than our “all time” food.

The key here is: It is permanently not on the table from the table.

Many times I hear people say things like, “I’ll finish this pint of ice cream that stayed in the freezer, and then it’s not ice cream for me!”

While I know it is well-meaning, this ends back in almost every case.

Although we want to be realistic in terms of types and amounts of food that supports your goals, we also want to build a healthy relationship with food that does not have to “good” opposite “bad”.

And this refraction can help.

4. Install the switch step

Then it’s time to experiment with the end of steps.

If you notice a strong urge to eat in response to stress, try to insert a small break. We usually recommend that we find something else to do five minutes.

This could go for a short walk, listening to music, directing your workspace, anything.

Then, you can ask yourself:

“Am I physically hungry or is something else?”

Sometimes it is that the break is enough to redirect the urge or at least bring some consciousness about what drives it.

You can then make a conscious choice instead of responding to autopilot.

Then we learn and build out of there.

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If the stress is eating something you fought, you are not alone (and we have data to prove it!)

And if you are not sure where to start, select one step from the top list and see how it feels.

You have this.

-Matt

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