Are you an emotional eater and don’t realise it?
I never used to think of myself as an emotional eater. I was just a good-time girl who loved nice food and wine. Sound familiar?!
But if I was sometimes eating when I wasn’t hungry and taking drinking too far, what was driving that behaviour?
My emotions…
The Love How You Eat method helps you ask simple questions to connect you back with your power and change the emotional eating that has been stopping you from feeling your best.
It’s designed to empower you to make decisions that benefit your present and future self simultaneously, learning how to not obey your urges and therefore rewire your over-desire for certain things with time.
Changing my identity from the person I was — a foodie who liked to indulge— to someone who doesn’t consume food and alcohol to numb, soothe and comfort, didn’t happen overnight.
There have been many trips and bumps along the way, and I gave up expecting perfection because it was only holding me back.
But as I hone in on the Love How You Eat principles, I can feel swift noticeable and shifts in both mind and body.
Why? Because it forces you to focus on the things that really matter and stop focusing on what doesn’t.
It takes you out of diet mentality. Out of weight drama. Out of “good” and “bad” foods. Out of all-or-nothing eating. Out of inner debate and self-doubt. These things are just wasting your valuable time and effort.
And it puts you back in your body, where you can ask it questions and start to hear AND respect its answers.
The more you do that, the more you see how genuinely good and gratifying it feels when you honour your body’s cues. And you start to believe in your ability and capacity to change behaviours that have been frustrating you.
Your eating identity isn’t fixed and you can change whatever it is to whatever you want it to be.
If I could give you one tip for this week, it would be to start asking the simplest of questions every time you want to eat something…
Am I truly physically hungry?
If yes, eat. Hurrah!
And if not, ask yourself: why would I decide to eat if my body doesn’t want or need food?
Answer this question with kindness and compassion. Not judgement and shame which won’t help you get the honest answer.
Don’t let your brain intellectualise your body (like you’ve done a big workout so you must eat now!) or tell you that you can’t change. The urge isn’t too much, you can handle it. Stop fighting it, allow it to exist in your mind and body without panicking. It’s all OK and it will pass.
The more you do this, the lower your desire becomes over time.
Be curious about what’s driving you desire to eat. And know that by staying the course, following your plan, and honouring the LHYE principles, you will eventually teach your brain a new way of doing things. You will embody a new identity as an eater and drinker, one which you’re incredibly proud of.
And that’s when you not only feel different, but you also feel truly FREE. 🌈